Original subtitles

Starring James Arness as Matt Dillon.

Well, I-I'm ready.

Hey!

Don't go yelling the fish away!

Pa?

It's time we head in for town.

Stir yourself now.

What's the matter?

Oh, just come on, now. Stop teasing me.

We're going to town.

Oh, look at you.

All prettied up.

Grudie?

Cut your eye on your sister here.

She got an idea, Pa.

Do me a turn-around.

Oh, Pa, you're making light of me.

Go on, now.

Oh...

Might be your mama doing that.

Just might be your pretty mama.

Come on, now. Let's go.

Oh, no, no. No, not today, Aggie girl.

No, I-I got plans.

I got work.

Pa, you promised me.

I told you she got an idea.

Well... maybe tomorrow.

No, not tomorrow.

Yesterday, it was tomorrow.

I keep waiting, but you just dream the time away.

Aggie girl, I'm planning for all of us.

We've been camped here ten days now.

I never been to town, I never saw people.

Well, people... Much the same all over.

You and Grudie... you don't care.

You do what you want to do.

But, Pa, I got a need.

I want to be a part of someplace.

I want to meet a boy.

You've met boys before.

Just a few weeks back at our Fall River camp,

there was a boy.

Aggie girl, there's boys all over.

Pa, you look at me.

Pa, I'm going to Dodge City if I got to walk there.

And every step of the way,

I'm going to hope I meet a nice boy there

who'll maybe want to marry me.

You got a lonely spell, ain't you, girl?

Something fierce.

Grudie?

Saddle up one of the team.

Ride your sister into Dodge City.

Now, you just have a fine time in Dodge.

Oh.

And mind you.

Stop by the post office.

See if that letter from Uncle Solen is there yet.

Colorado Territory's a long ways off, Pa.

Oh.

It ain't all that far.

He promised to send us a letter to Dodge.

Pa, what if he doesn't find anything for us there?

Well...

Utah is just on the way.

I got a map on that, too.

It's a nice little town, huh, Grudie?

Well, your eyes...

Look at it any way you want to look at it.

Will you walk around with me just a little?

Uh, I'm going in here.

Now, you come back here looking for me and I'm not there,

I'll be in another place just like it.

How long have I got, Grudie?

You're not back here inside of two hours, I'll leave you.

♪♪

Oh, good morning, miss.

Oh, good morning, sir.

Uh, the sign outside says this is Jonas's place.

Is that you?

Uh, no, miss. I'm Howard Rudd.

Jonas ain't here.

Oh, my name's Aggie Dutton.

Oh. Pleased to meet you, now.

Thank you.

Um, sure looks like you have a nice town here, Mr. Rudd.

Oh, yes. Uh, Dodge is all right.

You're from somewheres else, are you?

Mmm, I'm from everywheres else.

Oh.

Can I show you something, Miss Dutton?

Well, I-I'm mostly just looking.

I-I really can't buy too much.

Oh.

Well, looking don't cost anything around here,

so just go ahead and look all you like.

Well, thank you. I will.

Um, you carry wedding dresses, Mr. Rudd?

Well, not regular, we don't.

I could mail-order you one, I guess.

Mmm. Well, like I told you, I'm-I'm mostly just looking.

Are you fixing to get married?

Oh.

Well, I'm more thinking than fixing to.

Well, you just go right on with your looking.

Yes, sir, I will.

Mm-hmm.

Well, Howard, how are you?

Hello, Doc.

- Morning, Chester. - Howard.

Oh, you got that all fixed for me?

Yeah, yeah, it's okay.

Well, my buggy's right outside now.

I can get it over to depot by noon,

it will go out on the train.

Oh, well, Doc, you couldn't lift that.

Oh, well, I'll...

I wouldn't even let you try.

No, I'm not fixing to. Chester's gonna...

Chester?

What did I tell you on the way over here?

Well, you said, if I'd ride over here with you,

you had a surprise for me. That hurt.

You better get that elbow of yours filed down.

Oh. Howard, show him the surprise, will you?

Oh, well, uh...

Oh, yes. It's in the back room, Chester.

In the back?

I guess you're right here from Dodge City.

Well, yes, ma'am. My name's Dr. Adams.

Mmm. I'm Aggie Dutton.

Well, I'm happy to know you.

Are there a lot of nice young folks around?

I mean, the kind of person I'd like to get to know?

Well, uh, some, yes, a few, I guess.

