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Gunsmoke - "The Guitar Reused Script" (Old Time Radio, 1958) · Gunsmoke | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: John Meston wrote this return to Dodge City, directed and
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  Speaker 1: produced for CBS by Norman MacDonald. On March 2nd, 1958,
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  Speaker 1: Gunsmoke presented episode 308, The Guitar Reused Script, a repeat
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  Speaker 1: of a story first heard on the series in 1953.
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  Speaker 1: William Conrad is Marshal Matt Dillon, alongside Parley Bear as
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  Speaker 1: Chester Proudfoot, Howard McNair as Doc Adams, and Georgia Ellis
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  Speaker 1: as Kitty. Vic Perrin, John Diener, Lawrence Dobkin, and Harry
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  Speaker 1: Bartell are also heard. Into Dodge City comes Weed Pendle,
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  Speaker 1: an impoverished gentle drifter traveling by mule with a guitar
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  Speaker 1: he will not play. When two former Confederates learn he
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  Speaker 1: served the Union, their hostility draws Dillon and the town
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  Speaker 1: regulars into the matter. Here is the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Around Dodge City and in the Territory on West, there's
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  Speaker 2: just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers,
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  Speaker 2: and that's with a U.S. Marshal and the smell of
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  Speaker 2: gun smoke. Gunsmoke, starring William Conrad. The story of the
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  Speaker 2: violence that moved west with young America. And the story
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  Speaker 2: of a man who moved with it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm that man.
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  Speaker 4: Matt Dillon, United States Marshal. The first man they look
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  Speaker 4: for and the last they want to meet.
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  Speaker 3: It's a chancery job.
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  Speaker 4: And it makes a man watchful.
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  Speaker 3: And a little lonely.
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  Speaker 5: Gunsmoke You sure are slow with that beard, Doc.
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  Speaker 1: Here, I'm ready for another.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, yes. Well, you had enough last night, sir.
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  Speaker 1: Matt told me you were still asleep at 9 o'clock
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  Speaker 1: this morning.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I was, and that was mighty kind of him not.
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  Speaker 6: To wake me up. Doctor, are you sure he said
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  Speaker 6: he'd be back? Uh-uh. Now, what in the world is
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  Speaker 6: that fella?
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  Speaker 3: Just came in the door.
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  Speaker 6: You see? With Tyler and Short there?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, him.
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  Speaker 6: Well, that's Weed Pendle. He rode in on a mule
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  Speaker 6: a couple days ago. Well, which has the bigger ears?
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  Speaker 6: Him or his mule?
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  Speaker 5: He is funny looking, all right.
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  Speaker 6: And he acts pretty peculiar, too.
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  Speaker 5: That is scrawny mule, Pendle.
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  Speaker 1: I seen you on him this morning. Well, Pendle, he's
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  Speaker 1: kind of scrawny himself, Short. Maybe some beer fattened him
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  Speaker 1: up a little. I'd like some beer, all right, but
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  Speaker 1: I got no money.
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  Speaker 6: Well, why don't you just sell that guitar of yours?
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  Speaker 1: Sell my guitar? No, I'd never do that. Pendle, you
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  Speaker 1: must have a nickel at least. Last money I had
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  Speaker 1: got stolen. Now, who dares steal money off a tiger
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  Speaker 1: like you, Pendle?
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  Speaker 6: I was asleep. I started to wake up, but they
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  Speaker 6: kicked me in the head. Oh, now, Pendle, you call
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  Speaker 6: that thing a head?
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  Speaker 1: Looked to me more like your neck just growed out
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  Speaker 1: and haired over.
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  Speaker 6: I ain't very handsome.
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  Speaker 5: You sure ain't. Hey, Bontana, three beers.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 1: You buying, Tyler?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I'm proud to buy.
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  Speaker 6: Fine old soldier like Weed Pendle. How'd you know I
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  Speaker 6: was a soldier? Well, now, I didn't. Where was you
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  Speaker 6: a soldier, Pendle? Third Illinois' Calvary. Illinois.
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  Speaker 4: You're the Yankees.
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  Speaker 6: I never done much. We had hard luck and never
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  Speaker 6: got to see no real Confederates at all. Just a
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  Speaker 6: bunch of.
