Rooster Cogburn is no good friend of mine! He led us straight into your hands, and now he has left me with a gang of cut-throats! Is that what they call "grit" in Fort Smith? We call it something else in Yell County.
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Mattie Ross Papa's marker is not what was ordered. I will make that wool-hatted fool of a stone man change it.
"Rooster" Cogburn Mr. Rat, I have a writ here that says you are to stop eating Chen Lee's cornmeal forthwith. Now, It's a rat writ, writ for a rat, and this is lawful service of same! [to Mattie] See? He doesn't pay any attention to me. [shoots the rat] You can't serve papers on a rat, baby sister. You either kill him or let him be.
"Rooster" Cogburn Baby sister, I was born game, and I mean to go out that way.
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