1. - Whoa!Copy !req
2. A song never fails
to ease my mind out here in the West,Copy !req
3. where the distances are great
and the scenery monotonous.Copy !req
4. Additionally, my pleasing baritone
seems to inspirit ol' Dan hereCopy !req
5. and keep him in good heart
during the day's measure of hoof clops.Copy !req
6. Ain't that right, Dan?Copy !req
7. Maybe some of y'all have heard of me.Copy !req
8. Buster Scruggs, known to some
as the San Saba Songbird.Copy !req
9. I got other handles, nicknames,
appellations, and cognomens,Copy !req
10. but this one here I don't consider
to be even halfway earned.Copy !req
11. "Misanthrope"? I don't hate my fellow man,Copy !req
12. even when he's tiresome and surly
and tries to cheat at poker.Copy !req
13. I figure that's just a human material,Copy !req
14. and him that finds in it
cause for anger and dismayCopy !req
15. is just a fool for expecting better.Copy !req
16. Ain't that right, Dan?Copy !req
17. Well, folks,
unless I grievously misremember,Copy !req
18. there's a little cantina
on the other side of yon rimrocks.Copy !req
19. And if I'm in luck,
there'll be customers thereCopy !req
20. amenable to drawing up in a circle
around a deck of cards.Copy !req
21. I'd like me a splash of whiskey
to wash the trail dust off my gulletCopy !req
22. and keep my singing voice in fettle.Copy !req
23. Whiskey's illegal.Copy !req
24. This is a dry county.Copy !req
25. Well, what are they drinking?Copy !req
26. Whiskey.Copy !req
27. They's outlaws.Copy !req
28. Oh!Copy !req
29. Well, don't let my white duds
and pleasant demeanor fool ya.Copy !req
30. I too have been known to violate
the statutes of man,Copy !req
31. and not a few of the laws of the Almighty.Copy !req
32. You ain't no outlaw.Copy !req
33. And we don't drink with tinhorns.Copy !req
34. Sir, it seems that you are no better
a judge of human beingsCopy !req
35. than you are a specimen of one.Copy !req
36. Just on a brief inventory,Copy !req
37. I'd say that you could use yourself
a shave and a brighter disposition.Copy !req
38. And lastly, if you don't mind me
aspersin' your friends,Copy !req
39. a better class of drinking buddy.Copy !req
40. Your shootin' iron work?Copy !req
41. Appears to do. Yes.Copy !req
42. Huh.Copy !req
43. It appears that the vitals of this lucky
son-of-a-gun remain unpunctured.Copy !req
44. Sloppy shootin' on my part.Copy !req
45. Here now, I'll get that for you, partner.Copy !req
46. A coup de grâce I'll leave to the wolves
and gila monsters.Copy !req
47. Adios, amigo.Copy !req
48. Frenchman's Gulch.Copy !req
49. This town is new to me.Copy !req
50. Hold on, son.Copy !req
51. House policy.Copy !req
52. Here's the six-shooter.Copy !req
53. You'll be wanting
the senorita pistols as well?Copy !req
54. Everything. House policy.Copy !req
55. Feel a bit naked, but...Copy !req
56. I guess with everyone
similarly disadvantaged,Copy !req
57. there's scant chance of misadventure.Copy !req
58. - I'm out.
- Well, this is well-timed.Copy !req
59. You gentlemen mind if I take his spot?Copy !req
60. If'n you play his hand.Copy !req
61. - I would prefer not to.
- It is too late.Copy !req
62. You have regarded the cards.Copy !req
63. You seen 'em, you play 'em.Copy !req
64. I ain't anted.Copy !req
65. The other hombre anted.Copy !req
66. You seen em, you play 'em.Copy !req
67. And if'n I don't?Copy !req
68. You play them cards, fancy Dan.Copy !req
69. Can't no-one compel another man
to engage in recreation.Copy !req
70. Certainly not a son of a gun
as ill-humored as yourself.Copy !req
71. And as for names, my horse is Dan.Copy !req
72. - I'm Buster. Buster Scruggs.
- Buster Scruggs?Copy !req
73. The runt from Reata Pass?Copy !req
74. And dis-pistoled.Copy !req
75. I do hail from Reata PassCopy !req
76. which is in the county of San Saba,
being the which-a-whyCopy !req
77. the San Saba Songbird
is my sobriquet of preference.Copy !req
78. But right now, I'd appreciate itCopy !req
79. if you deposit your weapon
in the receptacle by the swinging doors,Copy !req
80. which concealing of it on your person
in the first placeCopy !req
81. was a violation of the rules
of this establishmentCopy !req
82. and an offense against local norms.Copy !req
83. And if'n I don't?Copy !req
84. I'm not a devious man by nature,Copy !req
85. but when you're unarmed, your tactics
might gotta be downright Archimedean.Copy !req
86. Yee-haw!Copy !req
87. Joe? Surly Joe!Copy !req
88. ♪ Surly Joe ♪
- We've lost him!Copy !req
89. You killed my brother,
you cowardly son of a bitch!Copy !req
90. Gunned him down
when he wasn't hardly looking.Copy !req
91. I can cut you a little slack,
grieving as you are,Copy !req
92. but the fact is, Buster Scruggs
don't shoot nobody in the back,Copy !req
93. and that sorry sack of bones
was more in the nature of a suicide.Copy !req
94. You're Buster Scruggs?Copy !req
95. The West Texas Twit?Copy !req
96. I assume you meant West Texas Tit,Copy !req
97. on account of that particular bird's
mellifluous warble.Copy !req
98. Call yourself any damn name you please.Copy !req
99. I want to see you outside.Copy !req
100. Wearing iron!Copy !req
101. Things have a way of escalating
out here in the WestCopy !req
102. with one thing leading to another, but...Copy !req
103. I should be able to make pretty short work
of this ramified old son-of-a-gun.Copy !req
104. Scruggs! Scruggs!Copy !req
105. I'ma calling you out!Copy !req
106. Now, just hang on there, partner.
I had to strap on my tool belt.Copy !req
107. - Are you ready?
- Ready!Copy !req
108. - Are you set?
- Set!Copy !req
109. - Do you need a count?
- No, sir!Copy !req
110. Hard to trigger
with them other fingers, but...Copy !req
111. you can't be too careful.Copy !req
112. Whoa.
Looks like when they made this fella,Copy !req
113. they forgot to put in the quit.Copy !req
114. Five fingers at a bullet a piece.Copy !req
115. I ain't got but the one bullet left.Copy !req
116. Sure hope I don't miss.Copy !req
117. Let me see here.Copy !req
118. His heart would be on the left,
but in the mirror it'd be on the right.Copy !req
119. Of course, we is both facing the same way
and the gun is upside down, so...Copy !req
120. Yeah, best not to play it too fancy.Copy !req
121. Cause for reflection.Copy !req
122. Puts me in mind of a song.Copy !req
123. Buster Scruggs.Copy !req
124. The same.
You make a sweet noise there, partner.Copy !req
125. That's high praise
coming from the San Saba Song Bird.Copy !req
126. Herald of Demise.Copy !req
127. I've been hunting you up on account
of they say you're the one to beat,Copy !req
128. singing and slinging guns.Copy !req
129. Another young fella
with something to prove.Copy !req
130. I gotta set myself up
in the undertaking business.Copy !req
131. Stop doing all the skill workCopy !req
132. so another man can profit.Copy !req
133. But then,
do I want to wear a black suit?Copy !req
134. - You need a count?
