03x36 - The Sam Livingston Story

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Well, here she is.

There's San Francisco right down there.

Our story doesn't begin in San Francisco,
but it ends

right down there
in the middle of all that wickedness.

Our story begins in Denver,
which we hit a couple of months back.

It's the story
of one of the most unusual men

that ever finagled his way on my wagon
train.

Dr. Shadrach Bennington.

Step a little closer, folks.

I'd like to introduce
the miracle of miracles today.

Right here.

I have a bottle of a formulated juice
worth a million,

but I'm giving it away for a measly silver
dollar that I'll gladly give you back.

If this doesn't do everything I say,

if your name's all equipment,

if you wake up and you shiver, here's
the only thing to keep you nice and call

it some positive

cure for the ills you endure.

Dr. Bennington never said,
But let me tell you, if you're bilious,

all neuralgic or afflicted
with the bands, dyspepsia or the gout.

It cures them all.

It's the only thing that they absolutely

does away
with that pain that you get in your what?

Your moco. And.

Now here is the biggest feature
in the presence of your preacher.

You can take a swing
without the slightest squall.

While it's good for the aches, it's
got just what it takes.

Dr. Bennington's beneficent.

And now, ladies and gentlemen,
before we part,

may I tell you the dying
word of that great Rajah of the East.

Ali. Ben Ali.

He pressed this scrap of paper
into my hand containing the formula,

and he said,
If I had found the secret before,

I would not be leaving you now.

And now, may I present to you
the last living relative of the great Ali.

Ben Ali. Princess Fatima.

Princess Fatima will now pass

amongst you with a magic medicinal potion.

May I ask you that you do not buy

this magic potion
unless you are in great need.

I'll have a bottle.

There was a bond there.

A six or $5.

Said one lady. One.

Give me a dozen.

Charlie,
where did you get that kind of money?

You'll need to play well to have it.

That's a very great buy.

Sure you will not have this opportunity
again.

The supply of an efficient b*mb
is so limited

that it cannot be procured
that pharmacist or mail order houses.

Oh, so dull. Dr. Beddington.

Oh. I have a few more bottles in the back.

I was saving this for Salt Lake City,

but I cannot leave the dear
people of Denver in distress.

Chances are you'll be our next.

Let's get back to camp.

Hello.

Woke Moreau.

There?

Better than. Better. Patient b*mb.

How I ever let you to talk me
into stopping off at that medicine show?

I'll never know.

It was a good show, Paul.
Good show. My foot.

It was a fake all the way through.
You ought to know that.

Besides, somebody tried to steal my watch.

Oh, watch A little old watchmaker.

I like the show,
and I like the ID out here.

I'm telling you, somebody had their hand
on my watch pocket.

Well, it couldn't have been that doc.
He was up on the stage all the time.

I don't give a darn where he was.

I ought to know when somebody's
trying to steal my watch.

That there had been a vacant bar.

Oh, Charlie,
sound a little better? Patient.

You don't suppose
he had too many someplace, do you?

How could he?

We've been with him all the time. Forgot.

Besides,
he always cries when he has too much

know Major.

We may never see a doctor again.

Or not.

Oh, there were several people

from the Adams strain OUTFRONT tonight.

And thinking about us joining them.

Joining them.

Hey, going west.

Whoopsie. You dazzle me.

When you talk me into getting all this
medical sleigh ride.

You said we were going east
to get married.

We are. We are.

How can you go east from Kansas City
and end up in Denver?

Well, it ain't easy.

These to get married East.

What is Shanghai?

Well, if my little princess will stop
and think a minute,

she'll realize
that we have to go west to get east.

We can't cross the plains alone.

We'll catch a ship in San Francisco.

All right.

I'll go to San Francisco now.

My little princess is being her all sweet,
reasonable self again.

On one condition.

We get married in Denver.

Married in Denver.

Whoopsie. We can't get married in Denver.

We'd never live it down.

