Original subtitles

♪ Rollin', rollin', rollin' ♪

- Hyah! -♪ Rollin', rollin', rollin' ♪

♪ Keep movin', movin', movin' ♪

♪ Though they're disapprovin' ♪

♪ Keep them dogies movin' ♪

♪ Rawhide ♪

♪ Don't try to understand them ♪

♪ Just rope and throw and brand 'em ♪

♪ Soon we'll be livin' high and wide ♪

♪ My heart's calculatin' ♪

♪ My true love will be waitin' ♪

♪ Be waiting at the end of my ride ♪

♪ Move 'em on, head 'em up, head 'em up, move 'em on ♪

♪ Move 'em on, head 'em up, Rawhide ♪

-(whip cracks) -♪ Cut 'em out, ride 'em in ♪

♪ Ride 'em in, let 'em out, cut 'em out, ride 'em in ♪

-♪ Rawhide...! ♪ -♪ Rollin', rollin', rollin' ♪

♪ Rollin', rollin', rollin' ♪

- Hyah! -♪ Rollin', rollin', rollin'. ♪

(whip cracks twice)

[COWS MOOING]

[THUNDER CRACKING]

[MOOING]

[THUNDER CRACKING]

One more, that's all it'll take. Those beasts are hearing footsteps.

Yeah, keep them as tight as you can. They do go, try and pick out the leader.

All right.

[MOOING]

Come on, Wish, squeezing them cards ain't gonna change the spots none.

Patience, Scarlet, patience. You're about to watch a master at work.

I hate to break the silence, oh, mighty master,

but are you gonna open or not?

Uh, yes, my good friend, Jenkins, I shall open for 5 dollars.

Five dollars? What do you think this is, a Mississippi river boat?

The master has spoke.

It's that grin, Jenkins, pure possum.

He's bluffing sure as mice has got ears.

Five and 5 more to keep it company.

Joe, I knew you had it in you. Oh, you're a real plunger. Heh, heh.

[THUNDER CRACKING]

Stampede!

Hyah! Hyah!

Hold them! Pull them up!

[WISHBONE CHUCKLING]

Me, I think you're both lying, there's a 10, raise it 10 more.

MUSHY: Stampede! Stampede!

SCARLET: Let's go! - Hurry, Mr. Wishbone!

But you can't leave now.

You can't leave now!

MAN: Hyah! Hyah!

Hyah!

Hurry, Mr. Wishbone, get under the wagon, the herd's heading for us.

You can't leave now.

But you can't leave now.

[MUMBLING INDISTINCTLY]

They're heading toward camp, turn them!

Hyah!

[WHISTLES]

MAN 1: Hyah! Hyah!

MAN 2: Hyah! Hyah!

MAN 3: Hyah!

Hyah! Hyah!

[CRASHING AND CLANGING]

MAN 4: Hyah! Hyah!

Mr. Wishbone.

Mr. Wishbone.

You can't leave now.

FAVOR: Where's Wishbone? MUSHY: Under here, the wagon fell.

FAVOR: Get something to prop that wagon up with. Come on, snap it up.

WISHBONE: You can't leave now. ROWDY: Wishbone, are you all right?

Oh, fine.

You're fine? What are you doing lollygagging under there?

Get out and get this mess cleaned up,

you can get fresh supplies in the morning.

You sure you're all right, Mr. Wishbone?

I had them, Mushy. I had them right in the palm of my hand. Cold turkey.

Oh, Mr. Wishbone.

[WISHBONE GROANS]

Well,

just start cleaning it up, Mushy.

WISHBONE: Beautiful. All it needs is some harps and a big fat cloud.

- Beautiful. - What's beautiful?

Paradise, you idiot. Paradise. Open your ears and listen.

MUSHY: Paradise?

After ten days and 3,000 head of walleyed cattle, cloudbursts,

cold cooking and gravel-voice drovers, you can ask that?

Just look around you, Mushy.

