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I shot one of 'em.

Newly, Burke, get your horses.

The rest of you, saddle up. Let's get after them.

You ain't gonna make it, boy.

He won't last the day.

Move away.

Now, the money. Put it in the saddle bag.

Whoa!

Hey.

Hey, you, on the ground there.

You drunk... or hurt, or what?

Both, maybe.

Oh. Sore meat.

No, sir, not me.

Lord?

Did you ever see a fool?

Any particular reason?

Fool had a gun hidden there.

Now, let's find Pike.

Macomb, how are we gonna do that?

We'll scratch every part of Kansas if we gotta.

One, he's got the money.

Two, the law catches up with him, he can identify us.

Three, it'll be a pleasure watching him bleed more than he is.

Hyah!

Well, I got all that lead out.

What's your name, boy?

Pike.

Cyrus Pike.

I suppose it ain't none of my business how you got them bullets in ya.

It was outlaws.

Well, they done a good job, I'll say that for 'em.

Miss Kitty.

Uh, couple of you fellers get these horses on down to the stable, will you?

Matthew get back, did he?

No, haven't heard a word.

Did you have any luck?

No. Just like them gillyhoos got theirselves swallered up.

We been at it all day and half the night.

Like I told ya in the first place, I can't examine ya

unless you take off part of your clothes.

I knowed it.

You get me up onto here and then you want to get my clothes off of me.

Well, I ain't gonna do it.

You just have to hide your disappointment.

Well, you come up here and you got a pain in your lower back.

How do you expect me to find it unless I can feel of you?

Nobody's gonna feel of me.

Sally,

you haven't by any chance seen four men riding out on the prairie

the last couple of days, have you?

Thanks. Want a sliver?

No, thank you.

No, I seen a couple of buffalo hunters.

Why?

Well, we were robbed here Monday night.

I just thought you might have come across them out there.

Well, no.

Seen them buffalo grizzlies and some lizards, and...

that's all.

Well, keep your eyes open for me if you're out there, will ya?

All right, Sally.

Oh! I've got to unhitch you later and give you something to eat.

But I've got a little errand of mercy.

Well, it wasn't easy but we got it.

Where's the boy?

Where's the boy gone?

Oh.

Pike!

Pike!

Sally: Can you tell me why you tried to run off?

Pike: I...

I don't want to cause you no more trouble.

Didn't want to cause me no more trouble?

You did that already.

Laudanum's got to taste bad or else it don't do no good.

I seen the marshal today in Dodge.

He told me there'd been a robbery in town.

What'd you say?

I said I knew it.

Said I knew who the robber was, had him home in my bed,

that he was shot up something fearful.

Nah, they'd have been here by now if you told them that.

Just wanted you to see that I can lie as good as you can.

I... I... I guess...

I guess I got to own up to it.

I was one of them that... held up that freight office.

Stupid thing for me to do.

Me, just green from Arkansas.

Fell into bad company.

You believe that, don't ya?

You're telling it.

Them I fell in with just...

they didn't want to share.

Shot and left me to die.

Took all the money, they did.

The rest is like I told ya.

Well?

Well... what do you say to that?

I'll say to that...

that in a day or two you're gonna be able to hang onto that saddle horn

as good as you can lie, and I'll be glad rid of you.

Hicks.

Macomb says you can eat now.

Oh, I can't wait.

All right, keep a sharp eye.

Over a week. He could have hit a stage and been in the Nations by now.

We'll find him.

Cold beans.

Nobody'd see a fire out here.

Not if there ain't none.

You want to strike out on your own, go ahead.

No, that ain't it.

He might be laying dead out there in the prairie somewhere.

I hope he ain't.

If he's lying dead on the prairie, we'll find him covered with sand.

If he ain't dead yet,

I'll cover him up personally.

Well, he was here.

Or somebody was, bleeding pretty bad, too.

I kind of figured he wouldn't ride too far with them bullets in him.

Yeah, but he did ride out.

Unless they buried him around here.

Let's keep looking.

Afternoon.

Where did you get that shirt?

Oh, I found it over in that trunk over there.

Mine was kind of messed up, so I washed it out while you was gone.

Goes through folks' stuff when they's away, do ya?

Raised like trash, was you?

I didn't figure you'd mind.

Do ya?

Hm!

Here, I fixed this up for ya.

I never asked ya to.

Well, I know that. I wanted to.

You got any paint?

Yes, I got paint.

Any particular color you like?

That's her.

You like rabbit stew, do ya?

Too stringy.

