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What's the idea of bustin' in here like that?

What time is it, anyway?

Well, it's after 9:00. I've been up for hours.

- 9:
00? I didn't even get to bed till 5:00!

- 5:
00?

5:
00?

Well, no wonder you're so pale and white.

Cherry, know what that is out there?

That's the sun. (CHUCKLES)

Will you get outta here

'fore I call the police?

You shouldn't stay up so late like that.

When we get up to the Suzie Q Ranch,

we're gonna be in the old sack

every night at 7:30.

Listen, Bo. I think we oughta

get somethin' straight.

I have no intention in

the world of marryin' you,

so you might as well

get it out of your head.

We're gonna talk all that over

on the way to the parade.

You see, Cherry, the whole problem is that

you just haven't had time yet

to get attracted to my mind.

Your mind? I know all about your mind

I ever wanna know.

And do you know I can say

the Gettysburg Address?

Come bustin' in here like a wild Indian.

Sometime...

Cherry?

Well, what?

"Four score and seven years ago,

"our fathers brought forth

on this continent a new nation,

"conceived in liberty

and dedicated to the proposition..."

Bo?

"...that all men are created equal.

"Now we're engaged in a great civil war,

"to determine whether that nation

or any nation..."

Bo, listen...

"...so conceived and so dedicated

can long endure."

Bo...

"We are met here on a great

battlefield of that war."

I hate parades. I'm not goin'.

"The world will not long remember,

nor little note, what we say here,

"but it will never forget

what they did here."

Bo?

"Rather it is for us, the living..."

Please let me sleep.

"...to be so concentrated

and so dedicated..."

If you go any further, Mr. Lincoln,

you're gonna miss the parade.

(APPLAUSE)

(MARCH)

- Elliot, got anything?

- Great.

- Would you hold it, please, miss?

- Hold it?

We're from Life.

Life Magazine?

That's right. "Life Goes To A Rodeo."

Or "rodeo" to you.

They wanted me to ride

in the parade too, but I said,

"If I ride in it, how can I see it?"

Just come right in here, Cherry.

Excuse us, everybody.

Come on up here.

We're gonna see us a parade real good.

Can't we find a place to sit down, Bo?

I'm tired. You didn't let me get no sleep.

- You hop right up here on my shoulder.

- No!

You can rest, and see the parade

at the same time!

- You put me down!

- Hey, this is a nice arrangement!

Can you see everything?

- Too much.

- (LAUGHS)

Boy, look at that!

I'm glad I'm not in this parade,

so I can see it.

Here comes some of Daniel Boone's men!

We're seein' us a real hootenanny

of a parade, ain't we, Cherry?

Look at them boys dancin' it up.

Ain't they talented?

Ain't they resplendent, Cherry?

Hey, Cherry, look!

There's cowgirls, and they got...

Hi!

Hi! Where is he?

- You gonna marry him?

- No!

Then you're gonna go to the rodeo?

- No.

- Then what you gonna do?

Run away.

Hey, what's goin' on up there, Cherry?

Who were you signalin' at?

To... Vera. She's a friend of mine.

She's gonna get two tickets to

the rodeo this afternoon to watch you.

Get two tickets for the rodeo.

Two?

Hey, there's ol' Virge! Ya-hoo!

- Whoa! Stop it!

- Virge, here we are!

We been watchin' you, Virge,

and you're doin' just...

Hello, there. Stop it, Bo!

Oh, sorry, lady.

You're over there in the bleachers.

Over there?

But it's so much nicer

right here in the shade.

That's right. (CHUCKLES)

(CHUCKLES) Come on, honey.

(WHISTLE BLOWS)

Oh, they got us over here

with the livestock.

RODEO ANNOUNCER:

Ladies and gentlemen,

we go into our first event of the

afternoon, cowboy saddle bronc riding.

The contestant is required

to ride ten seconds

until the signal from our timer's horn.

(BAND BEGINS PLAYING)

That was Duane Howard of

Minnewaukin, North Dakota.

The second rider up is Guy Weeks.

And here's our next rider, Casey Tibbs,

five times World's Champion

Saddle Bronc Rider,

twice All-Around

Champion Cowboy of the World.

(BUZZER BLARES)

Watch the work of our pickup man

as he makes the recovery of Casey Tibbs,

Fort Pierre, South Dakota.

Cherie, wake up! It's him!

- Tell him to go away.

- No, I mean it's him.

He's gonna ride now.

Oh, we're at the rodeo.

What's that green thing.

That ain't green, Virge.

You know what that is?

It's that old black magic

that's gonna make me win

VERA:
What's that he's got around his neck?

Ain't that your scarf?

So, that's where it went!

RODEO ANNOUNCER:

Ladies and gentlemen,

we have a newcomer here this afternoon.

- From Timber Hill, Montana, Bo Decker.

- Go!

(BAND BEGINS PLAYING)

- I can't look!

- You are stuck on him! I knew it!

RODEO ANNOUNCER:
Good work, Bo.

How about a hand?

(CHEERING)

Hey, Cherry! Ya-hoo!

Ya-hoo! Ya-hoo!

- Ha-ha-ha-ha!

- You know, I think he is crazy.

Sure he is. Crazy as a bedbug.

I told you he was.

He thinks we're gettin' married

this afternoon here at the rodeo.

What makes him think that?

I don't know.

Sure weren't nothin' I said.

This mornin' after the parade,

he dragged me down to the city hall

and bought us a marriage license.

You didn't sign nothin', did ya?

Well, I had to do somethin'.

He was makin' such a fuss

in front of all those people.

Honey.

Ladies and gentlemen,

here's a ride to watch.

The cowboy has drawn one of the toughest

horses in our bareback riding contest.

Don't fall off.

(CROWD GROANS)

- He fell off.

- (MOUTHS)

VERA:
Hey, is that a diamond?

Well, it ain't exactly a diamond,

but it ain't exactly not a diamond either.

He paid $43 for it.

- No kiddin'.

- Plus tax.

He made me take it,

but it ain't on my finger.

And neither is that wedding ring he bought.

It ain't gonna be either.

Weddin' ring?

Oh, honey.

RODEO ANNOUNCER:
Cowboys' calfroping

is our next contest.

This is a race against time,

and every second counts.

(CHEERING)

Notice the work of the horse at all times,

keeping the rope snug and tight.

I'm just gonna pretend

that little ol' calf is Cherry.

I'm goin' after her and I'm gonna get her.

- When I get her, I'm gonna rope her.

- Don't let the calf get away.

Get goin', Cherry!

RODEO ANNOUNCER:

Here's our newcomer again,

Bo Decker of Timber Hill, Montana.

Was that fast enough for you,

Cherry? Yee-hoo!

RODEO ANNOUNCER:
Who is she, Bo?

Come on.

Hey, look! Photographers from Life!

They're headin' this way.

Life Magazine?

They're coverin' the rodeo. They almost

took my picture this mornin'.

Where's my lipstick?

Oh! Would you please

hand me my lipstick, please?

Smile!

Basic.

Thank you.

I didn't have my lipstick on yet!

RODEO ANNOUNCER:

The most dangerous of all rodeo events

is the wild Brahma bull riding contest.

And as an extra star in this feature,

we have cousin Hugo,

our bullfighting chimpanzee.

It is Hugo's job to ride on the dummy,

and attract the bull over to him.

The cowboy clowns

are also there to distract the bull

and draw him away from the cowboy

when he gets bucked off.

(CHEERING)

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