Original subtitles

Starring James Arness as Matt Dillon.

Well, lookie there, looks like

about half of Ford County's here already.

Yeah, looks like we got here just in time.

- Well, look who's here. Miss Kate. - Oh.

- Howdy. - Bert. -Doc.

- How are you? - Mr. Tassel.

Hey, how's it happen

that the prettiest girl here's not dancing with anybody?

Oh, why, thank you, Doc,

but I expect to dance later on.

Well, I bet you do.

Chester, there's some cider over here. What about it?

Uh, I'll-I'll be with you in just a minute.

Oh.

You watch out for him.

Doc.

Uh... Kate, I, uh...

I ain't danced with nobody yet or nothing like that, and I...

I thought, uh, maybe that you might, uh...

Well, I'd love to, Chester, but I-I can't.

Not just yet.

Well... Later.

Yeah, I'll-I'll get some cider.

See there, Pa? It's downright humiliating, that's what.

Ah, now, now, Bud'll be along directly.

He-He got delayed somewhere along the way, no doubt.

He got drunk and his horse threw him into a ditch

- and he broke his neck. - Oh, Kate.

Well, that's the only excuse I'll accept.

Why, he was supposed to be here over an hour ago.

Honey, you've only been here 20 minutes.

And I haven't danced yet.

And that's your fault.

Plenty have asked you.

But none of 'em's Bud Bones.

Oh! Bud Bones is the rudest man I ever met.

Then why don't you get yourself another beau?

Look at them over there.

Their tongues are plain hanging out.

All right.

I'll get me another beau.

- She's looking this way, Hank. - Yeah, I see her.

First time tonight she's taken any notice at all.

I asked her to dance once already.

Huh... maybe she changed her mind.

She's looking awful hard, Hank.

Well, maybe she did change her mind.

Hang onto my drink.

- Miss Kate, I... - I'd be delighted, Hank Summers!

Excuse us, Pa.

Boy, it sure is hot in here.

I hadn't noticed.

I'm sweating like a stuck pig. I mean...

I mean, it's real hot here.

What do you say we go out in the cool air, Miss Kate? Please?

Well, uh... all right!

Hello, Pat!

Evening, Mr. Tassel.

I don't see Kate nowhere.

Well, have some punch, Bud.

No, thanks. Where's she at?

Well, sh-she'll be back.

Have some punch.

"Be back"?

Now, you wait a minute, Bud...

Bud?

Hey, Bud.

So, you finally decided to come.

Didn't nobody ever tell you Kate Tassel's my girl?

I am not your girl!

I'll take care of you later.

Get your hands off me!

Come on, Bud, come on!

Come on!

That's a boy! That's a boy!

Come on, Bud! Come on... Bud!

All right.

- I ain't finished yet. - Break it up.

Now, you'd better be or you're gonna spend the night in jail,

both of you.

Now, you just stay away from Kate.

I got nothing else against you.

I'll see you some other time.

Now, Bud, let's don't have any more trouble tonight.

All right, everybody, go on back inside.

Let's get into the dance.

Now maybe you'd like to tell me just what went on

between you and Hank Summers.

Bud Bones, you're the rudest, rowdiest, most...

most... Oh. Oh...

- She's done gone and fainted. - Oh.

She passed plumb out.

Ain't it a shame?

The poor thing.

Well, do something!

Only one thing to do...

There's a horse trough out back. I...

I'll go dump her in that.

You put me down!

I'll knock your fool head off!

- Kate, you just... Ow! Ow! - Now, w-wait a minute!

You mangy, barbaric coyote!

You...!

Hello!

What you got there, Olie?

Eh, this little fella lost his ma somewheres.

He'll get another one soon enough.

Hey, I thought you was riding over to Kate's.

Kate was pretty mad last night.

I been thinking maybe I ought

to give her time to simmer down some.

The only way to deal with women is like they was a fort...

Storm 'em.

Anybody goes "storming" Kate

is gonna get a sharp stick poked in his eye.

You scared of her?

Now, you know that ain't it.

What am I gonna say to her?

I sure ain't about to apologize.

Course not. She wouldn't have no respect for you if you did.

Well?

I know.

Just go straight to it.

Tell her right out, stop acting such a fool.

