Lullaby Joslin Quotes in Three Texas Steers (1939)

Tucson Smith: Well, we're nearly home, boys.

Stony Brooke: The 3-M will look mighty good after that set-to in Santa Fe.

Lullaby Joslin: Don't forget, we've been away for three months. Most likely, we'll have to dig it out from under the dust.

Tucson Smith: That is, if the moths have left us anything to dig out.

Lullaby Joslin: C'mon, let's invite the ladies to scram.

Tucson Smith: Let me do it. I'll, you know, sort of break it to her gently.

Stony Brooke: Tactful Tucson, they call him - the big-hearted bouncer.

Tucson Smith: Be careful, guys. Don't over eat.

Lullaby Joslin: I had more trouble catchin' those sardines than I've had ropin' a calf.

Tucson Smith: I wish you had roped a calf!

Stony Brooke: We gotta figure out some way to help Nancy.

Lullaby Joslin: If I was Nancy, I'd be just a little bit tired of our help.

Stony Brooke: Well, we can't let her lose her ranch.

Tucson Smith: What about ours? If we can't pay our own mortgage, we won't have any place to sleep.

Lullaby Joslin: Oh, yes we will. We'll have a nice cozy cell to sleep in for the next twenty years, if Mr. Brooke keeps bein' helpful.

[last lines]

Tucson Smith: Well, that Nancy sure is a swell girl. I reckon we oughta take in her circus sometime.

Stony Brooke: Tucson, I think you've got something there.

[Lullaby bursts out of the ranch house pursued by Nancy's gorilla]

Lullaby Joslin: Nancy! Nancy! You forgot somethin'!

Stony Brooke: What happened to you? Did you fall into a watering trough?

Lullaby Joslin: No, I just fell into a Saturday night!

Lullaby Joslin: I'm so hungry I could eat a ghost.

Elmer, Lullaby's Dummy: Fried on both sides?

Bob Bryant: [referring to the homesteads in New Mexico] Is it good farming land?

Lullaby Joslin: Is it? Why listen, the soil's so rich even the fence posts take root and grow.

Bob Bryant: [during the gunfight] Tell the truth, Tucson. Is this better than ranching?

Lullaby Joslin: Not for my money!

Stony Brooke: [at the end with Stony laughing and looking at Henrietta escorting Lullaaby with a white shirt and tie] Just wait till Elmer sees you!

Lullaby Joslin: [red-faced and embarrassed amid derisive laughter] Boy, yuh got me!

Lullaby Joslin: Reckon the folks in Red River will kinda be surprised they're gettin' three investigators when they only asked for one?

Stony Brooke: They're only gettin' one - and his two assistants.

Tucson Smith: And you're the one?

Stony Brooke: Sure!

Tucson Smith: It's awfully nice of you to take us along for the ride.

Jane Mason: Won't you sit next to Mr. Joslin, Mr. Smith?

Tucson Smith: Thank you, but you can cut out the "Mister" business and just call me "Tucson."

Lullaby Joslin: Why not? All the rest of the gals do.

[Jane brings Tex, recuperating from a bullet wound, a tray of food]

Lullaby Joslin: Hmm, boy. Swell eats!

Jane Mason: Yes, but not for you.

Lullaby Joslin: Looks like they shot the wrong fella.

[Stony, one of the Mesquiteers, is pretending to be "Mr. Benson"]

Jane Mason: These are the Mesquiteers, Mr. Smith and Mr. Joslin. I'd like to present Mr. Benson.

Stony Brooke, Tucson Smith, Lullaby Joslin: Howdy.

Stony Brooke: Strange lookin' characters, aren't they? I heard there were three of them. The third must be the brains.

[the Mesquiteers have locked a henchman in a refrigerated truck]

Tucson Smith: Say, aren't you afraid he'll catch cold?

Lullaby Joslin: I'm afraid the cold's gonna catch him.

Tommy Jones: Gee, I wish they'd hurry up.

Lullaby Joslin: You want to see the weddin', eh?

Tommy Jones: No, I want to get out of these store clothes!

Lullaby Joslin: Now, Tommy, this marriage is a serious business.

Elmer, Lullaby's Dummy: Yeah, and it's more serious as the years roll on.

[first lines]

[after reading a sign that says "Trespassers Will Be Shot"]

Lullaby Joslin: Looks like folks ain't exactly welcome around here.

Stony Brooke: Well, I don't believe in signs.

Tucson Smith: Say, Dave, didn't you use to have another young one - a little girl with freckles and a pug nose?

Nancy Carson: He certainly has and I've always said such nice things about you.

Lullaby Joslin: Gosh, Nancy, you sure growed up in a hurry!

Stony Brooke: And pretty!

[Julie Jane tugs on Stony's shirt]

Stony Brooke: What is it, honey?

Julie Jane Carson: I think you're pretty, too.

Tucson Smith: Lullaby, what's holdin' you up? We gotta go!

Lullaby Joslin: It's not me, it's Elmer.

Elmer, Lullaby's Dummy: I don't want to ride in this roll. I'm no hot dog!

Lullaby Joslin: Shut up or I'll put mustard on your face.

