The Texas Rangers Page #3

Ain't a three-way split fair?

You tell him.

Tell me what?

It's this way, Sam.

We couldn't help it.

Honest, we couldn't.

We was broke.

And hungry.

We spent so much time

Iooking for you...

I'II tell him.

Sam, you're gazing

at two of the finest Rangers

in the state.

Not Texas Rangers?

Two of the best.

No fooling.

Law and order,

that's us.

My pals!

(LAUGHING)

Rangers!

(LAUGHING)

Listen, Sam, we'II quit

whenever you say the word.

We'II quit right now.

You quit and I'II

shoot your teeth out.

Amigo, I got it!

I'm way ahead of you.

Protection plus.

Sure, you give me

the information. I do it.

There's not a chance

for a slipup.

Like spearing fish

in a barrel.

You can't miss!

You get one every time!

I don't know.

We're all drinking

the same stuff,

but I don't feel it.

AIIow me.

No, Iet me do it.

I beg of you,

Iet me.

Maybe this stuff

hasn't had a chance

to sink in yet.

Look, you're a Ranger,

ain't you?

You got me so daffy

I don't know what state

I'm in.

You are a Ranger.

We three

are gonna work together

just Iike the old days.

I get it. Me and him

is gonna tip you off.

A house don't need to fall

on you. You catch on quick.

When a stage

carries gold...

And big cattle men!

Don't forget those

railroad payrolls!

And gold shipments

in and out of the state.

Don't tell me!

You Rangers get the inside

on everything.

You can get the dates,

amounts, if and when

they're protected!

We've really got us

something here.

AII you gotta do is sit tight

till you hear from us.

Right!

Salud!

Salud!

To the beginning

of a profitable career.

Here's what I'II say

to the Major.

"Major," I'II say,

"we ain't seen hide

nor hair of them rustlers.

"We ain't even seen a cow.

"We want to be good,

honest Rangers,

"but the first shot out

of the box, you pull

a dishonest trick on us

"and send us out Iooking

for rustlers and cows

what ain't.

"Is that fair,

Major? I ask you."

You think

he'II swallow that?

He'II be apologizing

to both of us.

Yeah!

(GUNS FIRING)

Down in the flat.

Come on, boy!

Here we go.

Right behind you.

Marthy? Marthy?

Pa! Pa, I got

two Indians!

Pa, I got two of 'em!

Oh.

Is that all

of your party?

What's the matter?

They said in Tennessee

that Texas was the Iand

of opportunity,

a safe place

to raise a family,

but I reckon

we come too early.

Marthy didn't want to come.

Said it was foolish.

But I reckoned different.

I should have Iistened to her.

I should have come

a Iittle Iater.

The savage

still rules the plains.

Ma! Ma, don't die!

Pa! Pa,

don't Ieave me Iike this!

Come on. Come on.

Let me alone!

Let me talk

to 'em, please!

You're a brave Iittle man.

Let me go!

The Lord said,

"I am the resurrection

and the Iife."

It seems Iike he also

said something Iike,

whoever believes in him,

even if he was dead,

will still Iive

and that whoever Iives

and believes in him

will never die

and that... Amen.

Where's your

nearest kin?

There they be.

Got no others.

No friends nowhere?

Only some folks

back in Tennessee

Ma used to speak about.

What are we gonna do

with him?

I'm going with you, Rangers,

and shoot all the Injuns

I can Iay eyes on.

We ain't got no time

to traipse around

the country

with a sawed-off,

sniveling runt.

I ain't sniveling,

and I ain't sawed off,

and I'm going

with you, Rangers.

We'II take you

a Iittle ways,

but the first chance we get,

we're gonna unload you.

Thanks, Ranger.

You, too, partner.

You're all right, son.

(SINGING OH SUSANNA)

Wahoo! Jim!

What?

That woman over

at the Major's house,

Iook what she done.

Cut off my fingernails.

Said they Iook Iike

bear claws.

And that ain't all.

No?

No, she's teaching me

how to read and write.

I have to study every day.

I have to brush my teeth

and wash my hands.

Now she's gonna cut

my hair.

I ain't gonna Iet her.

What's more,

you're gonna protect me.

I've heard enough.

No, sir,

we ain't gonna stand by

and see that woman make

a sissy out of you, Davey.

We'II tell that spirit

of cleanliness a few things.

If she don't Iike it,

you can move out.

Come on.

Wait here.

(HUMMING)

Hello.

Davey, go upstairs.

Wash your face, and brush

your hair for supper. Go on.

That's her.

Did you want

to see my father?

No, I wanted to see you.

Well, here I am.

Well, Davey's been

telling us that he's

not awful happy here.

WAHOO:

When we turned the boy over

to the Major, we thought...

You thought what?

Well, we...

AII that business about

making Davey brush

his teeth every day...

Guess that's all right...

It's not a woman's place

to be cutting a man's hair.

Makes him out a sissy.

We got our ideas

about bringing up a boy.

If you think that brushing

Davey's teeth every morning

and combing his hair

and washing his face and

seeing he gets an education

is gonna make a sissy

out of him, I pity you

for your amazing ignorance.

Ignorant?

Who's ignorant?

I can read and write.

That's probably

all you can do.

We're gonna settle this thing

about Davey once and for all!

I know more about

a boy's welfare and education

than you will ever Iearn.

There's no reason

for discussing Davey further!

He's staying here with us.

That's all there is to it!

Now go on upstairs, Davey.

(DOOR SLAMMING)

That's what you say!

Is that so?

AMANDA:
It is so!

We'II see about that!

If you wasn't a woman,

I'd... Oh, fudge!

(CLEARING THROAT)

Hello, Hawkins.

Hello, Jones.

Hello, Major.

Hello, darling.

Hello.

I think it would be nice

if you'd ask the gentlemen

to stay for supper.

Well, yes, we're having

a baked Virginia ham,

black-eyed peas,

hot biscuits,

homemade apple butter

and sweet-potato pie.

Well, sure...

It's mighty kind of you,

Miss, but...

No buts about it.

You will stay.

Smells mighty fine,

that ham does.

If you don't stay

and help us eat it,

we'II have ham for a week.

Thanks, but we haven't

quartered our horses yet.

You've got plenty

of time for that.

Don't coax them, father.

If they want to stay,

they will.

If they don't want to, well...

(DOOR SLAMMING)

I'II bet that's good ham.

Go upstairs

and wash your face.

I don't want to see you

with dirty fingernails

anymore, understand?

I might have

knowed it.

That ain't all.

You got a Iot of studying

to do, too, understand?

Mr. Hawkins,

you forgot your hat.

Thanks.

Meow! What a Iong tail

that cat's got.

Sure know how to make

yourself unpopular.

Mind telling me why

you traded ham for beans?

Couldn't you see what was

back of that invitation?

Yeah, good eating.

I've stayed clear

of her kind this Iong,

and I'm satisfied.

What's the matter

with her kind?

She's the home-building,

settling-down-for-Iife kind.

Once a gal Iike her gets

her apron strings around

a man, that's his finish.

She's a right

smart-Iooking Iittle gal.

When's your birthday?

I'II make you a present

of her.

I still don't know why

we didn't stay for supper.

I see where Colonel Drake

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