- No, sir.Copy !req
135. Well, that ain't good.Copy !req
136. I shoulda seen this coming.Copy !req
137. Can't be top dog forever.Copy !req
138. There's just gotta be a place
up ahead where men ain't low down,Copy !req
139. and poker's played fair.Copy !req
140. If there weren't,
what are all the songs about?Copy !req
141. I'll see y'all there.Copy !req
142. And we can sing togetherCopy !req
143. and shake our heads
over all the meanness in the used to be.Copy !req
144. Fancy place.Copy !req
145. It's a comfort to the depositors.Copy !req
146. Who'd that be?Copy !req
147. Oh, we got folks from over Val Verde,
Chloride, Tucumcari itself, of course.Copy !req
148. Why, the whole entire three-county area.Copy !req
149. Hell, we even had a run on the bank once,
weren't pretty.Copy !req
150. Had to hop on the counter here
with my scattergun,Copy !req
151. talk the folks down. Well...Copy !req
152. that's banking.Copy !req
153. Ah, crazy business.Copy !req
154. Crazy business.Copy !req
155. Ever been robbed?Copy !req
156. Oh, sure I have.
Two times, attempted, I should say.Copy !req
157. One fella I shot dead. Bingo!Copy !req
158. The other I held for the marshal.
Both his legs were shredded some,Copy !req
159. had to lock him in the vault there.Copy !req
160. Marshal don't come through
but once a month,Copy !req
161. and he'd just visited the previous week.Copy !req
162. Had to billet that scamp for what,Copy !req
163. three weeks, applying a poultice
of wet leaves and urine.Copy !req
164. He's in Yuma now, busting rocks.
Still a little gimpy from what they say.Copy !req
165. Fella by the name of Civilly...
uh, Chevilly,Copy !req
166. unless I misremember,
said his pappy was—Copy !req
167. from—Copy !req
168. from France.Copy !req
169. All the cash.Copy !req
170. Okay, you got me, young fella.
You got me fair and square.Copy !req
171. The large denominations I gotta...Copy !req
172. stoop for.Copy !req
173. Psst! Hey! Come here.Copy !req
174. Timmy, get over here.Copy !req
175. Hey!Copy !req
176. - Bad shot!Copy !req
177. Pan-shot!Copy !req
178. Pan-shot!Copy !req
179. Do you have anything to say?Copy !req
180. Do you have anything to say?Copy !req
181. Do you have anything to say
before the sentence is carried out?Copy !req
182. Sentence?Copy !req
183. - What's my sentence?Copy !req
184. Son, we just held some proceedings here
for attempted bank robbery.Copy !req
185. You was off your nut feverish
for most of the goings on,Copy !req
186. but it was a fair trial
like we do here in New Mexico.Copy !req
187. These peers convicted you.Copy !req
188. I passed the sentence of death
and we found us this tree.Copy !req
189. Now this here is your opportunity
to speak your pieceCopy !req
190. before your sentence is carried out.Copy !req
191. That pan-covered son of a bitch
back at the bankCopy !req
192. don't hardly fight fair, in my opinion.Copy !req
193. Okay.Copy !req
194. That it?Copy !req
195. I reckon it is.Copy !req
196. - Can I have your horse?
- No, me.Copy !req
197. You wanna give one of these boys
your horse?Copy !req
198. Save scrapping over it after you pass?Copy !req
199. I don't want any of them to have it.Copy !req
200. Selfish bastard.Copy !req
201. - Whoa. Whoa.Copy !req
202. Whoa!Copy !req
203. Whoa.Copy !req
204. - Whoa.Copy !req
205. Easy. Easy.Copy !req
206. Oh, shit. Easy.Copy !req
207. Whoa.Copy !req
208. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa.Copy !req
209. Easy.Copy !req
210. Hey!Copy !req
211. Over here!Copy !req
212. Comanche?Copy !req
213. - Yeah.
- Yup.Copy !req
214. Hold still.Copy !req
215. I sure do appreciate you helping me
with these beeves.Copy !req
216. Them two compañeros I hired
to help walk 'em to AbileneCopy !req
217. started grousing about the wages
once the weather turned hot,Copy !req
218. and finally they left.
Now I come to be here by my lonesome.Copy !req
219. That's what you call
a fair-weather friend,Copy !req
220. - I tell you.
- Hmm.Copy !req
221. Yep, them boys didn't understand
the first thing about sidekicking.Copy !req
222. Hey, maybe you can sidekick up with me
on a permanent basis,Copy !req
223. this drive works out.Copy !req
224. Yeah, you seem trustworthy enough.
That's why I make the proposition.Copy !req
225. Why, a sidekick should be a reliable man.Copy !req
226. - It's the very nature the sidekick.Copy !req
227. Like there's this cowpoke I knew,
thought I knew.Copy !req
228. The per—Copy !req
229. - Dammit! Yah!Copy !req
230. Yah! Yah!Copy !req
231. No hats in the presence of Judge Hobby.Copy !req
232. - What'd this sumbitch do?
- Sir, I—Copy !req
233. Hold your tongue!
Sumbitch is a stock rustler.Copy !req
234. - Alleged.
- Yes, Your Honor.Copy !req
235. - Sir, I never—
- Hold your tongue!Copy !req
236. He was caught driving rustled beeves.Copy !req
237. Good enough. Hang him.Copy !req
238. Mmm.Copy !req
239. - First time?
Huh?Copy !req
240. There's a pretty girl.Copy !req
241. I met a traveler...Copy !req
242. in an antique land...Copy !req
243. who said, "Two vast and trunkless legsCopy !req
244. stand in the desert.Copy !req
245. Near them on the sand,
half sunk, a shattered visage lies,Copy !req
246. whose frown and wrinkled lipCopy !req
247. and sneer of cold command...Copy !req
248. tell that its sculptor
well those passions read,Copy !req
249. which yet survive,
stamped on these lifeless things...Copy !req
250. the hand that mocked them,Copy !req
251. and the heart that fed.Copy !req
252. And on the pedestal, these words appear:Copy !req
253. 'My name...Copy !req
254. is Ozymandias,Copy !req
255. king of kings!Copy !req
256. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'Copy !req
257. Nothing beside remains.Copy !req
258. Round the decay of that colossal wreck,Copy !req
259. boundless and bare...Copy !req
260. The lone and level sands stretchCopy !req
261. far away."Copy !req
262. And the Lord said unto Cain,
"Where is Abel, thy brother?"Copy !req
263. When to the sessions
of sweet silent thought,Copy !req
264. I summon up remembrance
of things past...Copy !req
265. I all alone beweep my outcast stateCopy !req
266. and trouble deaf heavenCopy !req
267. with my bootless cries...Copy !req
268. Four score and seven years ago...Copy !req
269. and that government of the people,
by the people...Copy !req
270. for the people...Copy !req
271. shall not perishCopy !req
272. from the earth.Copy !req
273. Our revels now are ended.Copy !req
274. These, our actors, as I foretold you,Copy !req
275. were all spiritsCopy !req
276. and are melted into air, into thin air.Copy !req
277. God bless you, sir.Copy !req
278. And like the baseless fabric
of this vision...Copy !req
279. Found him in the streets
of London, England.Copy !req
280. Armless, legless, rest assure.Copy !req
281. Motherless and penniless.Copy !req
282. the great globe itself,Copy !req
283. yea, all which it inherit,
shall dissolve.Copy !req
284. God bless you.Copy !req
285. - Thank you. Coin for the young artists.
