Original subtitles

Starring James Arness as Matt Dillon.

Gettin' late.

I sure wish he'd get back with my horse and buggy.

Well, if you're gonna stay here all night waiting for him,

- we might as well have a beer. - Say, now, there's an idea.

Whoa.

Whoa... whoa, boy.

Heh. Miss Daisy?

- Miss Daisy? - Hmm?

- We're home. - Mmm.

Doc.

Uh...

Guess I'll just... have to carry her.

Heh.

This, uh, is Miss Daisy Fair.

Miss Daisy?

- We're home. - Hmm?

Wake up, Miss Daisy.

Mmm, we'd best be headin' back now, Chester honey.

- Yeah, well... we-we done that. - Mm-hmm?

We headed back and we're home, Miss Daisy.

Oh. Oh! Why, so we are.

Oh, now, Chester, couldn't you put me down?

I'm an awful weight!

Just like two gnats and a mosquito.

I declare, you say the most humorous things.

Now, you put me down, Chester Goode.

Put me dow... There.

There.

- Well, how's that now? - Mmm.

- Miss Daisy, I... - Mm-hmm?

Sure would admire to see you again sometime.

Mmm.

Mmm...

Oh! Chester!

Have you any idea the time of night?

Sh-Sh-She just about asleep on her feet.

Well, she's paid for a bed,

and it's past time she was in it.

- Yeah, well, Daisy... - Oh, Chester...

You haven't given her a drop or two of whiskey, have you?

For heaven's sakes, no, Ma. I mean, Daisy's a lady.

Uh, D-Daisy.

Daisy? Daisy.

Oh! Why, I declare, I dozed off again.

Good evening, Mrs. Smalley.

A good mornin' to you, and good night to you, Chester.

- Ma. - Good night, Chester honey.

PI-Pleasant dreams to you, Daisy.

Say, Chester, don't you think the mail ought to be in by now?

Oh, yeah, huh.

I'll go down and get it in just a minute.

Mr. Dillon, did you... take note of that...

Miss Daisy that I was with last night?

You know, the-the young lady that I was... with?

Well, I couldn't hardly help but take notice of her.

Golly, she sure is a pretty little thing, ain't she?

'Course I guess you could see that for yourself.

- Well, not too well, no. - You know, she's new in town.

She's stayin' over at Ma Smalley's.

Yeah, when did she get into Dodge?

- We had supper together last night. - What's she doing here?

We had the catfish, too, over at Delmonico's, the both of us.

Oh.

Here.

Just take a smell of that.

Doesn't smell like catfish.

Oh, right there,

that's wild honeysuckle, Mr. Dillon.

Oh, that, uh, that comes with the catfish now, does it?

N-No, no, that...

that there comes from-from sparkin' on the riverbank.

I just thought I'd kind of keep it as a remembrance.

We was all alone, just settin' and talkin'...

sparkin' a little bit and then we'd talk some more.

She just kind of drifted off to sleep.

Kind of fell asleep while I was talkin' to her.

Hmm.

What's the matter?

Uh...

I got to see Doc.

Doc?

It's me.

I, uh, just wanted to ask you a little question.

The answer is no, Chester.

Well...

I ain't hardly come to the question yet.

Well, the answer is still no.

You can't have my horse and buggy anymore.

Well, Doc, I never said nothing about your horse and buggy.

No, you sure didn't. Not even thanks.

What? You mean for the use of it last night?

Well, I didn't want to come up here to ask you about it at all.

What I come up here to ask you about

w-was something else altogether about last night.

- A-All right, well, what was it? - Well,

you remember th-that young lady that I was with last night, Doc.

Yeah, I noticed you had something there.

Yeah, her name is Miss Daisy Fair, and she was asleep.

You know, I had to pick her up out of the buggy.

Yeah.

Well, uh, what I was wonderin' is,

when somebody is-is asleep like that

and somebody just goes right on talkin',

do they hear what they say?

Does who hear what who says?

The one that's asleep.

- He's asleep and he goes right on... - No, no, now...

No, she's asleep and he goes right on talkin'.

Oh, my gosh.

Chester, if you want any kind of an answer out of me,

you got to be a little clearer with what...

Well, when I said what I said, you see,

Miss Daisy was already asleep at the time,

only I-I just didn't know it, and...

and I... well, I-I-I...

I think I asked her to marry me, maybe.

You think, maybe?

