If they last two years, that can be a sizable number.
5 seconds sound clip from the McLintock! (1963) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:07:11 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- That ought to make Douglas happy, lining his pockets with land fees.
- I don't know what you're gonna do, Ben. Me I do nothing.
- 200 families. Quarter of beef a week per family.
- If they last two years, that can be a sizable number.
- I got 20 head to one of any other brand on the Mesa Verde.
- Some of us haven't got all the money in the world.
- Some of us ain't old and tired and feel like being put upon.
- You interest me, Young Ben. Go on.
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