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Gunsmoke - "Thoroughbreds" (Old Time Radio, 1955) · Gunsmoke | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: On September 17th, 1955, CBS Radio presented episode 179 of
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  Speaker 1: Gunsmoke Thoroughbreds. Outside Dodge, Marshal Matt Dillon and Chester encounter
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  Speaker 1: Jack Portis, a sharply dressed stranger traveling with two exceptional horses.
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  Speaker 1: When Portis leaves in a hurry, Dillon follows his suspicions
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  Speaker 1: into town. There, Portis spends freely and gathers new companions,
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  Speaker 1: while the horse's wineglass brand and the arrival of men
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  Speaker 1: from Oklahoma Territory raise serious accusations. William Conrad stars as Dylan,
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  Speaker 1: joined by Parley Bear, Georgia Ellis, Howard McNear, John Daner,
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  Speaker 1: Lawrence Dobkin, and Harry Bartell. John Meston wrote the script.
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  Speaker 1: Norman MacDonald directed and produced the CBS Radio Network presentation
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  Speaker 1: for L & M Cigarettes. 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 Gunsmoke.
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  Speaker 2: Gunsmoke Gunsmoke, starring William Baird. The transcribed 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. It's a
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  Speaker 4: chancy job. And it makes a man watchful. And a
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  Speaker 4: little lonely.
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  Speaker 3: THE END.
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  Speaker 5: I've been on longer rides, Mr. Dillon, but I can't
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  Speaker 5: remember any no-dryer.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, there's probably water in those cottonwoods over there, Chester.
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  Speaker 5: They better be.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, I haven't been by here in maybe a year.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, my, now don't say that, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Dillon. Hey, look. Oh, there's water all right.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, horses, two of them. Oh, sure. They wouldn't be
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  Speaker 5: in there otherwise, would they?
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  Speaker 3: No, not likely.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, those aren't range horses, either.
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  Speaker 5: No, sir, they sure ain't. Oh, them's the most beautiful
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  Speaker 5: animals I ever saw. Hey, there's a man with them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: He's gonna saddle up. Say, he's awful well decked out
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  Speaker 5: for a cowboy.
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  Speaker 6: Ain't he?
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  Speaker 3: Well, he sure looks better in white, though.
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  Speaker 5: Come on. I ain't shaved in a week.
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  Speaker 3: We'll be in Dodge tomorrow, Chester. Hello.
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  Speaker 5: You don't act very cordial.
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  Speaker 7: No.
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  Speaker 3: We're looking for water. Over there. Turn them loose, Chester.
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  Speaker 3: They'll find it.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 5: Come on, get.
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  Speaker 3: That's a mighty fine pair of horses you got there, mister.
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  Speaker 3: They're all right. All right.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, them horses got blood in them if I ever
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  Speaker 5: seen it.
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  Speaker 3: So why?
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  Speaker 6: You know, I'll fight anybody for these horses. Anybody at all.
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  Speaker 4: Now look, mister, we aren't after your horses.
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  Speaker 3: We're only admiring them.
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  Speaker 6: Now tell me something.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: You ever shoot a man in the back?
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  Speaker 3: What?
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  Speaker 6: I said, did you ever shoot a man in the back?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I don't know who you think I am, mister,
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  Speaker 4: but I never shot anybody in the back.
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  Speaker 6: I believe you.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, wait a minute.
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  Speaker 6: I said I believe you, didn't I?
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  Speaker 5: Well, he's chancing we're going to shoot him, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Dillon. Look at him go. Come on, we better hurry. No, Chester.
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  Speaker 3: But he'll get away.
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  Speaker 4: We can't stop him. Not on those tired animals of ours.
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  Speaker 4: And him with a pair of thoroughbreds.
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  Speaker 5: Well, we can track him. He's a sure enough horse.
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  Speaker 3: He's headed straight for Dodge, Chester. We'll find him there.
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  Speaker 3: Right now, let's get us a little of that water.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I found him, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Dillon.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, where, Chester?
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  Speaker 5: Moss Gimmick's stable. He rode in yesterday. He ain't even
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  Speaker 5: trying to hide him.
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  Speaker 7: Ah.
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  Speaker 3: You, uh, sure it's the same, too?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I didn't know him anywhere. Besides, that wine glass
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  Speaker 5: brand stands out like a pole guy at a picnic.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Chester. Um, you keep an eye on the street here.
