Rawhide (TV Series)

Incident of the Travellin' Man (1963)

Simon Oakland: Bolivar Jagger

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• Bolivar Jagger : The land got so poor, took two roosters to crow once.

• Mushy : Can to can't?

  Bolivar Jagger : Yeah. Work from the time you can see in the morning, until you can't see no more at the night.

• Bolivar Jagger : Two things a travelling man never collects: Money and friends.

• Bolivar Jagger : Words don't count for nothin,' boy, unless you're using them like a gun.

• Mushy : This iron's as hard as a miser's heart.

  Bolivar Jagger : Or a two-faced gal's smile. I knowed one like that down Nashville way. That female had a look that could stop the big river right in its tracks.

• Bolivar Jagger : I'm a walkin' talkin' traveller Tennessee sharecropper with an itch in my sitting pocket, a mile yard hole behind my belt. And a ten colour rainbow between my ears.

• Bolivar Jagger : I been somebody's else's since the day I took my first step. But not any more. Not since I set my sights on a sunset with my name on it. I take what I want. I use whatever rules fit. Mine, yours, Harger, it don't matter none. Just so I get what I figure this little old world owes me for being born.

• Bolivar Jagger : Own your own land, wear a string-tie and there ain't no need for writing in books or a big stone law house, just make your own right, always comes out everlasting true. Huh, sure I called men, I used cold steel too. Back in them Tennessee mountains they call knives bayonets. I got so good at it, old Billy Brackenridge, he put a pair of stripes on my greycoat I was wearing. What'd it change? I was still a poor mouth dirt digger, bleeding in somebody else's fight. Not good enough to come calling at their parlour door. I lied, Mr Favor, I'm not a travelling man, I'm travelling trash. I could sprout wings for only a halo and hurry up the day of reckoning. Amnd it wouldn't change nothing. I'm just back-country, dirtdigging trash.