MUSHY: Just a plain, little old town.

Garden of Eden's what it is.

Few rocking chairs and nothing to do but grow hair and soak up the sun.

Yeah, this is real paradise to me.

One of these days I'm gonna grab me a cloud and hang on.

I still say it looks just like a plain, little, old town.

Oh, Mushy, I thought there was some hope for you.

I thought someday, somehow, somewhere,

you'd get appreciation for the finer things of life.

What, like plain, little old towns?

Just pull over.

Whoa, now. Whoa.

AMIE: Shortchange me, will you?

Last man that done that still trying to catch up with his shadow.

MAN: Ma'am, it was only a little joke!

AMIE: Don't try to sweet-talk me!

Out!

MAN: Now, ma'am, don't be hasty! Ma'am!

AMIE: Split!

- Temper, temper. - Shame, shame.

[POTS AND PANS BANGING AND CLANGING]

It looks like baby sister's got a little trouble.

[AMIE SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]

If you ain't out of sight time I count ten,

you'll be out of sight permanent.

Ma'am.

Don't be hasty. I'm going.

AMIE: One! - Think we ought to help?

Not as long as she's waving that greener.

MAN: Ma'am. Ma'am, you can have the kettle. Free.

AMIE: Two.

Ma'am, don't shoot, I'm going.

Three!

Sheriff.

You gonna let her get away with that?

Outlaws, I can shoot.

Lawbreakers, I can jail.

But when it comes to Amie Claybank, all I can do is watch.

- Five, six! MAN: Ma'am!

Ma'am, please.

Lady, put that thing down

before I put some dents in it where it'll do the most good.

You'll what?

Only thing worse than a loud-talking woman is a big, loud-talking woman.

Now, give me that thing before I do something I might regret,

having been raised up proper.

And as for you, the first thing you learn out here

is that the wages of sin is buckshot.

Now get, while the getting is good.

Can't thank you enough, mister.

Thank you. Thank you.

You can have that pan.

Well, that just don't make much sense.

No, it sure don't. By now sister Amie

would be using a runt like that for a toothpick.

Yeah.

Unless...

Why, you don't think that he...?

Can't be nobody else.

Yeah.

Now, you, do you run this store?

Then get back in there behind the counter where you belong.

Mushy, pull the wagon over here

- and I'll call you when I need you. - Yes, sir.

I could arrest him, Ms. Amie.

And let him think us Claybanks ain't been raised proper?

WISHBONE: Lady, I haven't got all day.

- I'm coming. - Sister Amie.

Sister Amie, you don't wanna wait on a man like that looking the way you do.

Well, a frill or two can't hurt.

Oh, and have a shot of smell. Never fails.

Run along. We'll take care of your customer for you.

AMIE: Mind your manners, hear?

Why, sister Amie, just like we always do.

WISHBONE: Lady!

Sheriff, you better run along too.

This may take a little more doing than the law allows.

- But why? - Shake open them eyes, boy.

It's him, back from the past we thought we buried years ago.

Yeah, men sister Amie can handle, but ghosts--

- That's where we come in. - Yeah.

- Well, did you have a nice rest, boy? - Sure did.

But don't you tell Mr. Wishbone.

He'll skin me out for sure for sleeping on the job.

- Where is he? - Who?

Mr. Wishbone, the little runt.

I mean, the little gent with the whiskers.

- You been drinking, boy? - Me?

Myself, I always say a little mash makes the body perk proper,

but not when you start seeing little runts with whiskers.

First thing you know,

you're gonna start seeing things crawling up and down a wall.

But I don't drink.

Oh, sure, son.

Now, why don't you just run along and get a good night's sleep.

It'll go away.

But I can't leave without Mr. Wishbone.

Ah. Now, we told you, boy, there ain't no Mr. Wishbone.

Now, you came riding into town on that wagon all by yourself.

By myself?

Now, take my advice, son.

Leave old devil Beelzebub Barleycorn alone.