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  Speaker 3: I'll start with the long branch. See you later.
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  Speaker 8: Matt.
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  Speaker 3: Hi, Kitty.
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  Speaker 7: How long you been back?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, just long enough to get cleaned up a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Have you been?
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  Speaker 7: No, you didn't come here to ask me that, did you?
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  Speaker 3: Well, not entirely, no.
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  Speaker 7: Something going on, Matt? Uh.
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  Speaker 4: Kitty, I'm looking for a man who came to Dodge
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  Speaker 4: yesterday with a pair of thoroughbreds.
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  Speaker 3: He's tall and, uh, well, he wears about.
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  Speaker 4: The finest clothes that have been seen around here since
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  Speaker 4: Bill Hickok was last in town.
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  Speaker 6: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 7: His name's Portis, Matt. Jack Portis.
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  Speaker 3: Ah, I thought you might know him.
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  Speaker 7: The only man who ever came to Dodge that I
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  Speaker 7: didn't meet never quite got here. What?
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, I lost your trail there, Kitty.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, I'm thinking of that cowboy who got shot just
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  Speaker 7: outside of town last year.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 7: You remember?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I remember. I, uh, I'm more interested in
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  Speaker 3: Jack Porter, so.
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  Speaker 4: Oh.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I, I don't know much about him. Except that
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  Speaker 7: he's a real free spender, and he's already made himself
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  Speaker 7: a lot of friends. Uh-huh. Nobody can pay for a
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  Speaker 7: drink when he's around.
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  Speaker 3: He got money, too, huh?
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  Speaker 7: Well, besides those horses.
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  Speaker 3: You mean.
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  Speaker 7: I hear they're pretty fancy animals, Matt.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, real fancy, Kitty.
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  Speaker 7: Well, nothing's too good for Portis.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, Matt.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I see you.
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  Speaker 6: How are you, Kitty?
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  Speaker 5: Portis?
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  Speaker 3: Hello. I see nobody's shot you in the back yet, Portis. No.
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  Speaker 4: Anybody got a reason to?
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  Speaker 6: You know my name, but I don't know yours, mister.
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  Speaker 3: Dillon. Marshal Dillon.
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  Speaker 5: Hmm.
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  Speaker 3: I'll be darned.
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  Speaker 6: Why didn't you say so out there?
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  Speaker 3: You were in too big a hurry for much visiting.
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  Speaker 6: The way you two men looked, I wasn't taking chances.
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  Speaker 6: How'd I know you weren't going to shoot me for
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  Speaker 6: them horses?
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  Speaker 3: Uh-huh. Did, uh, you shoot somebody for them? So that's
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  Speaker 3: what you're thinking. Where'd you get them for us? I
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  Speaker 3: raised them. Where?
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  Speaker 6: I own a spread on the Ouachita River, Marshal.
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  Speaker 3: Oklahoma Territory? That's right. That's a long way from here.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I ride off every once in a while, spend
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  Speaker 4: some money, have a little fun.
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  Speaker 3: No harm in that.
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  Speaker 6: Sure.
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  Speaker 3: Now, you're saying that the wine glass is your.
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  Speaker 6: Brand, huh?
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  Speaker 3: Of course it is. Look here.
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  Speaker 6: Got a burn right on my hat band.
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  Speaker 3: See? Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 6: Can you believe me now?
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  Speaker 3: It could be true.
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  Speaker 6: You're about the most suspicious man.
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  Speaker 3: I ever met. Well, I'm paid to be. Sure.
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  Speaker 6: I understand. Buy your drink now?
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  Speaker 3: Some other time, huh? It'll be my pleasure.
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  Speaker 6: So long, Marshal. I'll see you later, Kitty.
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  Speaker 7: Sure.
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  Speaker 3: Don't you believe in that?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I guess I do.
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  Speaker 6: Kitty. Oh, but you're not real sure, huh?
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  Speaker 3: It could be that he's just a whole lot.
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  Speaker 7: Smarter than I am.
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  Speaker 4: THE END.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, Doc.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, Doc.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, hello, Chester and Matt.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, sit down, Doc. Yeah, how are you? Sit down. Now,
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  Speaker 3: we just finished, but you can have our table. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: thank you, thank you.
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  Speaker 5: Well, what'd you eat? We had the chicken, but stay
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  Speaker 5: away from it, Doc.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, is that so, Chester?