- And like this insubstantial planet faded,Copy !req
286. leave, not a rack behind.Copy !req
287. On we go. Come on.Copy !req
288. Up, there you go.Copy !req
289. And it came to pass
when they were in a field,Copy !req
290. that Cain rose up against Abel his brother
and slew him!Copy !req
291. And the Lord said unto Cain,
"Where is Abel, thy brother?"Copy !req
292. And he said, "I know not.Copy !req
293. Am I my brother's keeper?"
And the Lord said, "What has thou done?"Copy !req
294. When to the sessions
of sweet silent thoughtCopy !req
295. I summon up remembrance of things past.Copy !req
296. I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,Copy !req
297. and with old woes, new wail,
my dear time's waste.Copy !req
298. Then can I drown an eye unus'd to flow,Copy !req
299. for precious friends hid,
in death stateless night,Copy !req
300. and weep afresh love's long
since cancell'd woe,Copy !req
301. and moan the expense
of many a vanished sight.Copy !req
302. That this nation under God
shall have a new birth of freedom,Copy !req
303. and that government of the people,
by the people,Copy !req
304. for the people...Copy !req
305. shall not perish from the Earth.Copy !req
306. Our revels now are ended.Copy !req
307. And these our actors...Copy !req
308. I met a traveler in antique land...Copy !req
309. It blesseth him that gives
and him that takes...Copy !req
310. I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought.Copy !req
311. I met a traveler in an antique land...Copy !req
312. My punishment is greater than I can bear.Copy !req
313. Stamped on these lifeless things.Copy !req
314. Four score and seven years ago,
our fathers...Copy !req
315. I met a traveler in an antique land.Copy !req
316. And moan the expense...Copy !req
317. A fugitive...Copy !req
318. A shattered visage lies...Copy !req
319. And a vagabond, thou shalt be!Copy !req
320. For thy sweet love remembered
such wealth brings.Copy !req
321. That then I scorn to change my state...Copy !req
322. with kings.Copy !req
323. We're going into town!Copy !req
324. All right.Copy !req
325. There.Copy !req
326. Wanna buy your friend some lovin'?Copy !req
327. I don't think so.Copy !req
328. He ever had any?Copy !req
329. Once.Copy !req
330. When in disgrace...Copy !req
331. with fortune and men's eyes,Copy !req
332. I all alone beweep my outcast state...Copy !req
333. and trouble deaf heaven
with my bootless criesCopy !req
334. and look upon myself...Copy !req
335. and curse my fate.Copy !req
336. Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,Copy !req
337. featured like him, like him,Copy !req
338. with friends possessed,Copy !req
339. desiring this man's art
and that man's scopeCopy !req
340. with what I most enjoy contented least.Copy !req
341. Yet in these thoughts myself
almost despising,Copy !req
342. haply I think on thee,
and then my state,Copy !req
343. like to the lark at break of day
arising from sullen earth,Copy !req
344. sings hymns at heaven's gate...Copy !req
345. And that government of the people,Copy !req
346. by the people...Copy !req
347. for the people...Copy !req
348. shall not perish from the Earth.Copy !req
349. Our revels now are ended.Copy !req
350. And these, our actors,
as I foretold you, were all spiritsCopy !req
351. and are melted into air, into thin air.Copy !req
352. And like the baseless fabric
of this vision,Copy !req
353. the cloud-capp'd towers,
the gorgeous palaces, the—Copy !req
354. One at a time, ladies and gentlemen.Copy !req
355. Yeah. Twenty-one divided by three.Copy !req
356. - There it is! There's the answer.Copy !req
357. There's the solution.Copy !req
358. Is he right? Is he clever?Copy !req
359. He's self-taught, ladies and gentlemen.Copy !req
360. He has no formal education.Copy !req
361. One at a time, ladies and gentlemen.Copy !req
362. - Test that chicken's brain.Copy !req
363. Gallus Mathematicus,
in the feather, in the flesh.Copy !req
364. Seven plus three!Copy !req
365. Eleven twice! Eleven twice!
Yes, right there.Copy !req
366. I have 11 twice.Copy !req
367. The chicken is calculating,
ladies and gentlemen.Copy !req
368. Watch this fowl thing.Copy !req
369. - That's a 22!Copy !req
370. - What a genius chicken!
- Eighteen take away seven.Copy !req
371. Eighteen take away seven.Copy !req
372. Eleven!Copy !req
373. Oh! Eleven, ladies and gentlemen!Copy !req
374. The Calculating Capon!Copy !req
375. The Pecking Pythagorean!Copy !req
376. Whoa.Copy !req
377. Come on, Lucky.Copy !req
378. Mm-hmm.Copy !req
379. Maybe...Copy !req
380. Two.Copy !req
381. Oh.Copy !req
382. Not a speck.Copy !req
383. Ahh. Let's go the other way.Copy !req
384. Four.Copy !req
385. Seven.Copy !req
386. Twelve.Copy !req
387. Five. Going down.Copy !req
388. Three.Copy !req
389. Two.Copy !req
390. Back to nothing.Copy !req
391. Ha!Copy !req
392. Okay.Copy !req
393. There's a pocket up there.
How far, we don't know.Copy !req
394. You're up there.Copy !req
395. Okay, Mr. Pocket.Copy !req
396. All right.Copy !req
397. I'ma coming!Copy !req
398. I'ma coming.Copy !req
399. You just sit there,Copy !req
400. 'cause I'ma coming.Copy !req
401. Where are you, Mr. Pocket?Copy !req
402. You to the left, to the right,
or straight up the middle?Copy !req
403. Well, we'll just have to see, won't we?Copy !req
404. We'll just have to see.Copy !req
405. Goodnight, Mr. Pocket.Copy !req
406. Sit tight, Mr. Pocket!Copy !req
407. Oh.Copy !req
408. Damn it.Copy !req
409. Well, maybe just one.Copy !req
410. How high can a bird count anyway?Copy !req
411. Hmm. Almost enough to keep.Copy !req
412. You're there.Copy !req
413. How deep?Copy !req
414. End of the line...Copy !req
415. and I'm gonna getcha.Copy !req
416. I'm gonna getcha.Copy !req
417. Maybe not today, but I'm gonna getcha.Copy !req
418. Can't run away from me now, Mr. Pocket.Copy !req
419. I catch up with you tomorrow.Copy !req
420. I'm old...Copy !req
421. but you're older.Copy !req
422. I'm old...Copy !req
423. but you're older.Copy !req
424. Yes, sir.Copy !req
425. Hmm.Copy !req
426. Keepers.Copy !req
427. Getting to keepers.Copy !req
428. All righty.Copy !req
429. Where's your daddy?Copy !req
430. Lumps and chunks. Lumps and chunks.Copy !req
431. Mother Machree.Copy !req
432. Hello, Mr. Pocket.Copy !req
433. Hello, Mr. Pocket!Copy !req
434. You measly skunk!Copy !req
435. - You measly skunk!Copy !req
436. Camping on my trail!Copy !req
437. Letting me do all the work!Copy !req
438. And shooting me in the back!Copy !req
439. And shooting me in the back!Copy !req
440. You measly skunk.Copy !req
441. You shot me in the back!Copy !req
442. It went clean through.Copy !req
443. He didn't hit nothing important.Copy !req
444. He didn't hit nothing important.Copy !req
445. Nothing important.Copy !req
446. Just guts is all you had!Copy !req
447. Don't worry, Mr. Pocket.Copy !req
448. I'll be back.Copy !req
449. I ain't walking out on you.Copy !req
450. There's your share, you measly skunk.Copy !req
451. Come on, Lucky.Copy !req
452. I heard it through the walls.Copy !req
453. He made noises, strange noises,Copy !req
454. which he characterized as a cough.Copy !req
455. Frightening.
I've never heard such a cough.Copy !req
456. And this cough did to not respond
to any kind of syrup or elixir,Copy !req
457. and it was an extremely rattly cough.Copy !req
458. No, I was not sad
to see Mr. Kincaid leave.Copy !req
459. It was not a contagious cough.Copy !req
460. Nobody here became ill.Copy !req
461. It was a nervous cough.Copy !req
462. I would not rent to a contagious cougher.Copy !req
463. I've never heard of a nervous cough.Copy !req
464. I understand
that you are about to leave us.Copy !req
465. The nervous system spreads its tendrils
throughout the body.Copy !req
466. I saw a picture of it in a book.Copy !req
467. The nervous system
does not have tendrils.Copy !req
468. I don't pretend to be a physician
or a botanist,Copy !req
469. but I know the nervous system
extends through the bodyCopy !req
470. and I presume that is how it learnsCopy !req
471. of the various physical conditions
that it imitates.Copy !req
472. Mrs. Flannery is quite right.
I've seen that picture.Copy !req
473. My point is only that Mr. Kincaid
was not a contagious cougher.Copy !req
474. - I don't rent to such.
