The Castaway Cowboy (1974)
Eric Shea: Booton MacAvoy
Quotes
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Lincoln Costain : Where are you going, Batten?
Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy : Booton! Aw shucks, what's the use? I can't get the dang thing to work anyhow.
Lincoln Costain : In my outfit we only quit when it's too dark to work or time to eat. I didn't hear the dinner bell, did you?
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Henrietta MacAvoy : Mr. Bryson tells me it's impossible to load cattle onto boats in these waters.
Calvin Bryson : It was tried once on the big island. Two ships ran on reefs, and there's no anchorage further out.
Lincoln Costain : Don't they have docks in Alleah?
Calvin Bryson : Never needed them."
Lincoln Costain : Well how do they load then?
Calvin Bryson : Mostly by long boat. Can you imagine trying to load cattle by long boat?
Lincoln Costain : Well, there's got to be a way, there always is, it's just a matter of finding it.
Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy : Mr. Costain says there ain't never been a horse that ain't been rode and there ain't never been a rider that ain't been throwed.
Calvin Bryson : Is that what he says? Well, I won't challenge the statement but I will the grammar.
Lincoln Costain : Grammar never was my strong suit.
Calvin Bryson : Young man you are sprouting up like a weed.
Lincoln Costain : At least he's got good rock candy.
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Lincoln Costain : Ten thousand acres, huh? That's a good size pea patch even where I come from.
Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy : Where's that?
Lincoln Costain : Texas. There you can ride a month in any direction and never touch a fence.
Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy : It must be beautiful.
Lincoln Costain : Oh, it is.
Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy : Costain, do you think you could ever like it here?
Lincoln Costain : Me? No, no. Nah, this fruit bowl ain't for me. Some people might like it just fine, though.
Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy : Suppose you're going back to Texas, huh?
Lincoln Costain : You bet.
Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy : Got a wife there?
Lincoln Costain : Haven't met the woman who could afford me.
Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy : Then you never did have one.
Lincoln Costain : Nope. Had the small pox once though. Amounts to about the same thing.
Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy : Yeah, guess you never wanted to settle down with any woman no matter how nice she was, huh.
Lincoln Costain : You got that right.
Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy : But you can't have kids if you ain't married.
Lincoln Costain : Yeh, ain't that a mercy?
Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy : What are you gonna you do when you get old?
Lincoln Costain : Die, I guess.
Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy : No, I mean before that. Who'll take care of you if you don't have a son?
Lincoln Costain : I'll say one thing for you - you get a notion, you sure hang on to it, Burton.
Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy : Booton.
Lincoln Costain : Oh yeah.
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Lincoln Costain : What is it boy? What's the matter?
Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy : It's one of the animals, a big one. He's eatin' up the vegetables again.
Henrietta MacAvoy : Get out of there. Get out of my garden, do you hear me? Get out!
Lincoln Costain : One of the animals, woe doggey, you didn't tell me you had cattle around here, Button
Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy : Booton. We don't that thing's wild but I sure hope he eats the turnips!
Lincoln Costain : He may be wild, but he ain't no thing. That's about a thousand pounds of prime bull out there.
Henrietta MacAvoy : You willful, worthless, misbegotten beast!
Lincoln Costain : That's a right nice vocabulary Ms. McEvoy but you'll never talk him out of there...
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Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy : Mamma! Mamma!
Henrietta MacAvoy : Good heavens, we're right here
Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy : Tarnation Mamma I swam one of those critters out just as smooth as butter. Did you see?
Henrietta MacAvoy : Of course we did, dear, and nobody could have done it better.
Lincoln Costain : Aww, well now that's a little thick don't you think? Ain't nobody gonna pin a rose on you just for doing your job. You remember that, Booton.
Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy : Ma, Ma, he called me by my right name! Did you hear him? He said it for the first time!
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Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy : How do you feel?
Lincoln Costain : Well, I've... I've felt worse. I just can't remember when.
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Lincoln Costain : Where are we?
Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy : In Mom's spare bedroom.
Lincoln Costain : No. Where in the world are we?
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Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy : [as Costain is being taken out to the vessel in the middle of the ocean] Costain! I didn't hear the dinner bell ring, did you?
Lincoln Costain : [to the boatman] Turn around and row for shore.
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Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy : I told you they could do it, Costain.
Lincoln Costain : Well, if they can learn to punch cattle as well as they can learn to sing, they'll be alright.