Well, we're going to get married in Denver

or I'm going to stay right here
and open my own medicine show.

I want to live like other people.

But I'm not other people. I'm a nomad.

I live in a wagon.

You could be married and live in a wagon.

You can't domesticate me.

I'm a cavalier. The open road. My.

If I got married,
it would ruin my whole personality.

Your personality could stand
a little upgrading.

Never base a sales pitch on an insult.

Sales pitch?

Marriage isn't a sales pitch.

Now you're making him nervous.

And you know what he does?

When you raise your voice,
you'll have another one of his headaches.

Headaches.

That's just a

routine to get another bottle
of beneficent from that you.

Now you've hurt his feelings.

Boy, has
he got you in the palm of his paw.

He was a nice line before he met you.

Now he's just as big a phony as you are.

Truth hurts, doesn't it?

My little princess is nervous tonight.

I am not your little princess.

I'm through.

Well, if we break up the act.

What about Caesar?

Caesar's mine, you know that.

Well, he's getting very fond of me.

He's a man's lion,
if you know what I mean.

He'll need another man.

Never. He's a one man lion.

You act like he's a human being.

Well, he's more human than most beings.

You all right? Beg you, my best friend.

Well,

your best friend and I'll be at the hotel.

Puts Caesar in my wagon.

Well, Caesar,

I guess this is it.

You know that boy?

Oh, here's your purse.

Thank you.

I'm sorry. I'm really sorry.

You're a lovely girl.

It's nothing personal.

Some men get married, some don't.

Takes all kinds. It.

Good night, Chad.

Or is it good bye.

Good bye.

Good bye, Fatima.

Wake up.

Wake up. What's the matter? Indians.
Nobody in Rome.

Somebody heard. No, Nobody heard fire.

No fire. No.
Leonard couldn't wait till morning?

No. There's a gentleman
and want to join the wagon train.

You look all right.

Yeah, just fine.

We got a wagon?

Yes, he's got a wagon.

All right.

And I mean $40 from Denver to Frisco.

Fall in buying the last wagon
we roll at daybreak.

And good night. Good night. Everybody said

was joined
by falling behind the last wagon.

We all in the morning

and you and me, you can talk over
all the details tomorrow night.

You like

each feller?

He looks kind of familiar.

To my soul man Harvey down the.

Line.

And he said,
there's a wild animal stalking the train.

You know, old man Harvey,

he seen an Indian behind every bush
since we started West.

What kind of an animal he said.

Was a. Lion?

BALE There's no mountain
lion, African lion.

Well, that figures.
That's old man, Harvey.

That's all.

Come on. Who?

What took you so long?

Oh, not another
one of your headaches, but.

All right, one more bottle.

But that's all you,

all man.

Thorndyke tells me

that there's some man on a train
making sly proposals to the young ladies.

No, not again.

I'm afraid so.

Last time old man Thorndyke started
something like this.

Turned out to be Charlie Wooster.

Oh, Charlie was doing was announcing
the Saturday Night Square dance.

The next time you see Mr.

Thorndyke, you just tell him
to keep his mind off the young ladies.

Isn't the man on this Holden train
that would make sly proposals?

You're making me. What kind of a proposal?

I'll give you $5 for an evening's work.

I want to see you in half a year
and you're back.

Look what I found in Las Vegas. Dr.

Bennington, about have join the wagon
train.

Charlie, did you let a medicine show Jump.

Train last night?

You remember last. Night?
I remember nothing.

You didn't say anything
about a medicine. In a hammock.

I didn't know.

You didn't know. You

didn't either.

That's all we need.

A medicine show.

Oh, there you are, Doctor.

I have some problems.

Yes, madam. Yes,
I. I'd like to discuss them.

Would you like to come up here and talk?

Thank you.

Your problems are my problems, madam. You

will you see, Doctor,

I get these pains
right in the back of my head.

Is it kind of throbbing.

Or what is it? It is.