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  Speaker 5: It's no good. Oh, it tasted like it'd been boiled
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  Speaker 5: with the feathers on. Oh, I never heard of cooking
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  Speaker 5: chicken that way. Say, that might be worth trying. All right,
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  Speaker 5: you don't need me.
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  Speaker 3: Go right ahead. No, no, no, no, Chester. When it
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  Speaker 3: comes to food, you can be trusted completely.
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  Speaker 5: Uh-oh. Who's having the party over there?
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  Speaker 3: That's Jack Portis, as usual.
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  Speaker 5: Poor little that fella. Even at noon, huh? He's been
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  Speaker 5: here a whole week, and he hasn't lacked for company
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  Speaker 5: one second of it. Oh, a man who spends money
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  Speaker 5: the way he does picks up friends like a.
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  Speaker 3: Dog does fleas. Well, he's bound to run out of
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  Speaker 3: money one of these days, Doc.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I hear he hasn't gone into a saloon yet
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  Speaker 4: without buying drinks for the house.
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  Speaker 5: You know, a man like that could maybe be president someday. Oh, now, Chester,
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  Speaker 5: you don't seem to hold the highest office in the
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  Speaker 5: land in much esteem, Chester. Well, now, I like Portis, Doc.
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  Speaker 5: He's a fine fellow. I was talking about how you
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  Speaker 5: think a man becomes president. Well, getting folks to like
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  Speaker 5: him is one way, ain't it?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I won't argue with that.
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  Speaker 8: No, no.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I can't sit here all day and listen to
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  Speaker 3: you two.
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  Speaker 5: It's not likely you'd learn anything worthwhile if you didn't.
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  Speaker 5: I'd better go, too, I guess.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks for your advice about the chicken, Chester.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, that's okay, Doctor. So long.
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  Speaker 3: So long, Doctor.
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  Speaker 5: Uh, Mr. Dillon?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Chester.
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  Speaker 5: If you haven't got nothing for me to do, I
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  Speaker 5: might go on down to the depot later on.
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  Speaker 3: Uh-huh. Well, you can go now if you like.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, it's too early. Santa Pee ain't due in till mid-afternoon.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I see. Well, go then.
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  Speaker 4: I wouldn't want a train to arrive without you being
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  Speaker 4: there to greet it, Jim.
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  Speaker 5: Well, now, it ain't a pure waste. You never know
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  Speaker 5: who might get off one of these days.
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  Speaker 3: Pretty girl, maybe, huh?
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  Speaker 5: Well, now, I'm serious, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Dillon.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, well, now, but what I mean is... Hey, look,
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  Speaker 5: there's him thoroughbreds across the street there.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. Who's the boy leading them?
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  Speaker 5: Myron Marweedle. He's a kid Portis hired to give him
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  Speaker 5: a run once in a while.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you can't say he doesn't take good care of him.
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  Speaker 5: No, sir. There's Portis coming now. He's going to show
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  Speaker 5: him off to his friends.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's got a right to be proud of him.
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  Speaker 5: My, I wished I was rich like him. I hear
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  Speaker 5: he's got two rooms at the Dodge house just in
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  Speaker 5: case he runs into somebody who needs a bed.
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  Speaker 3: Now, there's a real friend for you.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, look at him run.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's all horse. I seen him, I tell you.
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  Speaker 6: Don't yell about it.
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  Speaker 3: I believe you.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I want you to know it's... Well, you sure
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  Speaker 4: take up a lot of room.
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  Speaker 3: Ah, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 5: Don't start trouble, Burke.
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  Speaker 6: I ain't starting no trouble.
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  Speaker 1: He was standing in the way.
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  Speaker 6: A man stands in the way. You got a right
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  Speaker 6: to move him, ain't you?
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  Speaker 5: Is that fella drunk or just on me?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. Have you seen him around here before, Chester?
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  Speaker 5: No, no. They're strangers to me. From the looks of them,
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  Speaker 5: I'd just as soon keep it that way.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, you've got your choice.
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  Speaker 1: What?
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  Speaker 3: They're getting mounted. Looks like they're moving on.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, those are pretty fair horses they got, too.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Chester.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, sir?
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  Speaker 3: Did you see those brands?
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  Speaker 5: Why, them's wineglass horses, too.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Hey!
