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being a tired millionaire.

Then I'll take it easy.

See you when you get back.

Good luck.

I'm riding on a silver saddle

The moon is my silver saddle

And long before

the stars skedaddle

I'll be with my love tonight

She'll be in the gloaming

Where all heaven beams

Oh, hello, Johnny.

Hi, Camrose.

Ah, say, I know it's after hours,

but I saw a light in your office.

Mind letting me have my dust?

Got some poker to play.

Sure, Johnny, but I'll have

to ask you to wait outside

while I open the safe.

Company rules.

Sure, I know.

The moon is my silver saddle

And long before

the stars skedaddle

I'll be with my love tonight

Me and my old Daisy,

up there in the sky

And my heart beating crazy,

but it's no wonder why

I'm riding on a silver saddle

To someone

who loves me right

The moon is my silver saddle

I'm riding the moon tonight

Hello, Johnny.

How were things

up the Applegate?

Oh, terrible.

All I got for my trouble

was this watch.

Oh, I see.

Yeah, the dandiest thing. I found

it hidden in an old Indian skull.

I'll trade you

a good fiddle for it.

What would I want

with a fiddle?

Well, all you can do with that

is clock the time.

With a fiddle

you can pass the time.

All right,

I'll trade you for that.

Oh no, not my Mandy.

Mmm-mmm, no.

Say, how long does it take

to open a safe?

Come in, Johnny.

There you are, Johnny.

Much obliged, Camrose.

Glad to do it.

Good luck with your poker.

Heads.

Hello, Linnet.

Hello.

Coming up to Lestrade's?

Oh, maybe later.

Uh, you feeling

lucky tonight?

I always feel lucky.

That's my trouble.

I'll see you.

King high straight.

Ace high.

It's too good for me.

And me.

That cleans me.

Of all the rotten luck.

You're a

cleaned chicken, huh?

I'll have to give you

my IOU, Jack.

With pleasure.

Marta, pen and ink

for Mr. Camrose.

Too bad your friend Logan

couldn't be with us tonight.

Oh, he's off

on another trip tomorrow.

Always on the move.

I wish I had his energy.

He came near using some

of it tonight on Bragg.

And Bragg backed down.

What did Logan

want to butt in for?

Well, maybe he didn't want to

see that young fellow butchered.

All you boys wanted to see was

a fight. Ever consider that?

Better tell Logan

to walk softly with Bragg.

Tell Bragg to walk softly.

Bragg is nothing

but a low-down skunk.

Oh, come, Dr. Balance.

Honey Bragg's

a sort of friend of mine.

You have

strange friends, Jack.

Well, I didn't say that I

like him or that I trust him.

What's your idea

of a friend?

Any man, I suppose,

who believes as I do

that the human race

is a horrible mistake.

Always damp. Always cold.

Isn't there any heat

anywhere in the world?

Good night.

Coming my way, Howison?

Mmm.

Good night, Marta.

Coming, George?

I hear there's going to be

a cabin-raising next week.

Whose?

Some young couple who apparently

disagree with your husband's theories

about perpetuating the human

race. You'll come, won't you?

Why do you play so high when

the cards are going against you?

Oh, I'll get it back.

Five or six good hands

in a night.

Jack can't always be

that lucky.

You're a fool.

Censure on your lips,

solicitude in your eyes.

Is that really for me,

Marta?

You're always reading things

in the way I look at you.

The things I'd like to read.

They're not there, George.

How's Lucy?

Adorable.

Good night, Marta.

Good night.

Hurry up!

There it goes!

There it goes!

There, I think

that's wide enough.

That's big enough

for anybody's fireplace.

Here's your other door.

You can get out either side

in case you have trouble

with the Indians

or your woman.

Oh, Mrs. Dance,

I just can't get over it.

All these people

coming from miles around,

people we don't even know

giving their time and all

to build a house

for Gray and me.

Yes, but don't forget it

means a lot to them, too.

For sure. A neighbor,

a new family starting up.

And another pair of hands to

stand off those red beasters.

Hold up!

If you want to catch a man,

you've got to work at it.

I want no man

I have to catch.

Why, sure. You catch him

and he catches you.

A man always figures

that he does the catching.

The truth is, it's the woman

that brings him up on the rope,

him not quite knowing it.

Is that the way

you got Mrs. Dance?

Sure.

But she gave me the sign.

You've gotta give a man

the sign.

Maybe that's so.

Whoa, boy.

Let's stroll down

by the river.

I thought we came here

to help, George.

Doesn't this scene

of domesticity inspire you?

Not to sweat

over a hammer and saw.

But it does inspire me to stretch out

in the shade with my head on your lap.

This will be a handy place

for your woodpile, Liza.

Oh, it's so peaceful here.

Mmm. The illusion

of peace is upon it.

You sound rather jaded.

Oh, these cabin-raisings

jade me.

People planting themselves in one

rough spot for the rest of their lives.

I'm more for mansions

and plush furniture.

What I wouldn't give

right now

to be in an expensive

restaurant in Boston or New York.

Mmm, with music playing.

And you in a maroon waistcoat

and me in an elegant green gown.

Ah, Lucy, there's so much of

this world that we're missing.

Perhaps, George, if you took

things a bit more seriously.

You mean like Logan?

Always figuring.

More stores,

more mules...

What I mean is, if you

didn't gamble so much.

This is a gambling country.

Everybody gambles.

Even Logan gambles,

doesn't he,

every time he sends out

a pack train?

That's different.

Well, we're different.

He's not responsible for his

character and neither am I for mine.

You know, I feel that sometimes

you make a comparison between us

that leaves me

at a disadvantage.

George,

don't complicate things.

Let's keep them simple

and straight.

Mmm, my thoughts rarely

travel in a straight line.

How about your affections?

My affections, always,

where you're concerned Lucy.

Oh, George.

God bless the hands

that built it,

and the two

that it was built for,

and may they prosper and live in

peace all the days of their lives.

Those whom God has joined

together, let no man put asunder.

For as much as

Gray and Liza here

have consented together

in holy wedlock,

and have witnessed the same

before God and this company

and thereto have given and pledged

their troth each to the other,

I pronounce

that they are man and wife.

In the name of the Father and of

the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.

Amen.

Now kiss her, son,

and let's eat.

Where were you, Hi?

What kept you?

Well, the work all done?

Yeah, you timed it

just right, Hi.

Cabin's all raised.

The couple's spliced and ready to

raise a cabin full of young'uns.

Well, I couldn't find Mandy.

Soy bean.

Soy bean.

It's nice to have

a place of your own

and know your children'll

grow up there.

If they're boys, I'd want

them to take up land nearby.

If they're girls, I'd want

them to marry neighbors

and not move off.

When I'm dead, I'd like

them to stand where I stood

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