When I was a kid, I had a pet rattlesnake. I was fond of it, but I wouldn't turn my back on it.
8 seconds sound clip from the The Westerner (1940) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:55:11 in the DVD version of the movie.
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- When the last steer's out of the valley.
- All right, I'll pass the word around to the boys.
- You're going to help run those cattle out, and I'm going along with you to see that it's done.
- When I was a kid, I had a pet rattlesnake. I was fond of it, but I wouldn't turn my back on it.
- I'm going back now, and gathering my stuff for the roundup.
- Yeah, yeah, the lock of hair.
- He defended Bean. He said he was right.
- Said the homesteaders spoiled this land for the cattlemen. We all heard it.
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