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What we doin' about him?

He ain't no worry.

This here wagon is. Look at it.

Ain't big enough.

- Howdy, Mr. Phelps. - Festus.

Looks like there might be a little shower, don't it?

Yeah. We could sure use it. Been dry.

Whoa!

What in the world are you doing way up here?

Well, I been helping Mr. Jonas out at the mercantile.

And there's some fella by the name of Royce

that ordered this here team and the wagonload of supplies bring up here.

He's supposed to be comin' in on that morning stage.

Hey, uh, now seein' as them there ain't your belongings,

maybe you'd oughta just get your hands off of 'em.

Go on, get away from there.

- Here it comes now. - Ha!

- It's early. - Yah!

Ha! Yah!

Whoa!

You got a minute to stretch your legs, folks.

Thank you.

Excuse me, please.

Mr. Royce?

Mr. Royce?

It's Miss Royce. Pass my luggage down, please.

Yes, ma'am.

I hope that Mr. Jonas was able to supply everything that I requested.

I just kinda took it for granted

that it'd be a man takin' over a wagon this size.

Perhaps if you could just read the list,

you'd see if everything I ordered was there.

Yes'm.

Appears like I went off and left my specs there in Dodge City.

Uh, well, I'm sure that Mr. Jonas would have told you

if there was any part of the order that he couldn't fill.

Yes'm.

Oh, I think I'd better get started without further delay.

Ma'am, ain't you got any man to drive this here wagon for ya?

I'm capable of handling a wagon, Mr...

- Haggen. Festus Haggen, ma'am. - Haggen.

Of course, if you ain't got but a mile or two to go...

- The Warusa is more than a mile or two. - The Warusa?

Whoa! Whoa!

You tellin' me you're fixin' to go all the way up to the Warusa by yourself?

Why, that there's three or four days from here by wagon.

I am quite aware of the distance, Mr. Haggen.

Now, if you will please remove your hand from the rein.

Ma'am, let me tell you, there's yahoos up along that trail there'd

shoot your head off just for a pair of boots,

let alone a wagon full of supplies.

I am going to be in charge of the mission school at Warusa

and I do not intend to make a beginning

by being worried about my personal safety.

Well, that there don't make a thimble full of sense.

- A woman like... - I appreciate your concern.

Now, if you will please remove your hand from the rein.

- All right. - Thank you.

All aboard, folks.

You gonna take the stage back to Dodge, Festus?

That there woman ain't got enough sense to pound sand in a rat hole.

I'd sure like to beat this storm into Dodge, Festus.

My mule's got more in his head than she has.

- Festus. - Wait up there!

Hey!

Looks like he can handle that gun he's wearin'.

Get us ahold of Pa first.

Hey, wait up there!

It's sure the wagon we need.

It's the wagon we gettin' too.

- Yes, Mr. Haggen? - Well, if you don't beat all.

Now, just what exactly does that mean?

Well, don't it get a little worrisome for you

to be trapsin' around the country by yourself?

I am very touched by your gallantry,

but I am perfectly capable of getting to Warusa alone,

no matter how improbable that may seem to you.

Let me tell you something.

You can't be too smart in the head for doing what you're tryin' to do.

But you'd ought to be smart enough to know that a fella

can give you a little dab of help on the way.

I'm sure that you can, Mr. Haggen, but I can't afford to.

Who's askin' nothing about gettin' paid?

Very well, Mr. Haggen, I'm in your hands.

Like a sidewinder in the hands of a cottontail. Get up.

- Just the two of 'em. - Maybe we can kill 'em right here.

Country gets lonesomer higher up.

I always believe in being properly prepared, Mr. Haggen.

- Oh! - Whoa, whoa, whoa!

Ah!

There's supposed to be some bear caves around here somewheres.

Bear caves?

They wouldn't be holed up this time of year!

We stay here, we're gonna get drownded like a couple of cats in a tow sack!

Nonsense! I have a very comfortable tent!

Tent?

Why, foot, if you had six arms you couldn't put up a tent

in this here wind!

Here, hold that!

That there's a cave right yonder!

I will get down myself.

All right, just go on and get down by yourself.

Ah!

Well, some folks just can't get prepared for everything, like they say.

