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Old Hop Sing gets through
breading and frying you,

you're gonna be so good, it ought
to be against the law to eat you.

Now, I'll tell you
what I'm gonna do.

I'm gonna go out there
and I'm gonna get your granddaddy.

Only reason he ain't been caught yet
is because I ain't been after him.

But I am now.

And then he's gonna join you
at my dinner table tonight.

Help!

Help!

Help!

Help! Please help!

Help!

Help!

Help, help!

Help! Help!

Get out of here.

Hey. Hey! Wait a minute!

Wait a minute!
The bear's gone! He ain't...

Hey! Come here!

Wait a minute.

Hey, little fella!

Hey!

Hey, little fella, come on out.
The bear's gone.

Hey!

Little fella, is this strongbox yours?

Now, I know you can hear me,
you couldn't have got that far away.

You better come on out here and
claim it right now, or I'm gonna open it.

Gold.

How come he didn't claim it?

Must be stolen.

Boy, wait till Pa hears about this.

Huh.

This ain't gonna be easy to explain.

None of it.

Now, you ain't gonna
believe this, Pa.

Heh. The funniest thing happened
to me today down at the fishing hole.

Heh. You're probably wondering
where I got this box of gold, huh, Pa?

Well, you see,
there was this little green elf...

Green elf.

We heard you shouting.
What happened?

I was depositing the gold dust.

Before I finished burying it,
a bear get after me.

Then a giant ran down
and chased the bear away.

A giant?

Biggest man I ever saw in my life.

Then he found the strongbox
and walked off with it.

That's what happened. Honest.

Oh, you don't believe me.

I knew you weren't
gonna believe me.

Well, it doesn't make sense, Hoss.

Look, if he was as little
as you say he was,

now, how can he go around
lugging a strongbox full of gold?

This thing is a load for any one of us.

Let's look at it this way.

If there is a little man
running around--

If, if, if, Pa.
"If“ is all I've been hearing.

There ain't no "if“ to it, Pa!

I seen him with my own two eyeballs.
A little man no bigger than that.

I seen him!
Right.

A little man in a green suit.

That buried a strongbox
full of gold dust.

And then skips away into the bushes,
where, with a twinkle in his eye,

He thumbs his nose
and flies away to the rainbow.

I've had all
I'm gonna take out of you, Adam.

Pa, how come nobody
will believe me?

I'm just telling you
exactly what I seen,

and if it sounds son of crazy
or something, it ain't my fault.

Of course it isn't.

Look, what he says
must make some sense

because there it is.

It's a strongbox, it's real,

it contains thousands of dollars'
worth of gold.

Must have come from somewhere.
Right.

Yeah, and I imagine somebody's
pretty anxious to get it back.

Well, we can stand around here
talking about it all night.

Tell you what, tomorrow morning
we'll ride in to see Sheriff Coffee,

and tell him the whole story,
and maybe he can help us.

You're not gonna let him
tell that story in town?

Aw, Papa, you can't do that.
They're gonna laugh at us.

They're gonna think he's loony.

We're gonna try
to get to the bottom of this.

Now, Hoss will tell Sheriff Coffee
the whole thing,

exactly the way he saw it.

Hey, who's down there?

Hey! Wait a minute!

Hey, you little rascals!
Wait a minute!

Hey! Come back here!

Wait a minute! Come back!

A whole bunch of them
little green fellows, boy.

Just like the one
I saw out in the woods.

They had little horses, not any bigger
than a good-sized hound dog.

Oh, he's really hurt himself.
I gotta catch them rascals.

You'll catch them. You'll catch them.

Well, we could if we'd hurry.
All right, just calm down.

Uh, Adam, Little Joe,
go outside and look around.

What are we gonna
look around for, Pa?

I gotta have something
to look ar--

You heard what he said. We look for
little green men riding on hound dogs.

Now, I'll go out
and check around the house

and you look
for a butterfly net just in case.