Uh, that nice-looking young man... is he your son?

What nice-looking young man?

Oh, the man yonder, just went in there with Mr. Rudd.

Chester?

Chester. That's a nice name.

It is? Well, he's not my son.

I'm too young to have a boy that old.

And, uh, I'm a little too particular.

Uh, is he married? Chester, I mean.

No. No, he's not married.

That's nice.

Nice? Well, I would say that it's more of a blessing

to all of the young ladies he's not married to.

Oh. I thought he was a friend of yours.

Oh, he is. One of my very best friends.

If he wasn't, I... I don't think I could stand him.

Thanks a lot for the surprise, Doc.

It's all right. Don't mention it.

Just put it there in my buggy, Chester.

My goodness, you must be strong.

Oh.

Well... I'm glad that you noticed.

Oh, I sure couldn't help but noticed.

Chester, your knuckles are turning white.

You better get that out in the buggy.

I'll open the door for you.

Ooh, ooh, heavens.

I could have got that with my other hand.

Well, certainly. He's got three, you know.

Doc!

I was just meaning to help you.

Well, you were a help.

I don't see how you could be

much more of a help than you are.

Anything else I can do for you, Doc?

No. I... was getting kind of a little bellyache.

Oh, well, maybe if I...

No, no, I can... I can take care of it myself.

Isn't that what we agreed on there?

Uh... to the penny, Doc.

Well.

Was there anything else, Doc, except that little dinky barrel?

Maybe, uh, you could help me with this, Chester.

Oh. Oh, Chester. You know my name.

The older gentleman mentioned it.

Uh-huh.

My name's Aggie Dutton.

Oh, that's a real nice name, Aggie is.

I was wondering,

uh, what do you think of this as curtain material?

Oh, it's real nice.

Why, uh, you're not even looking at it.

Oh.

Oh, say, that is nice.

I need some real bad.

I guess your wife picks out all your curtains.

Oh. No, no, she don't, no.

What I mean is, I don't got none.

Curtains?

Doc.

What I'm saying is that I don't have no wife.

Chester, let's have a game of billiards.

Later, Doc. I'll be along later.

I don't want to be a bother.

Oh, no, heavens, you're no bother at all.

It ain't very often I get a chance to look at curtains.

- I'll buy you a beer. - I said later, Doc.

All right. All right.

If you want to ignore a United States marshal.

Where was it that you wanted to put the curtains?

I mean, was there... was... wa...?

Who-who's ignoring Mr. Dillon?

Well, you are.

You said that you'd bring his horse by the office

soon as you finished here.

But that's all right. You just go right ahead.

I'm going by, and I'll just tell Matt

that you'll bring his horse by when you finish your needlework.

Well, uh, it looks like I'm gonna have to go now.

Sure nice to have met you, Chester.

Oh, it's been a distinct privilege.

Well, you just keep right on where you're looking.

I think I'm through looking.

I'll take a couple lengths of this, please.

Oh.

Well, let him up!

Oh, stop it, you coward!

- Come on! - Come on!

Get him!

Get up.

All right, get up.

I'm all right, Marshal.

What's your name?

Name's Grudie.

It don't matter. That's his doing.

He was looking at me.

That was all I was doing.

I just looked at him, Marshal.

Yeah, looking at me like I wasn't there.

Like he didn't see nothing.

Yeah, well, you look at me, you see something.

Yeah, that's for sure.

What are you, a butcher?

I take care of myself, that's all.

Let me tell you something, sonny.

We don't go for brass knuckles around this town.

Yeah, well, I got tired of looking at belt buckles,

that's all.

With these on, I'm tall as anybody.

You want me to throw him in jail?

No good jailing him, Marshal.

He's too crazy.

You just traveling through Dodge, is that it?

Uh-huh.

Here, I'm gonna give you a piece of advice.

You stay away from things like this,

or you're gonna wind up getting yourself killed

one of these days.

Now, you get out of Dodge and you stay out.

Next time I see you around here, I'll throw you in jail

till you dry up.

Fred, bring him a couple of drinks, will you?

Just the kind of doctoring I need, Miss Kitty.

- Thank you. - You're welcome.

How about you, Matt, you want a drink?

No, no, thanks, Kitty.

I, uh... I got to ride out to Fort Dodge.

What'd you let him go for?

Oh, there's no... no point in jailing a kid like that.

It'd probably just make him meaner.