You know, I thought we might eat out by the lake today.

Already fixed up a table.

That suit ya, does it?

Well, here we are, like a couple of savages

out here with the bugs and the tree droppings.

That sure ain't civilized.

Well, tell me, old lady. Was it stringy?

Not as bad as most.

Oh, compliments just don't come natural to you, do they?

Folks that gush just want something.

Look at my Worthless.

Well... Well, you've got most all of it,

that's for certain.

I don't want nothin' I ain't got. And I don't need anything more.

What are you collecting all that junk at the house for?

That ain't junk.

That's just good things that need fixing.

Mm.

Where do you get it all?

The prairie.

Folks movin' west.

They start out with their wagons piled high

but it don't take long to find out the wagon bogs down.

Then they got to unload.

It's amazin' what they find they can do without once the goin' gets rocky.

I kinda think I can make up stories about them, what they is like.

What they was thinkin' when they were unsatisfied.

What made 'em want to go to the far west.

Well, I'll tell you somethin', old lady,

it don't take much makin' up.

They're goin' out to get rich. Dig for gold.

Gold ain't no good for nobody.

Oh, is that so?

Tell me, you plan on keeping all those good things at the house

for yourself, do ya?

I plan on fixing 'em up and selling them.

Oh. Selling them? Selling them for what?

For money, and it ain't the same as gold.

Well, let me tell you somethin', old lady,

you got money, you got gold, and everything changes.

I mean you're somebody.

You can live in a big old house way up on a hill

and look down on everybody.

That's important to you, huh?

Looking down on somebody?

It is to me.

That's why when I'm fit I'm riding out of here and into the gold fields.

I don't ever want to see Arkansas or Kansas again.

Oh... being rich.

It's the only way to be.

Your folks, I suppose they was dirt-poor farmers

who had to scratch for everything they got.

- Huh? - Maybe.

Well, half of what they scratched for went to some gold hoarder

lived up on top of a hill in a fancy house.

Suppose that's about right, too, ain't it?

Well, it ain't that I don't think money's good.

I can spend my share if I had it, I'll tell you.

Hey, tell me something, old lady.

You had all the money in the world,

what would you buy first off, huh?

Chompers. Crockery. Store teeth.

Well, I never figured that.

Yes, sir.

I'd buy me a set of them fancy, white, porcelain store teeth

and then I'd get me a slab of steak

and I'd chew right through her!

Then I'd go down into town and I'd smile at everybody,

showing off.

You know something?

They wouldn't call me names no more.

You mean... You mean they do that to ya?

Oh, kids mostly. They're just teasing.

I don't care. Gives 'em a chance to feel better than somebody else.

All of us have to do that once in a while.

Well, are you gonna clean up this mess or just sit there?

Yup.

Ah, never mind. Sit there.

You're mending. I'll do it.

Worthless, come on, honey.

Oh, I wish I'd known you when.

Need some help?

Oh, no thanks.

I'm a stickler for keeping things clean.

What are all these for?

Oh, I sell 'em. A penny a pound.

These are like money in the bank.

Hey, you get hid.

- Hello, Sally. - Afternoon, Sally.

Howdy, Marshal, Festus. You still looking for varmints?

That's right, and that's a good name for 'em too.

They killed a man over in Scullyville a couple days ago.

Sally: Is that so?

You haven't seen anybody since we talked?

Uh, no.

No, I can't say I have.

Matt: Well, I guess we might as well head back to Dodge

and start lookin' again tomorrow.

- Thanks, Sally. - Much obliged, Miss Sally.

Yeah, uh... so long.

Lies come from your mouth real natural-like, lady.

They said a killin'.

Don't know nothing about that. Must have been after I let out.

You sure?

Two days ago, he said. I was right here.

I been here for over a week, you know that.

What are you gonna do?

Nothing.

Gonna stay for a while?

Stay here a while?

I might as well. I got me a real fine palace.

And some of the best company for miles around.

Ah, you're mocking me.

Mocking? I ain't mocking at all, old woman.

I'm just being grateful.

Fact is, I might just move in with ya, permanent.

Oh, never mind overdoing it.

You know, I think, uh,

I think I'm gonna do me a little bit of hunting.

Hunting?

Yeah, I'm a little tired of that old rabbit stew

with black-eyed peas.

Say, you know, them gold fields is awful cold and wet.

Oregon, too.

In Colorado they got ice and snow to boot.

Well, I ain't going to the gold fields, I'm going hunting.

My horse still down in the gulley?

Kansas is the country.