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  Speaker 1: Ragged-tailed bushwhackers in South Missouri. It was led by an
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  Speaker 1: old chicken thief named McClyde.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, so they was. Tell me something else, Pendle.
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  Speaker 7: Did you ever get to kill any Klines men?
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  Speaker 1: A few, before I got shot myself. They caught some
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  Speaker 1: of them after and hung them.
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  Speaker 6: But I never did see a hanging.
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  Speaker 7: You never did see one?
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  Speaker 6: Nowheres. I never did. That's so.
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  Speaker 7: Pendle, you know you're in luck. Since we was all
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  Speaker 7: kind of in the war together, so to speak, I'm going.
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  Speaker 6: To show you a hanging.
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  Speaker 3: You're about ready, ain't you, short?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, my rope's on my saddle. I'll get it and
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  Speaker 1: meet you out back. There gonna be a hanging? A
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  Speaker 1: real hanging?
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  Speaker 6: Why, sure there is. And you're lucky, Pendle. You run
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  Speaker 6: into us just in time. Yeah, now, what you talking about, Tyler?
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  Speaker 6: And who you gonna hang? It's kindly a surprise, Chester.
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  Speaker 6: You can watch, though. Now, you know it's a game
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  Speaker 6: of law to hang people around here. I seen Marshal
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  Speaker 6: Dillon ride out of town this morning.
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  Speaker 7: By the time he gets back, it'll be all over.
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  Speaker 7: Don't you try to buck me in short, Chester.
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  Speaker 3: You'd die if you do.
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  Speaker 6: Come on, Peter, come on.
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  Speaker 3: We don't want to miss it.
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  Speaker 1: Sure.
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  Speaker 6: Now, what do you suppose they're up to, Doc? I
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  Speaker 6: don't know, Chester, but I'd sure like to find out. Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: I reckon we better. I sure do wish Mr. Dillon
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  Speaker 6: was here. There they are.
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  Speaker 1: Boy, they're putting rope around Pendle's neck.
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  Speaker 7: Why are you hanging me for?
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  Speaker 6: I ain't done nothing. You was in the 3rd Illinois Cavalry.
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  Speaker 3: Well, sure I was.
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  Speaker 6: We was fighting under that old chicken thief Klein in
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  Speaker 6: South Missouri.
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  Speaker 1: It's a real pleasure to hang a Yankee like you.
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  Speaker 1: But I only done what they told me to. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't kill nobody on purpose.
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  Speaker 6: Now, you just wait a minute, you two.
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  Speaker 5: You've gone far enough.
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  Speaker 6: Shoot him, Tyler. You go shooting anybody and you'll be
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  Speaker 6: the ones to end.
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  Speaker 8: Up on a rope.
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  Speaker 6: Doc ain't armed. It never is. Go on, Tyler.
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  Speaker 1: All right, you tried, but you're sure gonna have to
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  Speaker 1: kill me before you hang anybody.
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  Speaker 6: I'll kill you.
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  Speaker 3: You'll have to kill me too, Tyler. Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Jones. Where'd he come from?
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  Speaker 4: Take your rope off that man's neck short and you
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  Speaker 4: do it quick.
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  Speaker 3: Sure, Marshal. Sure.
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  Speaker 6: I told you you shouldn't hang me. You were just.
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  Speaker 3: Funning him, Marshal. He wasn't going to hang you. What's
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  Speaker 3: this all about, Short?
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  Speaker 6: He's a Yankee, Marshal. Killed a lot of us in
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  Speaker 6: Missouri during the war. We was going to scare him
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  Speaker 6: and then run him off.
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  Speaker 3: You forget about that. And you forget about the war, too.
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  Speaker 3: It's over. Next time I catch up to anything like this,
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  Speaker 3: you'll go to jail.
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  Speaker 6: Go to jail?
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  Speaker 1: Over a dumb Yankee who don't own nothing but a
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  Speaker 1: skinny mule and a guitar?
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  Speaker 3: Get out of here, Short. You too, Tyler.
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  Speaker 6: Well, this Yankee better get out of here, too.
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  Speaker 5: Clean out the dog. Shut up.