Now, hold on. Hold on.

Just make sure there ain't no bear up there sleepin' longer than he oughta be.

I'll wait.

Good morning.

Morning.

What in tarnation you got cooking there?

Breakfast. It's very nourishing.

What is it?

Well, I familiarized myself with the Wyandotte staples

and I blended them all together.

It's cornmeal and dried prunes and herbs and wild berries,

and I fortified it with cod liver oil.

I call it Wyandotte porridge.

I think I'd call it somethin' else.

I ain't gonna stuff none of that in my gullet.

Well, what an attitude to take

when Indian children are starving in these hills.

Well, no wonder, if that's what they're gettin' set in front of 'em.

Stop complaining, Mr. Haggen. You came on this trip of your own volition.

I didn't do no such a thing. I come along because I wanted to myself.

Never mind. If you're not going to eat, go out and hitch up the horses.

All right.

I haven't really asked you before, Mr. Haggen, what do you do for a living?

Well, little dab of this, and a little dab of that.

Most of the time here lately I been doin' some deputyin'

for the marshal in Dodge.

Whatcha might say is kind of a part-time deputy in Dodge City.

Well, isn't that interesting.

Deputy Marshal, United States. Why, that's very exciting.

Well, it does get a little excitin' once in a while.

Well, if I didn't feel secure before, I certainly do now.

Well, I don't know about that...

- Whoa! Whoa! - What is it?

Who are they?

Kiowa, by the looks of 'em.

See them there marks on their faces? That there is war paint.

You just keep still and let me do all the talkin'. You hear me?

Yes.

Hau.

Squaw here heap big friend of Injuns.

- Be still. - I think...

Be still like I told you.

There is no need to reach for your gun.

I assure you, Mr. Haggen, they have...

I ain't gonna set here and get myself scalped now

without making a fight of it, I'll guarantee you that.

You will not be scalped.

Here, here, quit that! Get outta there!

It is all right.

I'm ready whenever you are, Mr. Haggen.

You talk Kiowa?

Well, do you think that I would go into a part of the country to teach

without knowing something about the people I was going to teach?

Well, what was it they wanted?

Some men stole their winter trappings. The boy with them,

he could identify the thief, but they lost their trail in the rain.

That's them bushwhackin' snakes I was warnin' you about.

They obviously meant us no harm.

You could have caused us considerable trouble.

- What was that you give 'em? - My special concoction.

You mean that stuff you was a-tryin' to feed me this morning?

- Of course. - Now, that there is the way

to get trouble started. We better get outta here before they come back too.

Giddyup!

- Whoa! - Whoa!

Well, what's the matter?

Well, we should take the fork to the right.

Well, no, you don't never take no lower crossing after a rainstorm.

Mr. Haggen, this map is quite accurate in depicting suitable crossings.

I don't give a hoot what no map says.

Now, this here lower crossin' just can't be got across

till a day or two after the flood's done over with.

Now, you take this here fork to the left...

This is my wagon, these are my supplies, and I think I'd like to go to the right.

I don't give a hoot what you think.

Now, I'm tellin' you, the further down you go on this here lower crossin',

you're gonna get clean up to your jaw in mud and water.

- Now, that there is my prediction. - Yes. Earlier today,

you predicted that we were going to be scalped by Indians.

Well, if there's one thing I know about,

it's crossin' rivers in this here part of the country.

Giddyup.

Giddyup.

Whoa!

Well, Mr. Haggen?

Well, that ain't sayin' the lower crossin's no better.

I trust that you will be less pigheaded as we continue our journey.

Pigheaded?

Gidup.

Whoa!

Careful! Whoa! Back!

If that ain't the pot callin' the kettle black.

Whoa! Whoa! Gidup! Gidup!

My books! Get my books, hurry! Get them!

Oh, they're just going to be ruined!

Pigheaded! Pig, pig, pig!

I'm gettin' 'em. Can't you see I'm a-gettin' your books?

I'm just startin' to realize

that I ain't never made no wetter trip no place!

If you'd try to control your temper in the first place,

this never would have happened.

Or if you'd a-quit blabberin' and a-jabberin' in my ear!

