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

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: During the Christmas season in Dodge City, Eben Hakes, an
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: Ozarks mountain man, arrives with a long rifle and asks
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  Speaker 1: for Jothmonger. It is Gunsmoke, Twelfth Night, Episode 194, first
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  Speaker 1: broadcast by CBS on December 25th, 1955. Marshal Matt Dillon
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  Speaker 1: discovers that Hakes and Monger are the last survivors of
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  Speaker 1: two families bound by an old feud, bringing Dillon, Chester, Doc,
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  Speaker 1: and Kitty into a conflict shaped by mountain custom. William
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  Speaker 1: Conrad stars as Dillon, with Parley Bear, Howard McNair, and
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  Speaker 1: Georgia Ellis. John Meston wrote the script, and Norman MacDonald
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  Speaker 1: produced and directed. We now take you back to the
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  Speaker 1: original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Around Dodge City and in the Territory on West, there's
• 1:01
  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 Conrad. 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. Matt Dillon, United States Marshal. The first
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  Speaker 3: man they look for and the last they want to meet.
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  Speaker 3: It's a chancy job. And it makes a man watchful.
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  Speaker 4: And a little lonely.
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  Speaker 5: Ah, good morning, Doc.
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  Speaker 4: Chester.
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  Speaker 6: Good morning, Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Dillon. Come and have some coffee with us, Matt. You've
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  Speaker 7: got nothing to do in your office.
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  Speaker 4: No, but in there, people can't see me doing it.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, it's no use to hide. They're on to you anyway.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I don't think the Christmas season has made
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  Speaker 3: you any more charitable at all, has it, Doc?
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  Speaker 8: Well, I'm not a man to be good on Sunday
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  Speaker 8: and sin all week, if that's what you mean.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you're honest, if nothing else. Oh, I don't know. Hey,
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  Speaker 4: look at that fellow.
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  Speaker 7: What fellow, Chester?
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  Speaker 8: Yonder, across the street there, in the coonskin hat. Oh,
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  Speaker 8: now that's the tallest man I ever saw. And that
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  Speaker 8: rifle he's carrying is as long as he is. He
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  Speaker 8: sure looks out of place in Dodge, don't he?
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  Speaker 4: He is out of place, Chester. That's a squirrel-hunting southern
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  Speaker 4: mountain man.
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  Speaker 6: He's coming over here. Look at him walk.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: If everybody had legs like that, the Santa Fe Railroad
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  Speaker 8: would go out of business.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, my, he's from the hills, all right.
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  Speaker 7: Well, at least he ain't another gunman, Mr. Dillon.
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  Speaker 4: That's something to be thankful for. Howdy. Hello.
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  Speaker 7: Which of you be the... What do you call them?
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  Speaker 4: Uh, you mean the marshal?
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  Speaker 7: That's the word. I never heard it till a fella
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  Speaker 7: told me this morning.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I just mean the peace officer.
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  Speaker 7: I'm again peace officers.
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  Speaker 1: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 7: It ain't fittin' for some folk to be meddlin' in
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  Speaker 7: other folks' business. Where do they figure it like that, stranger? Uh,
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  Speaker 7: Ozark Mountains? Better country than this. My name's Eben Hakes.
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  Speaker 4: My name is Dillon.
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  Speaker 3: This is Chester Proudfoot and Doc Adams.
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  Speaker 7: How do you do? Peace off, sir. The man said
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  Speaker 7: you'd help me find where that Jothmonger is living.
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  Speaker 4: Jothmonger?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah. He come out here about a year ago. He's
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  Speaker 7: got an old mountain gal with him. They're married.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they got a place up near Rock Springs, about, oh,
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  Speaker 3: ten miles north of here.
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  Speaker 7: I'll find it.
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  Speaker 4: You've come a long way to see your friend, Hakes.
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  Speaker 7: Joss Monger ain't exactly a friend, peace officer. But I
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  Speaker 7: got to get going, it being Saturday and all.
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  Speaker 6: Well, what's Saturday got to do with it?
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  Speaker 7: Nothing. Except I won't kill no man of a Sunday.
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  Speaker 7: I never have. I never will.
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  Speaker 8: Joss Monger's place don't look no better than.
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  Speaker 4: It ever did, does it? Not much, Chester.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, look at that poor Miss Monger. Out doing chores
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  Speaker 7: as usual.
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  Speaker 4: I wonder where Joss is. Asleep somewhere, probably. Morning, Miss Monger.
