Bat Masterson (TV Series)

Deadline (1959)

Ralph Moody: Indian Chief

Quotes 

• Bat Masterson : We need horses.

  Indian Chief : Only this one. What you trade?

  Bat Masterson : Five hundred dollars.

  Indian Chief : White man's paper is good for small fire.

• Bat Masterson : The white man knows me as Masterson; your people know me as "The Man with the Stick."

  Indian Chief : I have heard of you.

  [the Indian chief dismounts and limps towards Bat leaning on a stick] 

  Indian Chief : I, too, am man with a stick.

• [the Indian chief looks Lorna up and down] 

  Indian Chief : Mangy, but we trade.

  Bat Masterson : Their idea of a good wife is a woman who can pull two hundred pounds of buffalo meat while carrying a baby on her back.

• [last lines] 

  [Earlier in the story, Bat had agreed to trade his gold-headed cane for the Indian chief's walking stick in payment for one horse. Bat and the chief have returned to the scene of the exchange. Bat tells the chief that his cane wasn't sufficient payment and offers the chief two horses in payment for the return of his cane. The chief agrees, and they make the exchange] 

  Indian Chief : You are true friend. My medicine man speak with crooked tongue. He say White man shrewd trader. Now I know better.