So he can slice somebody else up, huh?

Well, he'll get what's coming to him one of these days.

Well, there's times when I wish I were a man for a while.

Say, if you're gonna try that,

uh, you better do it while I'm out of town, will you?

Thought I told you to leave town.

Can't go without my sister.

She'll be along directly.

All right, I'll be back in an hour.

I want you gone by then.

♪♪

Oh, it's you, Chester.

Oh. Well, yes.

Well, my goodness.

Expecting some mail, are you?

Uh, well, uh, uh, no, not for myself.

I-I usually come down

and, uh, pick up Mr. Dillon's mail every day.

Here, get in front of me.

- Oh, no, I'll wait my turn. - Oh, no.

Heavens, a body don't mind if a lady gets in front of him.

Thank you.

Yes, miss?

Oh, uh, do you have a letter for Luke Dutton?

He's my pa.

It's from Colorado Territory.

- It's from my Uncle Solen. - Oh.

No, miss, nothing here.

Well, thank you just the same.

- It was... - Chester.

- Here's the marshal's mail. - Oh.

It was, uh... I'm sorry that you didn't get a letter

- from your Uncle Solen. - Well, I'm not sorry.

If we hear from him, it means we'll be moving on.

You, uh, said something about moving on again?

We're most gypsies as it is.

We're always going on to someplace.

Now it's Colorado Territory, if my Uncle Solen says so.

Oh, then you're not gonna settle down here in Dodge?

No. We're camped down on Rattlesnake Creek.

Oh, down south yonder a ways.

Yeah, well, you know, where the creek bends

and there's maple trees and cottonwoods?

And a little deserted cabin?

You know just the spot.

Why, heavens, I've fished there lots of times.

Well, just about a month ago,

me and a big old channel cat, well, we fought it out

till my pole broke.

- About that long? - Uh, yeah, just about.

My brother Grudie just caught him yesterday.

No!

Me and Pa and Grudie had him for supper last night.

Well...

We've got all sorts of things in common, Chester.

Yeah.

Sure does seem like it, doesn't it?

I-I'm going to meet my brother Grudie now

so's we can ride home together.

Well, I'll just kind of walk you to him, all right?

We don't know folks at all.

Uh, now you know where we are,

maybe you could come and see us.

Well, I'd be right proud to.

Grudie, I'd like you to meet my friend, Chester.

- Howdy. - I had to wait on you, Aggie.

- Grudie! - Come on, get up here.

- You could at least say howdy. - Get up here.

Ooh!

Oh, here, here, let me give you a hand up there.

- Well... thank you! - Well.

Well, you will come out and see me?

Oh, one day real soon, yeah.

Okay.

♪♪

I wouldn't call it a pretty town, Pa,

but there's everything in it.

And you never met such friendly folks.

Now, I can't figure out your Uncle Solen.

He ought to get me a letter here by this time.

'Course, I never saw a creature yet

you could hurry against his will.

Grudie.

You listening?

Kind of.

I was saying of your Uncle Solen how he's no hand to hurry.

I heard you.

'Course... he most likely found himself a nest of sinners

yonder in Colorado.

And we all know he's bound to save their souls first

before he finds a spot for us.

Uh, can't move too soon to suit me.

Pa... I met a boy today.

His name's Chester.

I told you there was boys all over.

Oh, this one's mighty friendly and obliging.

Mmm, that's the way it should be, honey,

pretty little girl like you.

Oh, say, Grudie,

I give them maps a good looking today.

And... I read some of them pamphlets

on Colorado Territory.

Why, we never saw the like of mountains

like they have in them Rockies, boy.

I reckon Uncle Solen's probably set in a good stream right now.

Yeah. Well... he don't write me right away,

we move out on our own.

Well, there ain't nothing to hold me here.

Pa, won't you ever hear me?

Oh, I hear you right along, honey.

Oh, but you don't pay no speck of mind.

I was telling you about Dodge City

and the nice people and this boy, Chester...

And I heard all of that.

We're listening, ain't we, Grudie?

No, you're not.

You're already planning on moving away from here.

Well, sure, to find us a home.

That's what you said back in Tennessee.

"Just a ways on," you said.

Well... we couldn't bear Tennessee

after your pretty mama passed on.

Oh, then it was gonna be Arkansas,

with mountains and lakes and all green things.

We give Arkansas a try.

We been camping here and there and meeting folks

and then having to move on clean across Missouri.

