Wash : [after having been shot in the back] Well Tom, they came. Destry : Now don't do any talkin' now, just rest. Wash : I'll talk if I wanna - for a little while, anyway. Destry : All right, if you wanna talk. Wash : I'll bet you knew a fellow once who did something like falling asleep when he oughta kept awake. Didn't ya, huh? Destry : Yeah, I knew a fella that lived down around Wichita. He was a ...well you see, he tried to keep awake one night when he was gonna catch a stage over to a nearby town and he had a girl over there he was courtin'... Wash : A man must be an awful fool to get shot in the back.... Destry : Wait a minute, you know, that's how they shot my father. They didn't dare face him either. Wash : They didn't give us a chance, did they? Destry : No. Wash : Oh, I'm sleepy, plumb-tuckered out.

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