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Gunsmoke - "Thick 'N' Thin" (Old Time Radio, 1956) · Gunsmoke | Old Time Radio

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Two longtime homestead partners, Odie Perkins and Brace McCoy, come
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: separately to marshal Matt Dillon, each demanding that the other
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: be put off the place they own together. Their quarrel
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: has driven a hard wedge into an old friendship, and
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: neither man is prepared to settle it peacefully. From CBS Radio,
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: this is Gunsmoke, episode 232, Thick and Thin, first broadcast
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  Speaker 1: September 16th, 1956, with William Conrad as Matt Dillon, Parley
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: Bear as Chester, Georgia Ellis as Kitty, and Howard McNear
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: as Doc. Les Crutchfield wrote the script, Norman MacDonald produced,
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  Speaker 1: and the dispute leads from Dodge City to the Perkins-McCoy homestead.
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: And now, our story begins.
• 0:54
  Speaker 2: Around Dodge City and in the Territory on West, there's
• 1:05
  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.
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  Speaker 3: Marshal and the smell of gun smoke.
• 1:12
  Speaker 4: Gun smoke.
• 1:30
  Speaker 3: Gunsmoke, starring William Conrad. The transcribed story of the violence
• 1:34
  Speaker 3: that moved west with young America. And the story of
• 1:38
  Speaker 3: a man who moved with it.
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  Speaker 5: I'm that man. Matt Dillon, United States Marshal. The first
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  Speaker 5: man they look for and the last they want to meet.
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  Speaker 5: It's a chancy job. And it makes a man watchful.
• 1:52
  Speaker 6: And a little lonely.
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  Speaker 4: Well, my goodness. Now, if that sure don't beat all...
• 2:03
  Speaker 4: What's the matter, Chester?
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  Speaker 7: Odie Perkins, coming down the street there with a mat
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  Speaker 7: on so thick you can feel it right through the window.
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  Speaker 5: Odie's not a man who got tempered easy.
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  Speaker 8: Well, he sure is now, Mr. Dillon.
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  Speaker 7: He's a doggone rile. He's leaving a blue streak behind him.
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  Speaker 7: It's a gospel truth, look.
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  Speaker 6: It can't be anything serious.
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  Speaker 8: Marshal Dillon.
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  Speaker 6: Morning, Odie.
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  Speaker 9: Marshal, I'm here to call on the power and protection
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  Speaker 9: of the law in all its majesty and might.
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  Speaker 5: Well, that's a pretty tall order, Odie. You got some
• 2:56
  Speaker 5: reason for needing the law?
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  Speaker 8: Reason?
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  Speaker 9: I got reasons that go back as far as 15 years. Marshal,
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  Speaker 9: I want to swear out a complaint, an injunction, a
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  Speaker 9: bench warrant, whatever it is it takes to get a
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  Speaker 9: certain low-life scum evicted from the premises, run out of Dodge,
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  Speaker 9: banished from the territory, and horse-whipped to.
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  Speaker 8: Boot, if you can work it in somehow.
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  Speaker 5: Well, what's a certain person done, Odie, to deserve that
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  Speaker 5: kind of injunction?
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  Speaker 9: It ain't what he's done as much as what he is.
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  Speaker 9: And I ought to have noted along before this, but
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  Speaker 9: he sure.
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  Speaker 8: Had me fooled.
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  Speaker 6: You're not by any chance talking about.
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  Speaker 8: I'm talking about Brace McCoy. That's who I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 9: I even hate to let his sneaking name soil my lips.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, but, Odie, you and Brace have been partners as
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  Speaker 5: long as I can remember.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, not no more. We ain't not since this morning. Marshal,
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  Speaker 9: I want him thrown clean off the place.
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  Speaker 6: Now, wait a second, Odie.
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  Speaker 5: As I recall, you boys took up that homestead as
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  Speaker 5: joint tenants, huh? Brace has got as much right there
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  Speaker 5: as you have.
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  Speaker 8: Well, Marshal!
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, come in, Brace. We were... Just talking about it.
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  Speaker 10: I want to get a fellow's throat off of my property, Marshal,
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  Speaker 10: and that's a fact.
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  Speaker 6: You're referring to Odie Perkins.
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  Speaker 8: Here, huh?
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  Speaker 10: That's a fellow, Marshal, but him and me ain't speaking,
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  Speaker 10: and that's a fact.
