Have Gun - Will Travel (TV Series)

Ben Jalisco (1961)

John Litel: Armstedder

Quotes 

• Paladin : Well Armstedder, she didn't always have to hustle drinks in a bar.

  Sheriff John Armstedder : You know her 100 years ago mister?

  Paladin : I guess it was that long ago.

  Sheriff John Armstedder : Sour truth? Still, she looks sweet enough to be honey for Jalisco.

• Sheriff John Armstedder : Son, you're only teasing yourself. It don't taste the same as when you put a match to it.

  Paladin : Mr Armstedder, this is a kind of a compromise. it's not as good as a smoke, but, then again, it's not as bad as lighting a match and getting shot at.

  Sheriff John Armstedder : Now I chew. It's good for your health, disposition, and life expectancy. It don't have any of them unbeneficial side effects, like on a night like this.

  Paladin : Well, I have heard of a couple of fellows who got frightened and swallowed it.

  Sheriff John Armstedder : Yes, sir, I've done that myself a couple of times. But I consider it very beneficial to the disgestion. Now, my wife though, she never did like my chewing. I gave it up while she was alive. That seems like 700 years ago. I got a boy somewhere. The last letter he wrote me from from Montana. It's where he was punching cows. I'm glad of that. Now a lot of boys go wrong nowadays. You married? You're missing a fine thing. That and having children. It's a rich thing in a man's life. And becoming a sentimental old man is a bad thing!