بخش 08

l’ll have you know, you’re not looking at our entire contingent.

What’s that supposed to be?

That’s the signal.

That’s the signal!

Something must have gone wrong!

So something’s supposed to happen?

l am open to suggestions.

Run!

Get on the wagon!

Should we have ourselves some sport, chill’ens?

l likes it when they run.

Maybelle, give the holler!

Looks like we made it!

That audience was quite responsive.

Yeah, well, l think that chromosome pool is about dried up.

We got bats!

Here!

You drive.

Looks like there’s gonna be soup tonight!

Come on, let’s get some!

What in tarnation?

Don’t shoot the water!

Jedidiah!

lt’s time for the Alabama squeeze box!

Okay, Pa!

l am sensing hostility.

Incoming!

Hello!

Goodbye!

Lasso that swine!

l suggest we take evasive action!

l suggest you shut up and shoot!

What happened to the Sheriff?

He had a previous engagement!

Boseefus, give them some gumbo now!

What was that?

Go check it out!

What is it?

Is there a problem?

You could call it that.

Headache.

Is that all you got?

That wasn’t altogether unpleasant!

Eat lead!

Here, hold these.

Get your hands off me!

Oh, l’m sorry.

Jump!

It’s impossible.

It can’t be.

It’s empty.

There’s no water!

No water?

Then what the hell we been fighting for?

Sir, you have defiled and desecrated the very sustenance of our livelihood!

l think that there fella in the purty dress is the Sheriff.

That’s the same fellow what give us a prospecting permit?

A what?

lrrelevant!

Obfuscation.

You and your kin are under arrest for bank robbery and the murder of our beloved financial advisor Johannes Merrimack the Third, AKA, Fluffy Joe.

Sheriff, we didn’t kill nobody.

We done tunnelled into that vault, but there weren’t nothing in it.

Somebody done robbed that bank before we robbed it.

Then where’d you get this here jug?

That’s what l been trying to tell you, Pappy.

l found it in the desert.

Then why in tarnation did you bring it here?

Hold on!

You’re saying this here jug was empty when you found it?

That’s right.

l don’t believe a word of it.

Let’s hang them, Sheriff!

String them up!

Who’d dump water in the desert?

Wouldn’t be the first time.

It’s a puzzle!

It’s like a big old mammogram!

What’s going on, Sheriff?

l don’t know.

But l’m going to strip away this mystery and expose its private parts.

You and your kin are coming with me.

They’re coming!

Here they come!

Looks like they got them robbers.

Where’s the water?

There weren’t no water.

Where is he going?

He’s going to see the Mayor.

He’s got to be pleased with that.