Shirley Temple credited as playing...
Virgie Cary
- Virginia 'Virgie' Cary: [singing] Oh, I eat watermelon and I have for years. Sing Polly-Wolly-Doodle all the day! I like watermelon but it wets my ears. Sing Polly-Wolly-Doodle all the day!
- Virginia 'Virgie' Cary: [singing] Oh, I wish I was in Dixie Land! Hooray, hooray! In Dixie Land I'll take my stand, I'll live and die in Dixie Land! Away down south Dixie! Away, away!
- Virginia 'Virgie' Cary: Daddy, did something happen to Mommy?
- Capt. Herbert Cary, aka 'Master Cary': Something beautiful, dear. That's the way you must always think of it. Mommy will never be ill again, or frightened, or discouraged. Just think of it as beautiful.
- Capt. Herbert Cary, aka 'Master Cary': You remember how Mommy always taught you never to tell a lie?
- Virginia 'Virgie' Cary: I never have, Daddy.
- Capt. Herbert Cary, aka 'Master Cary': And Mommy's proud of you for it, but if those Yankees should come in here, you've got to tell a lie.
- Virginia 'Virgie' Cary: You want me to tell a lie?
- Capt. Herbert Cary, aka 'Master Cary': Just this once for Daddy. And in a case like this, it really isn't a lie. If they should ask you, you must tell them that I was here but I left an hour ago and you saw me cross the river. Be brave and do this for me, dear.
- Virginia 'Virgie' Cary: Daddy, would General Lee want me to tell that lie?
- Capt. Herbert Cary, aka 'Master Cary': Yes, dear.
- Virginia 'Virgie' Cary: All right, then, I'll tell a whopper!
- Virginia 'Virgie' Cary: Daddy, you told a fib.
- Capt. Herbert Cary, aka 'Master Cary': Well, this is war, honey.
- Virginia 'Virgie' Cary: Why isn't it a sin to tell a fib in war?
- Capt. Herbert Cary, aka 'Master Cary': I don't know why it isn't a sin to do anything we do in war.
- Virginia 'Virgie' Cary: What's the Seventy-Second Vermont?
- Capt. Herbert Cary, aka 'Master Cary': That's a regiment of men I have no intention of meeting.
- Virginia 'Virgie' Cary: I know another dance. Would you like to see?
- Uncle Billy: Oh, yes, sir, she knows such a lot of dances!
- Virginia 'Virgie' Cary: Can you stay long this time, Daddy?
- Capt. Herbert Cary, aka 'Master Cary': Not this time either, darling. I've got to be right off.
- Mrs. Cary: I'll see if Rosabelle has your lunch for you.
- Capt. Herbert Cary, aka 'Master Cary': Are they getting a fresh horse for me?
- Virginia 'Virgie' Cary: Everybody knows just what to do. We practice it every day.
- Capt. Herbert Cary, aka 'Master Cary': God love you.
- Col. Morrison: You're not leaving without saying goodbye to me, are you?
- Virginia 'Virgie' Cary: Oh no, I was going to kiss you goodbye. And then tomorrow when I come, I'll do all my talking with you.
- Col. Morrison: Oh, you switch around, eh?
- Virginia 'Virgie' Cary: Well, Daddy said you tried to help us, so I made you my second daddy.
- Col. Morrison: Nothing so nice ever happened to me.
- Uncle Billy: We got's to hurry, missy.
- Virginia 'Virgie' Cary: Goodbye, Yankee.
- Col. Morrison: Goodbye, rebel darling.
- Virginia 'Virgie' Cary: Goodbye, Daddy.
- Capt. Herbert Cary, aka 'Master Cary': God love you, honey.
- Uncle Billy: There ain't no more ice cream, Miss Virgie.
- Virginia 'Virgie' Cary: I'll only ask them once. I won't coax. More ice cream for you, Master Phillip?
- Phillip: Nothing for me, thank you.
- Virginia 'Virgie' Cary: Would you care for more ice cream, Master Harold?
- Harold: Yes!
- Virginia 'Virgie' Cary: Uh, perhaps you'd rather have another great big piece of cake?
- Harold: No, just ice cream.
- Sally Ann: Miss Virgie... Mam... we all come here to wish you many happy... many happy...
- Virginia 'Virgie' Cary: [whispering] Returns.
- Sally Ann: That's it! Many happy returns of the day! And we all made you a doll and here it is and, Miss Virgie, there was more I had to say but I forgot it!
- Harold: I hope you'll excuse me, Miss Virgie, if I don't bow too low, but these britches are awful tight.