- Is there any more chicken and dumplings?Copy !req
475. The bowl came to me last.Copy !req
476. Yes, there's more.
We don't stint at this table.Copy !req
477. Grandma Turner looks to be finished.Copy !req
478. Are you finished, Grandma Turner?Copy !req
479. Grandma Turner's finished.Copy !req
480. Leaving us tomorrow,
jumping off the map so to speak?Copy !req
481. Yes, indeed. My brother and I are
setting off in the morning for Oregon.Copy !req
482. Oregon?
Oh, you have people out there or are you—Copy !req
483. Just scoop from her plate, Mrs. Halliday.
Grandma Turner's quite done.Copy !req
484. No, I— Not exactly.Copy !req
485. That is, my brother does.Copy !req
486. Well, go ahead and tell him, Alice.
Don't be tongue-tied.Copy !req
487. She has exciting news.Copy !req
488. I...Copy !req
489. I'm to be married, or at least I may beCopy !req
490. to Gilbert's associate.Copy !req
491. He's well fixed out there.Copy !req
492. You are not certain
whether you are going to be married?Copy !req
493. Has the gentleman not proposed?Copy !req
494. He... Well, he...Copy !req
495. He will propose once they meet each other.
I'm sure Alice will pass muster.Copy !req
496. The match is a good one.Copy !req
497. I'm joining him in a business opportunity,Copy !req
498. and he's declared himself ready to marry
when he finds a suitable match.Copy !req
499. Alice can be very sociable and attractive
when she has a mind to be.Copy !req
500. She doesn't always have a mind to be.Copy !req
501. Well, I think she's just
the picture of charm.Copy !req
502. And we are going to miss you
so very much, Miss Longabaugh.Copy !req
503. You and Mr. Longabaugh both,Copy !req
504. and of course, Mr. Longabaugh's dog,Copy !req
505. little President Pierce. Bless him.Copy !req
506. Where— where is he now?Copy !req
507. Gilbert?Copy !req
508. Yes, sister?Copy !req
509. Two people have asked me
about President Pierce.Copy !req
510. Asked?Copy !req
511. Well... complained.Copy !req
512. About what?Copy !req
513. The barking.Copy !req
514. Indeed.Copy !req
515. Why to you?Copy !req
516. I believe they assumed he was my dog.Copy !req
517. Well, I don't know what to say.
President Pierce is a nervous creatureCopy !req
518. and excited by animals larger
than himself.Copy !req
519. Almost all animals are larger
than President Pierce.Copy !req
520. Well, what of it?Copy !req
521. People are...Copy !req
522. wondering if he will bark
all the way to the Willamette Valley.Copy !req
523. What if he does?Copy !req
524. There are property rights.
The dog is my property.Copy !req
525. My property barks. There you have it.Copy !req
526. What did you tell them?Copy !req
527. Well...Copy !req
528. not that.Copy !req
529. Yes, I can only imagine what you said.Copy !req
530. Alice, sometimes you have to tell people
what's what.Copy !req
531. Ma'am.Copy !req
532. Miss?Copy !req
533. Condolences.Copy !req
534. Condolences.Copy !req
535. You going back?Copy !req
536. You— you going back now or... or...Copy !req
537. We lost him.Copy !req
538. I'm... so very sorry.Copy !req
539. - I will get a spade.
Yesterday morning...Copy !req
540. he was fine.Copy !req
541. - It is very quick, cholera.
- She a go-backer?Copy !req
542. Um...Copy !req
543. Will you be going back, Miss?Copy !req
544. Or pressing on?Copy !req
545. Going back or staying with the train?Copy !req
546. Going back...Copy !req
547. where?Copy !req
548. Uh...Copy !req
549. I don't have people.Copy !req
550. Well...Copy !req
551. I'll get a spade.Copy !req
552. Uh...Copy !req
553. You want a marker of any kind or...?Copy !req
554. We'll leave off then.Copy !req
555. Better anyway not to advertise
to the Indians.Copy !req
556. Well, they don't bother us none.Copy !req
557. Too much trouble attacking a wagon train.Copy !req
558. But they will scavenge.Copy !req
559. Uh, you got a hired boy,
don't you, Miss Longabaugh?Copy !req
560. Yes. Matt.Copy !req
561. He'll handle your team.Copy !req
562. He has been.Copy !req
563. Gilbert did very little.Copy !req
564. - You call on myself or Mr. Arthur if you—
- Yah!Copy !req
565. - Miss?
- Please, don't stand.Copy !req
566. Could I ask your advice, Mr. Knapp?Copy !req
567. Certainly, Miss.Copy !req
568. Would you like some supper
or coffee with us?Copy !req
569. No, thank you.Copy !req
570. My hired boy, Matt,Copy !req
571. he told me that my brother promised him
half his wagesCopy !req
572. when we get to Fort Laramie.Copy !req
573. - How much he say that was?
Two hundred dollars.Copy !req
574. Two hundred dollars is half?Copy !req
575. Yes.Copy !req
576. And the other half
when we get to the Willamette Valley.Copy !req
577. - High price.
- It is an extravagant wage.Copy !req
578. Is it?Copy !req
579. - That's a high price.
- You think the boy's telling a story?Copy !req
580. Now that your brother is no longer...Copy !req
581. I don't know.Copy !req
582. Gilbert was not a good businessman.Copy !req
583. He had an enterprise in Iowa City
that ended poorly,Copy !req
584. and earlier, another that...Copy !req
585. He was a failure.Copy !req
586. That's a high price.Copy !req
587. Well, there is another problem.Copy !req
588. I cannot find any money in the wagon.Copy !req
589. I believe Gilbert kept it
in his waistcoat.Copy !req
590. Then he's still got it.Copy !req
591. A half-day's ride.Copy !req
592. Where to?Copy !req
593. How do we find him?Copy !req
594. Oh, I don't think so.Copy !req
595. I suggest you not argue
with the boy until we get to Fort Laramie.Copy !req
596. And then?Copy !req
597. Well...Copy !req
598. maybe I will talk to the boy.Copy !req
599. See if I can shake him loose
from his story.Copy !req
600. Four hundred dollars. I don't know.Copy !req
601. I will have to think on this one.Copy !req
602. Miss? Could I have a word?Copy !req
603. Certainly, Mr. Knapp.
Could I offer you supper?Copy !req
604. Well, thank you. I've had mine.Copy !req
605. This is awkward, Miss, but...Copy !req
606. people have complained to Mr. Arthur
and myself about your little, uh...Copy !req
607. - President Pierce?Copy !req
608. - I have no doubt but that's your dog.
- He is not my dog.Copy !req
609. - Miss?
- He was...Copy !req
610. Mr. Longabaugh's.Copy !req
611. I know it's terrible, the noise.
I don't know what to do.Copy !req
612. Well then, I thought he was your dog.Copy !req
613. Maybe this is quite a simple matter. Uh...Copy !req
614. Can I put him down for you, Miss?Copy !req
615. All right. Well, could we not
just scare him off?Copy !req
616. Well, no.Copy !req
617. We are his food and he will follow us,
long as he can.Copy !req
618. And a wolf might play with him...Copy !req
619. uh...Copy !req
620. before he eats him.Copy !req
621. Faster is better.Copy !req
622. Yes. I understand.Copy !req
623. I will attend to it right away.Copy !req
624. Oh.Copy !req
625. I regret to have to tell you...Copy !req
626. I talked to your boy, Matt.Copy !req
627. I could not get him to budge.Copy !req
628. Thank you, Mr. Knapp. You are...Copy !req
629. very kind to extend yourself.Copy !req
630. Here we go, little dog.Copy !req
631. I set President Pierce down, and...Copy !req
632. Uh...Copy !req
633. he moved just as I fired.Copy !req
634. He skittered off, Miss. I...Copy !req
635. I don't believe I hit him at all.Copy !req
636. Oh, my God.Copy !req
637. I should have deputized Mr. Arthur.Copy !req
638. That man is a crack shot.Copy !req
639. - I didn't expect—
- Well, it was very kind of you.Copy !req
640. I do not think
you will see President Pierce again.Copy !req
641. I'm— I'm sorry to trouble you again.Copy !req
642. You're no trouble, Miss Longabaugh.Copy !req
643. I do apologize, Mr. Knapp.Copy !req
644. Interrupting your supper.Copy !req
645. Please, set your mind at ease, Miss.Copy !req
646. It is my duty to guide the train
and meet square any unexpected problem.Copy !req
647. Well, things are developing for the worse.Copy !req
648. - Yeah?
