Wagon Train (TV Series)

The Sam Livingston Story (1960)

Ward Bond: Major Seth Adams

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• Bill Hawks : You know, Charlie, it's my Christian duty to tell you to never sing in a choir. The way you go off key is a sacrilege.

  Charlie Wooster : Listen, you broken down baritone, I know more about music than you...

  Bill Hawks : Artistic temperament. I don't like his singing.

  Major Seth Adams : Bill, I gotta agree with you. I don't like his singing either.

  Charlie Wooster : And I don't like yours.

• Major Seth Adams : Well, Miss Abigail, you shouldn't have paid him off last night. When you're coming to a place like this, you always wanna hold back a coupla weeks' pay. Now we're not licked yet. I'll go over to Miners' Hall and see if I can find- Say, you know, if you bring a couple of buckets of that stuff to choir practice, you'd get some real singing.

• Major Seth Adams : This is the first time in my life I ever hired a bank president as for a wagon skinner.

• Major Seth Adams : Hey, you wouldn't be rawhiding the banker, would you?

  Sam Livingston : Senator.

  Major Seth Adams : Senator?

  Sam Livingston : Yeah, he's fixing to run for Senate this fall. I wouldn't rawhide him for the world. Why, Cass Fleming is one of the best friends I've got, Major, do me a favour, will ya. See that he doesn't get any more than neck deep in mud.

• Major Seth Adams : Goldarn it, they've stopped again. What do they think we're running here? A sightseeing excursion?

• Charlie Wooster : Is he still riding the Senator?

  Major Seth Adams : Riding is hardly the word for it, Charlie. He's roasting him over a slow fire, just like a Comanche roasts a rabbit.