But there was something doing in Missouri,

and then we had to see Kansas.

Then you had a hankering to see that...

that ranch back east yonder.

Oh. Yeah, I might've took that, too.

Oh... but I got no money.

We've just got bare enough to keep us.

Pa, menfolks settle down someplace.

They-they work, and-and they make a home for their own.

I mean to do that, honey,

just as soon as ever we get to Colorado.

I heard you talking about Colorado

with all those mountains.

You won't bear not being able to go across them.

You... never know what's waiting for you.

Crossing a river...

rounding a bend,

on up over the mountains...

Pa...

I got to settle down someplace.

I got to belong and-and have a home.

I like it here.

I bought me some curtains today.

And I'm going to stay.

How old is she now, Grudie?

I don't know.

Still younger than me.

She's sure growing up pretty, ain't she?

Now, lookie here.

♪♪

♪♪

There's a way to stay on here.

There's a way they'll have to let me stay.

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

This is a plow horse?

- Hmm? - I say, this is a plow horse, is it?

Sometimes, if we ever alight long enough to plow.

Mostly, it's half the team that hauls the wagon.

You don't use a saddle?

Oh, we ain't got one.

Well, I'm most ready, Miss Aggie.

I'd give something to see you mount him.

Won't cost you a thing.

Well, you did that right nice.

You're sure giving us Duttons the day of our lives

- by coming to visit us, Chester. - Well, it's just awful nice

of you and your daddy to invite me up.

One thing I like to do is fish.

Well, Pa is powerful anxious to meet my new friend.

Well, there ain't no need in keeping him waiting, is there?

I'm sure mighty glad you're coming to visit us, Chester.

Well, I'm just every bit as glad as you are.

♪♪

Aggie! Aggie!

Aggie?

Aggie!

Aggie! Aggie, honey!

One of the horses is gone, Pa.

She must have rode off.

Well, her bed's made like it wasn't slept in.

I don't know what to make of it.

She must've rode off.

I can't make out why she'd do that.

She kept saying how she wanted to stay in one place,

then she rides off?

No, ain't no sense in that at all.

Well, she ought to have set a fire

and left us something cooking before she went.

Well, you're some worried about your sister,

ain't you, thinking food!

Well, I can't help thinking food when I'm hungry.

Morning, Pa.

Aggie! Are you all right, my girl?

I hope I didn't fret you none, Pa.

Come on down, Chester.

- Meet my people. - Well...

uh, I'd sure be right proud to.

Pa, this here is Chester.

Well, I'll say howdy to you, Mr. Dutton.

And I'll say it right back to you, Chester.

You met my brother Grudie yesterday in Dodge City.

- Yeah. Howdy. - You didn't leave us no food.

Grudie!

Well, you give me a fright, girl.

I got to thinking that you was gone the night long.

I was, Pa.

Well, where was you all night?

With him.

With me?

Oh, now, Miss Aggie.

He come to do the right thing, though, Pa.

Chester come to ask if he could marry me.

What's this right thing business?

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

I mean, I just... uh, come out here to go... fishing.

You got the gall to come fishing

after you had my Aggie out all night?

No! I mean, I-I don't got no gall at all.

I mean, I-I-I've...

You better get to say what you mean.

Well, now, just a minute, Mr. Dutton. I...

I-I'm just...

kind of as ignorant about this as you are.

I mean, I didn't see Miss Aggie here till this morning

when she come into Dodge and she asked me

if I could come out here...

to go fishing.

He was in town with her yesterday, Pa.

Well, yeah, yesterday!

It'll be much easier, Chester, if we just tell what's true.

If we do, well, then Pa will give us his blessing.

D-Don't you talk to me about what's true.

You ain't said a word that's true since I been out here.

Except my name.

Well, listen to him, Pa.

Them city fellers are regular spellbinders.

Well, you sure can talk all of a sudden, can't you?

You got some lip for a man wronged my daughter.

Now you're calling her a liar?

Well, she is!

I mean, I was in jail all last night.

Now, I can prove that!

I run into outlaws before, and I can handle you!

Oh, Pa, Chester's not an outlaw!

- Well, he had it coming. - Oh, Chester, honey.

- Oh, Chester. - No, he ain't dead.

And don't go blaming your brother.

It's only rightful for men to take up for their womenfolk.

- What'd you hit him with? - My fist. Just my fist.

Yeah, you could've killed a bear with that fist.