- It'll lead to your ruination. - But--

And I wouldn't come back into town either.

Folks around here don't take kindly to ghost stories.

But Mr. Wishbone ain't no ghost.

I drove into town here with him this morning

and I ain't leaving town without him.

That's a shame.

Had his whole life in front of him too.

You, uh...

Did you ever see a man with one of these

sticking in one ear and poking out the other side?

I'll tell you what.

While we're waiting for this whiskered ghost of yours

to come floating down out of the blue,

why don't I just get her started.

It's for your own good, boy.

It'll help you to stop seeing things.

Amos here is better than any old sawbones.

No need. I mean, I ain't seeing things anymore.

Mr. Wishbone, he never was.

And you did come alone and you are leaving alone.

Right?

Absolutely.

Have a nice trip.

[ALL LAUGHING]

MAN 1: Hyah!

[MAN 2 WHISTLING]

MAN 3: Hyah! MAN 4: Hyah!

MEN: Hyah! Hyah! Hyah!

Get back there, you hammerheads.

Toothless, keep them in there.

MEN: Hyah! Hyah! Hyah!

Scarlet, will you forget that rope of yours? Come on, push them.

MEN: Hyah! Hyah! Hyah!

Hey, Rowdy, they're starting to swing out.

Keep them bunched in there, huh?

Get them back.

[MEN SHOUTING AND WHISTLING]

Where you been?

It's a long story.

Yeah, well, you better make it a good one.

The boss ain't too happy with cold dinner topped off by a cold breakfast.

Hey, where's Wish?

I don't know. I mean, I better talk to Mr. Favor.

Yeah, well, it's your hide. He's over there somewhere.

Push them in!

MEN: Hyah! Hyah! Hyah!

You. Where you been?

We got-- I don't know.

Gone since yesterday and you don't know?

You see, Mr. Wishbone and I--

Listen, what do you wanna try and drive me out of my mind for?

Now, will you get set up?

Men are gonna need a hot meal by the time they get the herd across.

But I got to talk to you, Mr. Favor. It's about Mr. Wishbone.

Oh, don't worry. I'm gonna see him later too.

Are you gonna get set up or am I gonna have to give you encouragement?

- But I gotta talk to you. - Scarlet, get back to drag!

- Tell them to push and keep pushing. - But I gotta talk to you, Mr. Favor.

MAN: Hyah! Whoo!

[MEN SHOUTING AND WHISTLING]

What, pray tell, is this?

Well, I don't know what Wishbone calls it, but Mushy calls it stew.

Oh, I see. And what does Wishbone call it?

Wishbone?

I don't imagine he calls it anything. He ain't been around here lately.

Hasn't been around?

Two meals missed, this one best forgot

and our cook has not been around.

Oh, would somebody tell me where he is?

ROWDY: Don't know, but Mushy could-- FAVOR: Mushy!

I tried to tell you, Mr. Favor. I tried to tell you.

All right, then, let's try it once again. Now, where is Wishbone?

I lost him.

Hm. You lost him?

Well, he went in this general store

and I went back to the wagon to sit down and I guess I dozed some.

And when I woke up these three men, they said,

"Mr. Wishbone never was."

Said I drove in alone.

They said he was even a ghost.

Wishbone a ghost?

Well, he told me to leave, told me to forget Mr. Wishbone.

And to forget forever that Mr. Beelzebub Barleycorn,

whoever he is.

Oh, Mushy.

As if I could ever forget Mr. Wishbone.

- I'm sorry about the stew. - That's all right, Mushy.

It's all right, I surrender.

You just forget about it. Keep working on the stew.

Joe, you take over and hold the herd here, I should be back soon.

Sooner the better, Mr. Favor. My stomach ain't got much time left.

Yeah, yeah, I know. Come on, Rowdy, let's go.

All right, Mr. Favor has lost supplies, and the wagons and all this equipment,

the horses and even the herd.