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  Speaker 9: Howdy.
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  Speaker 6: Howdy, ma'am.
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  Speaker 9: Parley.
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  Speaker 4: Is Joss here, ma'am?
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  Speaker 9: If today wasn't Saturday, he'd be here.
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  Speaker 10: What?
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  Speaker 9: Joss goes to Dodge every Saturday.
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  Speaker 4: He does? I never see him.
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  Speaker 9: If he socialized more, you'd see him. Joss got his ways, Marshal.
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  Speaker 9: They're lonesome, but they're his.
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  Speaker 4: I see. Miss Monger, do you know a man called
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  Speaker 4: Eben Hakes?
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  Speaker 9: Hakes? If you speak that name around here, you won't
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  Speaker 9: be welcome, Marshal.
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  Speaker 4: There's trouble between you?
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  Speaker 9: If you call Joth being the only monger left and
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  Speaker 9: even being the only Hakes left, then you could say
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  Speaker 9: there's trouble.
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  Speaker 4: You mean it's a feud?
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  Speaker 9: Both families been whittled down to just them two.
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  Speaker 4: I see.
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  Speaker 3: Is that why Joth came out to Kansas, to get
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  Speaker 3: away from it?
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  Speaker 9: Not if he's always talking about going back long enough
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  Speaker 9: to kill even Hakes.
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  Speaker 4: What do you think, ma'am? Don't you think it's gone
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  Speaker 4: far enough?
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  Speaker 9: Either one of them could call it off if he
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  Speaker 9: wants so muley.
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  Speaker 7: How did this feud start, ma'am?
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  Speaker 9: If you had any upbringing, you wouldn't ask. It's a
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  Speaker 9: family matter. Where'd you see even Heggs anyway?
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  Speaker 3: He was in Dodge asking about Jock.
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  Speaker 9: He was asking and he'll find him and that's bad.
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  Speaker 9: Jock don't even know he's around.
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  Speaker 4: That's why I came out here.
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  Speaker 9: Jock knew about him. I wouldn't worry. Joss is better
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  Speaker 9: shot than even Hanks any day.
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  Speaker 3: Look, Miss Monger, the law doesn't hold with feuding. Whichever
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  Speaker 3: one kills the other, he'll hang for it.
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  Speaker 9: You start meddling, they'll shoot you. But I'm worried about Joss.
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  Speaker 9: He'll be drunk soon as it's dark.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I'll find him then.
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  Speaker 6: Goodbye.
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  Speaker 5: Goodbye.
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  Speaker 11: Goodbye.
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  Speaker 6: All hill people like that, Mr.
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  Speaker 11: Dillon?
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  Speaker 4: They're mighty independent, Justin.
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  Speaker 6: Well, the law sure don't seem to mean much to them.
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  Speaker 4: Not when it comes to feuding.
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  Speaker 5: Now, look over there.
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  Speaker 4: That little bluff there.
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  Speaker 7: Well, now, how did he get here?
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  Speaker 6: I don't see no horse.
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  Speaker 4: Well, let's go ask him. Hello, Hicks.
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  Speaker 7: That Joth Monger's place yonder, peace officer? Yeah.
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  Speaker 11: Good.
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  Speaker 7: I'll get a little closer and shoot him when he
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  Speaker 7: comes out.
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  Speaker 4: You don't care whether you hang or not, do you?
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  Speaker 7: Hang? For shooting the Monger?
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  Speaker 4: For shooting anybody. Do you ever hear of murder?
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  Speaker 7: Peace officer, you're getting downright contrary.
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  Speaker 4: Where's your horse, Hicks?
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  Speaker 7: I got no horse.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you left him in Dodge.
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  Speaker 7: I don't need no horse to travel by.
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  Speaker 4: You mean you walked all the way from the Ozarks?
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  Speaker 7: It's mostly downhill, peace officer. But I'd walk anywhere to
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  Speaker 7: get me monger.
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  Speaker 4: Well, maybe I ought to throw you in jail.
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  Speaker 7: Now you are being meddlesome. I got to get closer
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  Speaker 7: to that house. And don't you fret none about the
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  Speaker 7: old lady. I don't aim to shoot her.
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  Speaker 4: Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Dillon, you going to let Hanks wait here and shoot John?
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  Speaker 4: No, let him go, Chester. Come on.
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  Speaker 3: Let's get back to Dodge, and we'll find Joff and
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  Speaker 3: warn him.