Right. Butterfly net.

What?

Oh, you got a good lump
coming up here. Come on, boy.

I'd better get something to put on it.
Hey, Pa, look.

Somebody broke into the bookcase.
The strongbox, it's gone.

That's what I was afraid they'd do.

They? Who?

The little green men, Pa.
The little green men.

Now what am I
gonna tell the sheriff?

The only pan of my story
you believed

was the part about the gold
because I had that box to prove it.

Now what am I gonna tell him? Ugh.

Well,you, uh...

You tell him...

You tell him the truth.

And you say that Adam and Little Joe
couldn't find a trail, huh?

Well, it was, uh...

Of course, it was dark,

and, uh, they had a pretty good
head start on the boys.

Look, Roy, you see,
these little fellas,

they, uh, got a way
about themselves, they...

Just disappearing into thin air.

Well, maybe them little fellows'
little horses was flying horses.

That's why you couldn't
find their trail.

Now, look, Roy,
we came hereto report a robbery.

If you're not gonna take it serious,
we'll go home. That's all.

Hold on!

If anybody but Ben Cartwright

come in here with a story like that,
boy, I'd...

What do you want me to do, Ben?

The gold.
Just see that's it's recovered, that's all.

Look, religiously, I go through
everything that comes into this office.

And there's been no bank robberies,
no stagecoach holdups,

no gold shipments missing
anywhere.

So why in the dickens should
I go out there hunting for something

that ain't even been
reported missing?

But, Roy, that's just the point.
We're reporting it missing.

Well, you can't claim something's
stolen that don't even belong to you.

Well, wait a minute, Roy.

Somebody broke into my house.
Somebody broke into my bookcase.

Surely that's enough for you to go on.
Ah.

I'm just not gonna
close up this office

and go out there
looking for a gang of little...

Now, what would the folks of this town
think if I was to try to organize a posse

for the purpose of tracking down
a bunch of little men with green suits?

Why, they'd hog-tie me and lock me up
in my own jail cell till election time!

Well, gentlemen, I got places to go.
I got to meet the stagecoach.

He didn't believe a word of it,
did he?

Uh, well, it's not a question
of believing, son. It's, uh...

Don't make no never mind, Pa.

If somebody came to me
with a story like that,

I'd be at least interested
in it enough to look into it.

Yeah, ahem. Well, listen,
while I'm in town, I think I'd better go

and pay that grain bill.

Oh.

I think I'll go over to the saloon
and get me a beer.

Yeah, that's a very good idea.

And I'll pick you up there
as soon as I'm ready to go.

Charlie, stage on time today?

Ahead of time.
Done come and went.

Yeah? Anybody get off?

Just one fellow.

You looking for somebody
in particular, Roy?

No, I was just keeping tabs
on the goings and comings.

Where'd this fellow go?
Yonder to saloon.

Ah, much obliged.

Well, like I said before,
he's right down the street.

You saved yourself a trip.
Here he is now.

Oh, ha, ha.

Hello.
Pleasure to meet you.

McCarthy is the name.
Professor James Aloysius McCarthy.

Uh...Ahem.

I, uh, assume that you're the bulwark
of local law enforcement?

I'm the sheriff,
if that's what you're talking about.

That's exactly what I'm talking about.

I think, perhaps,
maybe you can help me.

I was, uh, wondering
if you've noticed any, uh, strangers

passing through this fair city
of yours of late.

No, there hasn't been a stranger
in this town in a month of Sundays.

Oh. Ah.

Unless, of course,
they was little men with green suits.

Little men in green suits?
How about that, Hoss?

More like little thieves in green suits.

Hoss here claims that they run off
with a strongbox full of gold.

Gold?
Hoss, did you fellas make a strike?

Hold on, now, you fellas!

You'll have this town in a stampede.

I didn't say nothing
about a gold strike.

I was just repeating
a crazy yarn of Hoss'.