But Wishbone? Huh.

[SIGHS]

He's gone.

It's just like the earth swallowed him up.

He's gone.

And if you think you're gonna get away with this,

you got yourself another couple of dozen thinks coming.

Sure does run off at the mouth, don't he?

Puts me to mind of that old clock of ours that got busted.

The one we took an ax to to keep from bonging.

WISHBONE: Bonging? You think this is bonging,

you just wait till I start unwinding in front of a judge.

You may own this flytrap you call a town,

but you don't own the laws, especially the one about kidnapping.

Well, now, since when is holding a man to his word called kidnapping?

Thirty years, buster, that's what the book says.

Thirty years of busting rocks

and I have my way, you'll be doing it with your teeth.

Keeping a man to his what?

When was it, about seven years ago?

No, more like eight.

We just wanna make sure you don't try for nine.

Nine or 90, don't make me any different, you jarhead.

Why, you know very well I haven't made you any promises.

Not us, friend. It was sister Amie.

Shame on you.

Even a fuzz-faced old trail bum should know

that when he speaks for a woman, it stays spoke till death do they part.

Fuzz-faced trail bum, why, you untie me and I'll show you--

I spoke for sister Amie?!

Why, you knotheads, how could I speak for some woman

I never saw before in a town I never heard of?

Sure can't see what sister Amie sees in him.

There's only one thing worse

than a yelling bridegroom, that's a lying, yelling bridegroom.

I'm not lying and I'm not yelling and I'm not gonna be a bridegroom!

Come 7:00 tonight, you will be, mister.

Flat out or straight up, your troth is gonna be plighted

in a nuptial knot that nobody's gonna bust.

Aloysius, Amos.

Then it's gonna be flat out and stone cold, buster.

Because I'm not saying any "I dos" for you nor anybody else.

They look like what I think they look like?

ALOYSIUS: Sure don't look like gravediggers.

WISHBONE: Isn't anybody gonna shotgun me into any wedding.

They're taking a walkabout.

WISHBONE: Especially with some fool female I never heard of.

And if you think you're gonna--

[WISHBONE MUMBLING]

He does run off at the mouth, don't he?

[MUMBLING]

For a town what gobbles up cooks, this don't look so tough.

They will be when they digest Wishbone.

FAVOR: Heh. - Hey.

If I know him, that's where we could start looking.

Wrong again. That's where we'll finish looking.

Mushy said general store.

Uh, afternoon, ma'am.

ROWDY: Oh, don't let us interrupt anything now.

You're doing me a favor, mister.

There ain't nothing that looks sillier on a big female than a big hat.

Oh, now, that's all in the way you look at it.

I think you two were meant for each other.

Put a stick in his mouth and he'd be pure lollipop.

He spout that homemade sugar stuff all the time?

Oh, no, ma’am. Only when there's something to spout about,

- like a fine figure of a woman. AMIE: Heh, heh, heh.

Well, if flattery is the food of fools, I'm sure living high off the hog today.

Keep it up, mister, I may throw in a box of sweeties.

What'll it be?

Oh, well, uh, it isn't an it exactly, it's a him.

See, we're looking for a friend of ours.

A little fellow, about so-ho,

salt and pepper whiskers, tail feathers to match.

Sometimes when he's in a good mood, answers to the name of Wishbone.

Mr. Paul Bunyan would be more fitting.

Paul Bun-- You've seen him?

Only once.

That sure was enough. What a man.

Well, heh, at least Wishbone ain't turned in his pots and pans for a shroud.

Exactly where did you see him, ma’am?

Out front, he came in on a wagon.

Thought he'd be around for a spell.

When I got back...

I thought I'd try a bustle and bow on him, he was gone.

- Where to? - Didn't say.

Was kind of funny though, him going off without buying anything.

Of course, my brothers...

My brothers.

You call us, sister Amie?

Now, brother Aloysius, why would I do that?

What reason would I have to call my three big brothers?