I'm telling you o-once and for all, Kate,

now, stop acting such a fool!

I am not a fool!

Kate, honey, you might've busted my head!

You... barbarian!

Kate, what's got into you?

Now, quit that! You want to kill me?

If I can.

You want to spend the rest of your life in jail?

If it meant not seeing you again, I'd... love it!

Now, that is a fine way to talk to your sweetheart.

My "sweetheart"?

I'd sooner cozy up to a polecat!

Aw... Kate, honey,

just tell me what I done wrong.

I-I can explain.

Well... you made me wait an hour,

alone, at the dance.

And then when I was fainted dead away,

you were gonna throw me into a water trough...

w-with all those people around.

Bud Bones, you are no gentleman.

I never claimed to be.

Oh, I was never so humiliated in my whole life.

Aw, Kate, honey... I'm sorry.

But, now, come on, admit it.

You wasn't so dead fainted you didn't hear what I was gonna do.

Oh, I'll knock your head clean off!

All right, Kate.

Now, you listen to me.

Mean and ornery and stubborn as you are, you are still my gal,

and you are gonna stay my gal.

You got that?

I'll be anybody's gal I want to be.

So don't you come calling no more!

Kate, if I can't tame you one way, I'll tame you another.

Now, get this straight:

If I can't come calling,

then nobody's gonna come calling.

- Hah! - I mean what I say!

I's gonna be watching!

Ooh!

That's Billy Joe Cutler, ain't it?

Looks like him.

Well, here goes. Come on, hyah, hyah.

Billy Joe.

Billy Joe, now, where do you think you're going?

Well, I, um... I come to see Kate Tassel, that's what.

Well, now, you know better than to come calling on my girl.

Bud Bones!

I am not your girl!

Now, you come on inside, Billy Joe. Now...

you let go of him!

Oh, don't you dare!

Oh! Oh, Billy. Billy!

Why-why you... Oh! I'll...!

Now go on with your courting.

Oh! You...!

You know, Olie,

I can't figure out Kate at all.

Oh?

Why not?

Well, for one thing, she's so contrary.

It's like she's contrary sometimes,

even she don't mean to be.

And when's that?

I don't know.

But underneath it all, Kate's a...

a sweet, delicate, simple woman.

I know that.

You do?

Here comes another one.

Flowers and everything.

Maybe if you took a job at a bank,

you'd think of flowers, too.

I'll use his.

Come on, Olie.

Hurry, Bud, hurry.

Hurry, George!

Hurry! Hurry!

Oh!

Hurry! Come on, leave the horse.

Come on, George.

A mite slow on that one, Bud.

Yeah.

Bud?

How you doing?

Oh, h-hi, Mr. Tassel.

You got problems, huh?

You and Kate having a little, uh, set-to?

Yes, sir.

Sounded that way, too.

Mr. Tassel, I know she's your daughter and everything,

but doggone it, she's acting plumb unreasonable.

Now, those kind of things take a little working out.

How long's it take to make her behave

like a woman instead of a wildcat?

It takes patience, Bud, patience.

Hey, Bud?

Huh?

Come here a minute.

Mr. Tassel, what'll you take for her?

For Kate?

No, no.

For her.

Old Sunflower?

Well, she ain't no good, Bud.

She only gives about a quart when she's fresh.

She's plum wore out.

I'll give you ten dollars for her.

Ten... but she ain't worth it.

She ain't hardly worth nothing, Bud.

Go on, take it.

She's worth every dollar of it to me.

Bring her along, Olie.

Come on, girl.

Well, for heaven's sakes.

It's not safe in here.

You know, you're liable to get spots on your lungs

from breathing that stuff.

Well, I'll get spots on my lungs this winter for sure

if I don't get it fixed.

I sure admire a man who looks ahead.

Well, I was really just doing it for you, Doc.

You know, I don't want you to around this winter

with the sniffles and everything in cold weather.

Well, that was very thoughtful of you.

Thanks.

You, uh, your stove work all right at your place?

I'll come up and fix yours for you, if you want me to.

No, no, it's just fine.

I had it fixed last week by a professional stove-fixer.

But there's no stove-fixer, for heaven's sakes, Doc.

Anybody can fix a stovepipe.