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  Speaker 8: You're gall darn tootin', we ain't. Not now nor never.
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  Speaker 10: I'll sign the papers now if you'll just read them up.
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  Speaker 8: I'll remind you, Marshal, I come here first.
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  Speaker 10: Fixin' papers for Odie wouldn't be no use, no how.
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  Speaker 10: Little varmint can't.
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  Speaker 8: Write, and that's a fact. I can make as good
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  Speaker 8: an ex as you can. I mean, he can.
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  Speaker 6: Now, wait a minute.
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  Speaker 8: Just look at him, Marshal. He ought to be ashamed
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  Speaker 8: of himself.
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  Speaker 9: A great big blubber mouth that outweighs me twice again.
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  Speaker 8: And he comes in here sniveling for the law to
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  Speaker 8: help him out.
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  Speaker 6: Just a minute.
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  Speaker 10: He keeps robbing me, and I'm going to whop him good,
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  Speaker 10: and that's a fact.
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  Speaker 9: Not while I'm wearing this here six-gun. You ain't going
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  Speaker 9: to whop nobody. I mean, he ain't going to.
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  Speaker 6: Will you shut up, both of you? Now, who started
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  Speaker 6: all this ruckus? That's personal, Marshal.
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  Speaker 10: Me, I'd rather not say.
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  Speaker 8: Huh?
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  Speaker 6: Well, that's just fine.
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  Speaker 5: For 15 years, you've ridden together, finally took up land together,
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  Speaker 5: and all of a sudden, you start sidling around with
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  Speaker 5: your hackles up, ready to throw lead at one another.
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  Speaker 5: You won't even say why, huh?
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  Speaker 10: Well, just get in particular who I live with, all.
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  Speaker 8: I want him out of my house, Marshal.
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  Speaker 6: Now, get this straight, both of you.
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  Speaker 5: You own that farm jointly, and I got no legal
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  Speaker 5: reason to throw either one of you off.
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  Speaker 6: So until you settle your.
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  Speaker 5: Differences or sell out, you're going to make the best
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  Speaker 5: of it.
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  Speaker 8: I already offered to buy him out.
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  Speaker 10: I ain't budging, and that's a fact.
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  Speaker 6: All right, if you can't settle it yourselves, I'll settle
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  Speaker 6: it for you. Chester.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, sir?
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  Speaker 6: Will you hand me those cards over there?
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  Speaker 8: This one?
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  Speaker 6: Here you are, Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Dillon.
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  Speaker 11: Here.
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  Speaker 5: Now, as I recall, you've got a fair to middling
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  Speaker 5: house out there and a mighty good barn. Until you sell,
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  Speaker 5: you've got to stay on the place to take care
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  Speaker 5: of the stock.
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  Speaker 10: All right.
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  Speaker 5: Now, one of you lives in the house and the
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  Speaker 5: other one in the barn, and you'll leave each other alone.
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  Speaker 5: Is that completely clear?
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  Speaker 6: All right, brace you cut first. High card takes his choice.
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  Speaker 10: Well, all right. Ten. That's good.
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  Speaker 8: Ain't as good as a queen.
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  Speaker 6: All right, what's your choice, Odie?
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  Speaker 8: The barn. It smells better than McCoy.
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  Speaker 10: Odie, you come around my house and I'll break you
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  Speaker 10: in half. That's a fact.
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  Speaker 8: Step one foot in my barn, I'll blast you full
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  Speaker 8: of holes.
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  Speaker 6: Now, remember what I told you both of you.
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  Speaker 8: You leave each other alone.
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  Speaker 10: Guess I better get back out to my house. Good day.
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  Speaker 8: I'll be going to my barn now, Marshal.
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  Speaker 10: Watch your blights.
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  Speaker 6: Why don't you stand in the breeze a little while, Odie?
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  Speaker 6: You might cool off a little.
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  Speaker 10: Well, I declare.
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  Speaker 7: If that don't beat all.
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  Speaker 8: I guess ain't nothing serious, so.
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  Speaker 5: It's not like I'm trusting. I'm afraid it is serious.
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  Speaker 5: I just hope it don't get more so.
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  Speaker 8: Matt?
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  Speaker 9: Huh?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, hello, Kitty.
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  Speaker 11: Well, you're as welcome as a hunter's moon through a
• 7:14
  Speaker 11: tamarack bush. What?