It wasn't no crazy yarn, Roy.

Little men in green suits?

Hoss, you must have get ahold
of some bad whiskey.

Roy, I'm sorry, I--
No, no, no. Ha, ha.

Just a minute, gentlemen.
Now, please, now, please. I-- Ahem.

I, uh... It's a very charming story.
Now, I'd like to hear

a little bit more about it, if I may.

Why don't we all refresh ourselves
while we talk about it?

Uh, heh, the drinks are on me,
gentlemen.

Won't you step up here, sir?

Bartender,
a couple drinks here, please.

I'd have given an eyetooth
to see you out there

fumbling around after them
little green men you dreamed up.

Dag burn it, Roy,
I didn't dream them up, I seen them.

Of course you did!
Now, gentlemen, please, please.

What's the matter?

In my country, it's very bad luck
to laugh at the little people.

What? Where do you come from?
Ireland.

Oh, excuse me, Professor McCarthy,
this is Hoss Cartwright.

Oh, Mr. Cartwright, it's a great
pleasure and an honor to meet

such a fortunate man.
Yeah?

Only once in a lifetime,
and maybe not even then,

is a man privileged
to meet another man

who has actually seen a leprechaun.

A what?
Oh, yes, well,

of course, you wouldn't know
about those.

Well, they're a darling
little bunch of rascals,

all dressed in their green suits.

But are you sure
these little fellows I seen are...?

Leprechauns? Of course I am.

Everything fits.

Now, it's a very well-known fact
that every colony of leprechauns

has a buried treasure of gold.

But to a leprechaun,
freedom is much more precious

than all the gold in the world.
That's why if you had caught one,

he would have bought his release, just
like that, by giving you all of his gold.

I ain't sure I understand
what you're trying to tell me.

Oh, it's quite simple.

Had you actually caught
one of these little fellows,

he would have given you all of his gold,
and it would have been yours to keep.

But since you didn't, well,
it was perfectly all right for him

to come after you
and reclaim his treasure.

Well, I never heard anything
like that.

Oh, ha, ha, that's a very commonplace
thing in Ireland.

Happens all the time.

Though I must say,
this is the very first instance

I've heard of it
happening in this country.

Hoss, this fella's pulling our legs.

I wouldn't be too sure of that, Roy.

You thought I was. But I seen them.

Of course you did.
And had you caught one of them,

'tis a far richer man you'd be today.

Yeah. It was quite a pile of gold,
at that.

Ahem. Uh, Hoss, uh,

you figure them little fellas still
running around loose out there?

I reckon so. I don't reckon
there's any way of knowing.

Hey, where you going?
I think I know where he's going.

Hey!

Wait a minute! Hey!
Wait, what's going on around here?

Wait a minute!

Hoss! You come back here!
Now, what's going on here?

I didn't mean to run into you!
I gotta hurry.

Wait a minute!
Where you gotta hurry to?

I gotta keep them claim jumpers
from getting our gold.

Of course we do. Of course we do.

Pa, I gotta hurry.
I know you gotta hurry,

but let's hurry very slowly, shall we?
Pa!

Let's try to be calm! Just be calm.
Pa!

Hoss! Let's go inside
and get out of this hot sun.

But, Pa, I gotta get up the ridge.

Ben, I'd like to have you meet
Mr. McCarthy. This is Hoss' pa.

Oh, himself, is it? Well, it is a proud
father you should be this day, sir.

Pa, this gentleman
knows everything

there is to know
about them leprechauns.

I'm gonna get our horses.
Hoss! Hoss!

Hoss!

Will somebody tell me
what's going on around here?

Here, leprechaun.

I don't believe it.
I just don't believe it.

Here, leprechaun.

Leprechaun, leprechaun,
leprechaun.

Leprechaun.

Have those people taken leave
of their senses?

Want me to run them out, Ben?

You got a legal right
to run them off your land.