Well, I'll sure believe that

when I see that one working again.

Well, it's gonna work, don't you worry none about that.

You could offer to loan me a hand,

if you would.

Oh, good heavens, I couldn't do that.

First think you know, I'd look like you do,

and then somebody would call me, some poor devil that was dying.

Then I'd have to go home and take a bath

before I could get to him, and there he'd be.

No, no, a doctor's got to be available

every-every minute.

You know, Doc,

it's a good thing that nobody was dying last Saturday night.

Well, I was just putting on.

Yeah, putting down, you mean.

Oh, for... What's that?

Hey, hey, look what I found.

It's George Wannamaker.

I think he was running away with the bank's money.

I'm surprised you caught him

He's so well-mounted.

Oh, man.

Isn't that George Wannamaker?

Well, for heaven's sakes.

Must be his day off.

Yeah.

Hey, what-what's going on here?

If we untie his feet,

maybe we can lynch him right off the cow's back.

Good idea. Anybody got a rope?

What's going on here now?

Let's get him untied, Chester.

Oh, yes, sir.

Who did this to you, George?

I'd rather not say, Marshal.

Maybe he done it his self, Marshal.

All right, you men have had your fun.

Why don't you go on now, find something else to do?

Go on!

You all right, George?

I'm all right, Marshal. Thank you.

You...

Well, what should we do with your cow?

What do we ought to with his cow?

Well, let's take her over

and tie her up at the hitch rack, Chester.

Somebody will be along to claim her.

♪♪

Honey, why don't you light a spell?

Well, I don't feel like lighting.

I feel like going on the warpath.

Appears to me it'd take less energy to make up with him.

Make up with him?

After all he's done?

Oh, well... Oh, Pa,

how do you make a fella treat you like a lady?

Act like a lady.

W-Well, I do,

but sometimes he-he does or says something

that makes me so darn mad.

Like he put George Wannamaker on some old cow

and run her into town.

That's what they wanted Old Sunflower for.

What?

Well, they offered me ten dollars for her.

She ain't worth more than three.

Oh, Pa, how could you?

Now I'll never have another beau.

Never as long as I live.

Well, why don't you make up with Bud?

Solve everything.

A fine father you are.

Mating your only child with that-that monster.

All right, then why don't you find somebody

that's rougher than Bud, somebody he can't beat up.

Oh, Pa, you know there's-there's nobody in town

who can beat up Bud Bones

except maybe Marshal Dillon.

Marshal Dillon.

Oh, Marshal Dillon?

Hello, Kate.

How are you?

Well, fine. How are you?

I'm fine, thanks.

Oh, Marshal, somebody bought a cow from Pa,

and I hear she's in town somewhere,

and they don't want her anymore.

Yeah, I might've known that was yours.

She's tied up down in front of the office there.

It's most humiliating, Marshal,

but I'm through with Bud Bones forever.

He's the rudest, rowdiest,

most uncivilized man I ever met.

He's just the opposite of you.

Why, you're gentle, and kindly, and brave.

I'll bet you're the bravest man in all Kansas.

Kate, your cow's tied up down there.

Chester'll give you a hand with it.

Uh, aren't you gonna help me down?

Come on.

Aren't you coming with me?

I'll be along in a few minutes.

I have to go to the telegraph office.

Thank you.

You certainly are a gentleman.

Now what do you think she's up to?

Well, I could guess.

Huh?

She's making a play for the marshal.

Why?

She's a smart gal, Bud.

She's after her a beau that you ain't gonna go throwing

into water troughs or tying onto the back of old cows.

Well, I'll be doggoned.

Kate.

You take your hands off of me, Bud Bones.

I want to talk to you.

Let go of me.

Will you listen to me?

Now don't you be so mule-headed.

Don't you call me a mule.

All right, you ain't a mule.

You're a stubborn, ornery female human,

and I ain't gonna have you fanning around Marshal Dillon.

Ha.

Got you worried, has it?

Oh, Kate.

Honey, let's don't fight no more.

You know I like you.

I like every inch of your ornery hide.

My hide!

Oh, you... you animal!

Now will you listen to me?

Just listen to me.

You come back here.

You ain't gonna get away with that.

Kate, I'm sick and tired of your ways.

