Tintin in America

At Blackfeet when Bobby Smiles warned the Red

Indians...
Tintin: We lost valuable time unravelling ourselves. It
will be dark soon, Snowy, so we would better pitch
camp for the night and pick up the trail again in the
morning.
Tintin: We will stop here...
Tintin: Tomorrow morning we will set off at sunrise...
I’m determined that the crook will not escape us
again...
Bobby Smiles: Just my luck!... Tintin will be here in
the morning, and l’ll must skedaddle... They are going
to find that tomahawk if it is the last thing they do!
Next Morning...
Tintin: Wakey, wakey, Snowy! On the road again!
Snowy: Already?
Bobby Smiles: Well, Chief?
Blackfeet Boss: Alas, Blackfeet still cannot find their
tomahawk... It is lost!
Bobby Smiles: What then?
Blackfeet Boss: What then?... It is quite simple:
Blackfeet certainly cannot make war on Paleface. No
tomahawk, no war.
Bobby Smiles: Alcatraz and Sing!... Dumb redskins
will not fight... I’ve gotta get out of here!
At that moment...
Bobby Smiles: Ow!
Blackfeet Boss: The tomahawk!
Blackfeet Boss: Our tomahawk is found! Great
Manitou wants war!
Bobby Smiles: I sure hit the jackpot!
Blackfeet Boss: Great Manitou! Great Manitou! Give
victory to your warriors!
Blackfeet Boss: Away!... To the horses!... Death to the
Paleface!
All Blackfeet: War!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tintin: Hello, here comes the Indians... I tell you
Snowy, if I did not know the redskins are peaceful
nowadays, I would be feeling a lot less sure of myself!
Snowy: Well, I am scared the to death!
Tintin: What is all this?... It is an odd sort of way to
welcome a stranger!
And later...
Snowy: Whew! They have gone! Savages! Frightened
me out of my wits!
Snowy: Snowy, that was disgraceful! You abandoned
Tintin.
Tintin: Really, what curious customs you have!
Blackfeet Boss: Hear, O Paleface, the words of Great
Sachem... You have come among Blackfoot people
with hearts full of trickery and hate, like a sneaking
dog. But now you are tied to torture stake. You shall
pay Blackfeet for your treachery by suffering long. I
have spoken!
Blackfeet: You speak well, O Sachem!
Blackfeet Boss: Now, let my young braves practice
their skill upon his Paleface with his soul of a coyote!
Make him suffer long before you send him to land of
his fore feathers!
Tintin: But... he is crazy!
Pickaxe: Thwack!
Tintin: Sachem, this little joke’s gone far enough!
Untie these ropes and let me go!
This paleface commands us!... By Great Manitou, shall
Blackfeet be ordered about like dogs? The Paleface
shall die! I have spoken!
But at that moment:
Tintin: ?
Tintin: (Mumbling) Resin! That is a great idea!
CLICK! PLOP!
Blackfeet Boss: Ouch!
Blackfeet Boss: Oho! A catapult!
Tintin: It worked!
Blackfeet Boss: Take that, annoying little papoose!
Shooting at me with a catapult! Do that again, and I
will have your scalp!
Blackfeet Boss: Keep out of my sight for 3 moons, or
else...
Blackfeet: What a nerve! Behaving like that to Big
Chief Keen-eyed mole!... Nasty Brat!
Blackfeet: They should not let papoose play with
catapult!
Blackfeet Boss: By Great Waconda!... You are too!
You dare show disrespect to Big Chief Keen-eyed
Mole!
Blackfeet: Me??...
Blackfeet Boss: Yes, you!
Blackfeet 2: Sachem! You strike my brothers!
Browsing-Bison, he is innocent, he does no wrong!
And later... All Blackfeet begins to fight!...
Tintin: Splendid! Splendid! Let them fight. Meanwhile,
let me get these ropes untied...
Tintin: There! That is freed my hands... Now for my
feet... Good... Now, move!
Tintin: Now, who turned Blackfeet against me? I must
find that out... What about the gangster I’m chasing?
Was it him?
Bobby Smiles: They have stopped yelling and
shouting, so it must be over. I will see...
Bobby Smiles: Alcatraz!... Over there!... He is
escaping!... Knocked out of the whole tribe!... It is
impossible!... What a kid!
Bobby Smiles starts shooting at Tintin...