Same reason you've always had, sister Amie.

Protection.

Never can tell about a couple of beady-eyed drifters like these.

It's getting so even baby sisters ain't safe hereabouts.

That could apply to strangers.

These men are looking for a man named Mr. Wishbone.

That little gent that was in here yesterday?

The same.

He come in here and he didn't come out

according to our figuring, and that means he'd still be here.

Does add up, don't it?

Sister Amie, you run along. We'll handle this.

Handle what?

If what I'm beginning to think is true--

Now, there's a time for you to be thinking,

and a time for us to do the thinking for you.

This is one of them times.

They start anything, I'll finish it.

Remember that.

Now, about this fellow Wishbone, mister, uh...?

Favor, and Yates. We got a herd a few miles east of here.

Drovers. Never can depend on them.

Kind of sneaky.

He's probably in the next county by now.

Yeah, it's a shame too.

Good men these days are hard to find, let alone keep.

The arithmetic's still the same.

He came here and he didn't leave, and we ain't either,

except with him.

Mr. Favor, you'd better take another look around.

Town this size, a stranger would have to be all shadow

and twice as light to get himself lost.

Unless maybe the dogs would fetch him up.

I'm afraid you're just barking at ghosts.

- Look here-- - You look, cowboy.

And while you're looking, listen.

This is Claybank country,

has been since me and my brothers nailed the first two boards together

about 20 years ago.

Yeah, so?

So when a Claybank says something here, it stays said.

You boys just made a mistake. Your friend ain't here.

And neither will you be in, say, 30 minutes. Plain?

AMOS: Why don't you just give up on trying to find this friend of yours.

Because myself, I'd just write him off.

We'll do that after we talk to the law.

That is, providing you brothers have got no objections.

Got no objections, friend,

providing you get your saying done in 30 minutes.

Yeah, we'll run the whole way.

Think it's gonna work?

It won't stick.

Those two won't bluff.

Simple.

We ain't bluffing.

Disgraceful.

Come in. Come in. The damage has already been done.

Damage?

I missed his nose by three inches. Disgraceful.

You always use people's pictures for targets here?

Not people, the Claybanks.

Aloysius, Abraham and Amos.

- Yeah, we already met. - I see.

No doubt you'd like to join me?

- Didn't come here for games, sheriff. BURR: Oh.

That's too bad.

Best way in the world to pass the time.

Yeah, time's one thing we ain't got.

ROWDY: Thirty minutes. That's what how much time we got

before the shooting starts.

And the shooting is gonna start, unless you help us find our friend.

He came into town yesterday.

Uh-- About so big, whiskers and a stubborn streak that don't stop?

That's right. You know where he is?

Where all ghosts are, the cemetery of hope.

We ain't got time for riddles.

We want straight answers and we want them now.

Do either of you know what a chameleon is?

It's a lizard that changes color, one for almost every occasion.

That's me, gentlemen.

The only two-legged reptile north of the Pecos.

The Claybanks say turn green, I turn green.

They say turn yellow, I turn yellow.

I'm sorry, I can't help you.

You see, I happen to be a Claybank too.

Oh, only a distant cousin

on the maternal side, but a cousin, nonetheless.

That badge, sheriff, is that related to the Claybanks?

Well, just the way everything

and everyone in this town is related to them.

They say "jump," we ask "How high?"

They say "crawl" and we just belly-down and start wiggling.

Sorry to interrupt your game, sheriff.

Oh, there's one thing more about my cousins, gentlemen, they're punctual.

- If they said 30 minutes-- - Yeah, I know, they mean 30 minutes.

Tell you what, fella,

you better get down on your hands and knees,

because you're gonna have some crawling to do, right soon.

Aloysius, you must be out of your mind.

You ought to know you can't get away with anything like this.

Sister Amie, there ain't nothing in the world we can't get away with.

- But this is kidnapping. - Now, that's the same thing--

It's just making a man stay to his word.