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  Speaker 3: And get moving.
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  Speaker 6: See you later, Finley.
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  Speaker 1: I sure do thank you for letting me sleep in
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  Speaker 1: your jail last night, Marshal.
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  Speaker 3: Boy, you've been sleeping before, Pendle.
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  Speaker 6: With my mule? I always do.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I hear you're broke.
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  Speaker 3: What do you do for a living?
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  Speaker 6: I never did nothing much, Marshal. Just ride around on
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  Speaker 6: my mule.
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  Speaker 4: What about your guitar? Don't you ever play and take
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  Speaker 4: up a collection or something?
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  Speaker 3: No, Marshal.
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  Speaker 6: I wouldn't do that.
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  Speaker 3: Why not? Can't you play good enough?
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  Speaker 6: I don't know, Marshal.
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  Speaker 1: I never played it for nobody to hear except me.
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  Speaker 4: Chester, take him over to the Long Branch, will you?
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  Speaker 4: Maybe Sam can give him a job of some kind.
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  Speaker 6: It wouldn't be steady, would it?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I don't know, but why shouldn't it be?
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  Speaker 6: Because I'll be leaving in a day or two.
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  Speaker 3: Oh? Where are you headed?
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  Speaker 5: Nowhere.
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  Speaker 3: Nowhere?
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  Speaker 6: Just ride around on my mule. I always do. Where
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  Speaker 6: you from, anyway, Pendle? I was born in San Benito.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, the Rio Grande, huh?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, but I left. Took my guitar with me. Never
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  Speaker 6: did go back.
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  Speaker 3: Well, if you're from Texas, how come you fought in
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  Speaker 3: the Union Army?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: One army's just like another.
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  Speaker 5: I guess.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe you're right at that.
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  Speaker 6: I've only done what they told me, Marshal.
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  Speaker 4: Sure.
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  Speaker 3: Ah, Chester, take him over to Sam's, would you? All right, sir.
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  Speaker 6: I left my guitar out back. I'll go get it.
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  Speaker 6: He sure is a peculiar little fellow, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Dillon.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Pretty helpless, too.
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  Speaker 6: You think Short and Tyler are bothering him anymore?
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  Speaker 3: Well, no.
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  Speaker 4: And them, I believe they'd have hung him yesterday if
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  Speaker 4: they could. You tell Sam to let me know if
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  Speaker 4: I even start talking to him again.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I will.
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  Speaker 1: They're about the meanest pair of men I ever knew.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, they are.
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  Speaker 3: He'll think of something.
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  Speaker 6: Well, Pendle said he's leaving in a day or two.
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  Speaker 3: I just hope it's soon enough, Chester.
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  Speaker 6: Sam gave Weed Pendle a job.
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  Speaker 3: Sweeping up the saloon and let him live in a
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  Speaker 3: tiny shack out back.
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  Speaker 6: He tried to get him to play.
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  Speaker 4: His guitar, but Pendle wouldn't do it. We all began
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  Speaker 4: to think that he probably didn't even know how. It's
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  Speaker 4: kind of hard to believe that anybody as simple as
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  Speaker 4: he was could learn to do anything.
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  Speaker 3: I looked up short and Tyler and I warned him
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  Speaker 3: again to leave him alone. And they did.
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  Speaker 4: Until one morning a couple of days later. Chester and
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  Speaker 4: I had just come out of Delmonico's. We were walking
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  Speaker 4: up Front Street.
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  Speaker 6: What's with you and him, Mr. Dillon, across the plaza there?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I see him. Now, let's go over. Pindle and M.U.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Tyler and Short, too. I told them to keep
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  Speaker 1: away from him. Hey, what they laughing at? They're laughing,
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  Speaker 1: and he isn't. What are you supposed to have done
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  Speaker 1: to him?
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  Speaker 3: Look at his mule, Chester. That's what they'd done. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: my goodness.
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  Speaker 6: Well, he's lost the ear.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I guess there's just no pleasing some men, Tom.
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  Speaker 6: He shouldn't have done that to my mule.
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  Speaker 3: Did you men do this? No.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Marshal, we ain't done nothing to Pendle.
