Bronco Billy Page #4

of my snakebite remedy.

Just fix the old boy up, just like new.

One of these days we'll get that ranch.

Old Buster can go out to pasture.

Running Water was telling me

about the run in you had with Miss Lily.

I say good riddance to that woman.

She just couldn't cut the bacon.

I'm glad she got out of the frying pan

before I wasted that much time on her.

It's a shame, because I thought

she did pretty good for her first show.

She couldn't take orders.

I gave her the piece of paper

and she couldn't memorize her words.

But she was a damn good shot.

I don't want to talk about her, ever again.

Okay, you're the boss.

She got her ride to the next town

and her breakfast on the house.

Mighty kind of you.

Her kind don't want to work.

No wonder her husband ran off

and left her.

Excuse me, miss.

"Heiress murdered."

Can I see the Sports section?

You may!

Thank you.

'Bye, ma'am.

Goodbye, Miss Lily.

It's too bad you can't come along with us.

So long. Happy trails.

You have a visitor from New York.

Is it my wife?

Hello, Edgar.

You've got five minutes.

You're looking well.

That's easy for you to say!

You don't have amoebic dysentery!

I've known Antoinette

since she was just a little girl...

and believe me, I don't blame you...

for murdering her.

But I didn't murder

that cold-blooded viper!

The sooner you confess,

the sooner we can all benefit.

Benefit?

I know how much you must have loved her

to have done such a thing.

But the living must go on living.

What has happened, has happened.

I'm facing the electric chair...

or something...

and you're standing here talking about

"the living must go on living"!

I guarantee...

that if you plead temporary insanity...

you won't spend more than three years

in a mental institution.

What are you getting at?

If you confess to Antoinette's murder...

the day that you are released

from the institution...

you will receive half a million dollars.

But what if they don't buy that

and I go to the electric chair anyway...

or something?

They will buy it.

I can arrange anything. You know that.

But those mental institutions,

they're supposed to be maddening.

I know of some out here that have

tennis courts and swimming pools...

your own private room, color TV...

maid service.

$500,000?

How much is that after taxes?

Well, if you invest wisely,

you won't have to pay a dime.

I didn't mean to kill her,

but she was driving me crazy.

What are you doing here?

You still need an assistant, don't you?

I'm the head ramrod. I give the orders.

Yes, Bronco Billy.

Get out of this truck.

Why? Aren't we heading

down the old trail?

You got to prove that you can work hard

before you ride with the head ramrod.

I do, do I?

Do you want the job or don't you?

Is that your real name, Lefty?

What's it to you?

Well, I was just trying

to make time pass more quickly.

Why do you want

to make the time pass quickly?

Because I find life rather boring.

Don't you?

Nope!

Well, I can see we have very little

to talk about.

I reckon not.

Light me.

Leonard, how long have you been

with Bronco Billy?

Must be going on nine years.

Oh, please.

Did your father teach you

your little lasso tricks?

My father taught me nothing.

My father gave me nothing but whippings.

Billy taught me everything I know.

He gave me a home.

That's very touching.

I don't know where you come from...

but they must not have given you

much love when you was a little girl.

Well, it's good to be back.

I'm hungry!

You're always hungry. Let's set up

the big tent before we put on the feedbag.

Big tent, let's get it.

What would you like for me to do?

You go help the boys.

What are you going to do?

I do the thinking around here.

I hadn't noticed!

Chief...

Excuse me.

Is everything all fixed up?

We still have some patch work to do

on the tent.

All right. Good.

I don't want you to get bit

by those rattlesnakes anymore.

Why don't you use the gopher snakes?

That's what I bought the damn things for.

- Tell him. He'll understand.

- I hope so.

Tell me what?

Spit it out.

That's what I'm here for, is to help.

Running Water's gonna have a baby.

I'm gonna be an uncle?

You ain't mad?

Mad? That's the best news

I've ever heard!

We know money's tight.

We got to get a trailer for you

and some clothes for the little pard.

What's all the shooting about?

Big Eagle and Running Water

are gonna have a baby.

Why don't we get into our duds

and go into town and raise some hell?

We plan to name the little critter Billy.

Well, I'm really honored.

In fact, what we'll have to do is get

a raise for you when the critter's born.

Thanks, Boss.

Here's a toast to the fastest gun

in the West, Bronco Billy.

Bottoms up.

Miss Lily, why don't you put a little fire

between your legs and join in?

I've matched you beer for beer all night.

You're the coldest fish I've ever met!

How dare you call me a fish!

"How dare you call me a fish!"

You are, you know!

You don't know how to have fun.

You call your life fun?

Your daddy should've taken a belt

to your backside...

when you were little

and you'd have had some respect.

My father was a great man.

He went to heaven when I was 9 years old.

I'm sorry, I didn't know that.

Yes, there's a whole wide world

you don't know about, Mr. Bronco Billy.

Mr. Bronco Billy, I'll walk over to the bar

and introduce myself to that fine lady.

People are such idiots.

Go ahead, let the tears fall in that beer.

- I'm not crying.

- Nothing's wrong with crying.

The smoke in here is hurting my eyes!

Did you ever think what it would be like

to be nice to folks?

Folks just want to take.

Girl, you sure are mixed up.

No, I'm not.

Miss Lily, get up!

Why?

'Cause I want to dance with you,

that's why.

Dance?

Come on.

Once you take the first step or two,

it's easy.

If you could only shoot straight.

I can outshoot you any day of the week.

You sure are pretty.

I bet you say that to all the girls,

Bronco Billy.

How dare you!

Jesus, I only kissed you.

Watch it, lady!

Don't shove the lady.

You stay out of this!

We're family! We fight together!

We stick together!

- On second thought, I'll stick with you.

- Good idea.

We're gonna take a five-minute break.

Don't go away.

Hey, pretty thing,

how about a little old drink?

Get lost!

Now my friend, back there,

he asked you if you wanted a drink.

How about that little old drink, honey?

Please, don't!

Come on, we just want a little fun!

You!

- We got us a wildcat!

- Have we ever!

Wait a minute, I've had enough!

Like hell you have!

Don't kill me!

Killing's too good for you!

You all right, Miss Lily?

Of course she ain't!

I'll take her back in the panel truck.

The night's young, so am I and full of more

fight than any hombre west of the Pecos.

Come on, let's go back

and have some more fun.

She'll be all right!

No, Running Water and I are going back.

Go kick up a storm.

I ain't going back.

Here.

Sorry, it ain't too hot.

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