Oh, no, no,
that'd just cause hard feelings.

No, let them go.

Maybe when they've worn
themselves out,

they'll come to their senses and see
how foolish this whole thing is.

Or they'll find
one of those leprechauns

and prove to you I ain't been lying.

How many times
do I have to tell you?

There's no such thing as a leprechaun.
They ain't gonna find leprechauns.

A leprechaun is a mythical creature.

Like in a storybook.
Like pixies and elves! What?

Excuse me, Mr. Cartwright,
but if those weren't leprechauns

your son saw strolling around,
exactly what were they?

Well, now, I don't know
what they were.

But if there are little men
running around there,

the more hunters we have looking,
the quicker we'll find them.

And the sooner we get this cleared up,
the better for all of us!

If that's the way you feel about it,

I suppose you won't mind if I take
a little look, will you?

No, no, not at all, professor.

Look around all you want to.
Thank you.

I believe I'll poke around a little too,
if it's all right with you?

Why not? Good hunting.

Here, leprechaun.

Pa, what about me? I'd son of--
Now, look, Hoss.

Maybe them people down there have
all that time to waste looking for gold.

But we get work to do,
so let's go do it.

Pa, wait, it ain't the gold.

It's them little men, Pa.
I gotta find them if they're down there.

I got to prove to you
and them that I ain't lying,

and to prove to myself I ain't crazy.

Pa, it's very important to me.

Ah.

All right, Hoss.
Get it out of your system.

But on one condition.

After all this is over,
and you don't find anybody,

we won't ever mention it again.
Ever. Right?

Right. Get up.

Here, leprechaun.

Leprechauns.

Hyah.

Shh, shh, shh. Listen.

Yeah. Sounds like it's coming
from right over there.

Leprechaun?

Leprechaun?

Hoss, you dang near scared
the dickens out of me.

Charlie, if you gonna catch
one of them buggers,

you're gonna have to pay attention

and quit running around
so dang much.

Hoss, there's one them back there!
Charlie! Charlie!

That's Roy and the professor.

What're you trying to do
with that thing?

You're gonna hurt somebody
with that.

Excuse me, sheriff. I reckon I'm
a mite jumpy with all the excitement.

Now, tell me,
has anyone seen anything yet?

Nary a sign. Most of them done
give up and went home.

And they're a mite peeved
at you, Hoss.

They figure that you made up
the whole story all along.

Well, I tell you what,
why don't we give it up for the day?

I'm so tired, I can't stir another step.

Well, there's still about an hour
of sunshine left.

I reckon I'll stick with it a while.

Now, you all holler
if you see anything.

I got me one, Charlie.

I got me one.

You lop-eared jackass,
it's me that you got.

Well, I better be getting back to town.
You wanna come with me, professor?

Do I...? Of course
I wanna come with you. Come on.

You coming, Hess?
No, thank you, Roy.

I think, I'll mosey around out here
for a spell more.

Ain't nobody searched
that little creek bottom yet.

Heh. You know, I feel kind of guilty
tromping around out here.

Sure hope
it's peaceful back in town.

Oh, don't you worry, sheriff.

After all, you were only doing
your duty, weren't you?

Seeing to it that the mob
didn't get out of hand,

that things were kept orderly, hmm?

You got the greatest talent
for explaining things.

It makes them come out
sounding just right.

Ha, ha, well, it's all in the way a man
looks at things, I always say.

Yeah, I reckon so.

What's the matter?
Huh?

Did you see something?

Heh, no, I just thought I did.
Just a rabbit, perhaps. Uh...

I, uh, ahem, was just thinking, though,
it, um, seems such a shame,

such a terrible pity
for me to be going off

and leaving poor Mr. Hoss here,

when, after all, it was myself here
that instigated this hunt.

No, I think I'd better
stay here with him.

Because if I don't, my conscience will
never give me one moment's rest.

Oh, well, you suit yourself about that.
But I better be getting back.

