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01:01I'll see you next time.
01:32Many's a day I'd be sittin' in our schoolhouse just countin' the minutes
01:36till the bell rang out, sweet liberty, and we'd all head out of there like a swarm of bees.
01:42Yee-haw!
01:44Where we goin', Tom?
01:48Hey, you guys, come on, follow me!
01:52Hold up, Tom, you got a head start on us!
01:58I was leadin' them all down to the banks of the Mississippi.
02:03I was hopin' we might spy a steamboat passin' by.
02:12Hey, steamboat comin'!
02:19That's the river queen headin' for Quincy.
02:22Mm-hmm. You're sure enough right, Ben, and she's loaded with cargo.
02:26Yeah, and I heard she's gonna dock and load up with a lot more cargo tonight after dark.
02:30Then she'll cast off and be on her way again long before sunup.
02:33How do you know that?
02:35Cause a river man came into my daddy's shop and told me so.
02:38So we could all get an up-close look-see at her then, huh?
02:41Mm-hmm.
02:43You wanna do it?
02:44Mm-hmm.
02:45You know what?
02:46I figure I might just sneak on board that river queen and take me a tour of everything that's on
02:51her.
02:51Mm-hmm.
02:53Ain't hard at all.
02:54Listen, you're afeard. You boys feel up to it?
02:58Huh? Well, I sure wanna go along with you, and that's a fact.
03:01We're agreed then, and anybody who don't meet me on the dock at midnight is a yeller dog.
03:05I'll be there, Tom.
03:06I'll be there, Tom.
03:07This'll be a grand adventure.
03:09It's sure enough real, Tom.
03:10You can count on me, Tom.
03:11You can count on me, Tom.
03:36Quiet.
03:53Who's there?
03:57Meow!
04:01Oh, so it's just you, Peta.
04:04Any time you've got sneaky business to do, you can't find a better accomplice than a cat.
04:25Hey, Ben, where are you going, son?
04:28Oh, well, I was just gonna, uh...
04:30Those clothes aren't for wearing at bedtime.
04:32I just thought I'd, uh...
04:34Oh, um...
04:36Ben, I think you're half asleep, son.
04:40I think it's a good thing I caught you when I did.
04:42Now, you get on upstairs to bed, boy.
04:44Yes, sir, Pa.
04:49Well, good night.
04:51And don't forget to get undressed, do you hear me?
04:54Yes, sir.
05:07Of course, I didn't know about these goings-on, so at the stroke of midnight, I was down at the
05:13dock waiting for the others to show up.
05:15Like Ben said, the crew of the River Queen was spending the night loading cargo, preparing to cast off at
05:21the break of dawn.
05:28Hmm, I reckon they ain't gonna show up.
05:31Well, this'll just be a one-man adventure.
05:46Coming aboard!
06:01Hey, there's something under there.
06:04Looks like we've got a stowaway.
06:06Come on out of there, boy.
06:08Got him.
06:09Well, now, what you trying to do here, boy?
06:12Yeah.
06:12Steal something off of this here boat?
06:14Now, you get off of this boat and stay off.
06:17And if you come around again, it's into the river with you.
06:24Howdy, Tom.
06:26Howdy, Huck.
06:26What are you doing down here so late?
06:29Setting some drop lines for catfish.
06:31Over yonder's a good hole.
06:33All kinds of fish just for the taking.
06:35You been on a trip?
06:37No.
06:37Hey, you in the mood for an adventure?
06:39I'm planning to sneak on board the River Queen and do some exploring.
06:43Really?
06:43Yeah.
06:45Hmm.
06:45Want to join me, Huck?
06:47Yeah, well, what about all them catfish?
06:50They'll keep.
06:51Now, what you say we steal a board this here paddleboat and have us a good old time?
06:55Hey!
06:56Huh?
06:56You boys get on home or I'll whoop the both of you!
06:59We were just gonna leave anyway.
07:01Huck, come on.
07:04Confound those mischief makers.
07:06Hey, have you men finished loading yet?
07:09We'll be finished in a minute, Captain.
07:11Well, be quick about it.
07:12Yes, sir.
07:16As the saying goes, there's more than one way to skin a cat.
07:20And there's more than one way to sneak on board a steamboat.
07:29Look, he's firing up the beacon lights.
07:33Now's our chance, Tom.
07:35Yep.
07:51You go ahead and take a quick look, see, Tom.
07:53I'll stay here and keep a sharp look out.
07:55Huh?
07:55What you talking about?
07:56You've come this far.
07:57Don't you want to look around?
07:59Nah, you go ahead.