But this ain't the man--

I mean, he's got his rights.

- And it ain't worth killing over. - Well, it don't have to come to that.

As long as we can get our little banty rooster to listen to reason.

Unh! Reason.

You untie me, and I'll give you some reasons, you overgrown fathead.

Mr. Wishbone, you've got to understand--

All I understand, lady, is just what you said.

You're not gonna get away with this.

Why, I got more friends than you can shake a board at,

and when they come riding into this town--

Like a trail boss and a ramrod?

They're gonna take you and this 2-by-4 town of yours

into broomsticks.

- Mr. Favor and Rowdy, they're here? - You like to take a look?

WISHBONE: Ha, ha, ha. That's them, all right. Now you're gonna get it.

Right where you try to do your thinking.

Maybe you better look again.

Yonder is Abraham.

That's cousins Luke and Freddie.

Amos over there in back.

Them three are the Hogan brothers over there.

All crack shots, Mr. Wishbone.

Now, just who did you say was gonna get what for?

AMIE: You wouldn't.

Sister Amie, this is more than just you. The Claybank honor is on the line.

Now, they ain't got much living left.

And there ain't nothing gonna stop them rifles from going off.

Except me.

Now, I knew we'd get to understand each other.

Now, who's it gonna be?

Them or you?

Just one minute, friends. Sixty seconds of seeing.

So why don't you just tuck in those shirttails and mouse out of here.

Mr. Yates, I apologize. That suggestion about the saloon.

Does seem a shame to come all this way without visiting

the internationally famous, uh, Abraham's Saloon.

Oh, yeah. Sinful.

No one, two, three, boys.

And no more conversation. It's up to you.

At this range, this is gonna mess up this street something awful.

ALOYSIUS: Abraham!

Ain't you got no respect?

For sister Amie's wedding day?

Wedding day?

That little difference with our future brother-in-law has been all cleared up.

- Ain't that right, brother? - Yeah.

Me and Ms. Claybank, we're gonna get married.

Married?

How come you never told us anything about it, Wish?

Well, I'm sorry about that, Rowdy,

but you see, I spoke up for her so long ago

that I guess it clean slipped my mind.

And then that fat little angel shot off one of them fat little arrows,

- ain't that right? - Yeah.

So I won't be coming back to herd, Mr. Favor.

No sense you hanging around.

That's right, boys, so why don't you just run along, huh?

Wish, you absolutely sure this is the way that you want it?

Yeah, this is the way I want it.

Well, what are we standing around for? Drinks on the house!

[CROWD CHEERING]

I'm sorry, Mr. Wishbone.

What for? It's your wedding day, isn't it?

Needles and pins Needles and pins

When a man marries His trouble begins

Wishbone used to say that every day,

just like it was out of the Old Testament.

You know, I could figure this out with any other man on the drive,

but Wishbone?

Yeah.

He didn't even invite us to the wedding.

Guess we're gonna have to invite ourselves, huh?

- You heard what he said. - Oh, yeah, I heard him.

But he forgot something.

He's gonna need somebody to stand up for him.

Stand up. Oh, yeah, good idea.

[KNOCKING ON DOOR]

It's open.

Well, bust a bone, if it ain't my intended's long-nosed friends.

Pull up some chairs and I'll rustle you up something old and something blue.

Unless you're of a mind to surround something a little stronger.

All we're interested in right now is some information.

Afraid I can't help you.

See, this is strictly button and bow time for me.

Privilege of the bride, something old and something new,

nerves that won't stop skittering,

and a lot of giggles,

and maybe even a sniffle or two.

[SNIFFLES]

Folks say that's the way it always is on the happiest day of your life.

Amie.

What's it all about?

Seems to me, old shoes and wedding bells

sort of speak for theirselves.

Yeah, but the trouble is in this wedding

it seems like a shotgun is doing all the talking.

This afternoon, Wishbone was just a name to you,

tonight you wanna put a Mrs. in front of it. Why?