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  Speaker 8: Why don't you just let them shoot each other and
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  Speaker 8: have done with it?
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  Speaker 4: Don't tempt me, Chester.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 4: Now, Chester, you go ask Sam if he's seen Charles, huh? Okay. Evening, Kitty.
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  Speaker 10: Hello, Matt.
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  Speaker 6: Where you been?
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  Speaker 11: It's pretty near midnight.
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  Speaker 4: I've been trying to stop a feud.
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  Speaker 11: Well, it's a long time since I've heard.
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  Speaker 6: Of a feud around Dodge.
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  Speaker 3: Well, this one kind of got transplanted from the Ozarks.
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  Speaker 9: The Ozarks?
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 11: Huh. No wonder that crazy Jothmonger isn't mixed up in it.
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  Speaker 4: Now, that's Joth I'm looking for.
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  Speaker 3: You are? I bet on every saloon and dodge you
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  Speaker 3: must have a cave somewhere.
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  Speaker 11: I'll bet you a dollar he's right out.
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  Speaker 9: Back, Matt.
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  Speaker 4: Out back?
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  Speaker 7: Sure.
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  Speaker 11: He's there every Saturday night. Comes in and buys a
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  Speaker 11: bottle of corn from Sam and takes it out.
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  Speaker 4: Back and drinks it.
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  Speaker 11: Sits there all alone with his long rifle in one
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  Speaker 11: hand and his bottle in the other.
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  Speaker 6: Nobody knows what he's thinking.
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  Speaker 4: No wonder I haven't seen him around.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, Miss Kitty.
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  Speaker 4: Hello, Chester. Kitty just told me, Chester. Go out back
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  Speaker 4: and see if he's there. If he is, bring him in.
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  Speaker 10: Huh?
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  Speaker 6: All right.
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  Speaker 11: Who's Joth feuding with, Matt?
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  Speaker 4: A man called Eben Hapes, Kitty. Is he from the Ozarks, too? Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: he arrived today. On foot.
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  Speaker 9: On foot?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he's all legs. Real traveling man.
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  Speaker 11: Hey, I'd like to see him.
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  Speaker 3: He's got a face like a hatchet and he's built
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  Speaker 3: like a piece of wire.
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  Speaker 11: I'll bet he carries a long rifle, too.
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  Speaker 4: He does.
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  Speaker 7: Here he is, Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Jones.
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  Speaker 7: I made him leave his.
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  Speaker 9: Rifle with Sam.
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  Speaker 4: Hello, Jeff.
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  Speaker 10: You just up and say what you want, Marshal, because
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  Speaker 10: I don't care to be cooped up inside here very long.
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  Speaker 4: Eben Hicks is looking for you, Jeff. Of course he is.
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  Speaker 6: Mongers and the Hicks have been looking for each.
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  Speaker 10: Other 940 years.
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  Speaker 6: They most all got found, too.
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  Speaker 4: You been drinking, Jeff?
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  Speaker 10: Well, the missus won't allow no drinking on the place, Marshal,
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  Speaker 10: so I gotta come to town every Saturday.
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  Speaker 7: Joss Monger?
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  Speaker 4: It's Hicks, Mr. Dillon. Get out of the way, kiddies.
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  Speaker 7: I got you caught like a bar up a tree, Joss.
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  Speaker 4: Put your rifle down, Hicks.
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  Speaker 10: You're gonna kill me. I ain't even got no guns.
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  Speaker 4: Put it down, I said.
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  Speaker 7: You're standing in the way, peace officer.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm going to stay here.
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  Speaker 7: Then I'll have to shoot you first.
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  Speaker 4: You're not going to shoot anybody.
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  Speaker 7: Of course I am. That's what I come for, ain't it?
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  Speaker 4: Don't try it.
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  Speaker 7: Now, here.
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  Speaker 6: Wait a minute, everybody.
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  Speaker 7: I just thought of something. I wished all you folks
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  Speaker 7: had stopped meddling in this. It's after midnight, Higgs. What?
• 11:26
  Speaker 6: It's Sunday.
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  Speaker 7: Sunday?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he's right, Higgs.
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  Speaker 7: Well, of all the gobbling luck... Oh, quit looking so troubled, Joss.
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  Speaker 7: I won't shoot no man of a Sunday, even a monger.
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  Speaker 7: But you come awful close to.
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  Speaker 4: It, Eden.