Yeah.

I didn't want him hurt.

I just want him.

Oh, come here, my little girl.

Aw, come here, my little... innocent baby.

Well, you got him now.

Grudie and me will see he does right by you.

Give me a hand, Grudie.

Tote him back to the cabin.

Here, Aggie girl, you take his hat.

- Got his feet there? - Yeah.

All right. Up you go.

And... go.

Here, and mind that fish pole now.

Here we go.

That feel better now, Chester?

Well, it's cool.

That's one thing that... my head ain't.

I brought you some food.

It'll make you set up and take notice.

Golly, you sure don't get a...

head like this from fishing.

'Course, I don't hardly recollect fishing none.

Do you want to set up or do you want me to spoon it to you?

Well, I'd just rather that you'd kind of help me

get the straight of things, uh, Miss Aggie.

Aw, you're funnin' me.

You remember everything just fine.

Well, I will remember it. It's just that...

well, I remember coming out here and-and, uh...

to meet your daddy and to go fishing, and then...

Whole thing is kind of getting a little bit fuzzy after that.

Uh, you mean you don't recollect last night?

What about last night?

Have a bite.

Mmm, that-that tastes good.

Thank you.

What was you saying about last night?

Well, uh, I don't call it flattering you forgot.

Well, uh, I told you that I was having trouble remembering.

We was together last night, Chester.

All last night?

Sundown to sunup.

Oh, now, just a minute.

Now, don't you go straining to recollect.

You just sit back and eat and get your strength back.

No, no, now, filling me full of that stuff

ain't going to blot out the truth, Miss Aggie.

Why, you-you storied to me and you storied to your daddy.

And then that brother of yours hit me in the head

with a shovel or something.

Why, you just done a terrible thing.

Well, I thought you was beginning to like me some.

Well, I was. I mean, you're purty.

You're real purty, but...

well, you n-not only lied to me, but you almost got me killed.

I'm sorry about your head.

Well, it's enough to change a man's opinion of a woman.

It won't be so bad marrying me.

Oh, now, just a minute, now.

You just got to forget all of this marrying stuff.

Just all about it.

Heavens, I don't even know what I'm doing out here.

If I don't get back, Mr. Dillon...

Now, you can't go running out into the night.

You're just not able to.

Oh, golly, that's no ordinary hit in the head.

Mmm, you go wandering outside,

and Grudie will likely do it again.

Well, you just got to set him straight,

him and your daddy both. I can't talk to 'em.

My head won't let me talk to 'em no more.

Well, you just ease back,

and everything will be much better in the morning.

Will you talk to 'em now?

Now, you just drift off,

and I'll go talk to 'em right now.

Well, you-you'll sleep a lot better

when your conscience is clear.

I just...

Well, I just can't understand you storying to me like that.

He's asleep again, Pa.

Did he come to?

For a bit.

He says I storied you, Pa.

I got a lot to learn him before we're through.

You believe me, don't you?

You never lied to your pa.

But it don't seem like you could forget yourself the way you did.

You and Grudie will take to him, won't you, Pa?

You won't hit him no more.

That's gonna depend a lot on him, honey.

But don't you fret none.

There's gonna be a wedding right soon.

Me and Grudie will sleep by the fire here.

You take the wagon tonight, Aggie.

Huh?

What's the idea?

Get up and go to sleep.

Tomorrow morning, you ride into Dodge and ask about the mail.

Well, answer me, boy!

All right, Pa.

Mind you say your prayers now, young lady.

Yes, Pa, I will.

Howdy. You were out early, Marshal.

Yeah, I was, Moss.

Did you get a line on him yet?

Line on who?

Chester. You've been out looking for him, ain't you?

Well, no. What are you talking about?

Well, he ain't been home since morning yesterday.

Well, I thought he went out fishing, didn't he?

Well, he had a fishing pole. And that pretty girl.

Pretty girl? What pretty girl was that?

That one that rides that, uh, plow horse without a saddle.

Huh. I guess I must've missed her.

Never knew Chester to fish all night.

Well, neither did I.

'Course, I guess, if you're going fishing,

the best way to go is with a pretty girl, Moss.

Well, you know, it'll be interesting to see

how many fish he caught.

You know anything about the girl?

No.

Just from the description Moss Grimmick gave me,

he said she rides around town on a...

bareback on a plow horse.

I'm afraid I'd need a little more than that to go on.

Well, now I think I feel kind of hurt.