I just hope I can fix this here wheel, that's all.

You folks needin' any help?

Oh, we'd certainly appreciate it.

Hop in the river and get that wheel.

Get us a tree fall.

We'll be needin' it for... for a drag stick.

Oh, they certainly take hold, don't they?

My boy'll be needin' some help gettin' that wheel up.

You really happened along in our time of need.

You sure ain't a lot of help, I'll tell you that.

None at all.

It's busted up real good, Pa.

I heard you say you might be able to fix that wheel.

Got a place where you can do the fixin' at.

Got comfort and vittles for the woman.

We accept your kind offer of hospitality.

I just wish I could think of some way to repay them.

Oh, don't worry. They'll think of that.

- Where you all been, Pa? - Got company, boy. Go back to sleep.

- My, is the boy ill? - Been huntin'.

- Accidental shot hisself. - Well, is there anything I can do?

He'll come along by hisself.

You get busy with that wheel fixin'.

- I'm Athena Royce. What's your name? - Sonny.

- Has a doctor been to see you, Sonny? - He been seen to.

Well, shouldn't he be moved to someplace more comfortable?

Well, he ain't complainin' none.

You got grub on that there wagon, maybe you could womp us up some vittles.

Of course. And some nice hot beef broth for Sonny.

When we headin' home, Pa?

Well, as soon as we get that there wheel fixed.

Got ourselves a right fit wagon to take you and the skins on.

What... What you doin' with that fella and the woman?

That ain't nothin' for you to worry your head about.

How long you figure the fixin' to take?

- Well, there ain't no way to tell that. - There better be.

Shut your mouth. You figure by dark?

I ain't got no fittin' tools to work with. It's liable to...

Oh, Mr. Haggen, there's a whole chest full of tools right here in the wagon.

- Help yourself. - Get 'em.

Oh, my books are soaked. They can't stay in the sun.

The pages will stick. Would you take them into the house for me, please?

Do what the lady says.

Ma'am, you and me's in betwixt

a rock and the hard place, if you know what I mean.

I beg your pardon?

Well, I'm a-takin' my time fixin' this wheel...

Taking your time?

Well, of course, it's gonna take a heap of time a-fixin' this wheel.

- Can't you see that? - That's all right with me, Mr. Haggen.

I'm in no hurry.

We have shelter for the night and we'll go to the valley in the morning.

You a livery man, fixin' wheels and such?

You might say.

Got this wagon in Dodge City. That where you live?

Might say.

You don't talk too much, do you?

I ain't got nothin' to say.

Get away from me.

What's this picture say?

Oh, that's the story of David and Goliath.

The big fella and the little fella gonna fight?

That's right. Would you like to read it?

Can't none of us read.

Well, I'll read it to you after supper.

"And Goliath's voice echoed through the hills with the challenge,

'Send me a man who will dare to come down and do battle with me, ' he roared.

The men of Israel listened and they were afraid.

And so they came to David and told him of the giant and that they were afraid.

Thus it came to pass that a young shepherd boy,

armed only with sling and stones, marched out to face the giant Goliath."

He sure didn't have a head full of brains.

He was the Lord's hand.

Leave her finish without your jawin'.

Well, first I'll have to fix Mr. Haggen his meal.

You finish the readin'.

Oh, no, I have to prepare something for Mr. Haggen.

He ain't eatin'. The wheel's more important.

Why, not eating? He's been out there working all day.

He ain't hungry. Told me so.

Well, I'm going to insist that he eat something.

- Mr. Haggen, don't you feel well? - Ma'am?

You ought to at least have a cup of broth.

- Oh, that there sounds mighty good. - He ain't eatin'.

- Well, he just said he was hungry. - It's what Pa says.

He ain't eatin' till the wagon's fixed.

Oh, gentlemen, I appreciate your concern for my wagon,

but it doesn't matter if I don't get to the school until tomorrow.

That there's just what they're figurin' on, Miss Royce,

you not a-gettin' to that school at all. Don't you see?

- What? - Now, you just get to work.

Just a minute.

Mr. Haggen, tell these gentlemen who you are,

the respect to which you are entitled.

No, ma'am, there ain't no need for that.

Mr. Haggen is a United States deputy marshal from Dodge City.