I reckon there's only one way to handle you.

- Hey, what are you doing? - Come here.

You let go of me!

Let go of me!

Quit that! Ow!

Ow! Ow, ow.

Ow!

I'll kill you.

I'll tear your heart out for this.

Marshal, arrest him.

He attacked me.

I did no such thing.

Look, I want both of you to come on down to my office right now.

You're going to put me in jail?

Let's go.

He ought to be hung, that's what.

It's a disgrace, attacking women in broad daylight.

What's the world coming to?

Oh, by golly, I-I wasn't expecting company.

Why didn't you warn me, Mr. Dillon?

Just kind of taking my ease here.

Oh, don't fret so, Chester.

My pa, he walks around like that most all the time.

Well, I ain't your pa.

Kate, sit down.

Bud.

Now look, you two, I think... Here.

After this, I'm going to carry a gun in it.

Isn't there any law in this town to protect women?

Marshal, Bud Bones is a savage.

Well, you don't act like no preacher's wife.

You ought to be living in a jungle somewhere.

Now I didn't bring you two people in here to...

Marshal, there isn't a man in town

who dares call on me anymore.

Now wait a minute, I think you two people

ought to just stay away from each other for a while

till you cool off.

That's all right with me.

'Cause I'm through with her anyway

for good.

Why, that is the best news I've heard in years.

Marshal, I was wondering if you'd like

to come out to dinner some night real soon.

'Cause I am a pretty good cook,

if I do say so myself.

Well, thanks, Kate,

but I don't think you better count on me.

Oh, well.

Is it all right if I go now?

You want to take your cow with you?

Yes.

That is, if Mr. Bones has quite finished with her.

I don't care about the cow.

Well, is that her cow?

Yeah, you want to give her a hand with it, Chester?

Did you bring your buggy or something, Kate?

It's up the street.

Thank you, Marshal.

Sure, Kate.

Come on, Bud, I'll buy you a beer.

Well now, by golly,

and I thought you was gonna lock me up.

I would if I thought it'd do any good.

Whoa.

There we go. Oh.

Thank you.

Oh, that poor beast.

Oh, you didn't have to worry none about her.

She's a lot of water and all kinds of hay

while she's been here.

Thank you, Chester.

You're grateful, aren't you, Old Sunflower?

Come on, I'll just tie her onto the back here.

You're gonna have to go kind of slow though.

Well, I'm in no hurry.

One good thing about it though,

Bud Bones had to pay ten dollars.

He paid ten dollars for this cow?

I wish it'd been more.

Well, there.

That'll hold her all the way to San Francisco,

if you want to go that far.

San Francisco.

I've always dreamed about going to San Francisco.

Well, why don't you, you know?

Y-You're free.

You bet I'm free.

I can do anything I want to.

Yeah, well, I'd suggest that you take the cow home first.

She might slow you down considerable.

Um, Chester,

you've never had any of my home cooking, have you?

Ooh, now, wait a minute, Kate.

I don't want to get mixed up in any of this.

Pa shot a goose last week, and it's been hanging ever since.

It ought to be about right for eating,

say, uh, tomorrow evening.

Now, I told you, I don't want to get mixed up in it.

Goose goes awful good with

fresh blueberry pie.

Oh, fresh blueberries.

Ooh.

If you're not too full from eating all that roast goose

and candied sweet potatoes and peas and beans...

The way I make 'em with little bits of fried pork.

Just kind of all chopped up in 'em and...

a lot of buttermilk.

Oh, all you can drink.

Yeah.

Yeah, well, okay.

Oh, here, let me help you.

I'll-I'll see you tomorrow evening about 6:30.

Yeah.

Uh, well, I-I guess that, uh,

just one time won't hurt nothing.

Oh, Chester, don't forget to bring your guitar.

My guitar?

Yes. I want you to teach me to play it

and to sing, too, okay?

Oh, yeah.

Giddyup.

Get enough to eat, Chester?

Oh, golly.

I did. I sure did.

Oh, there's plenty more in the oven.

Oh, I just don't think I could use any more right now.

Thanks a whole lot.

Well, then, we better go to work.

Work?

Chester's gonna teach me how to play the guitar and...

and sing, Pa.

Well, now, ain't that nice.

