Mitchells leave for the hospital, while the two boys look for Jeff. It turns out that Jeff and Rusty went to the cabin to spend the night. In the morning, Miss Simmons arrives with warm cinnamon rolls. She tells Jeff that she also pretends, but in her case, that she has a little boy, just like him. He tells her that he dreams of his real mother singing to him, because his pretend mother can't sing. Miss Simmons then cuddles him in her lap and sings to him "Beautiful Dreamer". Danny and Bill arrive at the cabin and tell Miss Simmons that Virgil is very ill. Jeff awakens and thinks that Danny came to take "Gladly" away, but Danny tells him that "Gladly" is now Jeff's dog. Later, Bill returns with the happy news that their father is better and Jeff, looking at Miss Simmons, tell him that "she can sing just like everything". Rusty's offspring becomes the new "Gladly" As the Mitchells came home from the hospital with the news that Virgil Neeley is out of danger, Danny offers to give up Rusty so that Jeff can have his "Gladly" and live with the Mitchells while he is at military school, his parents tell him that there is no need for any of that, since Jeff will be happy with his father and Miss Simmons, to whom "he's transferred his heart… lock, stock and barrel". Also, news from the local farm is that Rusty is a father again and one of his pups will make a perfect new "Gladly" for Jeff. It all ends with a birthday party for Rusty as Jeff hugs his new little Gladly and Mrs. Mitchell cuts Rusty's birthday cake. Cast Ted Donaldson as Danny, son of Hugh and Ethel Mitchell John Litel as attorney Hugh Mitchell Ann Doran as Ethel Mitchell, his wife Jimmy Hunt as Jeff Neeley, younger son of Virgil Neeley Mark Dennis as Bill Neeley, older son of Virgil Neeley Ray Teal as Virgil Neeley, unemployed farmworker Lillian Bronson as Carrie Simmons, employment agency proprietress and Flame as Rusty Unbilled (in order of appearance) Robert B. Williams (vagrant who "sells" Rusty) Myron Healey (Jack Wiggins, gas station attendant) Teddy Infuhr (Squeaky Foley, Danny's smart-aleck friend) Dwayne Hickman (Nip Worden, another of Danny's four friends) David Ackles (Ticky Worden, also one of Danny's four friends) Fred Sears (policeman who checks the Neeleys'