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  Speaker 3: Did they do this, Pendle?
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  Speaker 1: I tried to stop him, but Tyler held me.
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  Speaker 6: And they gave me the ear, Marshal. It's right here, see?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: All right, turn around, both of you.
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  Speaker 7: What?
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  Speaker 6: Turn around, I said!
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  Speaker 3: Now take their guns, Chester. Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 6: You can't do nothing else, Marshal. We didn't hurt Kendall, no.
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  Speaker 6: I don't like what you did to his mule.
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  Speaker 7: Here.
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  Speaker 3: Hang on. All right, you can turn around now.
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  Speaker 4: I ought to cut an ear off each one of you,
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  Speaker 4: but I can't do that, so I'll do the next
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  Speaker 4: best thing.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, look, you can't... Leave.
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  Speaker 3: Him there, Chester. Gondo, I'm sorry about your mule.
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  Speaker 6: He ain't much of a mule anymore.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you go take care of him, huh? Maybe these
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  Speaker 3: two will leave you alone now.
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  Speaker 6: Poor mule.
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  Speaker 3: You know what Wade Pindle told me yesterday, Matt? That
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  Speaker 3: it could have been most anything. No, it hadn't, Kitty.
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  Speaker 6: No, this kind of made sense. he was ever lonely.
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  Speaker 6: He said, no, he never.
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  Speaker 3: Stayed anywhere long enough to get to know.
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  Speaker 1: Anybody that well.
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  Speaker 3: I think he's not so strange after all.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, now what are they up to? Who? Tyler and Short.
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  Speaker 6: They just came in with Pindle.
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  Speaker 3: Look, Matt, he's got a guitar with him. Yeah. Hey, listen, everybody.
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  Speaker 5: Now, wait a minute.
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  Speaker 6: The little yak is going to play the guitar for us.
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  Speaker 5: At least he's going to try.
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  Speaker 8: Ain't he, yak?
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  Speaker 6: Don't shoot, my mule.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, am I shooting you?
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  Speaker 6: Not if you play good enough.
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  Speaker 5: Go on, get started.
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  Speaker 3: If you know how.
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  Speaker 8: Ha, ha, ha.
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  Speaker 6: All right.
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  Speaker 7: I'll play.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not threatening to kill his mule, Matt.
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  Speaker 6: You've got to stop him.
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  Speaker 3: Now, wait a minute, kiddo. Don't just sit quiet.
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  Speaker 5: I haven't seen him in a year.
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  Speaker 1: Thomas?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, man. That was beautiful.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, he kind of surprised everybody.
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  Speaker 3: Tyler and Shaw.
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  Speaker 1: Don't look too happy about it.
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  Speaker 3: Good.
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  Speaker 6: Those bullies are leaving.
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  Speaker 3: Better.
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  Speaker 6: Hello, Yankee.
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  Speaker 1: Been playing that guitar a long time.
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  Speaker 3: That's a very cute pencil.
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  Speaker 6: They wanted me to. They liked it.
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  Speaker 4: For me, in short, we've been waiting to tell you
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  Speaker 4: how we like it, too. Yeah, let me see that guitar, Pendle.
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  Speaker 7: No.
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  Speaker 6: You hurt my mule. Give it to me.
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  Speaker 3: I got a gun in your belly, Pendle, don't you?
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  Speaker 6: I want my guitar. You can't have it. I just
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  Speaker 6: want to sort of tune it for you first. Oh, yeah. And,
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  Speaker 6: you know, there's another thing that's wrong with this guitar.
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  Speaker 6: It's a little bit too big for a man like you.
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  Speaker 6: But I can fix that, too. There you are, Yankee soldier.
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  Speaker 6: All right, that ought to learn. Let's go now, Ken.
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  Speaker 6: Let's go.
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  Speaker 3: Are they both dead, Doc?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 4: Real dead. For several hours, at least. Well, they must
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  Speaker 4: have been asleep when it happened, Doc. Well, it looks
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  Speaker 4: like Short there struggled a little. I guess Tyler got
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  Speaker 4: his first and it woke Short up for a minute.
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  Speaker 3: Well, he wasn't awake very long then. It was long
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  Speaker 3: enough to see who was cutting his throat, probably.
