Border Law (1931)

Buck Jones: Jim Houston

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Quotes 

• [Thunder accidentally flips a flapjack into the campfire] 

  Jim Houston, Texas Ranger : Tastes better if you catch 'em.

  Thunder Rogers, Texas Ranger : Son, I've made seven million of these flapjacks and that ain't happened to but nine of 'em.

  Jim Houston, Texas Ranger : What of it?

  Thunder Rogers, Texas Ranger : Bad luck, that's what. Whenever I miss a flapjack it means trouble - and plenty of it!

• Thunder Rogers, Texas Ranger : Well, what are we waitin' for?

  Jim Houston, Texas Ranger : Aw, keep your shirt on. Be suicide to start a shootin' match now. Besides, we want 'em all. We're takin' 'em back with us.

  Thunder Rogers, Texas Ranger : Yeah, but how?

  Jim Houston, Texas Ranger : I don't know. I've got to think.

  Thunder Rogers, Texas Ranger : With what?

• 'Pegleg' Barnes : See that there limb?

  [holds up his peg leg] 

  'Pegleg' Barnes : That comes from the tree where Sitting Bull used to sit.

  Jim Houston, Texas Ranger : No!

  'Pegleg' Barnes : Come by my barber shop and I'll give you everything from a haircut to a bath.

  Jim Houston, Texas Ranger : Thanks, pardner. I'll take the haircut, but you can give him

  [Thunder] 

  Jim Houston, Texas Ranger : the bath.

  Thunder Rogers, Texas Ranger : Aw, I ain't dirty.

  Jim Houston, Texas Ranger : I suppose that's sunburn, huh?

• [Jim has been wounded in a gunfight] 

  Tonita : Are you shot, Jimmy?

  Jim Houston, Texas Ranger : Only half shot, honey.