Wagon Train (TV Series)
The Jess MacAbee Story (1959)
Carol Byron: Lilly Belle MacAbee
Quotes
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Jess MacAbee : [He's still in the shade, rolling gently in the hammock] Lilly Belle, giddy up, that plough is not gonna plough without a little elbow grease.
Lilly Belle MacAbee : Giddy up. Come on.
Jess MacAbee : I don't know what these girls would do without their Daddy.
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Lilly Belle MacAbee : Daddy, you're just about the bravest man in the whole world.
Jess MacAbee : Lilly Belle, you'll turn your Daddy's head.
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Flint McCullough : President Polk? Well, how long you folks been here?
Belle MacAbee : Well, Mr MacAbee brought me here twenty years ago and I haven't been out of this valley since. And the girls haven't been out at all.
Flint McCullough : Well, I'm afraid President Polk is long gone. Since him there's been Zachary Taylor, Franklin Pierce, Millard Philmore, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln of course, Andrew Jackson. There's been the Civil War.
Belle MacAbee : Civil War?
Flint McCullough : Eleven states seceded from the Union.
Belle MacAbee : How wicked.
Jess MacAbee : I've always said those Yankees were unstable.
Sally Belle MacAbee : What Yankee states left the Union, Mr McCullough?
Flint McCullough : The Yankee states of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Arkansas, Georgia, Alabama, Florida and Louisiana.
Lilly Belle MacAbee : The whole South?
Sally Belle MacAbee : Out of the Union?
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Flint McCullough : You've lived for 17 years and you've learnt to do a great many things that most women never learn.
Lilly Belle MacAbee : What?
Flint McCullough : Well, most women don't plough the fields, most women don't do the butchering, and most women don't harvest the crops.
Lilly Belle MacAbee : They don't?
Flint McCullough : No.
Lilly Belle MacAbee : But Daddy says they do.
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Anna Belle MacAbee : We heard a lot of firing.
Jess MacAbee : Well, I did manage to wing one or two.
Sally Belle MacAbee : Did Mr McCullough get any?
Jess MacAbee : Oh. yeah. He winded one or two, too.
Lilly Belle MacAbee : You are the two bravest men in the whole world.
Jess MacAbee : Ooh, it was nothing. Was it, Flint?
Flint McCullough : Nothing, absolutely nothing at all.
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Lilly Belle MacAbee : Do you want him to choose you, Sally Belle?
Sally Belle MacAbee : I don't know. I'm scared that he will. And scared that he won't.
Lilly Belle MacAbee : I guess I feel the same way.
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Lilly Belle MacAbee : The Indians are building a fire.
Anna Belle MacAbee : They're gonna burn us alive.
Cora Belle MacAbee : I'm gonna get scalped.
Belle MacAbee : Girls. Don't upset your father.
Jess MacAbee : You girls get below. Southern gentleman always takes care of his lady folks.
Anna Belle MacAbee : You raised us Western and we're with you shoulder to shoulder.