Wagon Train (TV Series)

The Ruth Marshall Story (1959)

Frank McGrath: Charlie Wooster

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• Charlie Wooster : Y'know, I wonder why them wolves make more noise when the Major's away.

  Bill Hawks : What's the matter, Charlie? You getting scared?

  Charlie Wooster : Not exactly, I just don't like wolves, that's all.

  Flint McCullough : You know, Charlie, after all these years, I'm never quite sure still whether it's an Indian or a wolf.

• Bill Hawks : This damned blasted country anyway. A man leaves train and drops right out of sight. Then all you get is this inferno silence and those wolves howling all the time.

  Charlie Wooster : Well, what are you going to do about it, Bill? You can't go off and leave Flint and Marshall. You just can't roll out in the morning, that's all.

  Bill Hawks : You know what the Major'd say, Charlie. He'd say it's two lives balanced against two hundred.

• Flint McCullough : Where's the girl?

  Charlie Wooster : Girl? Did you find the girl?

  Bill Hawks : Did you find Marshall's daughter?

  Flint McCullough : I didn't know.

  Bill Hawks : Don't tell me you found a white girl that lives with the Sioux?

  Flint McCullough : No, she didn't live with the Sioux. She lived with wolves.

  Charlie Wooster : What?

  Flint McCullough : She lived with four of the biggest wolves you've ever seen in your life.

  Charlie Wooster : She lived with wolves all right. Sure, sure, sure. Bill, he's sicker than we thought he was.

  Flint McCullough : I AM NOT.

  Bill Hawks : Yes, you are, Flint. You're gonna have to take it easy.

  Charlie Wooster : Just lie back and don't talk so much.

• Flint McCullough : How'd you get here?

  Charlie Wooster : Flint, I don't mind telling yer, I'm sure glad you opened them eyes. We was thinking for a while you was a goner, wasn't we.

  Flint McCullough : How'd I get back on the train?

  Bill Hawks : I'm gonna take back all those bad thoughts I had about the Sioux, Flint. They brought you in on a litter. They must've picked you up on the trail some place.

• Charlie Wooster : When a wolf howls like that, it means somebody's dead.

  Bill Hawks : Nah, it's Indian talk. When it comes to wolves, I got a lot of respect for Indian talk. They live out there with them, don't they?

  Bill Hawks : You know, Charlie, I had a wolf cub for a pet once. Found him out in the woods. Thought he was a puppy.

  Charlie Wooster : You mustn't have been very bright.

  Bill Hawks : I was as bright as any five year old kid could be. My Daddy finally turned him loose.

  Charlie Wooster : I wonder how Flint's getting on. I wish he was here...

  Bill Hawks : I tell you one thing, Charlie, I bet he's not flinching at all those night cries like you are tonight.

  Charlie Wooster : Well, he's braver than I am. And he's bigger too.