You put your finger right on it,

and then sometimes my back begins to pain,
you know, right about here.

And I get nervous.
You wouldn't believe how nervous I get.

Of course you do. Doctor.

You don't know how wonderful it is

to find someone that last understands
my problem.

Of course
I understand your problem, madam.

Now, I would suggest that

you take one tablespoon
full of beneficent balm three times daily.

Before meals are after meals. Before.

How much Before? About a half hour. Now.

How many bottles of beneficent balm
would you like?

I'll see you at the wagon now, remember,
my supply is limited.

Well, I. Wouldn't want one shot.

Of course not.

Shall we say to balance weekly?

Oh, I think at least a dozen.

Yes. At least.

Well, maybe two dozen would be safer.

Much safer.

Gives me wonderful material.

Marilyn's sure got a great feel.

I say that for him.

He asked me to help him out with the act.

He wants to see me and act. He what?

I want you to heat
this just as hard as you can.

Stand it, soak your feet in it
for at least one hour nightly.

I guarantee you,
you will have a brand new pair of feet.

This is your life, isn't it, pal?

No cage, Just a meadow and an open sky.

Yeah.

Pick up your feet.

You're getting lazy.

Such a lion.

Sure.

That's my line. So.

What's your line's name?

Caesar. Augustus Bennington.

What's yours?

Well, see.

When V went, we were wealthy.

Robertson made grants taking me
to San Francisco to live with my grandpa.

I'm an orphan. Yeah,

I used to be an orphan, too.

When I was your age. You outgrow it? Yeah.

Yeah, you will. To my grandparents.

Half of San Francisco.

Yeah,

That's too bad.

Money is a terrible responsibility.

I know it.

Why is his name Caesar?

Because Caesar was a noble Roman,
and he looks like a noble Roman.

But how can a lion be in
all the Roman lions come from Africa,

Rome and come from Rome?

Listen, kid, I'll give you a tip free.

Don't throw your education around.

People don't like it.

I was just asking.

Yeah, I know,
but it was a loaded question.

I never knew a lion before.

What do you eat? Me?

Well, not unless you eat him.

You think that's funny?

He's too big D

Would he let me pet him?

He might.

When he gets to know you.

Must be nice to have him for a friend.

I think he wants you to throw him
the ball.

Oh, my God.

No, sir.

But they're

trying.

To cover everybody.

Trying

to cover everybody.

Well, Charlie, I got it.

I got it right here.

I must ask you not to yell
in front of my life.

What do you mean?

Bring in that wild animal on this train.

You want her to meet you, Addams?

It's all right, Cesar.

The major won't hurt you.

I won't. Please. He can't stand yelling.

It gives him a headache.

What are you doing with this wild animal?

His name is Caesar. He's an old Roman.

When are you going to take a nap?

I had my nap.

Well, go take another one.
I want to talk to this fellow.

All right. Bye, Caesar.

Come on, Get out of here

now. Why didn't you tell me last night
you had a wild animal with you.

He is not a wild animal.

He's a domestic pet cat.

No wonder my horses are going
half crazy all day.

I can't be Hall an African lion. Let.

Let's move away from the cage.
You're making him nervous.

I'm making him nervous. What about me?

How would you like to wake up
out of a sound, sleep

and find that animal staring you
in the face with his mouth wide open?

How would you like to be happily
playing with a ball

and look up and see you
with your mouth wide open value?

You've just got to get rid of him.
That's all there is to it. How?

I don't know.
I'll take you back to Denver.

I don't even know where Denver is
from here.

Well, just what in places.
Do you think I'm going to do with you?

But now you've got me out here
in the middle of nowhere.

I think it's up to you
to keep your part of the bargain.

All right,
But let me tell you something, fella.

You keep your outfit
clear to the end of this train.

Is that clear?
And you keep that locked up.

The next time I see him loose, I'm
going to sh**t him.

I'm going to take no more chances.