Mm-hmm. Come on.

Yeah, all right.

Mr. Tassel, I just ain't eat like this

in I don't know when.

Yeah, well, it's good for you.

Yeah.

Oh, no, you don't.

Oh, don't do that, Kate. No.

Well, set up here and start teaching me then.

Well, I'll tell you, I'm just so full of goose

and stuff and then blueberry pie that I...

I don't think I can hardly see.

Oh, you're not so full of goose and stuff

that you can't see to-to play the guitar.

Well, I don't know hardly how to begin here.

Come on, come on.

Well, you-you just start singing something,

and I'll watch to... so I know how.

I feel kind of silly. Uh...

Maybe we better start

with something kind of simple, like, uh...

You know "The Raccoon's Tail's Got a Ring All Around?"

Nope.

Well, it's-it's, uh...

It's kind of simple. It goes like this.

♪ The raccoon tail got a ring all around ♪

♪ The possum tail goes bare ♪

♪ Rabbit's got no tail at all ♪

♪ Just a little bitty bunch of hair ♪

♪ Raccoon is a cunning thing ♪

♪ He travels through the dark ♪

♪ Sure to see him tuck his tail ♪

♪ When he hears old ranger bark ♪

♪ Possum up a 'simmon tree, raccoon on the ground ♪

♪ Raccoon said to the possum, "Shake them 'simmons down" ♪

♪ Rabbit up the hickory stump, hiding in the holler ♪

♪ Raccoon in the tater patch, fat as he can waller ♪

♪ Raccoon tail got a ring all around ♪

♪ Possum tail goes bare ♪

♪ Rabbit's got no tail at all ♪

♪ Just a little bitty bunch of hair. ♪

Oh, that's wonderful, Chester!

Ain't done it in a long time.

Now-now show me how to do it.

Well, let's see. Well, here's, uh...

Now, you see, here's the E chord.

You start out with... You put a finger there, see?

- Yeah? - And one there, and one like that.

- Uh... - Okay, okay.

- Just see... - Do I hold it right?

I might have knowed I'd find you in here.

Well, it was getting dark,

and you hadn't showed up at the ranch yet,

so I just thought I'd come into town.

I can tell it's cheered you considerable.

You want a drink, you'll have to go get one.

I don't need no drink.

I ain't mooning over no fool gal.

Now, who said I was?

You ain't worried about Chester?

Now, Olie, you know Chester as well as I do.

He'll do anything for a good meal.

And Kate puts out a good meal, don't she?

But I hear he's been out there

most every night for the past two weeks.

Well, then he's feeding real good, ain't he?

You ain't even jealous?

Now, Kate ain't Chester's kind of woman.

I don't mean nothing against either of 'em by that.

She's got something in mind.

She ain't feeding him regular for nothing.

Well, if it ain't making you jealous,

then what could she have in mind?

Oh, I don't know.

Hello, Bud.

- You better drink up. - Miss Kitty.

We're gonna close.

- Hello, Olie. - Miss Kitty.

Uh, Miss Kitty, would you set down for a minute?

I want to ask you something.

Well, all right, for a minute.

Uh, now, Miss Kitty,

you're a woman with spirit, so maybe you can help me.

I'll try.

Now the way I figure it, a woman's like a horse.

Well, without spirit, she ain't no good.

And it takes a man with a lot of juice

to tame a woman like that, now, don't it?

Well, it's one way of putting it, mm-hmm.

Well, now, I've tried everything.

I've throwed her into a water trough.

I've hurrahed her suitors.

I've even took her across my knee,

and do you know she still won't act decent?

She's got him running around in circles, Miss Kitty.

Well, Bud, um...

um, about the only thing I can tell you is, uh,

well, that, um,

maybe brute force isn't the way to this lady's heart.

Um, you know, all women are different, and

well, maybe you ought to try being a little gentle with her.

Um, do you understand what I mean?

No.

Um, well,

I'm afraid that's about all the advice I can give you now.

Um, I guess you'll have to figure it out for yourself.

And we really are gonna close, Bud.

Good night.

- Good night, Miss Kitty. - Good night, Miss Kitty.

Well, there's no doubt about it.

You're-you're putting on an awful lot of weight.