Chester used to bring his girls around for my approval.

Well, maybe he's trying to make his own decisions now.

Well, I don't think I'd count on that.

You know anything about her?

Well, if this is the girl I saw him with day before yesterday,

I just might know something about her.

Well, who is she?

Well, I don't know who she is, but I'll tell you one thing,

I sized her up in about a minute and a half.

I told Chester about it.

If I ever saw a scheming woman, she's it.

All that in a minute and a half, huh?

Well, if you found all that out in a minute and a half,

she must've had a sign on her.

Well, now, let me ask you what you think of this:

She took one look at Chester

and started talking about marriage.

And-and started showing him material

- for curtains. - Oh, Doc.

Well, she did.

Now, a girl like that's got to be a little peculiar.

Well, is she pretty?

Well, yes.

Pretty enough to make Chester slip his moorings,

which is not unusual.

Well, I'm not gonna worry about him.

Well, I don't know.

She looked determined enough to run off with him someplace.

Carry him, even.

Can't keep me here against my will.

You ought to know that.

I most promised Aggie

that we wouldn't whip you any more than we have to.

Why don't you just tell him the straight of it?

Now, Chester, don't you go taxing yourself.

Let me tell you the straight of it:

No man ever trifled with a Dutton woman,

and that's the end of it.

You're gonna marry my Aggie.

Well, I can't do that.

Well, you can't do nothing else.

If I don't get back to Dodge pretty soon,

Mr. Dillon is gonna come a-looking for me.

Well, he ain't gonna side with you when I tell him

what his sometimes deputy done to my Aggie, now, will he?

Well, he ain't gonna believe it is what he ain't.

I wish I didn't.

It ain't pleasurable to believe.

Well, don't. There ain't a word of truth in it anyway!

- Pa! Stop! - You... you say one more word

against her, and I just might kill you.

Now, you make yourself useful around here.

Pa, he's hurt enough.

Honey, you want that cabin fixed up, you set him to do it,

but keep him out of my sight.

Oh.

You was to ride into town

and see if Uncle Solen's letters come yet.

- I can't. - What ails you, you can't?

Now, ain't no need to hit me, Pa.

I'll judge that.

Well, that marshal he was talking about,

he said, if I come into town again, he'd jail me.

All right. What is it this time, Grudie?

Well, cowboy whooped me. I whooped back, that's all.

Every town, you got to find trouble, don't you?

Well, seems like it finds me.

All right, all right. I'll go into town myself,

but you keep an eye on that Chester there.

I want him here when I come back.

Don't this seem nice, Chester?

Aggie, I think it's just best

if we just don't talk to each other.

Well, there's no reason why we can't be friends.

Well, I-I ain't gonna go into it now,

but there's every reason in the world.

Do you like the curtains?

No, not especially.

Well, you seemed to think

they'd make up nice the day we met.

Well, there was a lot of things that I thought...

Ooh! nice the day that I met you.

Don't this help?

Aggie, let go of me.

Sure gonna be nice having someone all my own.

I'm not your own.

I just tipped my hat to you,

and we's as good as engaged.

I just can't make you out at all.

Chester, haven't you never been lonely?

There, that ought to do it.

Now, if you'll just let go of me,

well, I'll get down from here.

♪♪

Chester, I asked, "Have you never been lonely?"

Yeah.

I guess that I've always been just a little bit lonely.

Well, when you try making me out,

keep that in mind.

I know I done you a terrible wrong.

But that's why.

You... you mean you-you lied like that

out of just being lonely?

I got to be someplace.

I can't always be on my way.

Like I told Pa, I got to root down.

I'd lie, I'd do anything to get me a home.

Well, Aggie, there ain't no reason for you to lie.

You... well, you're so pretty,

you could have any man that you wanted.

There ain't time.

There ain't never any time.

I meet someone, and then we move on.

There ain't no time to court.

No porch to sit on and have ice cream.

No little minutes to...

to hold hands and...

and get to know a body.

Aggie,

have you ever told this to your daddy?

Chester,

I've told Pa till he don't hear me.

And I've wished, and I've prayed

till I don't know what I was gonna do.

And then I found me this way,

and I'm going to stick to it, no matter what happens.

♪♪

Is that your horse, mister?

How's that?

I asked if that was your horse.

Oh.

Eh...

he ain't for sale,

if that's what you're fixing to ask.

You live around here?

Not for long, stranger.