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  Speaker 6: Well, they can't talk now.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm all through here.
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  Speaker 6: What do you want to do with him?
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  Speaker 4: Well, let the hotel worry about him.
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  Speaker 3: I guess it's weed Pendle I want now.
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  Speaker 4: Well, he's in him such a mile, little fellow, too.
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  Speaker 3: Any man can take just so much, Chester.
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  Speaker 4: I sure hate to see poor Pendle hang for killing
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  Speaker 4: these two buzzards, Matt.
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  Speaker 3: Chester, wait for me at the jail. I'll bring him
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  Speaker 3: over there as soon as I find him. Sam.
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  Speaker 6: What'll it be, Marshal?
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  Speaker 3: Where's Weed Pendle?
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  Speaker 4: I just sent him out back for a bucket of sawdust.
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  Speaker 4: What do you want him for? Short and Tyler got
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  Speaker 4: their throats cut early this morning.
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  Speaker 3: That's good.
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  Speaker 4: I guess their smashing his guitar was too much for Pendle.
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  Speaker 6: And so, there he is now. Pendle, come over here.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 6: Morning, Marshal.
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  Speaker 3: Morning, Pendle. Pendle, where was you last night?
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  Speaker 6: I don't know. You're a guest.
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  Speaker 3: You don't know?
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  Speaker 6: Wait a minute, Marshal.
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  Speaker 1: Where was you after they wrecked your guitar, Pendle? I
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  Speaker 1: sat in the alley a while, then I come back
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  Speaker 1: in here.
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  Speaker 3: That's right.
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  Speaker 9: And he was so broke up about his guitar, I
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  Speaker 9: didn't want to leave him alone, so I put him
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  Speaker 9: on the.
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  Speaker 6: Floor of my room. Ain't that right, Pendle? Go on,
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  Speaker 6: tell him now.
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  Speaker 3: Sure, that's right. Are you trying to alibi for him, Sam? Why, no, Marshal.
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  Speaker 3: What do I care about him?
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  Speaker 6: Hey, some people care about me. Who?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, he's just talking, Marshal. Who cares about you, Pennell?
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  Speaker 3: Tell me.
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  Speaker 6: Those men.
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  Speaker 8: What men?
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  Speaker 9: He means some of the boys who was here when
• 17:03
  Speaker 9: he came back with his busted guitar, Marshal. I just
• 17:06
  Speaker 9: told them outside there was Ansel.
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  Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 3: They liked his music, didn't they?
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  Speaker 6: They liked to hear me play.
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  Speaker 3: Who was in here then, Sam? Well, now, Marshal, you
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  Speaker 3: know how it is. I'm busy pouring drinks, and I don't.
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  Speaker 6: Pay no mind to who's here and who ain't.
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  Speaker 3: I couldn't rightly say at all. Okay, Sam, I guess
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: I can't beat the truth out of you.
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  Speaker 6: Marshal, who cares about talent short?
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  Speaker 3: Dad is better off without this. There's a law against murder, Sam,
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: and it's the same for everybody. And I'll be back later.
• 17:46
  Speaker 8: What are you going to do now, Mr.
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: Dillon?
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: Well, I've done all I can, Chester. The whole town's
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: just plain quit talking. Nobody knows anything.
• 18:07
  Speaker 6: I reckon they're all protecting Penal.
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: They are. But he didn't do it.
• 18:11
  Speaker 6: He didn't do it?
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: And if I could prove who did it, Chester, I'd
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: have him in jail. Chester, come over here a minute.
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: All righty, Claire. Looks to me like he's leaving town.
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I told him he could go.
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: He looks funnier than ever on that poor old one-eared mule.
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Dodge treated Pendle pretty rough.
• 18:43
  Speaker 6: It sure did.
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: Poor little fella.
• 18:47
  Speaker 6: Looks kind of empty like that guitar, don't he?
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe he'll find another one somewhere. Anyway, they sure
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: like to hear him play in this town.
• 18:59
  Speaker 6: Sam, I figure.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: A couple of the other boys in particular.
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they liked it just fine.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: With that, we conclude our visit with Gunsmoke, the guitar
• 19:28
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