Bite the Bullet Page #2

I got a month's pay coming.

A hot bath costs $5.

I guess I just won't bathe.

It takes $15 just to get drunk.

I'm going to stay sober.

$30 for an all-night woman.

Seventy miles in six hours?

Could he go 100 miles

every day for a week?

That might be enough to win this race.

I came 5,000 miles to try it.

- Why?

- To beat the best.

You must be either rich or crazy.

A little of both, I'm afraid.

I came 3,000 miles for the Kentucky Derby.

Another 2,000

to see Joe Gans box Battling Nelson.

Forty-two fantastic rounds.

It was bloody marvellous.

- You know who won?

- I'm not interested.

Not interested in who won?

That's not only unbelievable...

...it's positively un-American.

What does interest you?

Right now? Just a job.

What did Parker pay you?

$50 a month? $60?

You win this race,

and you'll get three years' pay.

What's the horse get out of it? Colic?

Cracked bones?

You ever see a horse run himself dead just

to please the man on his back? What for?

- Get his picture in the paper? For glory?

- Some men live for it.

Horse don't give a damn who wins a race.

Me, neither.

In the interest of the West's

greatest horse, the bronco...

...and myself, who grows them,

I'm putting up an extra $1,000...

...to the bronco rider who wins!

Matthews.

I'd like a chance

to win back some of my das money.

I figured you would.

- How do you like the joint?

- It ain't Kansas City.

Would you believe so many chumps

in the middle of Nowhere, U.S. A?

Like shooting fish in a barrel.

- Nice, fat sucker fish.

- All you need is the right bait, Rosie.

It takes more than a deck of cards

and a pair of knockers.

Horse race pulled them in.

This crowd, their hustle's the fast buck.

- What's yours?

- The same.

And if you don't win, which you won't...

...I'll lend you the $2,000.

You can work it off in Kansas City.

Bang bang, you're in the chips.

At $20 a bang, out of which you get half,

that's one hell of a lot of banging.

It's a hell of a lot easier on your ass

than 700 miles in a saddle.

The money's for Steve.

He won't care how you got it.

- How many times you been married?

- Eleven. Ten without a preacher or license.

- Well, did you love any of them?

- All of them. Every one of them.

The good and the bad.

It's a shame to waste all that prime beef

on a guy serving three to five in prison.

You two keep in touch?

- He's kind of a lousy letter writer.

- Lousy bank robber, too.

You have anything for a toothache?

Latest thing in miracles: Heroin.

One of these painkillers,

and a chaser of whiskey:

Four hours of joyhouse!

Have you tried this heroin yourself?

Mister, I tried everything

except confession.

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