Oh, just a pound or two, Doc.

What do you suppose it is?

Are you eating too much, or are you working less or what?

Doc, when I get real good and sick,

I'll come up to your office,

and you can ask all the dumb questions

that you want to at that time.

No, I don't think you'll do that.

That'd cost you two dollars.

I hear that, uh, big trouble is

that Kate's been cooking regularly for you, is that it?

I hear she's a pretty good cook, too.

Oh, well, I guess so.

And I'm in favor of... of eating good, but...

well, he ought to cut the portions down,

at least 50%.

Well, if it'll please you any,

I'll just cut 'em out all together.

I'm getting tired of going out there.

Well, I just can't take no more of them big meals. I...

I just never lived so high off the hog in all my life.

No, sir.

By golly, I'm just gonna tell her.

I'm gonna tell her that I just ain't coming out there no more.

I just want to get real good and hungry again.

You know?

I ain't enjoyed but the first meal that I had out there.

Well, life just don't make no sense at all.

You like the pie, Chester?

Yeah.

Well, I got a few chores down at the barn,

and I'll be back directly.

Are you trying to escape my singing, Pa?

Oh, now, not hardly, honey.

I'll be back for most of it.

Uh, you want to go in the other room, Chester?

You know, Kate... I-I just been thinking.

You know, you-you play the guitar real good,

and you sing awful nice,

and I just don't think you need me anymore.

Why-why, thank you, Chester.

Yeah, you-you play good enough now

to play for your friends, or, uh, at your church social,

or just practically anything.

Well, uh, Chester,

would "practically anything" mean singing in public?

I mean, like, really in public?

Well, church social is public, yeah.

No, no, I mean where-where people pay to hear me.

Where I can make a living at it.

Well, I never heard of such a thing.

Have you ever been to San Francisco?

No.

I read in a magazine once where women do just that.

Oh, you mean in one of them fancy saloons.

Well, yeah, but...

That's where I'm going, Chester.

That's what I've been learning for.

Well, Kate Tassel, have you plumb lost your mind?

What is Bud gonna say to all this?

Well, it's because of Bud that I'm going!

I'm through with him forever!

I'm going to make a new start in life.

I'm going to be somebody.

And then maybe some night he'll come in, and...

and see me standing up there, all dressed up, fine and purty,

with the people applauding, and...

and men buying this lady champagne,

and drinking it out of my shoe.

I mean, my slipper.

And-and won't he be sorry then?!

Oh, what is your pa gonna say about this?

Well, my pa can't stop me.

You know that as well as I do.

Well, I just should have never come out here.

It's all my fault.

Oh, don't be silly.

Well, I feel like it is,

and I'm-I'm gonna do something about it, too.

There-there's nothing you can do.

Well, there certainly is something I can do.

I can tell Bud just exactly what you're up to.

Go ahead and tell him.

I-I don't care.

Bud doesn't mean anything to me anymore.

Oh, Kate, now that ain't the truth,

and you know it ain't the truth.

I am going to San Francisco.

And neither you nor Bud Bones nor anyone else can stop me.

Well... thank you for the dinner, Kate.

No music lesson?

No, no music lesson.

I got a duty to perform.

Well, you're just wasting your time.

I'll, uh, say good night to you.

W-Well... well, thank you.

Come in.

Can I come in, Kate?

I told you I didn't want to see you anymore,

so you turn right around and go on back home.

I got to talk to you.

About what?

Well, Chester told me you're going to San Francisco?

What about it?

Is it true, Kate?

Are you really going?

There's no reason to stay here.

Pa don't seem to mind,

and there's no one else that seems to care a fig.

I don't... think you ought to go, Kate.

You don't?

No. I sure don't.

W-Why, Bud?

Tell me why.

'Cause that's no place for a girl like you, Kate.

No place at all.

Entertaining miners

and sailors and riffraff in San Francisco saloons.

It's no good, Kate.

No?

Kate, honey...

I wear lace all over me compared to what you'd find out there.

Any gal who's fool enough to mix in a mess like that

ought to be horsewhipped.

- Horsewhipped! - 'Cause there wouldn't be

any other way to set her straight.

Oh, I might have known!

What?

All you can think of i-is beating people

and drowning 'em... and horsewhipping 'em!

