There was a game-legged wait, and neither one of us spoke.

Well, I was pretty proud at having this small command given me, since I was a raw recruit, and a game-legged one at that.

And knowing, we rode silent back to Manoj's campsite, where the old patriarch delighted to hear that Hyacinthe was clever enough to have spotted the game-legged horse in the lot.

Inside the jail, Stumpy (Walter Brennan), Chance's game-legged deputy, keeps watch over the jail and Joe, who knows that Stumpy holds an old grudge against Joe's wealthy and powerful brother.