When the Daltons Rode Page #2

- Come on, boys.

- Anything wrong?

- No, no, no.

What size glove does your mother wear?

Oh. Darned if I know.

Well, find out for me, will you, please?

I wanna bring a little gift

to the party tonight.

Yeah, sure, I'll find out.

Emmett'll know.

Hey, where's the telegraph operator?

Down near the cattle chute

somewhere.

Thanks.

One, two, three...

four, five, six...

seven, eight, nine...

10, 11, 12, 13-

I'm looking for

the telegraph operator.

15, 16. That's me.

17, 18, 19, 20.

- I'd like to send a message.

- 21- 21-

- Write it out, please. 22-

- Pencil?

22- 22-

- 23.

- Paper?

23, 24, 26...

- 27-

- You missed 25.

- 25, 26, 27-

- What's the date?

- 28.

- Thanks.

29, 30, 31...

32, 33, 3-

33, 34, 35.

- How many do you make it, Miss Julie?

- 35,Joe.

There you are.

Can I help you?

Thank you.

I can take your message now.

"John Payne, Guthrie, Oklahoma.

Delayed. See you next week."

You could have five more words

for the same price.

- What do you suggest?

- Well, I only send the telegrams.

It's going to take me quite a little time

to put what I'm thinking into five words.

- Maybe I'd better come back tonight.

- We close promptly at 6.00.

But I can get in touch with you

at your home if it was important.

- Not very well. I'm going to a party.

- Really? So am I.

- It couldn't be the same one.

- Oh.

Too bad. Say, how would this be

for the rest of the telegram?

"Am greatly impressed with Kansas."

Not very original,

but the meaning is clear.

How soon could I come back

for an answer?

I can give you one now.

You're wasting your time. Stop.

Come home at once. Goodbye.

- What's her name?

- I wish I knew.

- But she was sure beautiful.

- Oh, that's a great help.

Can you supply

any more lurid details?

Well, her features

were the usual kind...

but, uh, they were

put together so cleverly.

Oh. Well, I'm gettin' warm.

What kind of eyes did she have?

Sort of soft sapphire.

Sort of soft sapphire? Let's you and I

approach this from another angle.

- Where'd you see her?

- Down at the cattle pen.

- Blindfold her.

- Yeah, tie it good! Come on, Ozark!

Yeah, tie it good.

Come on, Ozark! Ozark!

You don't have to worry about me, honey.

I'm a one-woman man.

- Ozark!

- Hey, Ozark!

- Go on, get out, and don't scratch the buggy!

- Oh!

Scat! I'm comin'! Go on! Go on!

- Come on, Ozark!

- Ozark!

- Hey, Ozark!

- Come on, Ozark!

Hurry it up! Come on!

- What's goin' on here?

- A little more up there. Here we go.

There you go, Ma.

Oh! There ya are!

- Happy birthday, Ma!

- Happy birthday, Ma!

- For land's sakes!

- Do you like it, Ma?

Oh, do I like it?

Why, it's wonderful!

Oh, boys, you shouldn't have done it.

Now you can drive to town in style.

- I think I'm going to cry.

- Oh!

But I'm not usin' my new hankie!

Ah, give me a loan of yours,

Mr Winters.

If things turn out all right, honey,

I'll get you one of these for your birthday.

- Oh, Ozark.

- Oh, that ain't nothin'.

How about you and me

steppin' off in a dance?

Dance, did you say?

Clear out of the way, boys.

Fine woman,

that mother of yours, Ben.

Yeah, yeah, she is.

You know, she can milk a cow

just as fast as a man.

- Hmm?

- Mm-hmm.

It's too bad it's so dark. I'd like to

show you around the farm, Tod.

I can see it tomorrow, Ben.

I'm planning to stay over.

Good. I'm anxious for ya to see it.

We got some mighty good land.

Runs clear down to the creek,

and every bit of it planted in wheat.

Yes, sir. Mighty good land.

Plenty of snow in winter,

and not enough rain in summer to do-

Oh.

So this was the party.

Well, hello.

I'm certainly glad to see you're here.

- Really?

- You didn't pay me for that telegram.

- Hey, there. Hello, Julie.

- Oh, hello, Bob.

Thank you.

Forgive me for being late...

but this telegram came for you

just as I was closing up.

Oh, what's it say?

They want you to leave for Benton

immediately to testify at some trial.

I was afraid of that.

Oh, I'm sorry. Tod, this is Miss Julie King.

This is my old friend, Tod Jackson.

How do you do?

Julie's gonna marry me

if I ever stay home long enough.

I've already met Mr Jackson.

Yes, we, uh-

we sent a telegram together.

Oh. Yeah, yeah,

I forgot about that.

By the way, Julie, Tod was telling me about

some mysterious girl he met this afternoon.

- How interesting.

- Oh, it wasn't important.

According to Tod, she was a strange-looking

girl with funny eyes like, uh-

- What were they like, Tod?

- I forget.

Sapphires. Yeah, that's it.

Sort of a soft sapphire.

- Julie!

- Happy birthday, Ma!

Oh! Thank you, darlin'.

- I want you to come and see what the boys gave me.

- All right, dear.

Uh, you wouldn't try

and steal my girl, would you, partner?

Oh, I hadn't the slightest idea

she was your girl.

Bob Dalton!

Bob Dalton! Bob!

- What's the matter, Martin?

- They put me off my farm.

- Who did?

- Rigby and his surveyors.

Said the place belonged to the Kansas

Land and Development Company.

I've lived there 10 years.

I worked that land. It's my home.

Nobody can put you off your farm

if you've got a properly recorded deed.

- Isn't that so, Mr Winters?

- That's the law, Ben.

They put Jim Hawkins off his place.

Well, if you ask me, it's about time

we were takin' the law in our own hands.

- Come on, men!

- Shut up, Grat. That won't do any good.

Bob's right.

We've got to do this legally.

I suppose it's legal for Rigby

to run a new survey...

and tell a man

he don't own his own farm.

- I'm for runnin' him out of the country!

- What good'll that do?

- What's your opinion, Tod?

- Has anyone taken one of these cases to court?

What's the use of wastin'our time?

All the courts are in town.

No farmer ever got a square deal

from town folks.

That's right, Tod. Somebody's got

the town folks worked up against us.

Hmm. Why, uh-

Why don't you form

an association or a grange...

like they have in some

of the eastern states?

Then you could pool your interests...

and fight this Kansas Land and

Development Company more effectively.

- Would you be willing to handle it for us, Tod?

- Hold on, Bob. I'm on my way to Guthrie.

What do you wanna ride 200 miles to find clients

for when you've got all you need right here?

Kansas needs you

more than Oklahoma, Tod.

Well, I thought you were quite impressed

with Kansas, Mr Jackson.

Looks like I have a job.

Gee, thanks, Tod!

She's gonna kill me!

You keep away from me! Oh!

Oh, dear! Oh, Ozark, help me!

What are they fightin' about?

Me.

More chicken

before I put it away?

If I eat another piece,

I'll cackle.

Or lay an egg.

When did you first meet Bob?

On the Fourth of July.

He put a firecracker

under my chair.

Nice, romantic beginning.

- I hated him.

- What made you change your mind?

Bob changed it for me.

When he wants anything,

he has the manners of a locomotive.

- That's funny.

- What?

I'm like that too.

That's fine. And suppose

you get up a little steam...

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