My boy, Matt,Copy !req
649. has asked me to affirm
his arrangement with my brother.Copy !req
650. He asked me to declare he will receive
his two payments in Fort Laramie,Copy !req
651. and in Oregon.Copy !req
652. He says if I will not affirm it,
he will depart.Copy !req
653. He will join the first party
of go-backers we meet.Copy !req
654. And leave you.Copy !req
655. Leave you out here with the wagon
high and dry.Copy !req
656. Yes.Copy !req
657. Well, well, well.Copy !req
658. - Yes, but—
Please, sit down, Miss. We—Copy !req
659. - We better talk about this.
- I don't like it.Copy !req
660. But I don't know
that it is wrong of him to ask.Copy !req
661. He is doing a job for pay.Copy !req
662. You are very broad-minded
to see the other side of it.Copy !req
663. But then what shall I do, Mr. Knapp?Copy !req
664. Shall I confess I have no money?
What is right?Copy !req
665. What is right?Copy !req
666. Miss Longabaugh...Copy !req
667. I cannot offer to drive your team
or tend your wagon in place of the boy.Copy !req
668. - Mr. Arthur—
- I would not ask you to do so.Copy !req
669. Oh, indeed.
These are my thoughts, not yours.Copy !req
670. Mr. Arthur and I have to ride
one in front of the train, one behind.Copy !req
671. We take turns, pilot and drag, but...Copy !req
672. Will you trust me for a day?Copy !req
673. Well, certainly. But how so?Copy !req
674. Tell the boy you affirm the agreement.Copy !req
675. I want to think on this for a day.Copy !req
676. I have a notion
that you may think is crackpot, but...Copy !req
677. I do not believe it is.Copy !req
678. I'm sure it is not crackpot.Copy !req
679. We'll see.Copy !req
680. Give me a day.Copy !req
681. I must talk to Mr. Arthur.Copy !req
682. Then we will talk tomorrow and...Copy !req
683. If you think it is a bad idea, well then,Copy !req
684. we will have only taken one extra day
of the boy's labor.Copy !req
685. Afternoon, partner.Copy !req
686. Mm-hmm.Copy !req
687. Which is worse, partner?Copy !req
688. Dust or mud?Copy !req
689. Both, I guess.Copy !req
690. Say...Copy !req
691. I was thinking of proposing
to Miss Longabaugh.Copy !req
692. That right?Copy !req
693. Yes, and...Copy !req
694. if she accepts, well then...Copy !req
695. I will settle in Oregon.Copy !req
696. This would be my last wagon train.Copy !req
697. I will farm.Copy !req
698. Well...Copy !req
699. we'll see how she takes it.Copy !req
700. Well, I guess I'll head back up.Copy !req
701. Unless you desire a swap.Copy !req
702. Nope.Copy !req
703. - Afternoon.
- Yep.Copy !req
704. Hep!Copy !req
705. - Miss.
- Good evening, Mr. Knapp.Copy !req
706. May we talk for a moment?Copy !req
707. So your crackpot notion?Copy !req
708. Yes.Copy !req
709. Before I expose it, may I ask something?Copy !req
710. Certainly.Copy !req
711. What...Copy !req
712. possibilities do you look forward to
in Oregon?Copy !req
713. I don't quite know.Copy !req
714. Gilbert knows— knew someone there.Copy !req
715. A Mr. Vereen who owns an orchard,Copy !req
716. or maybe more than one orchard,
and a cartage company.Copy !req
717. He was vague about his connection
with Mr. Vereen,Copy !req
718. and— and about his own
prospective position.Copy !req
719. I don't wish to slight
my brother's memory, but he could...Copy !req
720. exaggerate the nature of an opportunity.Copy !req
721. And...Copy !req
722. And Mr. Vereen's interest in myself...Copy !req
723. I fear that may also
have been speculative.Copy !req
724. I see.Copy !req
725. So, this is no definite
prospect of marriage.Copy !req
726. - No contract.
- I—Copy !req
727. No.Copy !req
728. Well...Copy !req
729. My idea then is this...Copy !req
730. And I submit it in respect,
Miss Longabaugh.Copy !req
731. I propose to assume your brother's debt
to the hired boy and to...Copy !req
732. to ask you to marry me.Copy !req
733. Oh.Copy !req
734. I submit it in respect.Copy !req
735. Oh.Copy !req
736. I have ambushed you.Copy !req
737. - I'm very sorry.
- No, no, no.Copy !req
738. I should clarify
what brings me to say these things,Copy !req
739. or I will seem like the veriest bounder.Copy !req
740. I found myself thinking
about certain matters. Um...Copy !req
741. I have been busting trail for 15 years.Copy !req
742. Last 12 with Mr. Arthur.
Mr. Arthur's a top man.Copy !req
743. Top man, but he is—
he is getting older.Copy !req
744. Slower to straighten in the morning.Copy !req
745. - Sleeping on the ground, Miss...
- Yes.Copy !req
746. To have no family
and to sleep on the ground...Copy !req
747. - Yes, it cannot be easy.
- Looking at him, well...Copy !req
748. I myself have come to the age
where either I will settleCopy !req
749. and have children
who can take care of me when I'm oldCopy !req
750. or I will not.Copy !req
751. That time will have passed.Copy !req
752. Yes.Copy !req
753. So I found myself thinking, well...Copy !req
754. if I met a maiden or a widow of honor,Copy !req
755. uh...Copy !req
756. perhaps I would...Copy !req
757. - Yes.
- ... present myself—Copy !req
758. Yes, I understand.Copy !req
759. Uh...Copy !req
760. Yes.Copy !req
761. You're acquainted with the 1872 Grant?Copy !req
762. I am not.Copy !req
763. A settler in Oregon can claim 320 acres.Copy !req
764. A... married couple can claim 640.Copy !req
765. There is a, um...Copy !req
766. In Fort Laramie, there is a Mr. Bourgeois
who can sanctify marriage.Copy !req
767. Do you engage in divine worship?Copy !req
768. Yes.Copy !req
769. I am a Methodist.Copy !req
770. Yourself, Miss?Copy !req
771. I'm Episcopalian.Copy !req
772. What is your Christian name, Mr. Knapp?Copy !req
773. Uh, William.Copy !req
774. I am Billy Knapp.Copy !req
775. I am Alice Longabaugh.Copy !req
776. Now I suppose it is my turn to think.Copy !req
777. Of course.Copy !req
778. We will, um...Copy !req
779. We will let the boy keep working then?Copy !req
780. On his assumption of payment?Copy !req
781. What are you doing, Israel?
- Walking backwards.Copy !req
782. Going to walk the rest of the way
to Oregon backwards.Copy !req
783. - Don't do that.
Why not?Copy !req
784. I said don't do that.Copy !req
785. - Don't do that!Copy !req
786. Noon here!Copy !req
787. Thank you.Copy !req
788. Best not to get too far
from the train, Miss.Copy !req
789. It's like the ocean out here.Copy !req
790. Easy to get lost, Miss.Copy !req
791. I thought I should add...Copy !req
792. Alice, lest I seem hard-nosed...Copy !req
793. If you see fit to decline my proposal,
why...Copy !req
794. there's more than one way to skin a cat.Copy !req
795. We might find a boy from another wagon
to drive your team,Copy !req
796. use your oxen as payment.Copy !req
797. We will get you to Oregon, safe and sound.Copy !req
798. I don't wish to present myself
as the only alternative to ruin this.Copy !req
799. But I'm inclined to accept your proposal.Copy !req
800. All right.Copy !req
801. And I don't take yourself
to be hard-nosed.Copy !req
802. All right.Copy !req
803. My dear brother was very hard-nosed.Copy !req
804. But never very successful.Copy !req
805. It was frustrating for him.Copy !req
806. - I'm very sorry you have lost him.