Kansas got everything a fella could ask for.

I ain't going yet.

Sally Fergus, you're off your noodle.

You crazy old fool.

He don't give a spit in a holler about you.

No. In the first place, he ain't comin' back.

And in the second place, the third and the fourth place,

if he did come back, you'd be better off to be rid of him.

Where's my towel? Oh, there it is.

And in the fifth place... Oh yeah, there it is...

If he did come back, he don't need a mother.

Most of all, he don't need an old hag like you.

Oh, the...

the rust on them elbows has set in by a good ten years.

That ain't gonna come off with pig bristles and lye.

Oh!

Maybe you're right, Worthless.

I never went through this for nobody,

not when I was 17 years young, let alone 67 years old.

But it goes to show you what happens when you go without your hat.

Too much sun scrambles your brains.

Bah. He ain't gonna stay on here anyway.

No matter what.

Don't you say one single solitary thing.

It ain't worth the pain, I'll tell you that.

Hey, lady!

Lady!

You came back! You came back!

Well, look at you, old woman.

Don't look at me,

look at that venison steak up there,

all ready for the fire.

You think you can chew it?

Oh, I'm gonna chew it. I'll gum it to death if I got to.

Hey, did you take a bath and get all gussied up just for me?

Oh, no. No.

No, I took a bath... I took a bath because it's my birthday.

Your birthday?

Well... Well, what's the date?

I don't... Well, I don't know the date of my birth.

I just pick a day, uh...

I just pick a day for myself.

But you didn't have nothing to do with it, no.

I don't usually go to a place if I don't know where I'm going.

Ah, you'll see it soon enough, old woman.

I ain't sure Worthless and me wants to go for a ride with you.

Oh, you're gonna like it when you get there.

How come you brought your horse?

Oh, might find another deer than needs killing, dragging back.

Now, you're just full of talk, ain't ya?

I am when somebody's got secrets.

Hyah! Giddyup, Worthless!

Don't do that to her! She don't like it.

What do you mean, she don't like it?

How do you know what she likes and what she don't like?

She tell you, does she?

Yes. She talks to me and I talk to her.

Come on, Worthless, honey.

And if you want to call me looney, you go ahead, if you want to.

No, I had, uh, I had me a looney grandma once.

On my pa's side.

You remind me of her some.

Oh, you windbag.

Yup, old Grandma Tensely was her name.

Gray hair all kinda poking out

from a little bun-like thing in the back.

Her little eyes just as sharp as daggers.

And her mouth. Whoo!

Whole mouth would never stop talking from sunup to sundown.

Oh...

Oh, but I loved that old woman, I did.

She sure was good to me.

I remind you of her?

Your mouth does, always going on like hers.

Yeah, you know, she used to...

She used to pick me up and put me up on her lap.

Tell me all kinds of stories.

She even used to give me a little dip out of her snuff can

when she thought nobody was watching.

I could give you a chew.

Oh, no. No thanks.

You do enough for the both of us.

Yeah, you know, everybody thought she was crazy but me.

I always wanted to do something for her.

Give her a little something better than she had.

I never got a chance.

By the time I had anything, she died.

She ain't buried out here, is she?

Hyah! Giddyup, Worthless. Put a little muscle into it, girl!

We're going to a party. Come on!

Whoa! Whoa.

But this is where I found ya.

Well, are we just gonna sit here till snow flies?

Tell me something, old woman.

Have you ever, in your whole life, ever had a real birthday present?

What, you mean something I didn't get for myself?

Something somebody give me?

Yup. That's what I mean.

No, I can't say that I have.

Why would somebody want to give me something?

Well, maybe because they liked ya?

Maybe because you done something nice for them, huh?

I never did nothing nice for nobody,

and nobody never did nothing nice for me and that's the way I want it.

Is it?

Why don't you just say what you want to say? Blurt it out!

Straight!

All right.

Come on.

Come on.

I'm gonna give you...

the best birthday present that you ever seen, old woman.

You've been lying all the time, ain't ya?

I tried to pick the truth out of what you said.

Hm. Thought I did.

$1,200, Sally Fergus.

For saving my life.

It's stole, ain't it?

What's that got to do with it?

It's money.

Ain't nobody asking where it come from.

I-I'm offering you a present.

Half of everything I got.

That's more money than you seen in your whole life.

Well, say something.

It's stole.

It ain't yours to give.

Now, you take this money, and I ain't fooling.

Buy you some teeth, maybe.

Maybe a dress or two.

Anything you want, you can have.