Well, no, I did. I mean, I asked her to marry me. It just...

Uh...

She was just so sweet and so lovely a-and so purty and...

Oh, Doc, I just got the awfullest urge just to...

to protect her for the rest of my life.

Now, what I want to know is, is...

she gonna remember that or ain't she?

Well, I...

I just don't think that I'm gonna be able to give you

a clear-cut yes or no on that, medically.

- No? - No, but I do think you're gonna find out.

But if you don't tell me, Doc, how am I gonna know?

Well, I think Miss Daisy's gonna tell you.

Well, I...

I was kind of hopin' that you'd know the answer.

Me?

Well, you got all these books here and everything.

Oh, no. No, I...

I just think that's about all I can do for you.

Thanks a lot anyway, Doc. It was just so important to me and...

Oh, listen, th-there is one other thing.

Uh...

For heaven's sakes, don't go tellin' this around

- all over town. - Oh, no.

You know, what I told you here this morning.

Well, there would just be a lot of people

that just wouldn't understand and talk.

Well, I should say not.

It can, uh, just be our secret.

- All right? - Just us.

Oh, well, good.

Well, I-I... I don't know, Chester.

I never thought about it before.

Well, could-could you just kind of think about it now?

I mean, you know, take your time.

Well...

well, I-I don't know how to think about it.

I don't even know where to begin.

Well, maybe I could help you.

Now, supposin' that-that...

Now, this just come to me right out of the air...

Now-now supposin' that-that somebody proposed to you

and you was asleep.

Now, could you hear it?

Well...

well, what am I doin' asleep if he's proposin'?

Golly, that is a stickler, ain't it? Heh.

Uh, look, Chester, let me... let me just say this,

if it-it'll put your mind at ease. Um...

well, I-I'd say that a woman is apt to talk in her sleep,

but, um, listen in her sleep, I don't think so.

- You don't, right? - Mm-mm.

No, you know, um, women aren't much for listenin'

even when they're awake.

Yeah.

Well, hey, doggone...

Well, thanks anyway for-for your trouble, Miss Kitty.

I'm much obliged to you.

And-and, uh...

I-I'd appreciate it if you just wouldn't say anything

to anybody about this.

Chester, I wouldn't even know how to begin to tell anybody.

It can just be our secret.

Absolutely.

- Say, Chester... - Oh, Mr. Dillon, you know that thing

that I was talkin' to you about this mornin',

I-I'd appreciate it if you could keep it under your hat.

All right, fine.

Hey, Miss Daisy's waitin' over there for you.

- Better get over there. - Wait... where?

- Over at the office. - Ooh!

Well... Mornin', Miss Daisy.

Good mornin', Chester.

How are you this mornin'?

Fine, thank you.

Chester, I'll... would thank you

just not to take any liberties with me.

Not just yet, anyway.

See, I been thinking what I would say to you and that...

hand-holding can just be very distrackin' to a girl.

Yeah, well, to a man, too.

Yeah.

Chester, would you mind, uh,

just steppin' away a pace or two?

Well... all right.

Uh, I do not customarily go sparkin' along the riverbank

with a gentleman I just met.

I just want you to know that, first of all.

Well, listen, I don't, either.

I mean, you know, with a woman that I just met.

That is, generally speakin' I-I don't.

Not-not for the first time, that is.

You don't?

Well, of course not, I got my code.

And you got the brownest eyes.

Well... I-I do?

I declare you do.

Well, you know, speaking of eyes, you...

Oh, Chester, you mind your distance, now.

I didn't... I didn't finish what I come here to say.

I just wish you'd bear with me

whilst I gather my wits about me.

Well, I... I'm... I'm bearing.

All right.

Chester, I just never dream.

I mean, I can't even...

I can't even remember when I most ever have.

But this morning, I woke up

with a sure notion that I'd dreamed me something.

Uh, well, uh...

gosh, I-I just hope it wasn't nothing bad.

Well, I'd dreamed...

that you asked me to become your wife.

Well...

do you remember what it was that you...

you dreamed that you answered me?

Yeah, I've been dreaming nothing else.

Oh?

Chester, did I just dream that you asked me?

Oh, no, no, no, I-I did.

I asked you. I just asked you right out.

Then I'll answer you right out.

I'll marry you, Chester.

- Oh? - On condition.

What do you mean? What condition?

Well, on... on condition that... that we wait

a proper time so as we get to know each other...