BANG!
Tintin: Help! They are on my tracks!
BANG!
Snowy: I can hear shooting... I hope nothing has
happened to Tintin!
Tintin: No, it is not the Indians! It is Bobby Smiles!... I
might have known it! Now I understand why the
Indians are so hostile at me...
Tintin: Snakes! He is taking aim again!
BANG!
Tintin: ?
Bobby Smiles: Alcatraz!... What a drop! The canyon
goes down hundreds of feet... I can scarcely see the
bottom...
Snowy: Quick! Quick! I must save Tintin!
Bobby Smiles: That will teach you, smartlec! Medding
little busybody... I have you out of my hair for good.
Snowy: What is he looking at? Surely it can’t be...
Tintin’s fallen over that precipice...?
Bobby Smiles: And now... Back to Chicago.
Snowy: Wooah!... Wooah!... Wooah!...
Bobby Smiles: It is that dratted dog of Tintin’s!... OK,
he can follow his owner!
BANG!
Snowy: WOOAH!
Snowy: AAAAAH! Help!
Snowy: Wooah!
Tintin: Hello, Snowy! We both seem to have come
from the same route!
Tintin: I fell into space, like you. It was fantastic: there
was this bush, and I fell right into it. It bent and
dropped me on this ledge. So here I am, safe, instead
of smashed to bits in the canyon.
Snowy: Golly, what a stroke of luck!
Tintin: Still, we are only safe for the time being... I
cannot see any viable way of escape from here...
Tintin: What are you sniffing there, Snowy?... Have
you found something?...
Tintin: Good gracious!... Amazing!... It looks like some
sort of cave... Why don’t we see if it leads anywhere?
Tintin: Here goes!
Snowy: Where are we?
Tintin: Careful, Snowy!... Do not take any chances!
Tintin: It is heading upwards increasingly...
Snowy: When are we going to come out?
Tintin: Look! A huge gallery, decorated with Indian
paintings...
Tintin: The Blackfeet hid in this cave when they were
being hunted by their enemies...
Tintin: This is the other exit...
Tintin: Still going upwards!... Where can this tunnel be
leading?
Tintin: Ah, now it is starting to go down...
Tintin: …. then it is taking us up again, steeply!
Meanwhile...
Bobby Smiles: I have shot of that no-good reporter at
last! Now, before I hit the trail again, I’ll have some
food... Too bad you are missing this Tintin!
Bobby Smiles: Hey, what is happening around here?
Must be an earthquake! The ground’s shaking under
me...
Bobby Smiles: ?
Tintin: Whew! What a weight!
Tintin: !
Bobby Smiles: !?!
Bobby Smiles: Help! Help! It is a ghost! It is Tintin!
Tintin: Well, well! What a coincidence! I must say, he
did not seem too terribly pleased to see me again!
Tintin: How very thoughtful of him to cook me a nice
little meal. I am really an extremely grateful for his
generosity... To tell the truth, I am absolutely
starving...
Snowy: M-m-m, me too!
Bobby Smiles: Sachem! Sachem! I have seen a ghost!
The ghost of the young Paleface!... He was dead. I
swear it! I hit him with a bullet, and he fell down the
canyon... Now he has just risen out of the ground!
Blackfeet Boss: What did you say?... Risen out of the
ground?... He must have discovered the secret of our
cave! Take us there, O Sachem, we must finish this
young coyote!
Bobby Smiles: It is about two miles...
Blackfeet Boss: By Great Manitou, I will have his scalp
for my wigwam!
Blackfeet: Paleface-with-eyes-of-the-moon, he has a
stomach of a squaw!
Tintin: ?
Wheeeee...
As the Blackfeet is taking aim, Tintin and Snowy
dropped their food and dived back into the cave...
Blackfeet Boss: Little worm... He escapes us!
Bobby Smiles: Then you’d better get after him.
Blackfeet Boss: Come! Let my young brave follow
their Chief!
Bobby Smiles: Get on with it! Faster! Faster!... Good
grief, anyone would think you were scared to follow
your boss! (He was the captain now)
Ten minutes later...
Bobby Smiles: Over ten minutes since they went
down, I wonder what is happening...
Blackfeet: Great Waconda has sent victory to his
braves! Little Paleface is vanquished.
Bobby Smiles: At last! He has gone again!