Yes.Copy !req
807. But he is with his creator.Copy !req
808. His way is easy now.Copy !req
809. Yes, his way was difficult.Copy !req
810. I must say,
it was difficult to be with him.Copy !req
811. I was very nervous being with him.Copy !req
812. Not afraid of him.
He would not hurt a fly. I was just...Copy !req
813. not at ease.Copy !req
814. I was eaten up by nerves at the thought
of talking to Mr. Vereen, for instance.Copy !req
815. And yet, you...Copy !req
816. are so very easy to talk to.Copy !req
817. Perhaps we'll find comfort together.Copy !req
818. I had hoped for that as well.Copy !req
819. Yes, William.Copy !req
820. Come on!Copy !req
821. Well, it...Copy !req
822. It appears Miss Longabaugh is...Copy !req
823. inclined to accept my proposal.Copy !req
824. Mm-hmm.Copy !req
825. Of course, you will do fine solo.Copy !req
826. No doubt about it. Man of your skills
will always be in high demand.Copy !req
827. Where the hell is that hobble?Copy !req
828. Oh, never mind. Here it is.Copy !req
829. That man is a wonder.Copy !req
830. Well, he can read the prairie like a book.Copy !req
831. To see him cut for sign, well,Copy !req
832. you'd think the good Lord
dealt us each our five sensesCopy !req
833. and bottom dealt Mr. Arthur one extra.Copy !req
834. Hmm.Copy !req
835. Still... he is old.Copy !req
836. I don't know how it'll go for him.Copy !req
837. I can't help feeling in the wrong.Copy !req
838. Your first responsibility
is to your household.Copy !req
839. - Yes, but—
I'm sorry.Copy !req
840. I should not dismiss it
with an easy apothegm.Copy !req
841. - Yes.
- Gilbert had a saying for any situation.Copy !req
842. A ready bit of wisdom.Copy !req
843. He was very certain.Copy !req
844. He was a doughface?Copy !req
845. How did— Oh!Copy !req
846. Yes. He was an admirer
of President Pierce, yes.Copy !req
847. He had fixed political beliefs.Copy !req
848. All of his beliefs were quite fixed.Copy !req
849. He would upbraid me for being wishy-washy.Copy !req
850. I never had his certainties.Copy !req
851. I suppose it is a defect.Copy !req
852. I don't think it's a defect at all.Copy !req
853. Oh, no.Copy !req
854. Uncertainty...Copy !req
855. That is appropriate
for matters of this world.Copy !req
856. Only regarding the next
are we vouchsafed certainty.Copy !req
857. Yes.Copy !req
858. I believe certainty regarding
that which we can see and touch,Copy !req
859. it is seldom justified, if ever.Copy !req
860. Down the ages, from our remote past,Copy !req
861. what certainties survive?Copy !req
862. And yet we hurry to fashion new ones.Copy !req
863. Wanting their comfort.Copy !req
864. Certainty...Copy !req
865. is the easy path.Copy !req
866. Just as you said.Copy !req
867. "Straight is the gate..."Copy !req
868. "And narrow the way."Copy !req
869. Indeed.Copy !req
870. Indeed.Copy !req
871. Sign, Mr. Arthur?Copy !req
872. Horses.Copy !req
873. You keep on.Copy !req
874. Gonna talk to Mr. Knapp.Copy !req
875. - Hey!
Whoa! Whoa!Copy !req
876. Where's the woman?Copy !req
877. Huh?Copy !req
878. Miss Longabaugh. Where is she?Copy !req
879. Went over there.Copy !req
880. Over there? Why's that?Copy !req
881. I don't know. Heard that mutt barking.
President Pierce.Copy !req
882. Hah! Hah! Yah, yah, yah! Yah!Copy !req
883. Yah!Copy !req
884. - What are they, Mr. Arthur?
- Prairie dogs, ma'am.Copy !req
885. Aren't they darling? I believe—
- Ma'am, we best, uh—Copy !req
886. President Pierce is trying to understand
what those creatures are,Copy !req
887. whether they're squirrels
and he should try to chase them,Copy !req
888. - or if they're other dogs.
- Get down.Copy !req
889. - Mr. Arthur?
- Get down now, Miss.Copy !req
890. - Get down!
- Mr. Arthur!Copy !req
891. Sit down below that rise there.Copy !req
892. But aren't...Copy !req
893. - Just do as I say.Copy !req
894. - We aren't going back?
- Not directly.Copy !req
895. We're in for a fight.Copy !req
896. He won't answer my peace sign.Copy !req
897. And we can't make a run for it
through this dog-town.Copy !req
898. There's only one savage.Copy !req
899. Yeah, you keep looking.Copy !req
900. It's a war party and we probably
look like easy pickin's.Copy !req
901. What they'll do, they'll rush us.Copy !req
902. 'Course dog holes
is as bad for them as for us,Copy !req
903. and they don't know how to fight.Copy !req
904. If they was to come front and back,
I couldn't handle them,Copy !req
905. but they rush in a bunch,
like damn fools.Copy !req
906. I beg your pardon, Miss.
Now you keep low here.Copy !req
907. Take this.Copy !req
908. - No.
- Take it. Take it now.Copy !req
909. Got two bullets in it.
It ain't for shooting Indians.Copy !req
910. If I see we're licked,Copy !req
911. I'm gonna shoot you and then
I'm gonna shoot myself, so that's okay.Copy !req
912. But if you see that I'm done for,Copy !req
913. well, you're gonna have to do
for yourself.Copy !req
914. Now you put it right there
so's you can't miss.Copy !req
915. - No, no, no, no, no!
- This is business, Miss Longabaugh.Copy !req
916. If they catch you, it won't be so good.Copy !req
917. After they take off
every stitch of your clothesCopy !req
918. and have their way with you,Copy !req
919. they'll stretch you out with a rawhide,Copy !req
920. and then they'll drive a stake through
the middle of your body into the groundCopy !req
921. and then they'll do some other things,
and we can't have that.Copy !req
922. Now, we ain't licked yet.Copy !req
923. But if we are...Copy !req
924. you know what to do.Copy !req
925. That's supposed to scare us.Copy !req
926. Won't bother us none, will it, Miss?Copy !req
927. No, Mr. Arthur.Copy !req
928. That Indian in the middle there...
he's the mucky muck,Copy !req
929. and if I shoot him,
well, that's bad medicine,Copy !req
930. and I think they'll all lose their spit
and light out.Copy !req
931. Anyway, we're gonna have us a good fight.Copy !req
932. Dog hole!Copy !req
933. Dog hole!Copy !req
934. Ha!Copy !req
935. They got the lay of the land now.Copy !req
936. Yah!Copy !req
937. This time they'll come with a purpose.Copy !req
938. You all right, Miss?Copy !req
939. Yes, Mr. Arthur.Copy !req
940. They ain't gonna do this all day.Copy !req
941. This'll tell the tale.Copy !req
942. Come on.Copy !req
943. - Mr. Arthur?
- Hold on, Miss.Copy !req
944. Oh, my.Copy !req
945. Poor little gal.Copy !req
946. She hadn't ought to have did it.Copy !req
947. Oh, my.Copy !req
948. Oh!Copy !req
949. Oh, I am sorry.
Didn't mean to wake you, sir.Copy !req
950. You did not wake me.Copy !req
951. For I was not asleep.Copy !req
952. Oh? Not asleep. I see.Copy !req
953. I apologize for disturbing anyone else
if I did.Copy !req
954. How much to go, you reckon?Copy !req
955. Oh, not a great distance.
Not great at all. We're making good time.Copy !req
956. You haven't been to Fort Morgan before,
I take it.Copy !req
957. Me? No.Copy !req
958. - You?