I'll lose my people in my stock.

And where in tarnation
you're going to get the meat to feed him?

Caesar doesn't eat meat.

He's a vegetarian.

Vegetarian?

Why is the only vegetables Caesar does?

He's been raised on vegetables
since he was a baby.

I can't stand the sight of raw meat.

Ridiculous. Who ever heard of such a lion?

Caesar doesn't even know he's a lion.

He's never seen one.

I honestly believe he thinks he's
people like us.

I don't give a good continental
what he thinks he is.

You keep him locked up.

And another thing, Doctor, you stay away
from the young women on this train.

They're nice young ladies, and I
am not going to have use on them in half.

Mr. Bennington, I understand
you want to saw my daughter and have.

Well, I knew
there was going to be trouble about this.

My little girl is let a sheltered life.

She's not used to the ways of the world.

What my father is trying to say

is that we've decided
to let you saw me in Hartford.

If it doesn't hurt.

Well, isn't that nice?

You're going to let her do this?

Well, Jenny's a lot like her mother.

Hard to handle.

When she wants something, she usually.

Gets it. You're out of your.

You just remember when I told you
about that little.

Does it hurt?

Do you think I'd hurt you?

Your lion looks so sad.

Well, he's had a hard day for a lion.

For being half a wonderful lion.

Well, he's
the most wonderful man in the whole world.

And how do you saw me in half?

Well, first I introduce you,

ladies and gentlemen,
may I present my assistant?

The finest flower
of the Western Hemisphere.

You may search the wide world
from shore to shore.

You may devote your whole life
to the search.

You will not find her equal rise

like the first fresh violets of April,

her skin as fresh and fair as the morning.

Her lips are fire.

And you ready to be awakened?

Our spring Love Youth.

Jenny, Jennifer,

Princess Jennifer.

And now you make your entrance,
your eyes on mine.

You come closer and closer and closer.

And then.

And then you lie down.

Your eyes still are mine.

I follow you. I bend over.

I look at your fresh beauty
For one breathless moment.

And then. Yes,

I saw you in a half hour.

Princess, You will be magnificent.

Ladies and gentlemen, Princess Jennifer,

this is to spare you the blood and gore.

Oh, Mr..

What a bison beneficent by nature.

Oh, when you like me,

baby, you better see her.

Also that Dr.

Bennington.

Do not despair.

We have a few more bottles in the back.

They were reserved for San Francisco,
but they shall be yours

right now.

That's right.

Mr. Bennington. Oh,

here you are. $5.

Oh, I've had so much fun.

I don't think I should take the money.

You must.

This is a business transaction.

I didn't know anything.

Could be so exciting.

All the lights and the music
and everything so shiny and you and I.

And in a circle of magic.

It is

magic that everyone who steps on
a stage is struck by it.

But when they are, it's almost as if
Aladdin had rubbed his magic lamp.

Everything else seems so commonplace
and so dull.

I'd like to spend my whole life in a wagon
like this.

I'd like to fill every night.

The way I feel now.

I think I better take
you back to your wagon.

Oh, no.

I've just discovered the world.
I want to talk about it.

Tell your father I'll be looking for you
and you have the most enormous father.

Mr. Bennington,

do you believe in love at first sight.

Miss Jenny, on a night
like this, it's possible

to believe in all manner of nonsense.

Have you ever considered marriage?

I always
try to avoid it whenever possible.

But surely you must always need
a princess.

Well, I'm always able to hire one.

Well, wouldn't it be more convenient
if you had one in the family?

A permanent princess?

It's getting rather cooler.

I think I'd better walk
you back to your wagon.

You know, the trouble with you is

you're shy,

young lady.

You're going home.

I'm beginning to feel like this is home.

Come on.

And furthermore,

my dear child,
let me tell you about myself.

I am a knight of the open road.

A carefree, cavalier.

I roam from town to town.

And you might as well not right now.

From princess to princess.

