These Thousand Hills Page #3

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- Hi, Tom.

- Tom, you ain't going back on our deal, are ya?

- What deal?

Well, wolfing.

You're not going back on your word?

Well, I said yes once, didn't I?

Anybody knows me, once is enough.

Come on. Let's have some fun.

This is Callie. Lat, Tom.

- How do you do?

- I saw you ride today.

- Oh, did you?

- I was afraid you'd been hurt.

Nah, Sugar kicked him

in the head.

That's the only safe place to kick a wrangler.

- Champagne, gents.

- Oh, look at that.

- Mm-mmm.

- Well, here's to- to Albert Gallatin Evans.

Hadn't been for him, we wouldn't

have had the pleasure of knowing you...

'cause we'd have been broke.

- Champagne?

- Yeah.

I ordered a case once in New Orleans.

Now, there's a town.

Oh, they got nothing in New Orleans

they don't have right here.

And it's a lot closer.

- Hear your outfit's pulling out tomorrow.

- The rest ofem are. Not us.

What do you boys aim to do?

Well, first we're gonna

finish this champagne.

- And then, uh-

- Oh-ho-ho. Ain't he awful?

- I could use a rider like you.

- No, thanks.

- Eighty a month, and grub.

- A month's too slow.

- It's almost a thousand a year.

- Ayear's too long.

That win money won't last.

I've seen punchers.

They come in flush and go out broke.

It's a natural law.

Well, I might just change it.

Britches getting

a little tight, ain't they, boy?

- Oh, they fit.

- Well, watch it.

You might bust the seams.

I was figuring on a- on a quiet supper.

-Not tonight.

Well, now, that's twice today

I bet on the wrong animal.

You're having a run of luck, boy.

The thing is...

can it last?

I think it will.

Go on, Lat. You're falling way behind.

These giris want to have some fun.

- Yeah, sure. Come on.

- Happy, bring us another bottle.

You sit. I'll fix a drink.

Thanks.

- My outfit's pulling out tomorrow.

- I know.

Butler- he-he's the trail boss-

he's going back to Texas.

Is he?

I- I'm figuring on

hanging around for a while.

A fella in the crew says that wolf hides

is worth maybe five dollars apiece.

H- He says you can get maybe

a hundred wolves from just one bait.

- Can you?

- That's what the fella says.

Tom's going with me-

huntin' wolves, I mean.

That's nice.

You just make yourself comfortable.

I'll be right down.

Lat?

Lat?

Well, I guess we'd better get going.

- Mike.

- Oh, I'll ride out a ways with you. - Fine.

- Take care of yourself, Lat.

- Thanks, Ram, for everything.

Nothin' to thank me for.

Just remember, people get changed.

By what?

Men you meet.

The way the cards fall.

The chippie that rolled you.

The friend you trusted. Add them up.

Nobody ends like he started out.

The bunch is leaving, huh?

Always when the bunch left me,

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