:12:09
Afternoon.
- Howdy.
:12:12
Get down and set a spell, friend.
Got more fish here if you're hungry.
:12:16
Mighty generous of you.
:12:18
I'm a generous man. Believe in it.
:12:21
Make yourself at home.
Coffee there. Sweet biscuits there.
:12:24
Hey, you got all the comforts.
- Yes, sir, friend. I enjoy life.
:12:28
My soul's on fire with the spirit of it,
if you know what I mean.
:12:32
That's fine.
:12:33
Well, it looks to me like
you must be a rope drummer.
:12:39
Oh.
:12:41
No, just the tools of my professión.
I'm a hangman.
:12:45
A hangman? Well, I declare.
:12:48
On my way to hang the Bishop gang
down in Val Verde.
:12:52
Oh, yeah. I heard about that.
Well, they finally got that bunch, huh?
:12:57
Caught, jailed, tried and gonna hang.
:13:00
Well, I sure am happy
to come across you, Mr...
:13:04
Grimes. Ossie Grimes,
of the Oklahoma Grimes.
:13:07
Mr. Grimes, yes, sir.
Yeah, I sure am happy I've run across...
:13:12
You know, I've always been
sort of curious about your job.
:13:17
Well, there's a lot more to it
than most folks think.
:13:21
There's nothing worse
than a sloppy hanging.
:13:23
Back in Oklahoma, I once watched them
hang a fella five times before it took.
:13:28
Five times? Five?
:13:30
Just exactly what do you
have to know, Mr. Grimes...
:13:36
...in order to make a good,
clean, professional job of it?
:13:40
Well, just about everything.
:13:43
You have to know how tall
your subject is, how much he weighs...
:13:47
...his neck size
and how he feels about it all.
:13:51
- Then you have to be certain...
- Excuse me.
:13:55
You mean to say you have to know...
:13:57
...how the fellow you're gonna hang
feels about it?