Well, that-that-that there seems only fair to me.

I mean, a proper time.

Oh, Chester!

Oh...

Oh, Chester, now, don't you be so forward!

Oh... if you'll like me to take supper

with you again tonight, I'd be delighted.

Okay.

Well... I...

I guess you're all wondering if it's true.

If what's true, Chester?

It is. It's true.

Miss Daisy can hear in her sleep.

Well, what does that mean?

Well, it... it just means that-that-that we're betrothed.

Betrothed?

Yeah, we're...

we're going to get married, Doc, just...

just as soon as... as we get to know each other good enough.

I guess I'm just about the happiest man in the world.

Yeah, well, you need a stiff drink.

Oh, no, no, no, Doc.

I just don't have time for it.

Thanks a lot anyway.

I got so much stuff to do and everything.

Just wanted to come by and let you know.

Oh. Uh, uh, Mr. Dillon,

could you loan me two dollars until Saturday?

Just enough for supper tonight?

Thanks a lot.

You know, one... one thing...

We're-we're-we're making a good stab

at getting to know each other.

You can lay that onto your big brown eyes, Chester, honey.

Oh, Chester.

I declare, the slightest little bit of encouragement,

you turn into a regular tiger.

Well, you can't hardly blame a man.

Now, Chester, I got to tell you something.

I think that... you'll think I'm

the most brazen woman you ever met.

- Oh, I will not. - Yeah, you...

Wh-Wh-What is it?

Well, I think you ought to know

that I came out West apurpose to marry.

See, I had in mind to look around a good long time

and find me the best man there was,

but, well, I found you first.

You mean you acted too hasty?

Well, I couldn't help myself.

I mean, you might say I was just powerless to resist you.

Oh.

But, Chester, as breathtaking and romantic as this all is,

we cannot live our lives out on this lovely cloud.

I mean, a girl... any girl...

She wants the good things in life.

She wants a home

and the comforts that a man can give her.

Well, I know that life ain't all...

honeysuckle and catfish.

I know that.

You don't think it's asking too much

for a home and the comforts?

No, no, no, but...

you know, as long as we're kind of

slipping off of that there cloud,

you know, that's... that's going to take

a little while... Home and comforts.

Chester, you think I'm pushing you?

No, no, it's just that...

well, it's just going to take a little while.

Oh, Chester.

Well, what do you think of it, Mr. Dillon?

Well, I don't know, Chester.

Well, it is kind of hard to put into words.

Course, when I look at it,

all I can think of is it's all mine.

Yeah.

Well, tell me, has Miss Daisy seen this yet?

Uh, no, no.

Uh, she sure is straining to, though.

Of course, I-I told her all about it.

You know, the one thing I can't quite figure out, though,

is why the feller that started this homestead quit it.

Yeah. Yeah, that's kind of hard to figure, isn't it?

Well...

at least you didn't pay out good money for the place.

Oh, I... I'll say I didn't, Mr. Dillon.

You know I checked with the land office

and this place is still up for homestead?

I just can't understand it.

I guess I'm just real lucky.

Yeah, that is pretty hard to understand all right.

You know, it'll take a while to get a stand of grass here.

I... I'm not going to be able to run cattle

on it right away, that's for sure.

Well, you're not planning to farm this place, are you?

Oh, sure, well, yeah.

Well, it's... it's just a little bit hard there on top.

Underneath that, Mr. Dillon, that's...

that's good, rich loam.

Well, I don't know, Chester.

The rich loam may be quite a way down in there.

Well, that there will turn with a plow real easy.

Tell me, when do you plan to do all this?

In my spare time.

Well, it's your place.

I sure hope you can make it work.

Oh, I'll make it work.

I'll tell you, Mr. Dillon,

a man that digs in his own dirt is just a king.

Well, that's awful dry dirt.

Well, all it takes is just a little bit of water,

and that'll grow anything.

Yeah.

Speaking of water, maybe we better

water the horses before we start back, huh?

Oh, Mr. Dillon, you know, I ain't located

any water around here yet.

You haven't?

No.

Well, whoever built this shack

must have had a well, didn't he?

Oh, yeah, yeah, it's just a question of finding it.

Oh, that... that there is, uh...

that's going to have to be worked on a little bit.

Yeah, just a question of proving up here

and shoring up there... It's going to be all right.

Well, a little rain wouldn't do it any harm.

♪♪

Now...