You sure you can find your way?

Ch, of course, of course.
Look, we McCanhys were born

with an uncanny sense of direction.

I'll see you in town, then.
To be sure. To be sure.

All right, now, lads,
you can come out.

Well, come on out.
I know you're here.

Come on out, lads. You've led me
on a merry chase up to now.

Your old friend.
But it's all over, so come on out.

Good work, men. Michael,
you and Bobby go get the wagon

and meet us at the camp.

Sean, you find a good
tall tree and keep a lookout.

Artie, you help me tie him up.

Well, it's the first time
I ever knew Hoss to miss a meal.

Yeah.
He should have been home by now.

You want me to go out
and take a look for him?

That's a good idea.

This, uh, Professor McCarthy,
just what is he a professor of?

Adam, I don't know
the slightest thing about him.

But I have a sound suspicion
that he's tied up

in this whole thing in some way.

Where are you?

I'm over here.

Now, don't you run away.
Oh, I won't.

Pa sent me to bring
you home to supper.

Dag burn it.

Dag burn your ornery hide,
little brother.

Wait till I get my hands--

--On you.

Dag burn it, I reckon you think
that's pretty funny, huh?

Don't hit me.

Peekaboo!

I can't stand it.
Your face. You looked--

Hey, Joe, you see him, don't you?

You see him, don't you?
Yeah.

Wait till Adam sees him!

We got him!
Wait. Wait a minute.

You ain't got him yet.
He's on those branches.

They're not gonna hold our weight.

How're we gonna get him down?
I'll shake the tree.

Hey, no, no, no, don't do that.
You gonna kill him.

Look how little he is.
Hey! Hey, up there!

You, uh, savvy English?

I don't reckon he does.

I don't understand leprechaun,
neither.

How we gonna get him down?
I don't know.

I'm gonna go get Pa and Adam
and bring them here.

You keep an eye on him.
Good idea. Hurry. Hurry.

Keep an eye on him.
Don't let him out of your sight.

Uh-huh.
Yeah, ain't they cute?

Look at him. I told you, didn't I?
Hee-hee.

I think I have
a systematic schedule here

that will let us replace
the whole 56 miles of fence

over the next few years
without having to, uh...

What's wrong?

Look, you go out
and saddle a couple of horses

and I'll fill some lanterns and...

I'll just feel better going out
looking for those two.

If I know Hoss...

I think you're right.
Hey, Pa, Adam!

Adam, Pa, where are you?

Hey, Pa, Adam!

Pa, Pa!

Pa, we got one. We got one.
We got one up a tree.

One of those little men.
Those little men!

Now, I saw him with my own eyes,
Adam.

Hoss has got him back up there

and he's keeping him for us.
Now, come on!

He's up in a tree in this clearing.

This had better be good.
All right, Adam, see for yourself.

See what?

Pa, I'm telling you, those little men was
coming at me from every direction.

They was coming out of the trees,
the bushes, up out of the ground!

Easy, son, easy.
Pa!

This place is crawling
with them little green men.

They was coming at me from up,
down, sideways, everywhere, Pa.

You ain't never seen nothing like it.

I saw one of them, Pa.

Where's Professor McCarthy?
Oh.

He rode back to town
with Roy Coffee.

Well, he couldn't have. We just saw
his horse, tied up down there.

Hey, there's something mighty funny
going on around here.

I knew it would come to him
sooner or later.

You just have to give him time,
you know?

Will you two fellows go and see
if you can find the professor?

Get up, boy.

Hey, professor!

McCarthy!

Professor?

Professor?

Hey, Joe, Pa, Hoss!
Come out here, I got something!

Hey, you got
the professor's hat and cane?

They couldn't be our horses,
we left them tied back there.

Sounds like it came
from that draw over there.

Maybe we can surprise whoever's
in there, pin them in. Come on.

What'd I tell you, Pa? See?
Little green men, just like I told you.