08:00I don't want to get caught.
08:01Come on.
08:02Don't worry so much.
08:02You stick with me and I'll guarantee you're not gonna get caught.
08:06Huh?
08:06Here comes somebody.
08:07Hurry.
08:08Let's hide behind these cotton bales.
08:10Mmm.
08:11Oh, I'll...
08:14Hmm?
08:15Ooh.
08:16Just a catfish.
08:22Aw, shucks, Tom.
08:23I lost the boat.
08:24Don't fret about it, Huck.
08:26We can always swim back.
08:27Now, come on.
08:28Follow me.
08:29Shh.
08:33We're finished loading in the stern, Captain.
08:44Look.
08:46They must be heating up the boilers to leave.
08:50Huh?
08:50Who are they?
08:52Yeah, them's the stokers.
08:54They're plum tuckered out from having to stoke the boiler with wood all day long.
08:58Hmm, they must be tired.
09:00Hey, rock candy.
09:06That ain't sugar, it's salt.
09:09The stokers have to eat a lot of salt on account of they sweat so much.
09:13You're a lot smarter than I thought.
09:15Mm-hmm.
09:19Say, let's take a look over yonder.
09:21All right.
09:23All right.
09:23All right.
09:24All right.
09:28Hold it, Tom.
09:30Those stairs there lead to the upper deck.
09:32Hoop.
09:33Whoa.
09:33Whoa.
09:34I admire your skill in dodging that sandbar earlier.
09:38But you know, we still have the rapids of Al Bend ahead of us, Brad.
09:42I can handle it, Captain.
09:44Mm, boy.
09:46I'm hot.
09:47That's because we're under the boiler.
09:49Without those extra stokers feeding the boiler, we'd most likely scrape bottom.
09:52Yeah, we have to keep the old girl running at full speed or else we get stuck on the shoals
09:56and that could spell shipwreck.
09:58Just like the old brandywine.
10:00You remember that disaster, don't you, Captain?
10:02I'm most certain...
10:03You better be getting out of here pretty soon.
10:06Good idea before we get barbecue.
10:08But Brad, you're a good pilot.
10:10I trust your ability.
10:19Ah, what a relief.
10:22What do we do now?
10:24Hmm, look.
10:26There's the pilot house.
10:28Wow.
10:29Say, I sure would like to take a look on the inside.
10:32Well, it's cool.
10:33Hmm.
10:42Hey, there's nobody there.
10:47Aw, boy.
10:49We made it.
10:51Wow.
10:54Pilot Huck, prepare the ship to get underway.
10:57Aye, aye, sir.
11:00Cargo's loaded and stowed away.
11:02Now take up the gangplank.
11:04Stoke the boiler and cast away.
11:07All hands ready to clear port.
11:10Yes, sir.
11:11Ready to shove off.
11:12Prepare to cast off.
11:13Huh?
11:14Did you say that?
11:16Prepare to get underway.
11:22Let's get.
11:27Huck, they're here.
11:29Get down.
11:33Huck.
11:34Here.
11:35You take the wheel, Brad.
11:55Ready to get underway.
11:57Awaiting your orders, Captain.
11:59We're ready.
12:05So, tell me, Brad, where's that young apprentice of yours?
12:09Mike hasn't come back aboard yet.
12:11St. Petersburg's his hometown.
12:13And he's most likely visiting some of his kinfolk.
12:17I'll ask how he'll be scurrying back any minute now.
12:21Back to think I hear him coming, sir.
12:25Now, confound you, Mike.
12:26I told you to get back here on time, didn't I?
12:29You're never going to get your river pilot's license at this rate, boy.
12:32I'm awful sorry.
12:34So you say.
12:35Well, sorry he ain't going to Washington next time because you'll be through here.
12:37You understand me, boy?
12:38Yes, sir.
12:40Mm-hmm.
12:42So, did you get a chance to visit with your kinfolk?
12:46I, uh, well, I tried to, but I couldn't, sir.
12:49Hmm.
12:50Well, now that is a shame.
12:52Now, you get back to work, boy.
12:53We're shoving off.
12:54Yes, sir.
12:58Take off the gangplank.
13:00Move up the anchor.
13:02Take off the mouth blast.
13:09Take off, Brad.
13:15Huck, we're leaving port.
13:17What?
13:17What should we do?
13:18Dog, if I know.
13:21Slow astern and steady.
13:25Go astern at slow speed.
13:30Left 30 degrees, stop the port paddle.
13:33Stop the port paddle.
13:35Okay, you can stop the starboard paddle now.
13:38Stop the starboard paddle.