- I see you're quite surprised. - Sorta.

Just don't believe it.

Mr. Haggen, show them the badge in your shirt pocket.

Looks real.

I think you gentlemen owe Mr. Haggen an apology

for the treatment you've been giving him.

You two stand over him rest of the time he's a-workin'.

- Now, just a minute! - You shut up!

Yon get back inside. You finish that there readin'.

And you hustle that wheel fixin' or you'll be crow bait 'fore sundown.

Get inside!

"And the Lord spoke to Jonah, saying,

'Go to the city of the Babylonians and tell the people of their evils.'

But Jonah fled from the voice of the Lord and set forth to hide.

He went to the shore of the sea and found him there a ship and set sail.

But the Lord sent forth a mighty storm and soon the ship came to be broken.

Thus Jonah was cast into the sea

and soon he found himself within the belly of a whale.

For three days and three nights, he was in the great whale.

And he prayed to the Lord, asking that his voice be heard.

Thereupon, the Lord bad the fish to open its mouth

and Jonah was cast forth upon the dry land.

Jonah again, hearing the Lord's words, obeyed

and this time went to the city of the Babylonians

and warned them they would perish from their sins.

The people listened, and when the Lord saw that they were turning

from their evil ways, he gave them salvation."

Well, I guess I'll see how that fella's doin' with the wheel.

Then you can finish me another story.

You been long enough on that wheel, Deputy.

Well, you just hold your taters.

Now, it ain't the easiest thing in the world

a-working with this here kinda light.

'Sides, this here wheel ain't gonna be no good

till we go down yonder to the river and soak it for a spell,

get this here wood swolt up in it.

Let us worry about it.

Put him in the root cellar for the night.

- Move. - Don't get pushy, you knothead.

You finish a couple more stories for me and my boys.

- I absolutely refuse to. - My boys get riled easier than me.

Best keep 'em happy.

That be sound advice, woman.

Well, I'll just bet you that these here's the hides

that are stole from that Indian village.

I'll betcha that's just where that young 'un got that bullet too.

"Thus it came to pass..."

"that the rulers and the governors brought false testimony against Daniel.

And the king signed a decree that Daniel should be cast into a den of lions.

And the stone was brought forth sealing the den.

Early next morning, the king rose and went into the den of lions and spoke,

called to Daniel.

Daniel answered and spoke, saying that the Lord had sent his angel

and had shut the lions' mouths, for the Lord found no wrong in him."

I'm sorry, I can't read anymore.

You keep a-story tellin' till I say you be finished.

But my... my throat's hurting.

We ain't sleepy.

You'll finish the whole book.

The whole book? I just can't.

"The king, hearing this, demanded that Daniel be set free

and ordered the men who had accused Daniel

and their wives and their children cast into the den..."

"spoke to Noah, and said, 'A flood of waters would cover the earth

and the valleys, the hills and everything on the earth will die.

For men are doing these things which are evil.

And you shall build an ark and of every living thing,

the beasts of the fields and the birds of the air, you shall take two.

And they shall go into the ark with you and await the day.'

So Noah built the ark as the Lord had asked and took it... took him to it..."

"his wife, his son's wife and the beasts of the field

and the birds of the air and two of a kind of every living thing.

And it came to pass that rain fell, and for 40 days and 40 nights,

flooding the earth as the Lord had said. Only the ark remained

and was lifted upon the waters and for 150 days floated upon the waters.

And the Lord sent the winds to the ark.

The ark sailed the seas above the valleys and the hills."

"It came to pass and the waters were soon gone from the earth.

And the Lord again spoke to Noah that he should leave the ark with his wife

and their sons' wives and the beasts in the field and the birds of the air.

And the Lord sent a rainbow to cover the sky...

to cover the sky and it was his sign to all living creatures

that a covenant had been made."

You all right, Miss Royce? I mean, considerin' everything?

How we riddin' 'em, Pa?

Sink 'em with rocks in the river.

Mr. Haggen, what are they going to do to us?

Well, when fellas like these here'ns get in this deep,

why, they won't hardly stop at nothin'.

Do they intend to kill us?