Blackfeet: Our great Sachem did the deed. He brings
his victim...
Bobby Smiles: Well! Well!
Blackfeet Boss: By Great Manitou! It whacks the
young Paleface!
Blackfeet: Wriggling rattlesnakes! I made a mistake! It
is Lame Duck!
Blackfeet Boss: I have idea... Let us leave Little
Paleface there, to starve to death in his burrow!
Bobby Smiles: Do what you like but get rid of him!
This has gone on too long!
Blackfeet Boss: This end, heap big rock... another
end, sheer drop! What can Paleface do? No way out
but death...
And meanwhile...
Tintin: Do not be afraid, Snowy. We are not going to
molder away down here forever down here. They think
we are trapped, but we are getting out. Look, I have
emptied my cartridges and collected the powder.
There! Now we will blast their rock to blazes!
Snowy: You think it will work?
Tintin: You wait here, Snowy. I am going to lay my
charge...
Snowy: Take care, you do not blow us up as well!
Tintin: Done it!... Now... there will be a tremendous
explosion... and that rock will pop like champagne
cork... Any minute now, we will be free!
PFFFFT....
Tintin: ?
Tintin: Hopeless! Not enough explosion... Now
what?... I have no more ammunition.
Tintin: Come on, Snowy, this will not do. We
absolutely must get out of here... To work then! Let us
try and dig another exit!
Snowy: That suits me. But do not kid yourself, we will
be out of here by five minutes...
Tintin: That is, it... Slowly but surely, we are getting
there, Snowy, you will see. Come on, another little
effort... Hello, the soil fell damp...
Snowy: You are telling me... And it smells funny, too.
The rock blasts away, Tintin and Snowy escaped...
Tintin: Great snakes!... OIL!... A liquid fortune, and no
one to harness it!
Snowy: Golly! And there is me, thinking that oil came
out of a can!
???: OK, son! Here is the contract. Sign here! $5000
for your oil well...
Tintin: H-h-how do you know there was an oil well
here?... It is less than ten minutes since it blew...
???: Know-how, sonny boy! Unerring American
knows-how! Never fails!
???: Do not listen to that crook!... Sign here! $10000
for your oil well...
???: Hey, friend! Do not you sign! I am offering 25
grand!
???: 50 grands!
???: 100 grands!
Tintin: I’m terribly sorry, gentleman, but that oil well
isn’t mine to sell. It belongs to Blackfeet that lives in
this part of the country...
???: Why didn’t you say that before?!
???: Here, Hiawatha! $25 and half an hour to pack
your bags and quit the territory!
Blackfeet Boss: Has Paleface gone mad?
An hour later, Blackfeet quit their territory...
Two hours later, Blackfeet and their belongings were
out of sight...
Three hours later, the Blackfeet area was building a
giant palace...
Next morning...
???: What is all that fuss?
Police Officer: Hey, you! Don’t you know fancy dress
is forbidden in town?... And where do you think you
are going anyway... The Wild West or something?
Tintin: Out of luck again! With all that ballyhoo, Bobby
Smiles managed to give us the slip... How can I find
him again now?
Snowy: Here we are like a couple of hobos watching
the trains go by...
Bobby Smiles: Alcatraz!... He spotted me!
Tintin: There he is!
Tintin: Stationmaster! Stationmaster! What time does
the next train leave?
Stationmaster: Next train, huh?... Tomorrow... Same
time...
Tintin: Beaten! He is defeated me again!... Unless...
Stationmaster: Hey, look over there!
Train Driver: Jumping Josephat! My train is driving by
itself!
Snowy: So long, folks!... We will send you a nice
postcard!
Tintin: Terribly sorry!... I am only borrowing it!...
Tintin: Hooray! We are catching up! I can see smoke
from the other train...
As Tintin pulls the train faster, he gets off and
carefully gets ready to hook the gangster’s train.
Meanwhile, at the station...
Stationmaster: Hello?... Block one-five-two?... There is
a loco running crazy on the track... Yes... She must
not overtake the Flyer... Switch her on to number
seven...
Track-switcher: Right you are, boss! Count on me!
Track-switcher: Phew! Just in time! Here comes the
Flyer... with the runaway train on her trail...
Tintin: Drat! We have been switched to another track...
This word scene book will continue in:
Tintin in America Word Scenes Part 4
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