13:40Rudder amid ships and ahead at speed number two.
13:43Ahead at speed two.
13:44We're gonna have to swim back, Huck.
13:46If we can ever get out of here.
14:00And so, we left home behind us.
14:08The rapids, Al Banner, coming up.
14:11Here's where you need your skill, Brad.
14:14I'm going below now.
14:16Hmm.
14:19Listen, Mike.
14:20Yes, sir?
14:20What are you gonna use as a guide over Al Rapids?
14:23Well, sir, I turn the bow to Plum Point and the stern to Crow Rock.
14:27Hmm.
14:28But you ain't gonna be able to see the shore clear enough at nighttime.
14:31Better check them notes I give you, boy.
14:33Hmm.
14:35It says here, advance along at four fathoms.
14:38Stay that deep and starboard the helm.
14:40When it goes to three fathoms deep while headed towards Plum Point.
14:44You're sure of that now?
14:46Yes, Mr. Brick.
14:47All right, then.
14:48Cast the lead.
14:49Yes, sir.
14:50Leachman, cast the lead.
14:53What's he mean, cast the lead?
14:55It's so's the captain'll know how deep the bottom is.
14:58Otherwise, the boat's liable to get stuck up on the sandbar.
15:08Four fathoms!
15:10Four fathoms!
15:13You know, Huck, I'm almost positive I know that fill the mic from somewhere.
15:18Four fathoms!
15:19Anyhow, his voice sure does sound powerful familiar to me.
15:23I wish I could remember who he is.
15:26Three fathoms!
15:28The shape of the shallows has changed, sir.
15:30It should still be four fathoms.
15:33Glad to see you taking good notice, Mike.
15:35The shallows must have changed shape from the heavy rains this season.
15:38So we're gonna have to change our course as we're going through them rapids.
15:41Remember, the Mississippi's always changing, so as in a case like this,
15:45you really better know how to read from the surface of the water.
15:48Now, you take a good, hard look out there.
15:52See that bright line of water?
15:54Under that's a sharp-cut reef.
15:57If a boat runs against that line, it'll run aground.
16:00You see, there's a rapid current just on the other side of that line.
16:03So you gotta run the ship at a right angle to the reef,
16:07then you cut over it at full speed.
16:09And then the current will push you right through.
16:12Now, get ready, Mike. We're about to do it.
16:14First stop, the starboard paddle wheel.
16:17Stop starboard wheel!
16:19Turn the starboard wheel hard-larboard.
16:21Turn starboard wheel!
16:34Okay, now, boiler room. Full steam ahead.
16:38Stop the boiler. Full steam ahead.
16:48We need more steam. We're losing speed.
16:51More wood! Full steam ahead!
17:02Mike?
17:03Uh, yes, sir?
17:04You just learned a valuable lesson.
17:06You gotta learn to watch the surface of the water.
17:08Sometimes it'll tell you a hundred times as much as that notebook in your hand.
17:13Learn to read that surface like you'd read a book, understand?
17:16Yes, sir!
17:17Now, take the wheel. It's a straight path from here.
17:19There are no more shallows to steer through.
17:26How time flies.
17:28It's been three years since you joined up with us.
17:30You were so skittish, I didn't think you were gonna pan out.
17:34Used to whine and whimper just like a baby.
17:37But you've grown up considerable, son.
17:40And you make a fine pilot someday.
17:43Yeah, you've come a long way.
17:45And you've cut out all that sniveling.
17:47I got it. Now I remember who he is.
17:50Do you remember a guy named Snivelin' Mike?
17:53He lived in St. Petersburg a few years ago.
17:55Do I?
17:56Well, I'll leave it to you now. I'm going below.
17:58Yes, sir, Mr. Brick.
18:03I'm gonna tell him howdy. I'm sure he'll remember me.
18:07You think he will?
18:08Nobody can forget Tom Sawyer.
18:11That's for sure.
18:13Huh?
18:14Hiya, Mike!
18:15Oh!
18:17Remember me?
18:19What the? Who are you?
18:21Come on now, Mike. It's Tom, remember?
18:26Tom? You mean Tom Sawyer?
18:29Let go of me, you prankster!
18:32Why me?
18:34That's right. You always did call me a prankster.
18:36That's because I played so many tricks on him, Huck.
18:39Yeah, you're the one who turned him into a sniveler, Tom.
18:44Let's see if you're still ticklish, Mike.
18:46Get you, get you, get you, go. Get you, get you.
18:49I sure was proud that my old friend Mike had become an apprentice pilot.
18:53I figured me and Huck could learn an awful lot about steamboating from him.