By golly, you just...

you just better make up your mind to it

'cause you and me are going to turn over the earth.

♪ Big eyes, they're brown ♪

♪ She's got them big eyes, she's got them big eyes ♪

♪ She's got, she's got ♪

♪ She's got the big eyes, they're brown ♪

♪ She's got, she's got ♪

♪ She's got the big eyes, they're brown... ♪

Oh! Oh!

Oh! Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Whoa, boy.

Gosh durn.

No!

♪♪

Mr. Dillon, you give me a fright.

Here, here, I'll... I'll do it.

Oh, don't bother with that, Chester.

How you feeling?

By golly.

I just was redding up the place there, and I...

uh, well, by golly, you know

I'm telling you the truth, Mr. Dillon.

I just sat down there just for a minute,

and by golly, I was asleep just like that.

Well, seems to me you're kind of

burning the candle at both ends there.

Yeah, well, I-I just don't know what's got into me lately.

Just the least little old thing, and I...

I'm just gone, and I...

I just don't know that I'm asleep

until I wake up, and then I already been.

I'm just bone tired.

Well, I know you are, Chester.

I think maybe you're doing too much.

You do?

Trying to make a farm out of that piece of land out there,

coming in here and working.

Maybe you ought to ease off a little bit.

Well...

well, something's got to give, that's... that's for sure.

Something's got to give.

Oh.

Miss Kitty, I don't think you've, uh,

met, uh, Miss Daisy Fair.

Miss Kitty Russell.

Hello, Daisy.

And, uh, Doc Adams.

Oh, yes, you're the one with that lovely buggy.

I do.

Of course, uh, you... you remember Mr. Dillon.

Evening, Marshal.

Daisy. Wouldn't you like to sit down and...?

Oh, no, no, no, we... we really don't have time for that.

Uh, just, uh, come by for a minute.

I... I, uh... wanted to ask you something.

Well, actually, I wanted to...

You see, I just don't feel that-that I could...

hold down two jobs at-at-at once, Mr. Dillon,

you know, and do justice to them, and...

and, uh, so I kind of thought that...

well, we thought that... that, uh...

well, I'm-I'm going to be a farmer.

Well, Chester, I think that's fine.

Hope you'll have a lot of luck, both of you.

Look, don't worry about your job,

'cause that'll be there any time you want it.

Oh, well, that's, uh...

Thanks a lot, Mr. Dillon.

I... I, uh... uh... You... Uh...

Well... I feel like he's going to war.

♪ You'll not find another pair like her eyes of brown. ♪

Well, I got a lot of work to do here.

Well, get a good night's rest.

Ready to start in the morning.

Whoa.

Hey.

You got coffee on?

Uh, yeah, there's some in the house.

I'll get it for you.

All right. All right, I'll get it.

Yeah, thank you. Just, uh, help yourself.

It's in there on the stove.

Yeah, all right.

Hey? Hey, I don't see no biscuits around.

Well, I ain't got no biscuits yet.

I-I just moved in. Ain't had a chance to stock up.

Son, you let this coffee boil too long.

Huh?

I say, you boiled it too long.

Why golly, you're-you're sure not obliged to drink it.

I'm gonna use that, uh,

that log there that you're sitting on.

Well, there's one for you.

Well...

Say, I, uh... I come by to help you.

Oh, that's right neighborly of you.

Hey, call me Tubby.

Well, my name's Chester Goode.

Oh.

Tubby?

Yeah, Tubby Clyde.

I was a real lard when I was a kid.

Uh, my stomach gone back on me, though.

Well, it's nice to know you, anyway, Tubby.

Yeah. Yeah, thanks.

See, what I'm gonna do here is, uh,

uh, I want to get this side here, uh,

to match that one over there.

- Yeah. - Yeah.

Oh, yeah, I can see that it's a little, uh...

Yeah.

Gee, now, wait a minute.

I-I wouldn't do that alone if I was you, Chester.

Oh, well, thanks a lot, Tubby.

- I sure appreciate your help. - Yeah.

Man, could sprain himself, you know, awful bad.

Yeah, well, maybe you could... could put...

See this rock here... This big 'un...

If you could put that underneath this side of the house

when I get it raised up, I'd sure appreciate it.

Now!

Yes, sir, just ruin his self for life.

Now!

I ain't done no lifting this long time since.

- Now! - Now, what? Uh...

Well, at least, could you...?