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  Speaker 7: It's a doggone shame it took me so long to
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  Speaker 7: find you today.
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  Speaker 6: You traveled a long way, Eden.
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  Speaker 7: I know, but I got tired waiting for you to
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  Speaker 7: come on back home, Joss.
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  Speaker 6: I was coming. I was coming this summer.
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  Speaker 7: I know, but your old lady told me about it today.
• 12:01
  Speaker 7: I seen her scratching around doing chores. That ain't much
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  Speaker 7: of a place you got.
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  Speaker 4: There, John. Be quiet, Chester.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, a fella can make a crop here sometimes, Eden.
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  Speaker 10: But it's a hard fight with a short stick. I
• 12:16
  Speaker 10: didn't see no hogs out there. Where's your hogs, John?
• 12:20
  Speaker 10: I'm getting some come spring. Eden, how's things back home?
• 12:27
  Speaker 7: Well, there's been a lot of changes since you left. Eden?
• 12:32
  Speaker 10: Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: I got a little jug out back.
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  Speaker 10: Smoke's empty now, but we can maybe buy another one,
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  Speaker 10: sit out there for a spell, kind of get soured
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  Speaker 10: on the cob.
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  Speaker 6: What say you?
• 12:45
  Speaker 7: Might as well. We can't do no shooting till Monday.
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  Speaker 7: Where at do we buy this jug?
• 12:51
  Speaker 6: I'll show you. Fellow over here said.
• 12:54
  Speaker 7: You'll have to lend me some money. All right.
• 12:56
  Speaker 8: Well, if they don't be all, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Dillon. Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: Looks to me like they're going to call that feud off.
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  Speaker 4: No, not them, Chester.
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  Speaker 3: Midnight tomorrow, they'll be stalking each other all over again.
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  Speaker 6: Well, how are you going to stop them?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'll let them enjoy themselves tonight. But tomorrow, I'm
• 13:14
  Speaker 3: going to throw them both in jail. And they're going
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  Speaker 3: to stay there until they learn something more than feuding.
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  Speaker 3: I wasn't sure that jail would teach Joth and even
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  Speaker 3: a thing. But I still couldn't let them run loose
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  Speaker 3: and shoot each other down. So the next morning, Chester
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  Speaker 3: and I went looking for them. We found where they'd
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  Speaker 3: built a small fire out back of the long branch.
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  Speaker 4: And we found a number of empty bottles. But that
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  Speaker 4: was all. We searched the town till noon with no luck.
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  Speaker 3: Then I decided to ride out to the monger place
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  Speaker 3: and see if by any chance Joth had returned. There
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  Speaker 3: was nobody in sight when we got there. So we
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  Speaker 3: dismounted and walked up to the door.
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  Speaker 8: There's smoke coming out of the chimney, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Jones.
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  Speaker 4: That doesn't mean Joth's here, Chester. No, sir. Afternoon.
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  Speaker 9: Don't go away, Marshal.
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  Speaker 4: Now, wait a minute, Miss Martin.
• 14:27
  Speaker 9: If you don't want to get shot, you'll do what
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  Speaker 9: I say.
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  Speaker 4: Friendly, ain't she? Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: But she didn't have no gun. It must be Joth
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  Speaker 6: in there.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, probably. Well, if it is, why would he want
• 14:40
  Speaker 4: to shoot you? Well, there's one reason I can think of.
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  Speaker 7: You mean he's gone and killed Eben Hakes?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, Chester. But I'm sure going to find out.
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  Speaker 4: They ain't gonna open it. Oh, there's a window around
• 15:00
  Speaker 4: the side.
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  Speaker 6: It ain't a very clean window.
• 15:08
  Speaker 4: It'll do. Here, let me take a look. I'll let
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  Speaker 4: it be.
• 15:15
  Speaker 7: What is it, Mr.
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  Speaker 11: Jones?
• 15:18
  Speaker 4: Here, have a look yourself.
• 15:19
  Speaker 6: All right. Well, they're eating dinner. All three of them.
• 15:25
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 15:26
  Speaker 4: Come on. I want to talk to the men, Ms. Munger,
• 15:34
  Speaker 4: and I'm coming in. Josh! All right, stay away from
• 15:46
  Speaker 4: those rifles.
• 15:47
  Speaker 10: Why, he busted in. He busted in right past the woman.
• 15:51
  Speaker 7: I never heard of a man coming into another man's
• 15:53
  Speaker 7: house that way.