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  Speaker 6: You sound like a singing chief of the Cherokees.
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  Speaker 11: No, Kiowas.
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  Speaker 1: That's her tribe.
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  Speaker 6: Whose tribe?
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  Speaker 11: Summer Dove's. She spent the afternoon helping me sew costumes.
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  Speaker 10: Summer Dove?
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  Speaker 8: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 11: You remember her, Matt. She's that Indian girl who left
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  Speaker 11: the reservation last spring and came into town to work
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  Speaker 11: for Ma Smalley at the Borden house.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, oh, yeah, sure, I remember.
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  Speaker 8: She's a good seamstress. A real good cook, too, I hear.
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  Speaker 11: Huh? Yeah, she's sort of lost since Ma Smalley went
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  Speaker 11: back east.
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  Speaker 8: Hey, look.
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  Speaker 11: She did most of the work on this costume.
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  Speaker 8: Do you like it?
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  Speaker 5: Uh, well, it doesn't look like that one took much.
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  Speaker 10: Sewing, Kitty.
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  Speaker 11: This is the kind where the sewing's important.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. I guess a lot depends on it. How about
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  Speaker 6: having a drink with me, huh?
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  Speaker 11: I've tasted the morning wind from the south and my
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  Speaker 11: heart beats the lark song.
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  Speaker 6: What's that?
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  Speaker 8: It means I'll have a drink with you.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, wait a minute, Kitty.
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  Speaker 2: Mad?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, what's the matter, Doc?
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  Speaker 8: Well, Mad, I just drove in from up towards the flat.
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  Speaker 8: And I passed the McCoy-Perkins farm on the way.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah?
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  Speaker 8: You better get out there, man, before those two kill
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  Speaker 8: each other.
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  Speaker 6: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 8: Why, they got a confounded war going on. One of
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  Speaker 8: them's barricaded in the barn, the other's holed up in
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  Speaker 8: the house. And they're firing bullets back and forth so fast,
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  Speaker 8: it sounds like the Battle of Shiloh.
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  Speaker 5: Oh. I haven't heard from them for three days. I
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  Speaker 5: was hoping maybe they'd cooled off by now.
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  Speaker 8: Cooled off? They didn't sound very cool when I came by.
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  Speaker 5: Kitty, looks like you'll have to stretch out that lark
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  Speaker 5: song a little, huh?
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  Speaker 6: It's all right, Matt. Okay.
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  Speaker 8: Some other time.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Dillon.
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  Speaker 6: I never realized it was so far out.
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  Speaker 11: Here.
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  Speaker 8: Doc wasn't putting on none about it. Doggone, if it
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  Speaker 8: don't sound like Shiloh.
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  Speaker 6: Lame fools. You'd think they were old enough to have
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  Speaker 6: better sense.
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  Speaker 8: Now, that's just too doggone close for comfort.
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  Speaker 6: I'll comfort him. Brain up, Chester.
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  Speaker 8: Hold it! Brace! Mac Dillon, hold your fire, both of you!
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  Speaker 6: All right, come on, Chester. Let's go over to the
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  Speaker 6: barn first. Odie, you in there?
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  Speaker 8: You darn chump and I am, Marshal.
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  Speaker 9: That big hunk of buzzard's bait ain't about to dislodge
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  Speaker 9: me neither. I am.
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  Speaker 5: I'll give you just five seconds to get that door
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  Speaker 5: open and come out here.
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  Speaker 10: Now wait, Marshal.
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  Speaker 8: You heard me, Odie. Okay. I wasn't the one that
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  Speaker 8: started it.
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  Speaker 6: Chester, take his gun. And keep him covered.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, sir, I sure will, Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Dillon.
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  Speaker 6: Brace.
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  Speaker 10: What do you want?
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  Speaker 6: You gonna open that door or you want me to
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  Speaker 6: shoot it open?
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  Speaker 10: Not more to lot. I'll open it. Ain't no call
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  Speaker 10: to get all hanged up, and that's a fact.
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  Speaker 6: All right, I'll take your gun, Brace, and that's a fact. Here,
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  Speaker 6: give it to me. All right, come on out here.
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  Speaker 10: I was only defending myself, Marshal. That scrawny little weasel
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  Speaker 10: started it all.
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  Speaker 8: Marshal, don't you believe nothing Grace says? He was born alive.