Who wants it?!

No, sir, I don't want it!

What do you mean you don't want it?

You're a stupid old woman, you know that?

Stupid and crazy.

I may be crazy,

but I ain't crazy enough to get mixed up with robbers

and people that would shoot ya just as soon as look at ya!

You better take that money to Matt Dillon.

Oh, sure, yeah, yeah. And go to jail.

Oh, you really are out of your head, you know that?

You brung your horse... to go away.

You was gonna give me the money and then make a getaway.

Yeah.

Yeah, and by damn, that's what I'm gonna do.

And leave you here.

Leave you here to pick up junk till your old shack

looks like a graveyard for all I care.

My shack may look like a graveyard,

but when I walk down the street, I don't have to hang my head.

- Do you hear that? - I hear ya.

That's the last I'm gonna have to listen to from you, old woman.

Hyah!

P-Pike!

Hyah, hyah!

Hyah!

I been raspy to ya.

But I wish you'd stay a while.

Come back.

Come back, please.

There we go.

Go on, honey. Get something to eat.

Just you and me again.

Find something to eat.

Afternoon, ma'am.

What are you doing in my place?

We're just sampling some of your whiskey, here.

Well, you got the whiskey, now get out.

Ain't very neighborly of you, turning strangers away from your door.

We're looking for a friend of ours.

Maybe you seen him? Name of Pike.

I haven't seen nobody.

But you better get out of here or I'll take my musket and I'll blast ya.

Now, ma'am... you seen him all right.

Lookie there.

And you're gonna tell us where he's at now, ain't ya.

Huh?

That old woman's really crazy.

Crazier than a bedbug, that old woman is.

And twice as worrisome.

Stole money.

Well, like anybody cared.

She can just stay back, then get as fallen down

as that old shack of hers for all I care.

I'm going to go to the gold fields.

Get rich like nobody ever dreamed of.

I don't need her. I don't need that old woman.

I don't need nobody!

I told ya, I found that shirt out on the prairie.

If it's yours, take it.

I just kept it 'cause I was gonna wash it up

and try to sell it and make a few pennies.

You know, pretty thing, the three of us,

we got a mean streak that runs all the way down to the quick.

And, uh, it's just aching to come out.

Now, you'd be better off telling us where he is.

I don't know who you're talking about.

Well, it don't seem that way to me, now.

You nursed him, didn't you?

Old hag, we'd like to do things the easy way.

Ah!

Now, before I kick in the rest of your teeth,

suppose you tell us where Pike's at.

Hey, listen, lots of pretty bottles over here.

What do you do with them? Do you sell them?

How much is, uh,

that one worth, pretty thing?

She probably shot herself

when she realized how much money she turned down.

You figure that?

Just like her to miss on the first try.

Ah! Come on.

And that one!

Well, it looks like you ain't got much left to sell.

That don't mean nothing.

Them's just bottles.

You don't tell us today, we'll burn your shack down.

Then we'll kill you.

Go ahead!

Me and that old shack have seen our best days, anyway.

I'll start with that mule.

You kind of like that old mule, do ya?

No!

Don't you harm my mule!

I'll tell you.

He went to Dodge.

What for?

I don't know.

He didn't tell me nothing.

What about the law there? Matt Dillon, ain't it?

Yeah, but he isn't there.

He come by here today on his way to Hays City.

What for?

He said he was tracking some scum

who robbed the freight office in Dodge.

Pike's in Dodge, the law's in Hays.

That makes it kind of nice, don't it?

Let's get to riding.

Don't.

Please, mister.

Don't... Don't hurt Worthless...

She's all I got!

That's her name, is it?

No!

What happened?

It's all right, it's all right.

- What happened? - They shot her.

My poor Worthless.

Who never done nobody no harm.

They shot her 'cause of meanness.

- Oh... - She ain't dead yet.

Who was it?

Three men?

It's all right, honey.

What did you tell them?

Say, you got to get out of here. They're after you.

I'll take care of my mule.

What did you tell them?

I told 'em... that you was in Dodge.

They believe ya?

Poor honey... Oh, my little honey.

I'll put her out of her pain if you want me to.

Put her out of her pain?

Oh... She's just an old mule!

Listen, you leave her be.

She's the only thing that... that ever loved me

just because I was me.

I hope you find your gold, Pike.

And your house... on the hill.

Must be out of my crazy head.

There's some laudanum in the shack... Get it!

We'll try and pour it down her, get her onto her feet and onto the wagon.

Use my horse to get her into Dodge.