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  Speaker 9: If he had any upbringing, he wouldn't have.
• 15:57
  Speaker 7: Is this the kind of people they got in Kansas, Jock?
• 16:00
  Speaker 6: It's the first I seen of them.
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  Speaker 3: Never mind about that, Jock. Now, why did your wife
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: threaten to shoot me? What's going on here?
• 16:07
  Speaker 9: If you hadn't come to put them in jail, you
• 16:09
  Speaker 9: wouldn't get shot, Marshal.
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: How did you know I was going to put them
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: in jail?
• 16:13
  Speaker 9: Ethan says you told him you was.
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: Oh, that's right. I did it. If he killed anybody.
• 16:18
  Speaker 7: I ain't killed nobody.
• 16:19
  Speaker 6: The feud's off. We stopped it.
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: You stopped it?
• 16:23
  Speaker 7: Sure. Last night, we got to talking a little about
• 16:27
  Speaker 7: old times and everything.
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: And you know what we found out? No.
• 16:32
  Speaker 5: What?
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: You tell him.
• 16:34
  Speaker 7: Well, peace officer, this here feud started a long time ago.
• 16:39
  Speaker 7: What happened was my grandfather stole Joss' grandfather's girl and
• 16:42
  Speaker 7: married up with her, so Joss' grandfather declared a feud
• 16:46
  Speaker 7: right then and there.
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  Speaker 6: But you ain't told him what we found out, you didn't.
• 16:49
  Speaker 7: Oh, well, we hadn't thought of it before, peace officer,
• 16:52
  Speaker 7: but last night we was thinking that if my grandfather
• 16:55
  Speaker 7: hadn't done that, then Joss here would have been me.
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: What?
• 17:00
  Speaker 7: Don't you see? Otherwise, my grandmother would have married up
• 17:04
  Speaker 7: with Joss' grandfather.
• 17:05
  Speaker 10: And I'd have been Joss. So any way you look
• 17:07
  Speaker 10: at it, we're kind of related, like. Any way you
• 17:10
  Speaker 10: looked at it last night, you mean.
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: I saw them, Bob. No, it doesn't matter, Chester, as
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: long as the feud is off.
• 17:16
  Speaker 10: It ain't only off. Eden's going to stay on here
• 17:19
  Speaker 10: with us. We're going to work this place together. I'm
• 17:24
  Speaker 10: going to give him a share in it come Christmas.
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: Come Christmas?
• 17:27
  Speaker 6: It ain't far off. January 6th. Now, here, wait a minute.
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: Since when did Christmas get to be January 6th?
• 17:35
  Speaker 9: If you knew anything, you'd know that.
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: I swear I'm getting to know less and less, ma'am.
• 17:41
  Speaker 7: Oh, you folks don't understand. Back in Ozarks, we do
• 17:46
  Speaker 7: our Christmas celebrating 12 days from when you do.
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: Wait a minute. You're talking about 12 nights.
• 17:53
  Speaker 6: We call it Christmas, too.
• 17:55
  Speaker 9: And if you only knew, Marshal, it works just fine
• 17:58
  Speaker 9: for us.
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: Well, there's no reason why it shouldn't, ma'am. It's an
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: old custom.
• 18:04
  Speaker 10: Say, maybe you and Chester'd come out and celebrate with us.
• 18:08
  Speaker 9: If they don't mind kraut and sour pickles and cornbread
• 18:12
  Speaker 9: and coffee, they'll come.
• 18:14
  Speaker 6: Now, ain't there gonna be no chitlins, woman?
• 18:17
  Speaker 9: I was keeping them for a surprise.
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: Chitlins or no chitlins, I'll be proud to come, Miss Munger.
• 18:23
  Speaker 6: And me too.
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: Well, we'll leave you to your dinner now. We'll see
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: you at 12th night.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: Gunsmoke, produced and directed by Norman McDonald, stars William Conrad
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: as Matt Dillon, U.S.
• 19:16
  Speaker 10: Marshal.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: Our story was specially written for Gunsmoke by John Meston,
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: with music composed and conducted by Rex Corey. Sound patterns
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: by Tom Hanley and Bill James. Featured in the cast
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: were John Daner, Helen Klebe, and Vic Perrin. Harley Bear
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: is Chester, Howard McNeer is Doc, and Georgia Ellis is Kitty.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: That completes this Christmas Day broadcast of Gunsmoke, Twelfth Night.
• 19:42
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