Come on. We're gonna find out one way or the other.

Either you give us the answers or we'll have to put the squeeze

on those overgrown cupid brothers of yours.

Old Mother Twitchett Had but one eye

And a long tail, which she left fly

And every time she went over a gap She left a bit of her tail in the trap

It's an old nursery rhyme.

Except for the one eye and the tail, it could've been written for me.

Old Mother Amie, witch of Claybank,

caught in her own trap.

I did this to Mr. Wishbone, not my brothers.

My shotgun's a little rusty,

but it still works and I've got it aimed right at him.

- But I don't see why-- - Open your eyes and look. Mr. Yates.

It isn't hard to see.

The Lily Langtry of Diamondback Diggings.

Look at me.

It isn't hard to see that no man would ever look at me

and want to look again.

[AMIE SNIFFLING]

At first, my brothers were just embarrassed,

then I sprouted some and they got mad.

They said they'd find me a husband.

I couldn't let that happen, so I told them a lie.

A fairy story that was born out of words

and grew into a giant carrying a 10-foot sword

and two dinosaur heads under each arm.

I told them I was already spoke for

by a man who had gone through here a long time ago.

But they'd know him the minute they saw him.

And then along came Wishbone, huh?

I know it sounds crazy, but they believe it.

I guess because they want to believe it.

To be proud of the spinster

they've been apologizing for half a lifetime.

[AMIE SNIFFLING]

This is solid St. Louis, boys.

Best money could buy 12 years ago.

That's when my brothers got it.

And that's how long they've been waiting for this night.

And there ain't nothing that's gonna make them wait any longer.

Not the truth, nor me, nor you.

Yeah. Certainly does clear things up a bit,

except for one thing. What about Wishbone?

Like me,

happiest day of his life.

Either that or the last day of his life.

[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING AND PEOPLE CHATTERING]

[UPBEAT MUSIC CONTINUES PLAYING]

Hey, I've got it.

Ugh. No, one dead Wishbone.

Gentlemen, gentlemen, this is a festive occasion, not a funeral.

Bartender, let's have some drinks down here.

Well, whatever it is, the least we can do is drink a toast to your friend.

Be more charitable to shoot him.

What do you mean by that?

I mean that I'd rather be 6 foot down in the ground and have a shotgun,

- than force me into a marriage. - Now, that's enough.

One more word, I'll have to ask you to step outside.

You?

One more word.

Burr.

You tell me why on earth you're willing to stand up

and fight for the very men that got you down on your knees?

I'm not referring to the Claybanks.

Oh, you mean, Ms. Amie?

You show me a woman who can fill her footprints,

I'll show you a woman with feathered wings,

and a golden halo and a solid brass harp.

Well, if you feel this way about her, why haven't you put your "Mrs."

in front of her "Claybank"?

Because in her brothers' eyes,

I come from the bad side of their family.

The side that got educated, rich and flat broke in one generation.

Because I take orders better than I give them.

Because I'm half-man and half-coward.

Does it really matter what those brothers think?

No, but in my case it's true.

Well...

Well, well. My, oh, my.

Rowdy, I think the sheriff's got a point.

Maybe we should have, uh, a drink or maybe even two.

Well, you see, I have had four--

Oh. Oh, yeah. That's a good idea. Yeah, I think maybe three.

Who knows? We might find all sorts of things to talk about.

Well, drink up, sheriff.

Barkeep.

Drink up.

Will you stop breathing on top of my head?

You know, it's just like the circular said:

nice suit of clothes make anything look good, even a rooster.

Any more smart mouth out of you, and wedding or no wedding

I'm gonna put my foot down your gullet right up to the kneecap.

Now, is that any way to talk to your future relative-in-laws, huh?

[KNOCKING ON DOOR]

It's curtain time, lover.

And we can't keep the preacher waiting.

Oh, uh, just one thing.