- Maybe you could just kind of... - Well, now, wait a minute.

To-to sit there and push it in with your feet.

Hey, now, wait a minute, Chester. That ain't gonna work.

Why?

Well, gosh, that-that rock ain't gonna set.

Roll around too much.

Say, I got the solution for you.

What? What?

Why don't you build yourself a abode?

Oh, that's the best kind of a house.

Well, I got myself a house.

All I need to do is to fix it.

Yeah. Won't work.

Gosh, this is sure awful poor land, ain't it?

Well... Worst I ever seen.

Well, it's mine. It oughtn't bother you none.

Yeah, you'd have to pay me to take it.

I'd want a good price, too.

Now, listen, Tubby, you just got to quit.

You come over here, and you say you want to be friendly,

and you want to help out, and all you do is,

you just sat there and carped.

Now, a man can just take so much of it!

Now, that's enough!

My gosh, this land ain't even fit to walk on.

If you can't say nothing nice, why don't you just shut up?!

Well, there you are.

I told you it wouldn't work.

You get out of here.

Oh, what's the matter?

Don't you want me to help you no more?

I don't need your help!

Just go on and get out of here!

There ain't a man alive that don't need help, Chester.

Get!

Hey, is this what you've been doing here, Chester,

building this?

Yeah, yeah. I-I think it's gonna be kind of good, Doc,

once I get the walls up.

You know, I'm surprised.

I thought Matt told me

that there was a house already out on this place.

Oh, there was. Yeah, there was a house here.

It just, uh...

Well, it wasn't too practical.

- Wasn't practical? - No.

Yeah, well, can I go in now?

Sure. Well, of course.

I mean, that's what I built it for.

Well, by golly, lookee there.

You got your coffee, Chester.

Well, a man can't do too much work without coffee.

No, sir.

Sure a high ceiling.

Yeah. Uh, well, just about as high as the sky right now.

Chester, you haven't got any cupboard or anything.

Uh, well, no, no, I, uh...

Actually, to tell you the truth, Doc,

don't have too much to put into it,

and I figured wasn't no use getting anything

if you didn't use it.

Well, it's kind of too bad, because I was counting

on you helping me out a little.

What, uh... what do you mean?

Oh, well, old Mrs. Chapin brought in a whole lot of food

and palmed it off on me, and, uh, you know how she is.

She just...

She don't like to pay her doctor bills with money.

- Food, Doc? - Oh, yeah.

Some bacon and, uh, eggs and beans

and apple pie and a whole big pot of stew.

I don't know what to do with it.

- Pot of stew, too, huh? - Oh, yeah.

- My goodness. - Well, I, uh...

I was kind of thinking

maybe you could take it off of my hands,

but I can see you haven't got any place to keep here.

Well, now, wait a minute, Doc.

I mean...

You know, if-if it'd really oblige you any, why...

Oh, well, it would. Golly.

Say, you know, I'm just as hungry as I can be right now.

We could heat that stew up on the stove, and we...

I'll get it, by golly.

Well, here, let me help you carry it.

All right.

Just take a look at that.

Look at them eggs.

Well, for heaven sakes.

Here. Now just wait till you see what's in here.

My.

Mmm.

Don't you want some more pie?

Oh, golly, Doc, I got to loosen my belt now.

Sure good, though, wasn't it?

Oh, I'd tell you if it wasn't good.

So was that stew, the way we cleaned it up.

- Is that all gone? - Yeah.

You know, that's just disgraceful.

As a doctor, I can tell you

that that is the surest way to an early grave.

Overeating like that.

Yeah, well, I can't think of a nicer way to go, myself.

By golly, you sure do get a good view of it from here.

- View of what? - My land and all.

Yeah, well, there sure ain't nothing to obstruct it.

Now right there is the cornfield.

Where is that?

And beyond it is the pasture.

Then you have the hayfield over here

and the barn and the corrals and all.

Where are you seeing all that?

Well, I'm looking a little bit into the future.

Well, I think you ought to think about the present.

When are you gonna get this place completed?

Well, I'm just a little bit hung up here.

Tell, you the truth I've... I've just run out of cash.

I... I need some new boards.

This is all could save from the old house.

You know what I ought to do?

What's that?

By golly, I think I will.

Do what?

Then I wouldn't have to wait on-on nothing or nobody.

What are you talking about?

A dugout.

Oh, for heaven's sakes.

