Support Your Local Sheriff! Page #2

Say a man was willing to go to work to

get himself a stake. How'd he go about it?

- You don't want a job?

- No.

I figure the way prices are around here,

I'll go broke about 2.30 this afternoon.

We got a bulletin board with that

kinda stuff down at the assay office.

Thank you.

Hold it! Hold it!

OK, go ahead.

Fight!

Yee-hah!

- Get the hell out of my way.

- Heck, go around.

I told you get outta there.

What did I tell you?

Watch where you're grabbing.

- What about you?

- What about me?

- You wanna grab something?

- Everything looks too slippery.

- What does that mean?

- Nothing.

You look too clean to suit me.

Are you the man I talk to about...

- Wait your turn, mister.

...the job of sheriff?

- You interested in the job of sheriff?

- Well, maybe.

- How much does it pay?

- No sheriff lived long enough to find out.

Look, boys. Why don't you go outside

and watch the fight? The ladies too.

Very good fight out there.

You can watch it too, Sam.

OK, come on.

Let's get out. Get moving. Come on.

All right, let's go.

I'm Olly Perkins, the mayor here.

Jason McCullough.

Fred Johnson,

Henry Jackson, Tom Devery.

Original settlers. Fred and Henry

are members of the town council.

- I represent the mine-owners.

- Nice to meet you.

What that fella said a minute ago

ain't strictly true.

We've had three sheriffs the past

two months, but only two got killed.

- What about the other one?

- He quit, kinda sudden like.

I don't think

he had the right temperament.

You never have said

anything about the pay.

Well, for the right kinda man,

$150 a month.

With the spiralling prices around here,

that'd only allow a man to eat

and sleep about eight days a month.

- The job includes room and board.

- Not at Emma's Tasty Food Emporium?

At my house.

My daughter does the cooking.

Gentlemen, it's only fair to tell you I'd only

be interested on a temporary basis.

Oh?

I was on my way to Australia

when I heard about your gold strike

and I decided to travel through here

to see if I could pick up a little stake.

- What do you want to go to Australia for?

- It's the last frontier country.

- I thought I might do a bit of pioneering.

- I thought we was pioneers.

- So did I.

- To get back to the sheriff's job.

If I take it, it's with the understanding I get

time off to do the prospecting I came for.

Well, you ain't said nothing yet

about your qualifications for the job.

Don't worry about that.

If I take it, you'll be glad.

It ain't just a question of taking the job, it's

also a question of being able to handle it.

Olly, we ain't in much of a position

to be choosy.

Him talking about it at all

certainly shows the right attitude.

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