With a woman like that, what else could you do?

You sure wouldn't know, would you?

Well, now what's rattled your cage?

Oh... why don't you just get out of here, you...

you savage!

Nothin' I do pleases you, does it, Kate?!

Nothin', nothin' at all!

That is for sure and certain!

Now, get out!

All right, I will!

A-And this time I'm not coming back.

I'm through, for good!

Well, that suits me just fine.

I'm... I'm gonna join the army.

Yes, by golly, that's what I'm gonna do.

Well, you go ahead and join the army. Who cares?

You think I won't?

You join anything you want to; it's their problem, not mine.

You think I won't!

Well, by heaven, I'll show you.

I'll ride out to Fort Dodge today.

Talk, talk, talk, talk!

And it won't be talk when I'm in uniform.

Darn fool!

He wouldn't last two minutes in the army.

N-Not two minutes.

We can't stay here forever, Lieutenant.

Yeah. There's not a horse left.

What do you suggest, Sergeant?

We line the men up and march them out there in a column?

Golly, I'm sorry, I know we can't stay here.

I'm blessed if I can see how we're gonna get out.

Well, come dark, we're gonna have to make a try at it.

Enough Indians out there to surround this place

with a brave every 20 yards.

What are you doing here, Bones? Get back up there.

Now, wait a minute. What do you want, Bones?

Well, I-I got an idea, Lieutenant.

Could you spare me 50 cartridges?

50 cartridges?

That's like asking for gold.

Just what do you got in mind?

Well, I was thinking...

if a man could sneak up there behind them Indians,

the powder from 50 cartridges

could give them a walloping surprise,

and then the rest of the men

would stand a better chance of rushing them.

Well... it's worth a try.

Well, sir, I'm-I'm ready.

Good luck to you, Bones.

We'll cover you.

Charge!

Chester?

- Huh? - Chester, I-I want you to take the buggy

back to the ranch for me.

Well, where are you going so all dressed up and everything?

Well, I-I'm gonna take the noon stage to Pueblo.

Pueblo?

Well, it's on the way to San Francisco, isn't it?

Oh, now, just a minute, Kate,

you ain't really gonna do that, now, are you?

- Yes, I am! - Well, I...

And-and I want you to give this note to Pa.

Now, Kate, I didn't teach you to play the gui...

Take it!

Why shouldn't I go?

Bud Bones ran off and joined the army, didn't he?

A-And I'll never see him again.

And I never want to!

Now, you take me to the stage office. Please.

Mr. Dillon?

You think he can stop me?!

- Mr. Dillon? - Yeah?

What's the trouble?

Oh, hello, Kate.

Wait a minute.

Patrol, halt.

Halt.

Hello, Marshal.

Well, looks like you ran into some trouble

- out there, Lieutenant? - Yeah, we did.

I didn't want to bring the patrol through town

looking like this, but...

it's the shortest way to Fort Dodge,

and we got a wounded man with us.

Well, you can take him up to Doc's here if you want to.

No, he's a stubborn man, Marshal.

He insists on riding, and all the way to the fort.

Private Bones saved our lives.

- Bud Bones? - Yeah. You know him?

Bud!

Oh...

Bud... Bud, you're hurt!

It ain't nothin'.

But... you've been shot.

Kate, you get back to your buggy.

This here's the army.

I-I don't care about the army.

Are you gonna die?

I ain't about to die.

Now, behave yourself.

But-but you need care.

Wh-What do they mean making you ride a horse like this?

Kate, now, don't you 'cause no trouble.

You do what I say.

Get back to your buggy.

Well, now, do it.

Don't you order me around, Bud Bones.

Any gal I marry's gonna have to take orders.

Marry?

Who said anything about getting married?

I did.

'Cause I love you, Kate.

You do?

Do you love me, Bud Bones?

Yes.

Now, you gonna mind me or not?

All right.

I'll do anything you say... from now on.

Well, looks like a lot of people know Private Bones.

Yeah.

Well, say hello to the colonel for me.

I'll do that, Marshal.

Forward... ho!

Well, good-bye, Marshal, Chester.

Well, where are you going?

I got a man needs taking care of... out of Fort Dodge.

Bye.

Come on! Come on, boy!

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