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    128 CONTINUED - (3): 60. 128 Bashlk turns to them, his eyes earnest and excited, BASHIK Mind you, there?╟╓s water almost everywhere, if one can only catch It and hold it. I tried an experiment I had read abbut. I fenced-off several parcels of desert ground. KELLY Fenced them? BASHIK So that goats couldn't get at them, and people wouldn't be pulling up things for firewood. And do you know? In scarcely a year, there was grass growing there; unplanted. Then little succulent things sprang up. , And finally little trees 1 He holds up thumb and forefinger, like the old cigarette ads, as if actually showing them the little trees. SCOTT Would you look at that'. BASHIK Of course, it wasn?╟╓t the middle of the desert .... KELLY Well, a guy has to start somewhere. What's the plan? BASHIK Two years from now, when I'm truly the King, all by myself ... when I open the Parliament and I make the speech from the throne that proposes new legislation ... my first speech will be concerned with nothing but goats and firewood and fences and pushing back the desert 1 Brief silence, Kelly and Scott studying him as If seeing him for the first time. SCOTT (to Kelly) I've just got a feeling this is the kid who could do it. (CONTINUED)