The Kentuckian Page #3

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Can you bed them down or not?

Take it easy, Eli. Don't get your dander up.

We have a cabin for the girl

and you and Little Eli can stay here.

No.

Thanks all the same, but I'll be going. I

wouldn't want to cause trouble in a family.

You can't go, Hannah.

- We'll all go.

- Eli.

- Please.

- I will...

- I'll stay the night.

- That's sensible.

- Sophie, show her to her cabin.

- I can find my own way.

Hannah. We don't have to stay.

Zack's my brother and all...

I'll stay the night and then I'll go to work.

- Work? Where?

- The tavern. He said he could use me.

I don't cotton to the man.

We'll go, right now.

Where, Eli?

Unless you work for your brother,

what'll you do for Texas money?

I'll find something.

Come to your senses, Eli.

Between the two of us,

both of us working,

we ought to be able to save up

steamboat fare for you and Little Eli.

Your pappy'll never get to Texas

unless he uses his head.

Good night, now.

- So he spent his Texas money.

- He can earn more.

Not in time.

Not before the steamboat sails.

I'll let him fish for mussels, I'll have him

help me around the warehouse.

But he can't make enough

and we won't tell him.

- I know...

- I know what's best.

I'll make a businessman out of him.

You leave it to me.

I'll work the buckskin

out of him and off of him both.

He's my little brother.

How will we know

when the steamboat gets here, Pa?

I figure it'll be big enough to see.

But what if it's night?

Most steamboats got a whistle.

We'll keep an ear out for the whistle.

Pa, look!

Well, I declare! Looks like a pearl.

Must be a pearl.

A whopper!

Is it worth something?

- I wonder.

- As much as 200 dollars?

I just wonder.

But is it ours?

Do we have to tell Uncle Zack?

He bargained for the shells, that's all.

And seeing he's so keen

to make a businessman out of me...

In this bottle, ladies and gentlemen,

in this bottle is the very reptile

that changed the course of history

Yes, this very reptile.

The most poisonous serpent

known to man.

One nip from this fellow

and the gates of eternity open.

I was traveling in Egypt...

Not now, sir.

You, sir.

In good time I shall offer to the public

my secret herbal elixir,

the certain cure for aches and shakes,

for languishments of the limbs

and troubles of the trunk.

But let us not descend to commerce

until my story's done.

And I'll thank you not to interrupt!

I was traveling in old Egypt

and I befriended an ancient wise man.

Dead now, bless his bones.

And with his dying breath,

he told me that this was the very asp

that Cleopatra

clutched so closely to her bosom.

One stroke, two, and she was dead.

That haughty queen, that divinity of form,

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