Quick convention question

[Rumple Foreskin]

"Gorsh, looks like ol' Roy's gonna take the skin boat to tuna town. Shore hope Dale don't catch him." Baaaaa
MG

Close, but no see-gar. Pat Buttram, along with Smiley Burnett, were Gene Autrey's sidekicks.

Rumple

 

[MathGirl]

Close, but no see-gar. Pat Buttram, along with Smiley Burnett, were Gene Autrey's sidekicks.

Dear Rumple,
I stand corrected. I was thinkin' of Mr Hayes.
MG
Ps. "It looks like ol' Gene's gonna take the skin boat to the brown eye. Hope Champion don't kick this time."

 

[The_Fool]

Another good thing about Mr. Maclean's characters is they often drank copious amounts of single malt. That is a wonderful character trait....

Salute

Fool

 

[Quasimodem]

"Gorsh, looks like ol' Roy's gonna take the skin boat to tuna town. Shore hope Dale don't catch him." Baaaaa
MG

. . . "It looks like ol' Gene's gonna take the skin boat to the brown eye. Hope Champion don't kick this time."

Math,

I believe you have those two cases switched.

Roy's theme was always, "Happy Trails to YOU!"

So Gene would see tuna town, Roy is going to the brown eye gulch.


BTW: Your "Baaaaa" was properly positioned in Roy's section. Roy's dog Bullet, was after all, a German Shepherd.


Gene, Pat, and Smiley all hung out at the "Melody Ranch."

Roy, Dale, and Pat [Brady] rode for the "Double R Bar Ranch.

There's nothing like pedantic trivia.

 

[Uther_Pendragon]

As others have said, you have the gramatically correct
punctuation.
If you want to keep your readers more certain that she is
still talking, you could say something like "'This can't
go on.' Mary had clearly thought this out; John decided
let her run. 'I mean, ...'"
and then include a "'This is *very* important to me,' she
concluded. 'So important that ...'"
(Double quotes are my story fragment, singel quotes are
what Mary says in that fragment.)