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  Speaker 4: Men!
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  Speaker 3: Hold it!
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  Speaker 5: No, they don't hear you.
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  Speaker 3: All right, let's go get our horses. We'll follow them. Now,
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  Speaker 3: what about Portis?
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  Speaker 5: We ought to tell him.
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  Speaker 3: They didn't tell him. Come on.
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  Speaker 5: That's the camp they got there, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Dillon.
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  Speaker 5: They ain't trying to run.
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  Speaker 7: No?
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  Speaker 5: Doggone if I can figure it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they've seen us. Okay, we'll ride right up to them, Chester.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, Burke.
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  Speaker 7: Hmm?
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  Speaker 5: Them fellas we seen in town.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: You looking for something, mister?
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  Speaker 3: What's your friend's name, Burke?
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  Speaker 6: My name's Keller.
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  Speaker 3: Not that I'd take the strangers asking. There's no need
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  Speaker 3: for us to be strangers. There's just a proud foot.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Matt Dillon.
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  Speaker 4: Dillon?
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  Speaker 3: We're the marshal. Yeah, that's right.
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  Speaker 5: What are you doing down here, marshal?
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  Speaker 6: What'd you follow us for?
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  Speaker 3: I got interested in your horses. Why?
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  Speaker 4: There's a man in Dodge with two wine glass horses.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we know that. All right, keep talking, Perks. Go ahead,
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  Speaker 3: tell him.
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  Speaker 6: All right.
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  Speaker 3: That's Jack Portis. And he stole them horses, Marshal. Stole
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  Speaker 3: some money, too. Huh? Where? An outfit down on the
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  Speaker 3: Red River. Oklahoma territory? Sure. Whose outfit?
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  Speaker 6: My uncle's.
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  Speaker 3: He killed him, Marshal.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: He killed Burke's uncle and he run off with what
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  Speaker 5: money he could find in them two thoroughbreds.
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  Speaker 3: And we followed him here. Long trail, but we found him.
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  Speaker 3: I see. Now, what do you aim to do now?
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  Speaker 3: We aim to take him. What else? Now, what are
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  Speaker 3: you waiting for? We're figuring a way to do it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: The smart one that tortoise. Why didn't you come to
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  Speaker 3: me about this?
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  Speaker 5: Well, ordinarily, we would have, Marshal.
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  Speaker 3: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 4: Well, you think we'd ride all this way after nothing
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  Speaker 4: but a horse thief that stole a little money? Now,
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  Speaker 4: Keller told you. He killed my uncle, Marshal. That makes
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  Speaker 4: it different. Not to me, it doesn't. Well, it ain't
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  Speaker 4: your kin he killed. You stay here, Burke. Both of
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  Speaker 4: you stay here. You can ride back and see Portis
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  Speaker 4: in a half an hour.
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  Speaker 3: You'll be at the jail.
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  Speaker 5: He ain't at the Dodge house. He ain't the Lady Gage,
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  Speaker 5: and he ain't at the Texas Trail.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll go down to the Long Branch next, Esther.
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  Speaker 5: Sure gonna be a surprise when he finds out his
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  Speaker 5: game is up.
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  Speaker 6: Ain't it?
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  Speaker 3: Hey, what's that crowd doing down there?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: Uh-oh.
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  Speaker 5: They're spreading out. Must be a fight, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Jones. Yeah, come on.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, it's that fellow Burke. See him?
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  Speaker 3: I should have left you to watch them.
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  Speaker 5: There's Keller, too.
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  Speaker 3: And Portis.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, looks like they killed him.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: All right, stay back, Chester.
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  Speaker 6: You kill him, Burke.
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  Speaker 5: It was my job, Marshal.
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  Speaker 3: I told you that. And you ain't gonna arrest me
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  Speaker 3: for it? No.
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  Speaker 5: For it is Drew first, Marshal. It was self-defense.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't see it. Asked anybody who did see it.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 7: No.
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  Speaker 3: Wait.
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  Speaker 5: They may be friends of his. They're alive.
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  Speaker 4: They weren't friends of his a minute ago. They didn't
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  Speaker 4: back him up.
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  Speaker 6: Did they? Well, it's different now.
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  Speaker 3: They'll back him up now. You're in bad trouble, Brick.
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  Speaker 1: Mr. Dillon?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, what, Chester? What are you doing there, Kitty?