Your friends decided to sit in, so don't try anything,

or there will be a funeral after the wedding.

WISHBONE: Ah-- Oh, no.

PASTOR: Well,

we're gathered here today in this good company

to join together this here man, and this here woman

in the bonds of holy wedlock.

Like the Good Book says, "To have and to hold,

from this day forward, for better, for worse,

for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health,

to love and to cherish

until death do you part.

If that don't say it, nothing will.

Now, if there's anybody here present got anything to say against this union,

you better say it right now, or forget it.

Okay, Burr, now is the time.

Oh, uh-- Excuse me, Your Honor, I, uh...

Well, speak up, sheriff.

Well, there's something I...

Crawl back in the bottle, cousin. You're holding up the ceremony.

I'm sorry.

Back down now, you'll spend

the rest of your life trying to peep up over your knees.

Favor, you have been warned.

The preacher asked for objections, not me, preacher.

Sheriff, tell her what you told us, now.

What is it, Aaron?

What makes the world go around, Ms. Amie?

The same thing that's all in fire, and yet is ever freezing.

What is ever sick, and yet is never dying.

That which is anything, and yet is nothing.

That does it. Knew there was a reason I was getting tired looking at your face.

- Come on. Unh! - No!

AMIE: Let him talk!

Sorry. It's taken me ten years to get to this part

and I'm not stopping now. Not for you, not for nobody.

Ten years, Ms. Amie. Ten years I've been your brothers' doormat,

an ostrich with my pride in a hole and my head in a cloud

waiting for something called hope to make a dream come true.

Well, it took Mr. Favor and Mr. Yates here to make me see

that hope can't be enough.

Not for a dream big enough 10 turn a man into a mat.

I don't understand, Aaron.

Oh, uh-- It's not all this ceremony I'm objecting to, Ms. Amie,

it's the people in it.

[CROWD MURMURING]

Before you say, "I do," I just want you to know one thing.

I just want you to--

Last chance, Aaron. Last chance.

I just want you to know I'd be proud to be standing by your side.

Oh, Aaron.

I-- Well, you never said.

That's just it, Ms. Amie, I never said.

I never had the courage.

Oh, Aaron.

Ms. Amie, of course, we know how deep your feelings is for Mr. Wishbone

- being the man he is. - Mr. Favor.

But the sheriff here, you know,

I do think that he does deserve some consideration.

Don't you agree?

Oh, well, no doubt about it. No, sir.

Like I always say, it's never too late, especially for consideration.

I know how you must feel about this, Mr. Wishbone,

you know, and the way you feel, I just--

Well, I just want you to know I'd be perfectly happy

to give you satisfaction. You just name the weapons.

Yeah, after all, Wish, it is-- The lady's hand's at stake.

Not anymore, it isn't.

Mr. Wishbone, I know you'll understand.

Well, I have known Aaron longer.

[CROWD MURMURING]

Well, then that settles it.

I release you from your troth.

Looks like the best man won.

Well, let's get a fresh start, preacher.

WISHBONE: Come on, let's get out of here.

Hey, Wish, ain't you gonna drink to the bride's health?

I'll do that in Denver.

PASTOR: Gather here tonight in this good company

to join together this here man to this here...

Shove me again, you overgrown buzzard,

and you're gonna pull back a stump.

- Me, shoving? Why, you-- - Oh, stop your yelling.

- Who's yelling? - You are.

And it ruins my digestion.

Yeah, isn't it grand?

Ain't what grand?

Paradise, you idiot. Just listen. There's nothing like a cattle drive.

But you said-- I thought that you thought living in town was a paradise.

Mushy, when are you ever gonna learn to never listen to anything I say?

Now, just pick up that stuff and move along.

Now, get this line going here and quit crowding,

or you're gonna be eating stewed cowboy.

Now, take some bread.

And I said quit crowding

or you're gonna be eating rocks for the next month.

Head them up!

Move them out!

MAN: Hyah! Hyah!