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I suspect cowhands been doing that

for 10,000 years.

Sam, you mean to tell me

there've been cowhands for 10,000 years?

Sure. You think there was a time

there was no cows?

Think those cows

just rounded themselves up...

then trotted themselves

to a butcher and said:

"Here, you, now, you cut

a great big piece of steak out of me?"

Sam, what are you putting on your hair?

"Guaranteed to attract women

and repel mosquitoes."

I think they got it backwards, it should be:

"Guaranteed to repel women

and attract bugs."

Sam, you lovely man.

I wonder why it is

Troop is always the last to quit?

What's he bucking for?

Hey, Jube.

We always knock off early

on payday around here. Kind of a tradition.

I'm just finishing a job.

Well, now, we ain't going to wait for you

to go to town.

You don't have to. I'm not going.

- You ain't going to town on payday?

- Nope.

- Why ain't you?

- That's none of your business...

but Shep asked me to come up to the house

for supper tonight.

Shep asked you to come up to the house

for supper?

- That's right.

- How come he did that?

He ain't invited nobody up there

since Mae came.

How come he asked you?

Or was it her that did the asking?

I told you it was him, didn't I?

I'm glad it wasn't me

they asked up to that house for dinner.

I couldn't let out a belch or nothing.

I just don't enjoy a dinner

unless I can belch now and then.

Hey, Pinky. You know what your trouble is?

You've got a whole mess of splinters

in your britches.

Why don't you try pulling them out?

I like my coffee strong enough

to float a pistol.

Thank you.

Excuse me, honey, I forgot.

Mae's trying to teach me Canada etiquette.

Imagine an old bull like me getting himself

a little Canadian heifer like that.

Talks funny, don't she? Kind of high-toned.

That's her best dress she's wearing.

Your honor, I guess.

I suppose you're wondering

why I asked you up?

Yes.

I like the way you work, Jube.

You do more than your share.

- How'd you like to plant your roots here?

- Kind of looks like I've planted them already.

No. I mean permanent.

The truth is,

I'd like to spend more time with Mae.

There's this here Cattlemen's Association.

They made me top man

and that'll mean plenty of meetings.

The fact is, I'll need a foreman. I mean you.

The job's yours if you want it.

Wait a minute. I'm new at this.

I've never been a foreman.

Look, I'm very grateful, Mr. Horgan, but I...

Why me? Why not one of the others?

- Who? Sam?

- Yeah.

Has to be told things. Carson? Too dumb.

Pinky? He wants it.

He'd like to be top man around here.

But somehow I don't trust him all the way.

How many men you known in your life

you could trust complete?

- One. Just one. That was my father.

- There.

That's not going to set very well

with the others.

I'm too new here.

Sam, Carson, they're friendly enough.

- What about Pinky?

- He hates your gizzard.

But Pinky don't like nobody.

He don't even like himself.

But someday he'll learn.

There's only three things on earth

worth fighting for.

A woman...

a full belly, and a roof over your head.

He'll learn.

You can handle him. How about it?

Is there anything besides Pinky

to stop you?

No.

How about you, duchess?

How does Jube stand with you?

Let him decide for himself.

You know, Mr. Horgan...

since my father died, you're the only man

who ever went out of his way to help me.

All right.

Let's celebrate.

Come on, Mae, congratulate him.

Jube, did you ever hear me play the piano?

Listen.

Look, no hands.

Come on, Mae, dance with him.

We're celebrating.

I'll get that new roll from Saint Louis,

ain't even unwrapped it yet.

Be right down.

You didn't seem very anxious for the job.

I just didn't want to step up too far,

too sudden.

Do you really care what they think?

What about me? Do you care what I think?

He wanted me to congratulate you,

didn't he?

We're ending this before it starts, Mae.

- Are we?

- That's right.

I got it all the way from Saint Louis.

A waltz, never been played.

Jube, you called me Mae.

Another mountain lion.

I think they're hunting in packs.

That's number five since we left the ranch.

Consarnit.

I'm going into town

to post a reward for bounty hunters.

We sure can't take time out

from the roundup to go hunting cats.

And from now on Jube Troop's foreman.

- Since when?

- Since now.

Any questions?

Yeah, I got a question: Why?

Because I trust him, Pinky.

- Any other questions?

- Nope.

Okay, Shep.

Well, now, I just guess we'll have to wait

and see how he works out.

Yeah. That we will.

You can make your first report

to the ranch tonight.

I'll see the rest of you

at Cattlemen's Bridge camp in the morning.

All right, we'll split up.

You two take the canyon track

to Cattlemen's Bridge. I'll meet you there.

Come on, Carson.

The Bar-Eight boys

have picked up some of our strays.

Go and get them.

I don't know. Maybe you got too big

for your britches too soon.

Could be. We'll have to wait and see.

That's right. We'll have to wait and see.

Hey, Pinky, look out for mountain lions.

I thought sure I seen one of them

steer-killing cats.

That just goes to show you

how easy it is to make a mistake.

Yeah, it sure does.

You seen Pinky?

Maybe he's with them Bar-Eight hands

I seen...

Are you headman here?

I'm going to tell you something, old man.

You've got about five minutes to hitch up

and move off here, and keep moving.

All of you.

We're God-fearing people.

We don't travel on the Sabbath.

I'm gonna tell you what you're gonna do.

If you don't move off the land...

then you better start digging holes in it

to bury yourself in...

one apiece.

They mean it, Shem. They'll shoot.

We're doing no hurt.

We've got sick people here.

Now look, you deaf?

I said hitch up and move off!

- What's going on here?

- Who is this guy, Pinky?

- It's Shep's new foreman.

- Who are they?

A bunch of the boys

from the Bar-Eight ranch up north.

Why are you shooting? What have

these people done that was wrong?

They're Rawhiders. They'll steal you blind.

We're just trying to run them off.

My people don't steal.

We keep the 10 Commandments.

What do you do

with the 10 Commandments?

You sell the 10 Commandments

so you can eat? Now how do you live?

By helping others as we go...

and loving our neighbors like it says

in the Good Book, mister.

Sometimes, the hardest commandment

to keep...

but anyways, to put it simple,

we believe in love, not hate.

You said what you thought they'd do.

I wanna know what they done.

They're on Shep's land, ain't they?

They turn north, they're on the Bar-Eight.

All right, they're on Shep's land now.

What else they done that's wrong?

- Why did you stop here?

- We got some sick folks, mister.

This is the Lord's Day, and we thought

some rest and prayer would help.

We really shouldn't go no further

till they get better.

- They're lying.

- No, they ain't.

- Are you one of these people?

- Nope.

But I rode with them a ways.

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