Adam, you smart aleck,
now what do you say? See them?

Didn't I tell you I saw one of them?
I don't believe it.

Now we know
where the gold dust came from.

Just in time.
No, Pa.

Well, they're starting
to break up camp.

We gotta stop them.
Now, spread out.

And wait till I give my signal.
All right.

We have to hurry. Leave the rest
of the tools and let's get the gold.

All right, boys, let's get them!

Hyah!

All right, hold it!
Yeah!

Okay. We give up.

Don't you trust them, Pa.
Let's tie them up.

Well, I don't think
that'll be necessary, gentlemen.

I'll take over from here.
Ah, Timothy, how are you?

Hello, McCarthy.

Will you kindly explain
what this is about?

Why, I'd be delighted to.

Gentlemen, allow me to introduce
to you McCarthy's Leprechauns.

They sing, they dance,
and as you've seen,

they're daring
and accomplished acrobats.

They have performed before
all the crowned heads of Europe.

They are the toast of two continents.

You're performers?
You're in a show?

Oh, and I, uh--

I must apologize for the lads'
behavior just a few minutes ago.

They were, uh, well, a little annoyed
because they thought that

you were going to steal
their gold again.

Now, just a dang minute.
Just a minute, just a minute.

What was the point
of filling everybody's heads

with all these wild stories about
leprechauns and buried treasure?

I was merely trying to help the lads.

After all, I didn't know
that they'd come by the gold legally.

The last time I had seen them
was in Kansas,

where our show was disbanded
because of, uh, financial difficulties.

Yeah, and you cheated us
out of all our savings.

The money we were going to buy
the farm with.

And our families are still back east,
waiting for us to send for them.

That's why we began panning for gold.
We were broke.

Oh. Now, come on, Timothy.

After all, everything has
turned out fine, hasn't it?

And with the gold from our little...

Uh, heh, heh.

Your little enterprise here,

we can fashion the most magnificent
show this world has ever seen.

And think of it, lads, just think of it.

You're going to be the stars.

Hold on there, McCarthy.

There's something I think
you ought to know.

You're on Ponderosa land.

Heh. I don't think I quite understand.

Well, let me explain.

You see, the gold that your
little friends here have been panning,

they panned on our land,
so the gold isn't theirs or yours.

We didn't know that.
Honest, we didn't.

We thought it was open land.

Hmm. Well, now this, uh,
puts a different complexion

on things altogether.

Yes, we'll have to attack this problem
from another angle, I can see.

Gentlemen.

All right, now, lads.

Since we've got the gold, let's be off.
No, McCarthy.

We won't steal for you.

The gold belongs to these people,
not us.

Come on, now, Timothy. After all,
you've only got one of two choices.

A simple little bit of larceny
or bloodshed.

And I imagine that
you'll choose the former, eh?

Good, I thought you'd see it my way.

Uh, gentlemen,
would you step over here, please?

Good, thank you.

Thank you for your hospitality,
gentlemen, thank you.

Now, it is with a great deal
of sorrow that I bid you--

I'm sorry, McCarthy.

Don't be too hard on him, mister.

Bring him along.

Mr. McCarthy, you can thank
the Cartwrights here

for not bringing charges
against you.

And once you're on that stagecoach,

I want that to be the last time
that Virginia City ever sees you.

The old refrain, eh, lads?

Ah, Mr. Hoss, I understand
congratulations are in order, huh?

All the gold goes to you, I'm told.

As the old saying has it,
them that has, gets.

Well, I'm afraid not this time,
Mr. McCarthy.

We figured on giving the gold
back to these fellas.

You what?
What?

Yeah, we figured that they got
more of a right to it than we have.

Well, I'd like to hear
how you decided that.

Well, Roy, where'd that gold
come from in the first place?

Up in the high mountains, right?
Now, they ain't on the Ponderosa.

I figure if these fellas
hadn't panned that gold out,

it'd have gone out to sea
and nobody would've benefited from it.

