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You'll be much more

comfortable upstairs.

Willis brought his wife.

Oh, a lady!

Now no noise, you understand?

Willis is up to his gills

in the fever.

What a pleasant little house

party this is gonna be!

Never mind about that.

Get upstairs and keep quiet.

Me very glad, Miss Van

come back. Very glad.

Hoy old pal, that's nice

to hear from someone,

even though you are

slightly simple-minded.

Thank you. I make

new kind of biscuits.

Special for Miss Van.

Say, which tree did

this one ooze out of?

Miss Van tell funny joke!

Oh, funny!

Clear that brush out on 291.

- Hey, Mac!

- Yeah?

That old bullock's gone lame.

I'll look after it, Denny.

Gary, don't!

Babs, I'm not sick.

If I get up and move around,

and stop thinking about it...

You don't know how sick you are.

Now, please, dear.

Where's Carson?

He'll know I'm all right

by just looking at me.

I know, but you can't get up.

You've got to stay in bed.

I'll speak to Mr. Carson and see

what you can have for breakfast.

- All right.

- That's a boy.

- Oh! Good morning.

- Hello.

We haven't met but don't let

that stop you if you're hungry.

I was looking for Mr. Carson.

He's outside, being noisy

about something or other.

You better sit down and drink your

pinapple juice before it starts cooking.

As you say, we haven't met.

I'm Mrs. Willis.

Yeah I know, they told me

about your husband.

How is he today?

I hope we can get a doctor.

Oh, these fool doctors!

Even if you did get one, why, all

he'd do is sit by the side of the bed

and start crabbing the government

for not stamping out fever.

Then they prescribe brandy

and have

to sample themselves

to see if it's any good,

and by the time you're

deciding whether to live or die,

they're under the bed

singing "Sweet Adeline"

You seem to be very familiar

with the country.

Are you...

married to one of the men here?

Do you think I'd live in

a menagerie like this?

I've been visiting my brother. He

has the next plantation below here,

and it's a lovely place.

You know he copied it from

our old family plantation

in Bluefield, West Virginia.

Have you ever been to Bluefield?

No, I haven't.

We're the Jeffersons there.

I'm Vantine Jefferson.

You know, I was supposed to

be happy about staying home

and marrying the son

of another FFB.

But I'm just the restless,

adventurous type I guess.

I had to come out to stay with

my brother and see the world.

Then you're visiting here too.

Oh no! But how I got here!

Mr. Carson nearly died laughing.

I got on a boat to go down to Saigon,

you know, to do a little shopping?

And the boat turns back to pick up

some elastics or something

and gets stuck in the mud.

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