a little learning

Trampas:   "You still don't understand why I went after Maxine. . .You still think I was trying to cut you out, that she was just some pretty face I couldn't resist."

Steve Hill:  "Well?"

Trampas:  "You really think I was interested in her."

Steve: "Come on, Trampas, I've never seen a girl that you weren't interested in."

Judge Garth:  "You know how it is with you and Steve and Trampas. . . The three of you are friends--More than that."

Virginian:  "Most times we are."

Judge Garth:  Like three forks from a mother stream--like it was the same blood flowing through you."

Trampas:  "Mildred, you listen to me.  I want you to understand something. . .You think you're in love with me because I was nice to you. . ."

Mildred Kroeger: "Would you kiss me once more before I go back?"

Trampas:  "Save it for me, for when I come courtin'."

Mildred Kroeger:   "When's that gonna be?"

Jamie Dobbs:  "Well, come on Trampas."

Trampas:  "Well, Jamie, I --"

Jamie Dobbs:   "Well, you wanna stay here and talk about how you gave the poor old Judge a bad name again, huh?  Or do you wanna come with us, out West where the fun's at."

Jamie Dobbs: "Well, Sheriff, we wasn't exactly planning on working for wages."

Sheriff Blade:   "Well, plans are subject to change just like everything else.  You understand."

Virginian: "If I told you to give yourself up it wouldn't carry any weight.  I'm not in your shoes.  You've got to make your own decision. . .   I can tell you this--you run and they catch you, you won't have a chance at the trial."

Trampas:  "Don't look like I've got much chance either way."

Virginian: "Well, I'll get my horse and tie him up behind the hotel.  If he's gone in the morning, good luck."

Trampas:   "Here's one for you.  I feel bad about Martin.  Old Trampas caring that much about a stupid kid."

Virginian:   "Doesn't surprise me."

Trampas:  "They're such a happy bunch of kids.  It seems a cryin' shame to ship them off to an orphanage."

Miss Beecher:  "It rends my heart.  My purse is empty, and I haven't found many along the road who are interested in literature."

Trampas:  "Maybe not, but that don't mean they don't like kids."

Miss Beecher:  "I asked at many houses.  Found no one willing to take a strange child."

Trampas:  "If we didn't have to get moving, I bet you we could find a home for those kids."

Trampas:  "I brought 'em back."

Steve Hill:  "Shultz wouldn't take 'em?"

Trampas: "He'd take 'em but I wouldn't leave 'em.   He went over them like he was buying horses.  He even looked at their teeth. All he asked was how much work they could do"

Steve:  "All kids got chores, you know."

Trampas:  "Well, he had more than chores in mind.  All he wanted was a lot of hard labor for no pay.  It made me feel like that fella in Oliver Twist -- that Fagin."

Virginian:   "You didn't--"

Trampas:  "You won't find any holes in him.  He just keeled over.  Careful you don't burn your fingers.  He's hotter than a brandin' iron."

Virginian:  "It's a long ride.  A man as sick as that, anything had happened to him nobody would have blamed you. . . Well, this'll make you happy nothin' did.  I wired the sheriff in Rock Creek.  The Mason Brothers were caught over a year ago.  They cleared you at the trial. . .Too bad it didn't come in before you went out to the line shack."