- Oh, yes, many times. Many times.Copy !req
959. Ferrying cargo.Copy !req
960. Him's yourn?Copy !req
961. As much as he's anyone's.Copy !req
962. - Isn't he, Clarence?
- As much as anyone's.Copy !req
963. - A loved one?
- By somebody, perhaps.Copy !req
964. You did not know him?Copy !req
965. We knew him only at the end.Copy !req
966. No, I have not been to Fort Morgan.Copy !req
967. I know little of cities.Copy !req
968. I'm a trapper living alone mostly
in these last years,Copy !req
969. but I would descend into town
every so often with my pelts.Copy !req
970. Uh, sell them and talk.
Keep my hand in talk.Copy !req
971. You gotta keep your hand in talking
even if you live in the wild.Copy !req
972. It's true. Practice.Copy !req
973. In town, I would talk to them
was interested.Copy !req
974. Saloon mostly, till they asked me
to take my business elsewhere.Copy !req
975. What kind of sense that make?
There was only the one saloon.Copy !req
976. Keeper called me tedious.Copy !req
977. Tedious! Me.Copy !req
978. If tidings from the greater world
are tedious,Copy !req
979. I would descend from the mountains,Copy !req
980. not having talked for many months,
with much to tell.Copy !req
981. Much to tell, having stored considerable.Copy !req
982. Though for many years,
I did not live alone in the wild.Copy !req
983. I did have a consort,Copy !req
984. a stout woman of the Hunkpapa Sioux.Copy !req
985. We had a companionship of sorts.Copy !req
986. But there is a lady present.Copy !req
987. A life together marked
by the passing of the seasonsCopy !req
988. and the corresponding travels of game.Copy !req
989. In the latter,
she took very little interest.Copy !req
990. Well, her duties was domestic.Copy !req
991. I would track and trap,Copy !req
992. and she would terry hearthside.Copy !req
993. We did not talk.Copy !req
994. She had no English and I am not schooled
in the gibberings of the nations.Copy !req
995. Well, I say we did not talk,Copy !req
996. but sometimes we would, often at length,Copy !req
997. each in own tongue without benefit
of understanding the other.Copy !req
998. But the sound of a human voice
is a comfortCopy !req
999. when you're cabined up in the woodsCopy !req
1000. and all'd otherwise be
but the murmur of windCopy !req
1001. and the clop of snow
from an overloaded branch.Copy !req
1002. Well, I said
"not understanding each other,"Copy !req
1003. but it weren't entirely so.Copy !req
1004. I could often read by means
of the tenor of her speechCopy !req
1005. or certain facial expressions,Copy !req
1006. the emotional import
of what she was saying.Copy !req
1007. And she was often vexed with me.Copy !req
1008. I seldom knew why.Copy !req
1009. And then she moved on.Copy !req
1010. Did you love her?Copy !req
1011. Oh, I don't know.Copy !req
1012. I never even knew her name,
but I will say this.Copy !req
1013. The nature of them vocal intonations
and the play of feeling upon her faceCopy !req
1014. helped me to gather that, uh...Copy !req
1015. people are like ferrets, or a beaver.Copy !req
1016. All pretty much alike.Copy !req
1017. Yeah, one like the next.Copy !req
1018. I don't doubt it's the same
even if you travel to Siam.Copy !req
1019. People are not the same.Copy !req
1020. There are two kinds,
utterly distinct.Copy !req
1021. And what would those be, madame?Copy !req
1022. - Lucky and unlucky?
- No, hale and frail.Copy !req
1023. Difficult to knock to the floor,
or wilting.Copy !req
1024. Those are not the two kinds.
You well know the two kinds.Copy !req
1025. One kind. Ain't no two kinds.Copy !req
1026. Unless you mean trapper and townsman.Copy !req
1027. Upright and sinning.Copy !req
1028. Don't be a fool.Copy !req
1029. Fool? Oh, yes.Copy !req
1030. I know, "tedious fool."Copy !req
1031. You're not the first
to lodge that complaint.Copy !req
1032. I challenge your credentials, madam,Copy !req
1033. for assessing human worth.Copy !req
1034. People are like ferrets.Copy !req
1035. People are not like ferrets,Copy !req
1036. and I speak not on my own authority,
but on that of the Holy Bible.Copy !req
1037. And here I speak on high authority.Copy !req
1038. My husband, Dr. Betjeman, was an expert,Copy !req
1039. a lecturer at the Chautauqua
on moral and spiritual hygiene,Copy !req
1040. - now retired.
- Moral hygiene...Copy !req
1041. I have the benefit of his insights.Copy !req
1042. His lectures were spectacularly attended.Copy !req
1043. He was— He is considered an expert
on spiritual betterment.Copy !req
1044. Jacob's ladder?Copy !req
1045. Betterment?Copy !req
1046. But I don't suppose you have ever
been much occupiedCopy !req
1047. with the betterment of your soul.Copy !req
1048. Well, I'm not an enemy of betterment,Copy !req
1049. but I am kept very busy with my traps.Copy !req
1050. Your husband isn't with you.Copy !req
1051. We have been separated for some time.Copy !req
1052. He has been... East.Copy !req
1053. Illness has kept him,
but now we shall be reunited.Copy !req
1054. - It will be a great joy.
- He awaits you in Fort Morgan?Copy !req
1055. Yes. I have been living with my daughter
and son-in-law these last three years.Copy !req
1056. Parents should not burden
the household of the child.Copy !req
1057. This was wrong of you, madame.Copy !req
1058. I was not a burden.Copy !req
1059. - I was welcome in my daughter's house.
- Oh, she would say so, of course,Copy !req
1060. but no doubt you could read
in her facial expression,Copy !req
1061. as pointed out by the tedious man,
that your presence was not wanted.Copy !req
1062. We each have a life.Copy !req
1063. Each a life only our own.Copy !req
1064. You know nothing of me
or my domestic affairs.Copy !req
1065. I know that we must each
spin our own wheel and play our own hand.Copy !req
1066. I was once at cards
with a man named Cipolski.Copy !req
1067. - This was very many years ago—
- He a Polack?Copy !req
1068. - He was Polonais, oui. And we—
- I knew a Polack.Copy !req
1069. We were at cards.Copy !req
1070. My hand was poor, I folded,
but Cipolski and four others remained.Copy !req
1071. Cipolski said to me,
"René, I am in distress.Copy !req
1072. You must play for me
while I perform mes nécessités."Copy !req
1073. My necessaries.Copy !req
1074. I said, "Friend, no.
I cannot wager for you."Copy !req
1075. He said, "Of course you can.
We know each other well.Copy !req
1076. You wager as I would do."Copy !req
1077. I say, this is quite impossible, no?Copy !req
1078. How a man wager,
it is decided by who he is,Copy !req
1079. by the entirety of his relation to poker,
right up until the moment of that bet.Copy !req
1080. I cannot bet for you. Pourquoi pas?Copy !req
1081. I cannot know you, not to this degree.Copy !req
1082. We must each play our own hand.Copy !req
1083. "No, Cipolski." I say, "No.Copy !req
1084. We may call each other friend,
but we cannot know each other so."Copy !req
1085. You can know him. People are like ferrets.Copy !req
1086. - People are not like ferrets!
- You misunderstand, mon vieux.Copy !req
1087. We can know each other, oui,
to a certain level,Copy !req
1088. but to know entire, impossible.Copy !req
1089. - Poker is a gambling game.