- Virginia 'Virgie' Cary: That's perfectly all right, Master Harold, just bow as far as you can.
- Virginia 'Virgie' Cary: Uncle Billy, I don't think it was very polite to chase everybody out of my party like that.
- Uncle Billy: Their mammies have to take them home quickly. You see, honey child, they's gonna be a war.
- Virginia 'Virgie' Cary: What's war?
- Uncle Billy: War is a lot of soldiers and battle where men kill each other with guns.
- Virginia 'Virgie' Cary: Really and truly kill each other? Why?
- Uncle Billy: Seems to me, honey child, no-one knows why. I heard a white gentleman say there's a man up north who wants to free the slaves.
- Virginia 'Virgie' Cary: What does that mean? Free the slaves?
- Uncle Billy: I don't know what it means myself.
- James Henry: Ain't you a speck afraid, Miss Virgie?
- Virginia 'Virgie' Cary: No, I'm not! What are you afraid of them for?
- James Henry: Oh, Miss Virgie, them Yankees is mighty powerful. They can even change the weather.
- Virginia 'Virgie' Cary: Really?
- James Henry: Whenever they come around, I don't know whether it's winter or summer. I start shivering and sweating at the same time.
- Capt. Herbert Cary, aka 'Master Cary': Southerners never cry.
- Virginia 'Virgie' Cary: What are these, then?
- Capt. Herbert Cary, aka 'Master Cary': Raindrops.
- Virginia 'Virgie' Cary: On a sunshiney day?
- Col. Morrison: And how is the littlest rebel of them all?
- Virginia 'Virgie' Cary: Just fine, Mr. Yankee, thank you!
- Yankee Guard: Where are you going, sir?
- Capt. Herbert Cary, aka 'Master Cary': I'm taking this child to her father just beyond our lines. Colonel Morrison sent me. Here's his pass.
- Virginia 'Virgie' Cary: Have you got a little girl, mister?
- Yankee Guard: No, I've got a boy. Where'd you come from?
- Capt. Herbert Cary, aka 'Master Cary': Cary's plantation.
- Yankee Guard: Why aren't you using the main roads?
- Capt. Herbert Cary, aka 'Master Cary': We'd heard about Cary going the other way.
- Virginia 'Virgie' Cary: How old's your little boy?
- Yankee Guard: Five.
- Virginia 'Virgie' Cary: Oh, I'm six.
- Yankee Guard: My boy's bigger than you. This looks all right, but I don't know. We have special orders to be on the watch for Captain Cary, a rebel scout.
- Capt. Herbert Cary, aka 'Master Cary': Didn't you hear? They caught him this morning.
- Yankee Guard: They did?
- Capt. Herbert Cary, aka 'Master Cary': Yes, Morrison and his men, at his own plantation.
- Yankee Guard: That's all right, then, go ahead.
- Virginia 'Virgie' Cary: My daddy and Colonel Morrison are in prison, and they're going to shoot them.
- President Abraham Lincoln: Your father is a captain in the Confederate army.
- Virginia 'Virgie' Cary: Yes, sir.
- President Abraham Lincoln: Arrested as a spy.
- Virginia 'Virgie' Cary: My daddy isn't a spy!
- President Abraham Lincoln: Do you know what a spy is?
- Virginia 'Virgie' Cary: I know it's something bad, because they shoot you for it, and my daddy could never do anything bad.
- President Abraham Lincoln: I don't see how he could either, with a little one like you.
- Virginia 'Virgie' Cary: Thank you kindly, sir.
- Capt. Herbert Cary, aka 'Master Cary': Tell me what you've been doing.
- Virginia 'Virgie' Cary: Well, I sewed up a hole in my dress, and Miss Robin let me sweep the stoop.
- Capt. Herbert Cary, aka 'Master Cary': Why, you're becoming a regular little housewife!
- Virginia 'Virgie' Cary: Daddy, when will they let you out?
- Capt. Herbert Cary, aka 'Master Cary': No, no, come on now and tell me what you've been doing.
- Virginia 'Virgie' Cary: Well, there's a little girl that lives across the street, and she has a pony, and she let me ride on it.
- Capt. Herbert Cary, aka 'Master Cary': That's grand!
- Virginia 'Virgie' Cary: And she gave me some candy, and she's a yank, and she said she didn't care whether I was a rebel or not. And I said I didn't care if she was a yank. Daddy, if she's so nice, and Colonel Morrison's so nice, and Miss Robin, why do the rest of the people have to kill each other?
- Capt. Herbert Cary, aka 'Master Cary': I don't know, honey. We grown-ups haven't as much sense as you children.