That's because you've never met the right
princess.

Every princess is the right princess.

And I want each of my princesses to remain
just as you are.

Young, lovely and free.

And I want each of my princesses
to leave me just as I.

Am a bachelor.

Good night.

Hi, Winfrey.

Shouldn't you be in bed?

I suppose so.

You kissed Jenny.

When I was not nice speaking. Tell.

How come you kissed her?

Just happened.

Hi, pal.

What's this now?

She's her.

He's mad.

Caesar,
you're too big a boy to act like that.

He kissed you right from his cage.

Well, it was just a friendly little kiss.

Didn't mean a thing.

Now, listen to me.

I'll kiss anybody I. Please.

I don't have to listen to you.

Now. Don't you turn your back on me
when I'm talking to you.

Caesar, do you hear me?

Don't you turn your back,

Caesar.

Now, this behavior is childish
and foolish.

Now, I want to tell you something.

Well, I'm not going to dignify

that remark with an answer.

I know what's wrong with you.

You haven't had your beneficent balm
for tonight.

Oh, well, now that does it.

That really does it.

Wendy, you got to keep your eye on lions
and women.

They both want to own you.

Yeah.

There was no denying

as we rolled up the miles between Denver
and San Francisco that the whole train

was succumbing to the charm of Shadrach
and Caesar Augustus Bennington.

I never did know why
people didn't see through him.

Maybe they didn't want to.

People refuse
to be warned about his medicine

and they refused to be warned about him.

Jenny had made up her mind about Shad
Bennington

the first time she laid eyes on him
and so had Winfrey.

Roberts
They each saw what they wanted to see.

Jenny saw her husband.

Winfrey, a father.

Manning

an entrance.

Bob Ryan's

God tells you there is

a God, you're going to not move.

But you darn that land.

Keep everybody calm, awake.

Always try to stay awake, honey.

I did. I didn't do it. There.

I just. I didn't do it. Oh, come on.

What do you suppose.
Wrong with Caesar, Major?

Sounds like he's been eating some.

A Charlie Cook.

Oh. Mr.

Bennington.

What entire. Nation is wrong with that.

Animal of yours? Well,
I don't know. I don't know.

He never acted like this before.

I can't find anything wrong.

Well, something's wrong with him

tonight. Boy, what's troubling.

Sounds like he's got a belly exposed.

Somebody tried to poison it.

Nobody would try to poison him,
but the major.

I wouldn't try to poison a rabbit.
You ought to know that.

Hey, look
at the way he's working his mouth.

That meaning? Do you buy anything.

Fred? Now.

Tell me something.

Just how could it be that a man
like you would take on an animal

like this without knowing one single
solitary thing about him?

He's never been sick before.

Well, he's sick now.

He's going to die.

He sure sounds like it.

Oh, of course he's not going to die.

I never saw an animal die
from a toothache.

Did you?

Toothache? Do lions have to fix?

Well, why not? He's got teeth any.

What are you going to do about it?

You go back to the wagon, get those long
handle tongs out of the horseshoe and kit.

Yes, sir.

What's the matter, fella? Huh?

We're

steady.

I'm sure glad he's a vegetarian.

That's it, boy.

That's the tooth right there.

You sure that's the right one?

Sure it is. The inflamed, it is rounder.

That's what's causing the fever
that's got to come out.

Maybe he's not going to feel
the same way about it.

So, you know, Major, Charlie's got a point
there.

This might end up hurting you
more than it does him.

Bill, as cats in pain, somebody's.

Got to do something when you meet them.

Things are going to bring it all up.

You're not going to use those pliers.

Well, I'm not going to use a hatchet here.

Hang on to him.

The altar boy.

I if I get a toothache,
I'm not going to tell you about it.

Oh, let

or not I.

Yeah,

I got it. I got it.

You see

that?

You know,
maybe I was a little harsh on that.

For anybody who loves a cat that much,
By golly, they can't be all bad.