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  Speaker 7: Hello, Matt.
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  Speaker 5: She's seen the whole thing. She was standing right over there, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Dillon.
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  Speaker 5: And she says.
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  Speaker 3: All right, all right, Chester. Let's hear it from her.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, wait a minute.
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  Speaker 6: How do we know she ain't a.
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  Speaker 3: friend of his, too? She'd tell the truth even if
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  Speaker 3: she was. All right, go ahead, Kitty. What happened?
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  Speaker 7: Well, I didn't hear what was said, Matt, but I
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  Speaker 7: saw what happened, plain enough.
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  Speaker 6: And?
• 20:03
  Speaker 7: It looked like he was calling Portis out, and then
• 20:06
  Speaker 7: Portis went for his gun. Burke shot him. Yeah.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: And it was self-defense.
• 20:16
  Speaker 6: I told you that, Marshal.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: I wasn't lying.
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: There wouldn't have been a killing if you had stayed
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: in camp like I told you.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah. The murderer died sooner or later.
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: But.
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah? You go on back to Oklahoma. Then you stay there.
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: I'm taking them horses with me. Take them. Take them
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: and get out. Come on, Bert.
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: Let's go.
• 20:53
  Speaker 7: Forrest was a bad one after all, huh?
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess so, kiddie.
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: If he hadn't been guilty, there'd have been no reason
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: for him to draw first.
• 21:05
  Speaker 7: He didn't seem bad.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: Well, you never know, kiddie. You just never know.
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: I had Chester go through Porter's pockets. And he found
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: he hardly had enough money left to pay for a coffin.
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: So his big party had been about over anyway. But
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: at least he'd had a fine time while it lasted.
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: And everybody who'd enjoyed it with him felt even though
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: he was a killer, it was better he got shot
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: than hung. And that was the end of it. Except
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: for one thing. And we didn't find out about that
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: until a week later.
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: My goodness, it is just plain miserable out there, Mr. Dillon.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: Oh, what is it, Chester?
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: The sun, the dust, and the heat.
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: Why don't you stay inside?
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: I'm going to now.
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: Now, where you been?
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: After the mail.
• 22:10
  Speaker 7: Here.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: There's not much here. Now, wait a minute. What's this?
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: Oh, well, that's for Jack Portis. There ain't no address
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: on it where they could send it back to, so
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: I said maybe I'd ought to bring.
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: It to you.
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: Well, I don't know what to do with it.
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: Well, it might say inside where you could send it
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: back to.
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: I don't like opening mail, Chester. Especially that of a
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: dead man.
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: What are we going to do with it, then?
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: Now, wait a minute.
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: Whoever wrote this doesn't know he's dead. And I guess
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: it's up to me to tell him.
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: I'll open it.
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: What's the matter, Mr. Dillon?
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: There, you read it. All right.
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: Dear boss, I hope you've run out of money by
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: now and are on your way back to the wine glass.
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: Things is fine here except the Ouachita's near dry and
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: a couple of horses got stole. But they was not thoroughbreds.
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: I am keeping two pots of coffee on the stove
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: in case you show up unexpected.
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: Doobie.
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: Oh, my goodness.
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: Well, I made a bad mistake, Chester.
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: Yes, sir.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: But Portis made one, too. How?
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: Drawing first made him look guilty to us. What happened
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: was that he counted on his friends to back him
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: up against those two.
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: That Burke and Keller. They're mighty bold the way the
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: road in here and got by with that.
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll get a circler out on them right away.
• 24:16
  Speaker 6: Yes, sir.
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: And I'll write his man, Dugan.
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: What are you telling Mr. Dillon?
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: I'll tell him two more wine glass horses got stolen.
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: Thoroughbreds this time.
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: THE END.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: Gunsmoke, produced and directed by Norman McDonald, stars William Conrad
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: as Matt Dillon, U.S.
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: Marshal.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: Our story was specially written for Gunsmoke by John Meston,
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: with music composed and conducted by Rex Corey. Sound patterns
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: by Bill James and Ray Kemper. Featured in the cast
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: were John Daner, Lawrence Dobkin, and Harry Bartell. Harley Bear
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: as Chester, Howard McNair as Doc, and Georgia Ellis as Kitty.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: From the Dodge Frontier, that was Gunsmoke Thoroughbreds. This is
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: Victor Sterling. Until next time, good night.