Eric Shea credited as playing...
Booton MacAvoy
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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...
- 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!
- Lincoln Costain: Where are we?
- Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy: In Mom's spare bedroom.
- Lincoln Costain: No. Where in the world are we?
- 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.
- 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.
- Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy: How do you feel?
- Lincoln Costain: Well, I've... I've felt worse. I just can't remember when.