Major, I got something right here.

Bring him around. You. Not here.

Well, give it to him.

You know,

he looks like he's feeling a little better

about it. Boy.

You better, huh?

Oh, that's better. Yeah.

See what I tell you.

Major?

I can't
thank you enough for what you did tonight.

Yeah, sure.

Better.

Oh, that's all right.

Don't you mention it.

Yes, it's all right. It's all right.

Fine.

Yeah, that's good. Boy, You fine.

Go back to sleep now.

That's a good boy.

Shadrach Bennington had a way about him.

There was no denying that.

And he wasn't.

What you could call a stingy man.

He went right on giving his shows
even after he'd run out of medicine.

And I had to admit his performances
did a lot to brighten the weary.

Miles, By the time we broke up
the train in Sacramento,

Shad was the most popular man with us.

And Caesar.

He was a social lion.

Only 14 wagons went on to San Francisco.

Most everyone seemed happy and
looking forward to the end of the journey.

But Shad
got more and more quiet and thoughtful

the last few days, and so did Jenny.

And so did little Winfrey.

And then at last one sunset,

we were looking down on the Golden Gate
and we made camp for the last time.

The long trip was over.

I brought your costume back.

Well, thank you, Jenny.

I'd like to let you keep it that.

I know you need it for.

Said that I have no use for it.
I'll never be a princess again.

Jenny, I'd like you to know that you're
the nicest princess I ever saw.

And have a good night.
Please come with you.

I wouldn't take up much room.

I could take care of you and work for you.

And I wouldn't ask for anything you said

just to be near you.

But I have to speak to Major Adams.

I'll talk to you tomorrow.

Shan.

Can I go with you?

Oh, you don't want to connect up
with the medicine show.

Winfrey.

Where was your oysters?

Oh, like oysters.

Your grandpa show you a wonderful time.

He hasn't got a lion waddling by a lion.

I don't want you standing lion.

I want Caesar.

I want to be near you.

Look, after I talk to you tomorrow,

Major.

Oh, shut down. Have a cup of coffee.

Thank you, sir.

Coffee is a little better tonight.

I don't know what happened to Wooster.

This is better coffee
and usually makes you can drink it.

Well, here's to the end of another career.

What are you going to do now?

Oh, we'll probably spend a week
or two in San Francisco apart.

And then another week or two
putting it back together. And.

And I guess we'll head back soon. Joe.

You really enjoy this life, don't you?
Oh, it's nothing.

The world laid a trail.

Eden West and a new challenge.

Every mile of it.

Ever been married.

Major?

No. No.

Yeah,

I thought about it a time or two,
but it just didn't work out.

I don't know how I imagined asking a woman
to share a life like this.

Yeah,
that's why I feel woman needs a house

and garden curtains and closets

wondering in man's wandering man.

He don't need those things.

You know, said

even a wanted man.

He can get lonely once in a while.

Made sure I'll be leaving before dawn.

I wonder if you do me a favor.

Sure.

Would you tell Jenny that
I am a wanted man?

I wouldn't make much of a husband.

Would you tell her that
I am a quack and a fraud?

And I think she knows that
she doesn't care.

She doesn't know.

Would you do something else for me?

Would you tell Winfield
that I wouldn't make much of a father?

I wouldn't even know how to begin.

You don't have to tell him.

I'm afraid

he'll make a go down.

But indifferent to what I tell that boy.

Well.

Goodbye, Major.

Thanks for letting me work your train.

Oh, it's a pleasure to have
had you aboard, Doctor.

Good luck to you

sharing.

How do you find a little boy in a city
as big as San Francisco?

Seven years
old, three and a half feet high.

We went up one street and down another.

We went down to the bay.

We went back up Market Street again.

Nobody had seen a lost little boy.

It never occurred to me
to call in the experts,

but fortunately,
the experts came to the rescue.

Anyway.

He's been out on the call
in a dam to the streets all night.