Once that wagon wheel's fixed,

and that youngun and these here hides is loaded in it,

they ain't fixin' to let us go.

I suppose I appeared very stupid to you.

Oh, no, ma'am.

A mite green hornish maybe.

Maybe even greener than most.

You like what you do, ma'am?

Bein' a teacher and such as that?

Well, it's my life, Mr. Haggen.

Vermont's a lot different from Kansas.

And I thought this was going to be a challenge, but...

Well, let me tell you something.

If it hadn't a-been for these here Yewkers,

you'd have been just fine a-lookin' out for yourself.

And we ain't licked yet, by a long shot.

Mr. Haggen, you're a remarkable man.

That old rawhide's tougher than a hickory tree.

I just hope them Yewkers is late sleepers.

Hard to get an edge on this.

That's it.

Ah!

Oh! I've lost my shoe!

I hate to hurry you like this, Miss Royce.

But we gotta make that river and bust up this trail we've been leaving.

- Maybe they won't be following. - Of course they'll be followin' us.

Them Yewkers ain't gonna let no deputy marshal get out

and spread the word that there's a bunch of thieves or worse up here.

- Now, come on. - I've got my shoe on.

Come on!

Keep going!

Don't stop!

Whoa!

- Ah! - Hurry up!

Come on!

Hurry up!

- Come on! - Ah!

Can't quit now! Come on!

Come on!

- Ah! - You stay here now and wait for me.

Where are you going?

I got to get a-hold of one of them guns.

Stay down, now!

No! No!

Just pure olde luck them fellas showin' up, wasn't it?

Luck?

Why, he came back for some more Wyandotte porridge.

Cast thy bread upon the water, Mr. Haggen.

Here, turn around so I get a little light from that window here.

- What's that? - Never mind what it is.

It's not gonna hurt you. Just hold still here.

Well, Doc, it's just a little dab of water.

Maybe we'd oughta just let nature take its course.

Just hold still, it might be just...

It might be more than water. I wanna have a...

Hm.

See anything, Doc?

Just your other ear. There's not another thing in between.

All right, smart aleck.

Stop doing that now. You got a slight infection in there, Festus,

and I want you to take these two pills here before you go to bed tonight.

Well, Doc, supposin' I wasn't to go to bed tonight at all.

What am I supposed to do with 'em then?

Well?

Stick 'em in your ear.

I swear to goodness, if I had another patient like you,

I'd need a doctor myself!

Yeah, but you wouldn't take no chance on gettin' sick

and havin' to get doctored by your own self.

Oh, shut up. Now you're gettin' so smart, we'll talk about my fee.

- That'll be 25 cents. - Twenty-five cents?

- Twenty-five cents! - Well, my ear ain't a-feelin'

- no better. - Well, it's no worse, is it?

- Well, no. - There you are.

An ear gets better, it gets worse.

If it's not getting any worse, it's getting better.

Come on, the office call's over and I'll charge you for the hour

if you don't get out of here.

- Stop doing that. - What'd you say?

I said stop banging your ear like that. You're making me nervous.

Well, I don't give a hoot if it's making you nervous.

Got water in my ear. When a fella's got water in his ear,

- he can't hear a blamed thing. - Well, that's not gonna do it.

- Oh. Hi, Matt. - Matthew.

- Doc. How's the Yewker boy? - He's gonna be all right, I think.

What's gonna happen to him?

Well, I'm gonna put in a word with Judge Brooker for him.

According to what Festus tells me, he sure deserves it.

- Come on, I'll buy you two a beer. - Oh. Sounds good, Matthew.

Well, you didn't have any trouble hearin' that.

Oh, smart...

- Thank you. - Well, where do you think you're going?

Why, to the mission school, of course.

Well, you can't go up there by yourself.

- Why not? - Well, just because them Yewkers

is in jail, ain't no sign that there ain't others

just like 'em up along that trail.

You can't be goin' up there by yourself, don't you see?

Mr. Haggen, I appreciate your concern, but I've wasted enough time already.

- Hey, wait up! - Ho!

Always prepared, Mr. Haggen.

Gidup.

He looks kinda cute with that little umbrella though, don't he?

Well, she should've given him the blue one.

- Why's that? - Match his eyes.