18:58Mike obliged us by answering all our questions.
19:01Starboard? That's this way.
19:03Let's see, this way?
19:04Yeah.
19:06Give her a try, Tom.
19:07Okay.
19:09Okay, that's enough.
19:11That's hard.
19:12Hey, what's these things do, Mike?
19:15Those are voice tubes.
19:16You're yelling those to be heard down below.
19:19Hey, stop that!
19:21Just look at that river down there.
19:23You see?
19:24Yep.
19:25Uh-huh.
19:26Hmm.
19:27You've got to read that water like a book.
19:29The surface water can tell you which way the current flows.
19:32Really?
19:33Golly!
19:34For instance...
19:36Yeah, Mike?
19:37You see that bright line of water there?
19:39Under that's a sharp-cut reef.
19:41Yeah, I can see it.
19:43It's sure shining pretty.
19:45And if you run against that line, you'll run aground.
19:48Mike, what am I saying?
19:50What's wrong?
19:50Whoa!
19:52Leachman, cast the leaf!
19:54Hot starboarders will run aground!
19:56Whoa!
20:01Oh, no!
20:03The leaf is following us!
20:04Somebody help me!
20:06Mike!
20:06Huh?
20:06What if blazes happen?
20:08I saw a bright water line, a sharp-cut reef, sir, and I...
20:11Idiot!
20:12I told you we were out of the shallows.
20:14That's nothing more than a wind reef, boy.
20:16Sorry, sir.
20:17Hmm.
20:18And who in tarnation are you two?
20:20Huh?
20:20They're just friends from my hometown, sir.
20:23Stowaways!
20:24What's wrong?
20:25Oh!
20:26Oh!
20:28So who and blazes were they?
20:29Stowaways, Captain.
20:30Don't let them get away.
20:31Right.
20:36Why, you?
20:37Come back here, you little rapscallions.
20:39Hey, come here, you.
20:41Sit down, help.
20:42It ain't like a plane.
20:43Ah, gotcha.
20:45You're holding up.
20:46Gotcha.
20:47Stop.
20:50Come back here!
20:57Huh?
20:59Where are you, huh?
21:00Hey!
21:12Hey, what's that light?
21:15Well, that's a raft, ain't it?
21:17I think you're right.
21:21Say, Hulk, if we can catch a ride on that raft, we could get back to St. Petersburg by morning.
21:26Yeah, let's go.
21:27All right.
21:27Bye-bye.
21:36The raftsman turned out to be a ride-friendly fella, and he took us on board.
21:41Me and Hulk was plum-tuckered out from our swim, and we fell asleep right away.
21:45By daybreak, the raft was approaching St. Petersburg.
22:00I reckon this must be it.
22:10What's the name of that town?
22:13Why, this here's the city we call St. Petersburg, partner.
22:17Do you know a young boy named Sawyer?
22:21I reckon I do.
22:22A young rascal by the name of Doc.
22:24He lives here with his aunt, Miss Polly Sawyer.
22:27Thank you kindly.
22:28Appreciate your help.
22:33All right, boys, you're here now.
22:34Better wake up.
22:38Come on, boys.
22:39It's time to rise and shine.
22:41You've made it to St. Petersburg.
22:43Oh?
22:45That's it over yonder, ain't it?
22:47Hey.
22:48Look at that, would you?
22:50We're home, Hulk.
22:51Good old St. Petersburg.
22:54Thank you for your help, sir.
22:55Much obliged.
22:56You boys get on home to your families now and try and stay out of mischief from now on, you
23:01hear?
23:01We will, I promise.
23:03Bye now.
23:10We swam to shore, and I got back just in time for school.
23:15Lucky for me, Aunt Polly thought I'd spent the night in bed.
23:18At recess, I gathered all my classmates around me and told them about the grand adventure they'd missed.
23:24It goes without saying they was all green within me.
23:27Mike was the one who ran off from St. Petersburg way back when,
23:30and there me and Huck was right up in the pothouse, big as you please,
23:34the three of us navigating that river like it was easy as pie.
23:41Now, I was ever bit as tuckered out as old Huck,
23:44but you couldn't have paid me no amount of money to be sawing logs like he was.
23:48Of course, the very next best thing to have in a grand adventure is telling about it.
23:52Why, as long as there was a body left to listen,
23:54I was ready to stay in that schoolyard bragging if I never slept a wink again.
24:04Don't know if I had a house.
24:06I told them all of you, ain't even a lot,
24:09it doesn't matter.
24:10But that's why I told them the Іcram know they'd been sick even.
24:22Well, it doesn't matter.
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