Steamboat Round the Bend (1935)

John McGuire: Duke

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• 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.