The Castaway Cowboy

Lincoln Costain:
Where are you going Battan?

Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy:
Awe shucks, what's the use, I can't get the dang thing to work anyhow.

Lincoln Costain:
In my outfit we don't quit until it's too dark to work or time to eat. I didn't hear the dinner bell - did you?

Henrietta MacAvoy:
Mr. Bryson tells me it's impossible to load cattle onto boats in these waters.

Calvin Bryson:
It was tried once on the big island two ships ran on reefs and there's no anchorage further out.

Lincoln Costain:
Don't they have docks in Alleah?

Calvin Bryson:
Never needed them."

Lincoln Costain:
Well how do they load then?

Calvin Bryson:
Mostly by long boat. Can you imagine trying to load cattle by long boat?

Lincoln Costain:
Well, there's got to be a way, there always is, it's just a matter of finding it.

Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy:
Mr. Costain says there ain't never been a horse that ain't been rode and never been a rider that ain't been throwed.

Calvin Bryson:
Well, I won't challenge the statement but I will the grammar.

Lincoln Costain:
Grammar never was my strong suit.

Calvin Bryson:
Young man you are sprouting up like a weed.

Lincoln Costain:
At least he's got good rock candy.

Lincoln Costain:
10,000 acres huh, that's a good size pea patch even where I come from.

Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy:
Where's that?

Lincoln Costain:
Texas. There you can ride a month in any direction and never touch a fence.

Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy:
It must be beautiful.

Lincoln Costain:
Oh, it is.

Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy:
Costain, do you think you could ever like it here?

Lincoln Costain:
No, no nah. This fruit bowl ain't for me. Some people might like it just fine, though.

Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy:
Suppose you're going back to Texas huh?

Lincoln Costain:
You bet

Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy:
Got a wife there?

Lincoln Costain:
Haven't met the woman who could afford me.

Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy:
Then you never did have one.

Lincoln Costain:
Nope, had the small pox once though, amounts to the same thing.

Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy:
Yea, guess you never wanted to settle down with any woman no matter how nice they were huh.

Lincoln Costain:
That's about right Yeah.

Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy:
But you can't have kids if you ain't married.

Lincoln Costain:
Yeh, ain't that a mercy?

Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy:
What are you gonna you do when you get old?

Lincoln Costain:
Die I guess.

Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy:
I mean before that, who'll take care of you if you don't have a son?

Lincoln Costain:
I'll say one thing for you - you get a notion you sure hang on to it, Burton.

Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy:
Booton.

Lincoln Costain:
Oh yeah.

Henrietta MacAvoy:
Yes, it's true they do like their fun.

Lincoln Costain:
They'd rather giggle than laugh, they'd rather laugh than eat they're like a bunch of kids out there. A school girl would be more sober mam'm.

Lincoln Costain:
What is it boy? What's the matter?

Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy:
It's One of the animals, a big one he's eatin' up the vegetables again.

Henrietta MacAvoy:
Get out of there. Get out of my garden, do you hear me? Get out!

Lincoln Costain:
One of the animals, woe doggey, you didn't tell me you had cattle around here, Button

Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy:
Booton. We don't that thing's wild but I sure hope he eats the turnips!

Lincoln Costain:
He may be wild but he ain't no thing. That's about a thousand pounds of prime bull out there.

Henrietta MacAvoy:
You willful, worthless, misbegotten beast!

Lincoln Costain:
That's a right nice vocabulary Ms. McEvoy but you'll never talk him out of there...

Lincoln Costain:
Where are they?

Kimo:
Boys not tell me, boss. Maybe they go work someplace else, yes?

Lincoln Costain:
Yeah, yeah, maybe it'll snow this afternoon too, but I doubt it.

Henrietta MacAvoy:
You just can't expect to change a whole culture overnight.

Lincoln Costain:
I don't have the least notion of changing it. If you'll just give me my wages I won't be troubling you any further.

Henrietta MacAvoy:
You know, it is Sunday. They're entitled to some recreation.

Lincoln Costain:
There just ain't any Sundays when it's roundup until the job gets done.

Henrietta MacAvoy:
Well, maybe if you met them halfway they would be able...

Lincoln Costain:
Ma'am there aren't any halfways in the cattle business. It would be easier to make a cherry pie out of barbed wire than to make a cowboy out of the best of the lot of them. They just ain't cut out for workin'.

Henrietta MacAvoy:
Booton says they're really trying.

Lincoln Costain:
That's whats so frightening, they are.

Henrietta MacAvoy:
But if they're showing progress...

Lincoln Costain:
They aren't showing progress, they're just trying. It ain't the same thing.

Lincoln Costain:
Hey, you know, I think I sold them boys short when I said they couldn't drive a hot nail in a snow bank. I think they could, I really think they could. Henrietta, what are you cryin' about?

Henrietta MacAvoy:
I don't know, I guess I never really believed it would happen.

Capt. Cary:
You made a believer out of me, Costain. Mrs., here's your money. Coin of the realm. I'm offering a mate's pay for anyone who'll nursemaid those cows back to California...

Lincoln Costain:
Well, that's my chance to get back to Texas. I don't know, Captain, that's right temptin' but I don't think I can leave Mrs. McEvoy with them pineapple cowboys. I mean they'd drive her dingy and I'm about the only one around who knows how to handle them.

Capt. Cary:
Well, suit yourself, lad, and I don't blame you but I've got to get them cattle to California. Thank you, both of you.

Henrietta MacAvoy:
Good-bye. Then you are going to stay, at least for a while, Linc.

Lincoln Costain:
Well for a while, yeah, for a while, you know,till they get the hang of it then I'm gonna get off this flower pot.

Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy:
Mamma! Mamma!

Henrietta MacAvoy:
Good heavens, we're right here

Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy:
Tarnation Mamma I swam one of those critters out just as smooth as butter. Did you see?

Henrietta MacAvoy:
Of course we did, dear, and nobody could have done it better.

Lincoln Costain:
Aww, well now that's a little thick don't you think? Ain't nobody gonna pin a rose on you just for doing your job. You remember that, Booton.

Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy:
Ma, Ma, he called me by my right name! Did you hear him? He said it for the first time!