Well, now, wait a minute, Doc.

There's a lot to be said for a dugout.

There certainly is, and none of it's good.

Well, now, a dugout is nice and warm in the wintertime.

It's nice and cool in the summertime.

And wetter than the very devil when it rains.

Yeah.

Rains.

By golly, Doc, I... I just don't think

that it's ever gonna rain again in Kansas.

- Well, 'morning. - Hello, Kitty.

Hi, Kitty.

I, uh, went down to pick up my mail,

and I thought I'd save you a trip.

Well, thank you.

Matt, this place is a mess.

Oh, no, not you, too.

Yeah, be careful. He's pretty touchy about that.

Oh, here, sit down.

That's the only clean chair in the place.

I just cleaned it off.

Well, you're the local health officer.

Can't you do something about it?

Well, listen, I'm the one that's got to live here, you know.

Yeah. Guess that's true.

Well, how's Chester? Has anybody seen him lately?

Yes, I-I saw him the other day.

Do you know what he's doing out there?

He's building himself a dugout.

A dugout?

You mean, to-to live in with Daisy?

Well, with Daisy

and assorted prairie dogs and gophers.

Oh. Well, howdy.

You come home to roost?

Whatever made you think that?

Well, I just thought maybe you might have give up.

No. No, I just come in

to get me some coffee and a few potatoes.

I understand you're, um, building yourself a dugout.

Yeah, yeah. There's a little fixing to do on it yet,

but I got all the digging done.

Good.

Well, is there, uh...

Is there anything we can get for you?

Anything you-you need out there?

No. No, not a thing.

As a matter of fact, I'm just about ready

to show it to Miss Daisy tomorrow.

That-that's the reason why I come in, Mr. Dillon.

I thought maybe you might be able to do me a favor.

What's that?

Well, I was just wondering if maybe you could bring her out

tomorrow so's that I could, uh...

I could show it to her for the first time.

Well, sure, if that's what you want me to do.

Well, I-I sure do. Thank you.

Well, I guess I'd better get on back out there.

Only got a few more hours of sunlight left.

Oh, uh, Mr. Dillon,

maybe you could bring her out tomorrow afternoon,

late afternoon, so's I can get a chance

to kind of get the place spic and span.

All right, I'll bring her out tomorrow afternoon.

All right.

Whoa.

Well... that's it, Daisy.

Where? Marshal, this just can't be the place.

Well, I'm afraid it is, Daisy.

That's what I was trying to tell you...

That, well, Chester just exaggerates things, and...

Oh, but Marshall, the lane and the corn, and the alfalfa field.

Well, there's just nothing here at all.

Oh, there's something here.

I expect we'll find Chester here.

Chester?

Well, Marshal, there's just nothing in the world

out over yonder except something that looks like a stovepipe.

That is a stovepipe.

♪♪

Anybody home?

Oh, Mr. Dillon. Hi, Daisy.

Chester, what are you doing down in that hole?

Oh, well, it-it's, uh, it's a surprise.

Come on in, come on in.

I-I, uh... uh, just be careful there

with the... the steps.

They're still kind of loose.

Watch your step.

Mr. Dillon, you might have to duck a little bit there.

You might hit your head on the...

Well, what do you think?

- Well, it's not bad, Chester. - Yeah.

Chester Goode, you been fooling me.

You didn't think that I could make one all by myself, did you?

Well, anything that lives underground

could build a hole for himself.

I mean, a-a mole and a gopher,

they can build holes for themselves.

Well, Daisy, ain't you ever seen a dugout before?

No, I have not.

Why, heck, they're tucked in the ground all over the prairie.

- Ain't they, Mr. Dillon? - They sure are.

Well, we can get one thing cleared up right here now...

I am not gonna be tucked down into one.

Well, golly, Daisy, I...

well, I thought I'd done a good job on it.

You have, Chester.

Well, they're not easy, I can tell you that.

They're-they're hard.

They're just backbreaking, is what they are.

Oh, Chester, I can just hardly believe my eyes.

I mean, all those stories that you told me.

You just plain took me right in.

Well, I did not, Daisy.

Well, Chester, where's all those tall cornfields?

Where is that sweet-smellin' alfalfa? Where?

Well, it-it-it's right where it always was.

It's in the future a little bit, but it's there.

I mean, all you got to have

is just a little bit of imagination.

A little imagination?!

Well, that's all that I had.

Chester, there's not a growing thing here.

