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...Been cleanin' fish on this sheet...
...James ranch, Hope is met by Ma James (Mary Young), a dear little old lady with a rifle in her lap. As she oils it she quavers, "Ah'm jes' cleanin' up after the boys." Next morning Jesse announces wearily that he has to get up early and go to work-there's a man he has to kill. Ma pipes up. "Promise me you'll wear rubbers, son." But Hope rides out to the duel instead, rigs his guns to fire when he tips his hat, drops his man, saves the policy, captures...
...about. "Why," said she, "you'd think to see [Americans] in the movies they lived in tiled bathrooms and took a barth every mornin'. Not that I'm against it ... I do like to 'ave a good 'ot soak once in a while, after cleanin' out the 'en 'ouse. . . . But when you get there, they're jest ordinary folks like us. ... When you see 'em, you like 'em. Wot's more, they like...
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