- Mmm.Copy !req
1090. You have pursued a life
of vice and dissipationCopy !req
1091. and you are no doubt expert
in such pursuits,Copy !req
1092. but no conclusions drawn
from such an existenceCopy !req
1093. will apply to a life rightly lived.Copy !req
1094. Life is life.Copy !req
1095. Cards will teach you
what you need to know.Copy !req
1096. You, madame, you speak of your life
with your husband, who awaits,Copy !req
1097. and you fly to him with the certainty
he loves you as he did three years ago.Copy !req
1098. Bon, three years.Copy !req
1099. There was a flame.
You do not know there is.Copy !req
1100. Among decent people,
relations are eternal.Copy !req
1101. Decent people stay true...
to others, to themselves.Copy !req
1102. Life is change.
Presumptuous man.Copy !req
1103. You say my daughter doesn't love me,Copy !req
1104. - that my husband no longer does—
- If he ever did.Copy !req
1105. - No offense, madame.Copy !req
1106. My point is that we can never know,
not to the deepest level.Copy !req
1107. And the word "love,"
well, it can have different meanings, no?Copy !req
1108. - Now hold on there, mister.
I know what love means!Copy !req
1109. Your husband was a lecturer, oui,
he was an educator.Copy !req
1110. Would you say he was a man of charisma?Copy !req
1111. He was. He is!Copy !req
1112. Bon, love would mean something
quite different to such a personCopy !req
1113. who commands the love of the crowdCopy !req
1114. than it would to a person who can
only coax love through subservience.Copy !req
1115. I did not coax love from Dr. Betjeman.Copy !req
1116. I am not a wheedler.Copy !req
1117. My husband's love was freely given,
and endures.Copy !req
1118. His love was different from yours,
it's all I say.Copy !req
1119. The person widely admired
accepts love as a tributeCopy !req
1120. and he confers his own love as an honor,Copy !req
1121. for, coming from him,
it must have great worth.Copy !req
1122. But you, madame, you would not
receive this gift splendidlyCopy !req
1123. as one who has no need,
but you would grasp it as a beggar!Copy !req
1124. - Ain't no call for that!
- How dare you!Copy !req
1125. Of course the great man, the admired man,Copy !req
1126. he might well accept other loves,
simply as his due,Copy !req
1127. from some of those who admire him.Copy !req
1128. And why not, if the admirer's comely?Copy !req
1129. It is a love of a different kind,
of course, than the domestique.Copy !req
1130. - But in France, we say—
- You—Copy !req
1131. - You deplorable...
Ease up there now, lady!Copy !req
1132. - You depraved...
- Take it easy. He's just a Frenchman!Copy !req
1133. - You've given her a fit, Frenchie!Copy !req
1134. - We must stop the coach!
- Coachman won't stop.Copy !req
1135. He must stop. We are the passengers!Copy !req
1136. - Coachman won't stop.
- We must stop. Coachman!Copy !req
1137. Coachman!Copy !req
1138. Coachman, I say!Copy !req
1139. We must stop!Copy !req
1140. Coachman! Coach— Merde.Copy !req
1141. He will not stop.Copy !req
1142. He never stops. Policy.Copy !req
1143. You're all right. You're all right, miss.Copy !req
1144. Please... stop doing that.Copy !req
1145. I am sorry.Copy !req
1146. I do apologize.Copy !req
1147. He sings it every trip.
Always does this to me.Copy !req
1148. You'd think with the business we're in,Copy !req
1149. I wouldn't be so...Copy !req
1150. What is your business?Copy !req
1151. Well...Copy !req
1152. I like to say that we're...Copy !req
1153. - reapers.
- Harvesters of souls.Copy !req
1154. We help people
who have been adjudged to be ripe.Copy !req
1155. - You're bounty hunters.
- Literal man!Copy !req
1156. Cruel man! Yes, fine. Bounty hunters.Copy !req
1157. An ugly title.
As if emolument were the point.Copy !req
1158. Is the cobbler not paid for his shoes?Copy !req
1159. - It's an honest calling.
- So, uh...Copy !req
1160. him on the roof, he was wanted?Copy !req
1161. Oh, Mr. Thorpe was very much wanted,Copy !req
1162. - judging by what they're paying for him.Copy !req
1163. - What'd he do?
- Oh, I don't know. Does it matter?Copy !req
1164. Just as you said, madame,
there are two kinds of people.Copy !req
1165. In our business, they are dead or alive.Copy !req
1166. So you will take them alive?Copy !req
1167. I didn't say that.Copy !req
1168. Neither do I take them alive.Copy !req
1169. 'Course, it's entirely different business,
and I work alone.Copy !req
1170. Yes, well, we're a duo, a tandem, a team.Copy !req
1171. They're so easily taken
when they're distracted, people are.Copy !req
1172. So, I'm the distractor
with a little story,Copy !req
1173. a little conversation, a song, a sparkle.Copy !req
1174. And Clarence does the thumping
while their attention is on me.Copy !req
1175. He's very good, this one.Copy !req
1176. - You should see him.
- No, he's good.Copy !req
1177. I can thump.Copy !req
1178. Mr. Thorpe up there, a typical case.Copy !req
1179. I told him the story
of the Midnight Caller.Copy !req
1180. "Someone is outside, knocking."Copy !req
1181. "No, don't open it, mother.Copy !req
1182. What living thing
could be out in such a storm?"Copy !req
1183. You know the story,Copy !req
1184. but people can't get enough of them,
like little children.Copy !req
1185. Because, well, they connect the stories
to themselves, I suppose,Copy !req
1186. and we all love hearing about ourselves,Copy !req
1187. so long as the people in the stories
are us, but not us.Copy !req
1188. Not us in the end, especially.Copy !req
1189. The Midnight Caller gets him...Copy !req
1190. never me.Copy !req
1191. I'll live forever.Copy !req
1192. I must say...Copy !req
1193. it's always interesting watching them
after Clarence has worked his art,Copy !req
1194. watching them negotiate...Copy !req
1195. the passage.Copy !req
1196. Passage?Copy !req
1197. From here to there.Copy !req
1198. To the other side. Watching them...Copy !req
1199. try to make sense of it
as they pass to that other place...Copy !req
1200. I do like looking into their eyes
as they try to make sense of it.Copy !req
1201. I do.Copy !req
1202. I do.Copy !req
1203. Try to make sense of what?Copy !req
1204. All of it.Copy !req
1205. And do they ever...Copy !req
1206. succeed?Copy !req
1207. How would I know?Copy !req
1208. I'm only watching.Copy !req
1209. Well, Fort Morgan.Copy !req
1210. I presume we're all staying at the hotel?Copy !req
1211. Including Mr. Thorpe.
Too late to drop him with the sheriff.Copy !req
1212. I suppose Mr. Thorpe will stay
in your room, Clarence.Copy !req
1213. - Don't fancy much having him in mine.
- Whatever you say, boss.Copy !req
1214. Or we could sit him up in the parlor.Copy !req
1215. Little surprise for the guests
in the morning.Copy !req
1216. Give him a newspaper, sir,
and a glass of port.Copy !req
1217. - Oof!Copy !req
1218. - You clumsy fool!
- Sorry, sir.Copy !req
1219. Don't apologize to me.
It's Mr. Thorpe, isn't it?Copy !req
1220. Sorry, Mr. Thorpe.Copy !req
1221. Joking aside...Copy !req
1222. your room, I think, Clarence.Copy !req
1223. Whatever you say, sir. If you say so.Copy !req
1224. No worries about him snoring.Copy !req
1225. I'm not worried, boss.
- You never worry.Copy !req
1226. - One of your virtues.
Thanks very much.Copy !req
1227. There we go.Copy !req
1228. - Go ahead on.
- Oh, après vous.Copy !req
1229. Ladies first.Copy !req
1230. I must be helped down.Copy !req
1231. Will someone open the door for a lady?Copy !req
1232. Dr. Betjeman is waiting.Copy !req
1233. Step.Copy !req
1234. Step.Copy !req
1235. Step.Copy !req
1236. Step.Copy !req
1237. Step.Copy !req
1238. Step.Copy !req
1239. Step.Copy !req
1240. Step.Copy !req
1241. Yah!Copy !req
1242. Step.Copy !req
1243. Yah! Yah!Copy !req
1244. Yah! Yah!Copy !req
1245. Yah! Hiyah!Copy !req