But they were standing on your land
while they was doing the panning.

That don't make no difference.
That gold never did belong

to the Ponderosa in the first place.

I figure it was just son of
passing through.

Hmm, what a charming idea.

Hoss, by all legal rights--
Roy,

I think what Hoss is trying to say is,

regardless of who has a right
to the gold,

he feels that the gold should go
to where there's the most need for it.

And this way, that gold will help five
new families get started on a new life.

Oh, I don't know what to say.

The only thing
I wanted to do in the first place

was just prove that I didn't dream
you little fellas up.

Uh, heh, heh.

I, uh, ahem, don't suppose that you
would like to come along with me, eh?

No, professor. I'm sorry,
we just don't want to be performers.

No, I didn't suppose you would.

We just don't like being laughed at
all the time.

Laughed at?

Well, now, listen to me, lads, listen.

None of us in the show
ever laughed at you.

But those people, these people
outside there, they'll laugh at you.

It's a very beautiful dream you have,
settling down with your loved ones,

farming your own land,
leading normal lives.

The only question is,
will they let you?

Stagecoach is here, Mr. McCarthy.
Let's go.

All right.

All right, folks. Excuse me, please.

There they are.
What are they?

The funniest critters I ever did see.

Maybe the professor's right.

Maybe we shouldn't try
to live out among other people.

Maybe we just don't belong.

Now, wait a minute.
Just hold your horses a minute.

Don't you go selling
these folks shod out there.

Don't you see? You're making
the same mistake they're making.

You're judging them
before you even know them.

Now, come on,
you're gonna go out there

and meet these folks right now.
Come on.

Folks, I'd like for all of you
to move down here.

I got something I wanna say to you.

It concerns every one of you.
I want you to hear it. Come on out.

Now, folks, I know that
because all of you turned out

and are raising such a ruckus
over our newcomers

that you're just chomping
at the bits to meet them, ain't you?

Hey, Hoss, be careful you don't
step on one of them little fellas,

you might squash him.

Charlie. Charlie.

You be careful
you don't get stepped on a little bit.

Now, folks,

I know that none of you
would purposely

or mean to mm anybody's feelings,

but Timothy here and the others feel
like that they ain't welcome here.

They think you're making fun of them
because you don't want them around.

Now, of course, you've noticed
that they're different from you.

They're a whole lot littler.

Well, that's a funny thing.

You see, I notice the same thing
about you.

Now, these fellas are here
for the same reason most of us are.

That's to help settle our town,
make it grow.

Raise their families. They're planning
on building their homes here.

Working their crops.

Being good neighbors.

Now, in the past,
we've always welcomed folks like that.

And I don't see no reason we should
treat these fellas any different.

You, Mr. Lucas, you're the banker.

You ought to be happy to see
new investors in the town.

Their money is just as big as mine.

And you, Darrell Gillespie,

it ought to tickle you to death
to find prospective buyers

for that bottom land
you've been trying to sell.

And that ain't all.

They're gonna need tools
to work that land with

and to build their homes.

We got five brand new families
here in Virginia City

that's gonna raise their young'uns,

they're gonna buy clothes
and buy food and get haircuts

and get their teeth fixed, buying seeds
and supporting the church.

I figure every one of us
is gonna benefit from their being here.

I think we ought to give them a great
big rousing Virginia City welcome.

Shucks, Hoss, we wasn't
making any more fun of them

than we do of you for being so big.

Dorsel's right, Hoss. I reckon
they're as welcome here as any of us.

Probably more welcome
than some of us.

Must be something in the air.
Yep.

Something real nice.

All right, now, listen!

We're going over to the Gold Lily

and we're gonna have
a toast to our little friends.

Wait. Don't forget our friend Hoss.

Hey, hey, fellas.
No, wait a minute, fellas.

There ain't enough of us, Hoss.
Come along on your own power.

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