John McGuire credited as playing...
Duke
- Duke: First time I seen Fleety Belle, I - I thought she was a boy the way she was dressed. Well, I blowed my whistle - and-and she waved back. And her old man came out and gave her a whippin'. After that, I seen her pretty near everyday. Then her folks found out and her old man gave her a worse whippin'. And that's why she run away!
- Sheriff Rufe Jeffers: Well, good heaven Betsy. What are you doin' down there this time of night, Doc? Can't you let a man sleep?
- Doctor John Pearly: Come on down. Duke - Duke killed a man.
- Sheriff Rufe Jeffers: Well, doggone me. Who was it, Duke? Somebody I knowed?
- Duke: A fella named Big Steve.
- Sheriff Rufe Jeffers: Never heard of him.
- Duke: This is Fleety Belle, Uncle John.
- Doctor John Pearly: She - she - she's a swamp gal, ain't she?
- Duke: Oh, I guess that's right. But - but there's some mighty fine people in the swamps.
- Duke: A fella in here used to work in a tattoo parlor in Perryville, and, well, I kind of been gettin' some tattooin' done myself.
- Fleety Belle: I wished I could see it.