♪♪

You get a line on Chester yet, Marshal?

No, not yet, Moss.

Well, I saw a horse down the street

just like the one that girl was riding.

You mean the plow horse?

Yeah. There can't be two like that.

Back all busted in, looks like a hammock.

Now, wait a minute.

You mean that-that bay plow horse with the swayback?

Thought you didn't know about it.

I'm just beginning to put two and two together.

Had a run-in with a boy over at the Long Branch

the other day that rode a horse just like that one.

He wasn't all there, either.

He was a mean one.

I'd swear this was the same horse

that girl was riding, Marshal.

Well, if Chester's mixed up with that boy,

he may be in trouble.

Which way did he ride?

South. He was riding south.

Moss, saddle up my horse, will you?

I'll be riding out.

Right away, Marshal.

♪♪

And, you know, Aggie, Uncle Solen says that there's...

there's lakes and there's streams

and mountains and... campsites.

Why, they're just covered with bluegrass.

Just on up above Pueblo.

But there ain't gonna be no town.

No new folks to meet.

Well, you got him now.

But...

can't we stay here and fix a cabin up?

Oh, no, no.

You deserve better than this.

Grudie,

climb down out of there and give me a hand, will you?

Quit toying with him that way.

We gonna take him along, ain't we, Pa?

We sure are.

I'd just as soon hang.

Well, I know there are lots of men that look on marriage

like setting their necks in a noose,

but it don't got to be that way, Chester.

Did I tell you Uncle Solen's a parson?

He'll do the marrying when we get to Pueblo.

Well, I ain't going to Pueblo, I can tell you that right now.

Oh, you're going.

Tied and bound.

You make up your mind and be a good husband

to my little Aggie girl,

and I am apt to forget a lot of things.

♪♪

♪♪

Hold up, there!

Pa! It's that marshal!

Well, come on, let's go!

Hyah!

Say, what did you do that for?

No, Pa!

You make it pretty hard for a man to talk to you.

Well, you don't pull your way onto my wagon without a fight.

Where's Chester?

I know that's his horse you got there.

Now, where is he?

He's back here, Marshal.

Well, you can't have him.

He's gonna marry my Aggie here.

Get down off this wagon where I can keep an eye on you.

Go on.

All right, you, get in there and untie him.

Go on.

You know what he done?

What?

He put shame on my Aggie.

That's what he done.

He better be all right.

Oh, Mr. Dillon, I don't know how you found me,

but I'm sure glad you did.

You all right, Chester?

Well, uh, kind of hit in the head a little bit,

and it was kind of aggravating being tied up in there,

but I guess I'm all right.

I never heard of no law that'd protect a man like him.

Well, now, just a minute there, mister...

No, Chester.

It's mine to tell.

Pa...

he was right all along.

I storied you.

Never in your life...

Not till this time.

But I just wanted to settle down.

I wanted to find me a boy and-and marry,

and-and no folks,

and I figured the only way, I-I had to make you do it.

And I almost did.

Well...

honey, you're...

still my sweet little girl.

Oh, and-and, Chester, I didn't want to hurt you.

I-I didn't want you to come by any harm,

but, well, I-I was...

Well, Mr. Dutton, let tell you something.

See...

You-you take a good look at Miss Aggie now.

She's most a woman now, and you got to see her that way.

If you don't, well...

well, she's just gonna pull this trick

every place that you set for a spell.

And it's your fault; it's not hers.

Oh, Pa didn't mean any wrong, Chester.

Well, he sure got the wrong slant on a lot of things.

Grudie there, for instance.

He's just mean.

He's gonna get hisself killed if he don't change his ways.

Don't you think we ought to take them into town?

Oh, I don't know, Mr. Dillon. I...

Maybe we ought to just let them go on their way.

I don't think they meant any harm.

They're just kind of peculiar.

I know that "sorry" doesn't sound like much, but...

I really am sorry.

Well, Miss Aggie, you just...

you just get yourself that front porch to sit on

and have your ice cream and hold hands, and...

well, everything's gonna work out all right

once that you can find a place to root down.

Okay.

♪♪

♪♪

Do you wear these now and again?

Now and again.

We're all done with these, Grudie.

There's better ways to grow tall.

You're a-flowering, Aggie girl.

Like he says, you're...

most a woman now.

I gave your pretty mama a home.

I'm gonna get you one.

That's a promise.

♪♪

Hyah!