Captain January (1924)
Baby Peggy: Captain January
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Quotes
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Captain January : Please, Daddy, tell me my story - - about how I came to be your little girl.
Jeremiah Judkins : Once upon a time - - five years ago, little shipmate - when it seemed like the whole Atlantic Ocean was a-poundin' on these rocks - - - - a nameless ship loomed out of the storm, a battered target for the waves - - - - a flash o' lightin' showed her a-straddle o' Bull's Horn Rock - the next flash showed her - gone! - - somethin' came a-ridin' toward me out o' the storm - - And I knew, somehow, that whatever it was, God was sendin' it to me. - - and then a tiny cry, like a the cry of a kitten, came out o' that bundle on the spar - - And that's how you came here to me - - like the Good Book says 'a light from Heaven to shine in a dark place.
Captain January : And my mother went to Heaven, didn't she? - - where she can look down and take care of both of us.
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Captain January : Ahoy, Cap'n Daddy! How's she headin'?
Jeremiah Judkins : I was neein' your help, Cap'n January. Ye might shift her a couple o' p'ints starboard!
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Jeremiah Judkins : [to Rev. John Elliot] I reckon I know why you've come. It's because Maxwell and them women have been tellin' you I ain't givin' the little Cap'n all she ought to have. I'll show you what I'm teachin' her.
Captain January : And I know my Lord's Prayer, and my times tables clear up to twelve - don't I Daddy?
Jeremiah Judkins : After all, Minister, there's only three things needed to bring up a child - - the Lord's help, common sense - and a cow.
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Captain January : [referring to her pet pelican] We used to call her Hamlet, but he laid an egg yesterday, and now his name's Ophelia.
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Captain January : I can't belong to different people, 'cause I'm just one - - I'm Captain Daddy's little girl.
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Captain January : Daddy! Daddy - - come back!
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Captain January : Nobody's taken one bit of care for you! You slept in your chair - and you haven't taken any of your medicine!
Jeremiah Judkins : You're my medicine!
