Rawhide (TV Series)

Incident of the Swindler (1964)

Paul Brinegar: Wishbone

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• Wishbone : Clumsy as a bear cub, not a brain in your head, putting a dirty rag like that on a burn. You could catch blood poisoning. I swear, Mushy, I don't know what you'd do if I wasn't here to take care of ya!

  Mushy : You're always here.

  Wishbone : Yeah, well, what if I wasn't?

  Mushy : Guess I'd have to wait 'til you got back.

• Straw Coleman : Y'know it's funny. The night air like this, the whole sky full of stars for a ceiling, and Mother Nature for a blanket. And here you are, just sitting and staring at nothing. If I didn't know you any better, George, I'd say you have the look of a man with a problem.

  Wishbone : Look again. A man can live with anything.

  Straw Coleman : Even New Orleans?

• Wishbone : Boss, why don't you let me take Coleman in? Well, I could use some supplies anyway.

  Gil Favor : Supplies? You putting me on? You done bought up half the staples in the territory day before yesterday.

  Wishbone : Yeah, but I forgot some of the extras, you know, like cinnamon and molasses.

  Gil Favor : Extras? This crew's spoiled rotten already. Tough enough to get a day's work out of them They don't need no fancy extras.

• Wishbone : Oh? You know her?

  Straw Coleman : Not as well as I'd like to. No, she keeps us worshipping her from a respectable distance.

  Wishbone : Oh, that must be because she's never met a real Tennessee timber wolf. All I need's an introduction.

• Wishbone : It's like my Daddy always said, takes a pretty strong hand to top one lady but a ten buggy prayer meeting to put a lid on full.

  Straw Coleman : This Daddy of yours, does he give lessons on the side?

  Wishbone : Well, I'll see if that can be arranged after our little appointment.

  Straw Coleman : Four Queens!

• Samson : Bless my toes, it's the twinkletoes of New Orleans. Queen of all she beholds who keeps her most ardent admirer languishing on the invisible thread of hope.

  Wishbone : You're overdoing it, buster.

• Straw Coleman : Easy money, bright lights. Beautiful women. Those were the days.

  Wishbone : It coulda been.

  Straw Coleman : Yeah, you've got something there, friend. I could have been a millionaire but for the right cards at the right time. And you could've had the biggest cattle ranch in all of Texas. That's our trouble. We have to live with what we could have beens.