Are you, Sonny? Oh, I'll feel good.

Oh, we'll fix that up.

All right. You just go with us to here.
I'll put them to bed. Major,

why did you run off

barefooted in your nightshirt?

We picked him up about an hour ago.

He says his name is Winfield Bennington.

He was looking for his father, Shadrach.

Bennington.

Well,
his name happens to be Winfield Robertson.

He's the grandson of Hanley Robertson.

Oh, Hundley. Robertson. Well, now.

I brought him all the way from Saint Joe.

Say, Officer, my.

Little Moondog.

I Major Adam. Pleased to know. You, sir.

Do you happen to know where the Robertsons
live?

Oh, that I do.

Would you stop by Mr.

Robertson's house
and tell him I've got the boy down here

and ask him to bring a doctor?

I would certainly do that.

Thank you.

He's a very sick little boy, Mr.

Robertson.

The first thing to do is to get him home
and put him in a proper bed.

I want to stay here.

I don't want to go away.

When he

has no place to stay here.

The wagon trains all this, man,
and no more wagons.

I have to wait for Shad

Chad's car.

He'll be back.

He said tomorrow.

No, he won't be back.

You all.

Know all.

He asked me to say goodbye for him.

He'll come back and visit you

when we shall come back.

Don't you worry.

We shared.

He's a friend.

He's a

very special friend of your grandson.

Here we go.

Here we go.

There you are, Mr. Robertson.

Thank you, Major.

You're welcome. I'm sure.
Thank you, Doctor.

Thank you, Major.

So long will be 20.

Oh, he's a pretty signal, kid. Jenny.

Oh, Jenny,
I got a message for you from Shad.

It was goodbye, wasn't it?

Well, he said a lot of the things, too.

You had quite a few
words mixed up in it, but.

Well, yes, it was good.

Goodbye.

It's funny how old you can grow up.

And that, isn't it?

Yesterday I really seem

quite young.

You'll find somebody.

Else.

Jenny.

I think I gave what it takes

to. Give me that.

What did I do?

Nothing.

I knew God darn well I shouldn't

let that fool doctor on his face
playing on this train.

What he do. Was he absolutely. Nothing.

That's what the trouble is.

Go and get cancer.

He's sinking.

There's no point in keeping it from you.

It's not responding to medication at all.

What am I to do, Major?

What am I to do?

Haven't you been able to locate
Bennington?

No, I looked all over for him.

Just seemed like he's disappeared.

That's

how I've done everything.

I know how.

Well,
if you can't do anything to help him.

What do you think Shad could
do? Even if we found him?

Maybe if he was here, this

little boy would want to live.

Then I'll find him.

I knew you'd come back for me.

Sure you did.

Can we go now?

When you go, will.

You go off without me?

You? No, I won't go back.

But you got to get well quick.

Oh, well, It was beneficial for you.

You got much better things to take
in that place.

Shad cures everything.

You don't understand me.

I speak to you a minute, Dr.

Bennington.

You do?

As the boy asks

Mark, I can't give him my medicine.

You don't understand.

I'm not a doctor. I'm a quack.

I'm a medicine man.

Is there anything in your medicine
that would harm the boy?

Well, no,
but there's nothing that'll help him.

He thinks there is.

I've seen Faith perform miracles before.

I can't give for that junk, Doctor
Bennington,

We have nothing to lose
and everything to gain.

No get Well.

Go away.

No, no, I won't go away.

And you'll take me with you.

As soon as you get.

Well.

Skin feels cooler
as breathing, as regular.

I think he's going to make it.

What do you know?

Bennington's Balm is good.

Thank you, Doctor Bennington,
You saved my grandson's life.

Be good to him. He's nice little boy.

Hey. Hey.

Oh, up there, Shad,
Where do you think you're going?

You don't need me now.

Oh, a major
Adams and I have been talking to Dr.

Bennington.

I'm an old man.

