Frontier Fugitives

[first lines]

[Dave and Tex ride up to Panhandle who is making smoke signals and chanting incoherently]

Texas Ranger Dave Wyatt:
Well, what are you trying to do, Panhandle?

Texas Ranger Panhandle Perkins:
Don't you get it, Dave?

Texas Ranger Tex Haines:
Sorry.

Texas Ranger Panhandle Perkins:
You understand, don't you, Tex?

Texas Ranger Tex Haines:
Sure! You're givin' an imitation of a razorback hog stuck in a barbed-wire fence.

Texas Ranger Panhandle Perkins:
No, that ain't it at all! We're near Indian country, ain't we? Well, I'm practicin' talkin' Indian, throwin' up smoke signals, practicin' sign language - I'm getting' prepared!

Texas Ranger Tex Haines:
Ah, we were only kiddin', Panhandle. Understood every word you said, didn't we, Dave?

Texas Ranger Dave Wyatt:
Sure did, and you're dead right - we've got to be prepared. In fact, we'll hold a counsel of war right now.

Texas Ranger Panhandle Perkins:
If people find out that the three strangers around here are lawmen, we won't find out nothin' from nobody, especially about who's killin' trappers and Indians around here.

Texas Ranger Dave Wyatt:
Well, Panhandle's right again. If we're going to solve the mystery, we've got to work undercover.