Wagon Train (TV Series)

The Kate Crawley Story (1964)

Noah Beery Jr.: Stump Beasley

Quotes 

• Stump Beasley : It don't bother me at all that you wear those old pants all the time and got callouses on your hands. 'Cos the work you do takes a real woman to do. My kind of woman.

  Kate Crawley : Now, I'll thank you to keep them fancy words to yourself. I told you before and I aint interested. And I'm telling you again.

  Stump Beasley : I aint in no hurry. I'll just tag along and wait for you to figure it out for yourself.

  Kate Crawley : Figure what out?

  Stump Beasley : That I'm probably the only man in the whole world who'll ever really ask you to marry him.

  Kate Crawley : What?

  Stump Beasley : Most fellas like their women all soft and sweet smelling. But not me.

  Kate Crawley : Why you...

  Stump Beasley : I'll take you for a partner, any day, any time.

• Stump Beasley : No, sir. I aint going to leave you here alone, Kate. Someone's gonna teach you, you can't put out a forest fire with a bull whip.

• Duke Shannon : You know, shave, take a bath.

  Stump Beasley : A bath? Now, what good would that do?

  Duke Shannon : You can't expect to get within three feet of her, can you, when you keep reminding her of an old billy goat.

  Stump Beasley : Did Kate say that?

  Duke Shannon : The point is you haven't got much of a chance with Kate when you're competing with a man who takes baths, regular.

  Stump Beasley : The wagonmaster, he does that?

  Duke Shannon : Like clockwork. Sometimes every day.

  Stump Beasley : Ohh?

  Duke Shannon : Yep. How about it, Stump? I'll loan you my razor, clean clothes. I even got some soap.

  Stump Beasley : Soap? No, sir. No, sir. I aint going to do it. I told Kate I was willing to take her right the way she was. She ought to be willing to take me the way I am. No soap.

  Duke Shannon : Is that final?

  Stump Beasley : That's final. F-I-N-E-L.