Elmer, Lullaby's Dummy: I'll smother! I'll suffocate! In fact, I won't be able to breathe!

Stony Brooke: Can we depend on that?

Stony Brooke: [looking at the empty bank vault] Well, they sure cleaned you out, Mr. Thornton.

Lullaby Joslin: [talking positively about the hold-up] Sure used my head yesterday by not gittin' to the bank on time.

Tucson Smith: [critically] You always say the right thing at the wrong time.

Lullaby Joslin: [riding hard] We'll never make it! It's almost ten.

Stony Brooke: We've got to make it!

[last lines]

Elmer, Lullaby's Dummy: I don't feel so good myself.

Lullaby Joslin: You don't feel good? What's the matter?

Elmer, Lullaby's Dummy: Some dern fool said I looked like you.

[after Stoney and Rita sing a duet]

Tucson Smith: As I live and breathe, if it isn't one of them singin' cowboys!

Lullaby Joslin: That was grand singin'. I ain't heard the like since my grandpap Zubie was hung.

Lullaby Joslin: I know just how Stoney feels about it. Why, my third wife used to raise a ruckus every time I left her. Too bad about her, though. Took her out riding one day. She fell off her horse, broke her leg... we had to shoot her.

Lullaby Joslin: [as Stony goes off with gold-digging saloon girl Rita] Tucson, might be better idea to have a state law protectin' Stony instead of them wild horses.

Tucson Smith: He'll snap out of it. Don't worry.

Lullaby Joslin: With all the he-men around town, don't see what she sees in that young squirt anyhow.

Lullaby Joslin: [about Jeff Harris] Swell guy like that bein' rairoaded!

Tucson Smith: [to Lullaby] Stony

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Tucson Smith: , sometimes you say things that make sense.

Lullaby Joslin: Yeah, but not often.

[Owens mistakes the Three Mesquiteers for the villainous Cherokee Boys]

Stony Brooke: Let's get this straight. You want somebody killed and you're willing to pay a $1000 for the job?

Pop Owens: That's it, and I hired you killers to ensure against any bungling. The man must be killed expertly and painlessly and not later than tomorrow.

Tucson Smith: Who's the man?

Lullaby Joslin: Yeah, we gotta warn him.

Pop Owens: Warn him?

Tucson Smith: Uh, sure! We always give 'em a sportin' chance. We like to do things the hard way.

Pop Owens: This time I don't want the man warned.

Stony Brooke: Who is he?

Pop Owens: The man I want killed is... me.

[the Cherokee Boys try to ambush the Three Mesquiteers]

Tucson Smith: It's those guys hauntin' us again!

Lullaby Joslin: We'll show 'em what happens when the Cherokees meet their ghosts!

[when Tom Owens mistakes the Mesquiteers for the Cherokee Gang, the Sheriff arrests them]

Stony Brooke: Why he's crazy. The guys we plugged back on the road are the real Cherokees!

The Sheriff: I'll settle for the Cherokees we got. Head 'em for jail!

Lullaby Joslin: Your tombstones are gonna read, "Here lie the Cherokee Boys" and mine will read, "I Told You So!"

Lullaby Joslin: [ridiculing the uniformed cattle police] Hey, mister, settle a bet. Do you work for the local funeral parlor?

Captain Gardner: [snarling] Yeah! I bury clowns like you.

Lullaby Joslin: [on stage with an audience] Well, Elmer, how do you feel?

Elmer, Lullaby's Dummy: Fine.

Elmer, Lullaby's Dummy: [looking around] Say, what is this?

Lullaby Joslin: This is the opera house. Whatta yuh think of it.?

Elmer, Lullaby's Dummy: It ain't so hot. Kinda smells bad in places - especially back there where Mr. Hackett is.

Lullaby Joslin: [the audience laughs derisively at Hackett] Well, Elmer, that's not nice. Don't you realize that Mr. Hackett is one of the biggest executives in this town?

Elmer, Lullaby's Dummy: Is that so?

Lullaby Joslin: You don't even know what a executive is!

Elmer, Lullaby's Dummy: Oh, no? An executive is a man that loses other people's money... like Mr. Hackett.

[The Mesquiteers, not knowing Walker has been bushwhacked, wait in jail for him to clear them of robbery charges]

Stony Brooke: Has Walker shown up yet?

Jailer: Nope. I told you I'd let you know the minute he does.

Lullaby Joslin: He sure picked a good time to play hide-and-go-seek.

[Deputy Sheriff Cantrell accuses the Mesquiteers of murdering Walker to cover-up the stagecoach robbery]

Lullaby Joslin: That figuring just about leaves us out on a limb.

Stony Brooke: Yeah - and dangling from ropes!

[examining chewed wood found where the murderer waited for Walker]

Lullaby Joslin: Fellows, I got it - all we got to do is find the termite who whittles his own toothpicks.

[Lullaby stuffs medicine bottles down his shirt]

Stony Brooke: What are you doing?

Lullaby Joslin: Doc forgot to pay me for my singing, so I'm taking it out in trade.

Stony Brooke: Take one for our *friend*. If he doesn't talk he'll need some pain killer.