You mean, we're gonna take her to Doc?

Yeah, she might make it if we can tie her down good and snug.

But we can't use your horse, you got to get away.

Go on! Before I change my mind and do what's logical.

I know that will do the work. I made that myself.

It probably tastes... Now, the main thing is,

just don't let them take any more than it says there.

'Cause it's pretty...

- Evening, Miss Kitty. - Hello, Festus.

- How are ya? - Doc.

Well, looks like you got yourself a new label in there.

Sure does have a lot of ingredients.

Yes, oh yes.

New, is it?

There I go again.

Good heavens, that's that same cough.

Yeah, it's the same cough.

Well, I was just gonna have me a beer,

but now I reckon I better have something a little stouter.

You sound terrible.

Oh, Miss Kitty, it's that... blamed hackety cough.

I just can't get rid of it.

I reckon it's all that prairie dust, you know.

Uh, well, um...

Say, would you like to try some of this?

I can't guarantee how it's gonna taste...

Oh, foot, Miss Kitty. When a feller's in need,

he don't give a hoot about the taste.

Yes'm, I'll try some.

Must be something that's going around.

Sure hope it helps.

It probably will, Miss... Kitty.

Well, I-I thought you'd... just like to taste it.

You know, you might not like this.

Oh, Miss Kitty, if you want me to give her a good sampling,

you might as well just go ahead on,

fill her on up.

C-Coal oil... Castor oil...

Well, what's the matter, Festus, don't you like that?

You ornery old skutter, you,

that's the very same stuff you tried to palm off on me.

I never tried to palm anything off on you!

This ought to cure you from mooching drinks!

I want to... I'm just gonna tell you...

- Doc? - Yeah.

Sally Fergus is down at the livery, wants to see you right away.

- What about? - Well, her mule's in a bad way.

Good heavens, I got more to do than take care of sick mules.

If it wasn't for doctoring mules, you wouldn't have no business at all.

Oh, shut up.

Blamed old sneaky scamp.

We better get on outta here. That old woman's gonna have us in jail.

Settle down a minute.

Festus, I'm partially to blame for this.

I'm sorry. Here.

Chase it down with some of this.

- It's on the house. - Much obliged, Miss Kitty.

Oh.

Yeah. That there's more like it.

That there's more like it.

Now move out real casual.

Her wagon.

The saddlebags.

Pike: How is she, Doc?

She's not feeling any pain.

How much laudanum did you give her, Sally?

More than half a bottle.

We didn't know if it was the same for a mule as a human.

It just might have saved her life.

Kept her from shock.

I'll take the bullet out and she'll be all right.

I'll get my horse unhitched.

She's better.

Pike!

- Hold on... - Marshal, stop 'em!

They're the men you been looking for!

Drop it! Drop it right there.

Get back.

All right, turn around.

Well...

Never figured I'd get to spend it, anyway.

Morning, Festus.

Morning, Miss Sally.

Morning, Marshal.

I'd like to see Pike.

Well... go right in, Miss Fergus.

Matthew, did you see that?

Let's go and take a breather outside.

Well, did you bring me a file, old lady?

Nope,

but if you want to gnaw your way out of here, I can help you.

Doc says you paid for 'em.

Sure hope the money wasn't stole.

No.

I had me some money I worked for.

Like 'em?

I think you look fine, Sally Fergus.

Just fine.

Doc says that I'll get used to 'em,

but I still feel like I got a mouth full of marbles.

I whistle and clack a lot but it's sure worth it.

Say, uh... got a little business I want to talk over with you.

When you get out of prison, are you still figurin' on goin' to them goldfields?

Figured I might.

Well, my place ain't much...

but it's mine.

It's all mine.

And I ain't got no family.

And you ain't got no family.

So...

So?

Well... when you get out of jail,

if you want to come there and stay a while,

you can.

What makes you think I need mothering?

Mothering don't get it.

You just need somebody smarter than you to keep you out of trouble.

Smarter than me? You?

Well, I'm on the other side of these bars, ain't I?

Well, I... I'll think it over.

Well, don't take too long.

And remember this, there's a lot of other young bucks in the woods.

Well, now, is that so?

Yeah, that's so.

So, while you're making up your mind, I'll be over at Delmonico's,

saying howdy to a few of 'em.

And chewing myself a nice, juicy steak.

Hey! Old woman!

Expect me about September.

September? What was that there all about?

That there about...

Old Sally Fergus...

just got herself a date.

Good day, gents.

Mister, I want me a steak.