Duel in the Sun Page #4

a little stroll.

Now we got that papoose

to put up with.

I don't know.

She looks like

a pretty cute tamale to me.

You think so?

Wouldn't appeal to me none.

Of course, I always

liked my women more...

Say, Senator.

Yeah, Lewt?

You know that last trip

I took up to Abilene?

Yeah.

I was driving the herd all day

and kind of tired...

and felt like getting

some relaxation.

Yeah. Didn't happen

to drop into a place...

called the Last Chance, did you?

How did you find that out?

Sent them a check

for 1,600 just yesterday.

That's how I found out.

I guess I had

a few drinks too many.

That's all right.

A fella's got to sow

some wild oats sometime.

What's the money for?

Senator...

I hope someday I'll be like you.

The only thing

I don't like about you...

is the miserable way

you play poker.

Trying to fill inside straights

is a sucker's game.

Go on, boy. Go on. Run along.

What a boy.

How'd they come

to name you Pearl?

I don't know, sir.

Couldn't have had

much eye for color, could they?

They might better have called

you Pocahontas or Minnehaha.

Ain't that right?

I guess so.

All right, Minne, on your way.

Good night, sir.

Minne... ha ha.

Ha ha.

Hello, Pearl. What's the matter?

Are you unhappy?

Don't you like Spanish Bit?

If everybody was like you.

If everybody was like me,

the world would be...

a terribly frustrated

sort of place.

What do you mean?

Nothing for you to worry

your pretty little head about.

I want to learn.

Will you learn me?

Your ma says you're a lawyer.

I want to be a lady

and know everything, like her.

I wonder if learning

ever made mother any happier.

- I wish I could do that.

- What?

Make rings like that.

Can I try? Let me try.

No, Pearl. Now whoa.

Ladies aren't supposed to smoke.

Now you won't want

to learn me things, will you?

You don't like me

no more, do you?

Of course I do.

I'm afraid a lot of men

will want to learn you things.

I think you better go to bed...

like a good little girl.

We'll discuss your education

another time.

All right.

Good night, Pearl.

Good night, Jesse.

Good night.

What do you want?

I hate you!

Don't you pretend

nobody ever did that before.

They didn't. Nobody did.

Nobody's going to.

You little...

You leave that alone!

I reckon he must be

the white half.

I forgot to say

good night, ma'am.

Sometimes I feel like

a motherless child

That ain't no ham, Miss Pearl.

That's a pig.

Same thing.

But Mrs. McCanles,

she's very particular...

and she don't want no big pig

listed like no little ham.

Here. Maybe you better

make the list, Vashti.

No, ma'am. I can't write.

Mrs. McCanles says to me once,

"Vashti, can you write?"

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