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[first lines]
Selma Jacobson: [walking down a dirt road in the country] Georgie's gonna be a farmer when he grows up, and he's gonna raise buffalo.
Arnold Hanson: Buffalo have all been killed - I know, my father killed them all.
Selma Jacobson: All the same, they aren't all dead. Anyway, that's what Georgie's gonna be when he grows up.
Arnold Hanson: When I grow up I'm gonna be a soldier, and shoot all the time.
[pretends to shoot a gun with a stick in his hand]
Arnold Hanson: I'll be fearless.
Selma Jacobson: I'm gonna be a WAC and I'm gonna shoot more than you do cause I'm older.
Arnold Hanson: No you won't, you're a girl.
Selma Jacobson: Girls fight just as well as boys.
Arnold Hanson: Looky!
[points at a squirrel eating a nut on a tree stump]
Selma Jacobson: When I'm a WAC I'm gonna pull out my gun...
Arnold Hanson: WAC's don't have guns.
Selma Jacobson: I'm gonna pull out my gun and go *bang*, just like that.
[throws a rock toward the squirrel but actually unintentionally hits it]
Selma Jacobson: Oh!
Arnold Hanson: [they walk over to the squirrel] You sure killed him, Selma. You killed him dead.
Selma Jacobson: [sadly sniveling] But I didn't mean to. I didn't mean to kill you little squirrel. It was just pretend.
Arnold Hanson: Shucks, it's only a red squirrel. They're bad.
Selma Jacobson: But he wasn't doing anything bad. He was just eating his dinner - when I picked up a rock, a-and I almost never hit where I aim, a-and...
[Ingeborg Jensen briefly joins the children before her father Kurt sternly calls her to get back to her work. Then Nels Halverson - driving down the road - happily offers the children a ride home]
Selma Jacobson: [walking down a dirt road in the country] Georgie's gonna be a farmer when he grows up, and he's gonna raise buffalo.
Arnold Hanson: Buffalo have all been killed - I know, my father killed them all.
Selma Jacobson: All the same, they aren't all dead. Anyway, that's what Georgie's gonna be when he grows up.
Arnold Hanson: When I grow up I'm gonna be a soldier, and shoot all the time.
[pretends to shoot a gun with a stick in his hand]
Arnold Hanson: I'll be fearless.
Selma Jacobson: I'm gonna be a WAC and I'm gonna shoot more than you do cause I'm older.
Arnold Hanson: No you won't, you're a girl.
Selma Jacobson: Girls fight just as well as boys.
Arnold Hanson: Looky!
[points at a squirrel eating a nut on a tree stump]
Selma Jacobson: When I'm a WAC I'm gonna pull out my gun...
Arnold Hanson: WAC's don't have guns.
Selma Jacobson: I'm gonna pull out my gun and go *bang*, just like that.
[throws a rock toward the squirrel but actually unintentionally hits it]
Selma Jacobson: Oh!
Arnold Hanson: [they walk over to the squirrel] You sure killed him, Selma. You killed him dead.
Selma Jacobson: [sadly sniveling] But I didn't mean to. I didn't mean to kill you little squirrel. It was just pretend.
Arnold Hanson: Shucks, it's only a red squirrel. They're bad.
Selma Jacobson: But he wasn't doing anything bad. He was just eating his dinner - when I picked up a rock, a-and I almost never hit where I aim, a-and...
[Ingeborg Jensen briefly joins the children before her father Kurt sternly calls her to get back to her work. Then Nels Halverson - driving down the road - happily offers the children a ride home]
Full Transcript
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Oh oh but I didn't mean to
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I didn't mean to kill you
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little squirrel
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It was just pretend
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Shucks it's only a red squirrel
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They're bad
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But he wasn't doing anything bad
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He was just eating his dinner
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when I picked up a rock
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A And I almost never hit where I aim
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Movie Summary
A Norwegian farmer lovingly raises his daughter in rural World War II-era Benson Junction, Wisconsin.