When his father and mother died,
when he was just a baby.

He's been living with his mother's folks.

He's been surrounded
by old people all his life.

He needs a young father.

There's no room for children in my life.

They have to go to school.

Or I expect you to see that he goes
to school.

There's laws about that.

But I travel around. Well, that's
all right.

When you have to leave town,
when you can come and stay with me.

But his home will be with you.

I haven't got a home.

I live in a wagon with a lion
that thinks he owns me.

Oh, marvelous.

Wonder when he wants to live with you
taking with you.

I'll make it worth your while.

You can't buy me.

I'm not trying to buy you.

I'm trying to buy a childhood
for Winfield.

But I'm a medicine man.

You don't know
the kind of life I lead. Dr. Bennington.

My father was.

Dr. Elwood. Spent at Robertson.

Does that name mean anything at all
to you?

Elwood Spencer's

expenses. Lotion of life.

That's right.

I was fortunate enough to live in a wagon
for a few years when I was a boy.

Well, your father was supposed to be
one of the best.

My father was the best way.

He started a whole pattern.

Medicine, business. Ah, lotion of life.

And you know what that lotion was?

Water with a little sugar
added for flavor,

a little alcohol to give it a bite.

So your old man was a quack himself.

He was stealing money from people.

What does he think about it?

The minute the lotion cost dollar above,
and for that dollar,

his customers saw a good show.

Maybe his medicine didn't cure it.

He never claimed it did.

He just said it was good for what ailed.

It would make them feel better.

And usually it did.

So you see, my boy, I do understand you.

You don't understand me.

I don't like to be tied down.

I don't like responsibilities.

Chad, are you the kind of a man that would
that would lie to a little boy

that was practically
lying on his deathbed?

That was yesterday. This is another day.

Yeah, I know.

But next time he goes chasing after you,
he might get sick.

And then maybe I won't be able
to find you.

Then what?

Major? He's a baby.

He needs a woman.

I'm a nomad, a gypsy, a bachelor.

Will say I'm glad you mentioned that,
my boy.

You. Excuse me, Mr.

Robertson, I want to talk to you.

Well, I don't want to talk to you
about it. Now, you just listen here.

From the time that I was just

so high,
I led a carefree life as I traveled

round from town to town alone
without a wife.

Used to raise my head from off my bed,
hitch up my horse and go.

Didn't matter where.

Because who was there to tell me
I saw no to brag, Bennington,

This can't be you, good or bad.

One thing, Chad. Bureau days are through.

I used to watch the birds, the lazy herds,

the breezed around the plane,
and I vowed I'd stay the same and stay.

But it was all in vain.

Because unlike the cow,
a gal knows how to buckle down her meat

By the time she's done.

You want to run.

But, brother, you're too late, all

right?

Meaning that this can't be you.

Good or bad.

One thing, Chad, your roving days are.

And now.

Ladies and gentlemen,
this fine lad who stands before you

is a marvelous example of the wondrous
curative powers of Dr.

Bennington's magnificent balm.

Well, here comes the bench.

Let's get out of here before the Charlies
talk shop again.

My last. Model.

You had your cure for this.

You're not going get the nurses by.

This magic potion
unless you are in great need.

And so will you pass on this

magical medicinal potion to the world
in the name of Allah.

And that is why we can pass it on to you

at the nominal cost of $1
to cover packaging and importing.

It had been good to start off
and it was good.

Joined up.

We'd been over 200 wagons
when we left Saint Joe

and we slog through Perry
Mud fought Indians, wild animals, hunger,

thirst and now and then regrettably

ourselves, we set our sinew
and our wheels against storm and flood

the Rockies, the desert, the Sierras.

And would we do it again?

You bet your boots.

We were just a little rest and
we'd all be right back where we started.

I'd be.

And Charlie and Bill and Flint
blistering the green horns,

calling out to the straggling wagons,
the words that have become somehow.

The pivot of my life

wagon.

How you.