The only thing that's coming out of the ground is that stovepipe!

Well... well, Daisy...

No! Take me home, Marshal.

Well, you... And to think...

that I been making these for our home!

Well, I kind of thought I'd done a good job.

Well, Chester, you have. I...

Look, I wouldn't worry too much about her.

She'll... she'll probably change her mind

- after she's thought it over... - Well, I hope so.

My goodness, it's only temporary.

Sure. Well, I, uh...

guess I'd better get her back to town.

Thanks a lot for bringing her.

I thought it was kind of cozy.

For heaven's sakes!

By golly, it's rained!

It's rained!

It rained! It rained!

Well, what in the world?

The rain... By golly, bone-dry

up here and standing water down there.

I must've hit water.

I got me an underground well.

I hit a well! I got me a well!

I got a well!

By golly, I hit me an underground well!

I'll whup you yet, you old dry, burned out...

I'll make you grow! I'll make you grow!

Yee-hee-hee-hee-hee!

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Three barrels.

That's 50 cents change. Thank you very much.

How we doing there, Arny?

Oh, that'll do it, Chester.

Much obliged to you, Chester.

Boy, if it hadn't been for the well here,

I'd have had to drive all the way to Dodge for my water.

Well, all we can do is just kind of help one another out, Arny.

It sure has been a long dry spell.

- Boy, ain't that the truth. - You know, if I'd known

there was water on this place, I'd have got here first.

Well, I just kind of sensed

that it was here somewheres.

Next!

Uh, how-how we doing, Daisy?

We're doing fine.

Just fine, Chester honey.

Yeah, well, uh, that ought to get us a few comforts, huh?

Better not forget our customers, Chester honey.

Uh, all right, just, uh, pull her up two more feet...

Whoa, there! There, hold it right there, Jake.

Just put the trough up there, sonny.

Hey, that... that sure is some rig, ain't it?

Yeah.

You know, I, uh, I taught Chester how to rig that up.

Yeah?

Gee, you know, that...

that Chester sure is a handyman, ain't he?

Yeah.

Yeah, I taught him everything he knows.

Is that right?

Put it in the big barrel!

My goodness, you don't want to waste the water!

Well, what do you think, Doc?

- You sure you primed it? - Oh, yeah.

I used every speck of water that I had left.

Well, do it again; let me listen to it here.

Oh, no, no, jiggle it.

Oh, Chester, that sounds dry to me.

Well, it can't be dry, Doc.

I mean, my well just ain't gonna dry up on me.

- Well, it sure sounds like it. - Well, I might have to go down

a little bit deeper, but my well just ain't all of a sudden

gonna dry up on me.

I sure don't know what to tell you.

Well, I-I don't know, I just...

Suppose I need a new pump?

Maybe the pump's just bad.

By golly, I got money in the bank.

Uh, would you mind taking me into Dodge

so's I could get it?

Well, no, I'll-I'll take you into Dodge, Chester,

but if the well..

Come on, let's-let's go.

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Whoa. Whoa.

I'll just be a minute, Doc.

- Whoa. - Hold him.

I'll just be a minute.

Well, good morning, William.

Chester, what can I do for you?

Well, I think I'm gonna need a new pump this morning.

- What's that? - Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna have

to draw out a little money.

- Money? - Yeah.

But you've already got it all, Chester.

I what?

Miss Daisy come in yesterday and drew it all out.

Miss-Miss Daisy drew it out?

Yeah, that's right, every last penny.

Well, she had every right to, you know.

She was the one that put it in.

Uh, excuse me.

Doc.

Well, did you get your money, Chester?

Have you seen Miss Daisy lately?

Yes, I did, last night, and I...

Well... golly, I didn't know whether to say anything to you

about it or not, Chester, but...

she was getting on the stage.

Stage?

Yep.

Well, Chester, can... can I take you back out to the place?

- Hi, Mr. Dillon. I... - Chester.

Golly, you kind of let the place run down a little bit here.

It's just a terrible fright.

Yeah, it's pretty bad, isn't it?

These plates ought to go back to Delmonico's.

Chester, look, I, uh... well, I-I heard about...

If you let the-the thing pile up on you,

you just never are gonna get caught up to it.

Yeah, I guess you're right.

By golly, I think that you left the...

the eggshells out of it, Mr. Dillon.

Well, I'll-I'll...

I'll fix you some fresh in the morning.