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  Speaker 6: Shut up, Odie.
• 11:01
  Speaker 5: Well, I guess the only thing to do is to
• 11:03
  Speaker 5: see if you two can manage to get along in
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  Speaker 5: separate jail cells. I'm putting you both under arrest for
• 11:08
  Speaker 5: disturbing the peace.
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  Speaker 8: Now, wait just a minute.
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  Speaker 10: What do you mean? Ain't nobody around here, Marshal. Whose
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  Speaker 10: peace we disturbing?
• 11:14
  Speaker 11: Mine.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, come on, let's go.
• 11:18
  Speaker 4: Oh, that's Doc's buggy tied up there, Mr.
• 11:22
  Speaker 10: Dune.
• 11:47
  Speaker 8: Must be waiting for us in the office.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 11:52
  Speaker 8: Oh, good morning, Matt.
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  Speaker 6: Morning, Doc.
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  Speaker 8: Hey, Chester.
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  Speaker 11: Hello, Doc.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I've got an hour to kill, Matt. Just time
• 11:58
  Speaker 8: to beat the socks off of you in a game
• 12:00
  Speaker 8: of chess. Board's all set up and.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, good, Doc. Let me take a look at my
• 12:06
  Speaker 6: prisoners first.
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  Speaker 8: Who is it, Matt?
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  Speaker 6: Odie Perkins and Brace McCoy. Is that so? Yeah, I'll
• 12:11
  Speaker 6: be right back. Oh, morning, boys. Marshal. Well, how about it?
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  Speaker 6: You about ready to stop feuding?
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  Speaker 10: Sure.
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  Speaker 8: Brace will get himself off my property, I will.
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  Speaker 10: I ain't even to budge, Marshal, and that's a fact.
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  Speaker 6: You kind of like it here, huh?
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  Speaker 10: Man can't go back on his principles, Marshal.
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  Speaker 8: He ain't got no more principles in a hungry cow.
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  Speaker 6: All right, that's enough.
• 12:36
  Speaker 5: You act like a couple of wet roosters. You can't
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  Speaker 5: even remember what the whole thing started about.
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  Speaker 10: I remember, I.
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  Speaker 8: I'll tell you what it started about, Marshal.
• 12:44
  Speaker 9: It started because Brace didn't figure I was fancying his
• 12:47
  Speaker 9: vittles up enough to suit him.
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  Speaker 10: For a whole week, Marshal, he didn't fix nothing but
• 12:50
  Speaker 10: flapjacks in the morning and how many grits at night.
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  Speaker 8: With side meat in them.
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  Speaker 10: With side meat. It was sour belly and it weren't fatigued.
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  Speaker 9: You know what he done, Marshal, when I put them
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  Speaker 9: grits on the table? He throwed them on the floor
• 13:00
  Speaker 9: and tromped all over them with his boots on.
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  Speaker 10: That's all he was fitting for. I wouldn't throw videos
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  Speaker 10: like that to the hall.
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  Speaker 8: I seen many a day you'd be glad for.
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  Speaker 6: Now, wait a minute. Is this the truth? Is this
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  Speaker 6: what this whole thing's all about?
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  Speaker 10: Well, it's what it started about.
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  Speaker 9: But it ain't what it's about now. Not anymore, it ain't, Marshal.
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  Speaker 10: No, sir. It's a lot more than that now.
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  Speaker 9: I come to realize I've been keeping a viper in
• 13:20
  Speaker 9: my bosom.
• 13:20
  Speaker 10: You can be minding mistaken about a man, Marshal, and
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  Speaker 10: that's a fact.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 13:25
  Speaker 5: But you two thought well of each other for years.
• 13:29
  Speaker 5: It seems to me a friendship like that ought to
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  Speaker 5: last over at least one fool argument.
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  Speaker 8: Brace McCoy ain't no friend of mine, not no more,
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  Speaker 8: he ain't.
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  Speaker 10: Once I get out of this cell, I'm gonna whop
• 13:39
  Speaker 10: that little gopher 20 inches of his life.
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  Speaker 8: Right across the sights of my gun, that's.
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  Speaker 10: How I want to see it.
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  Speaker 6: All right, boys, all right, just settle back.
• 13:47
  Speaker 5: Looks like you're gonna have plenty of time to think
• 13:49
  Speaker 5: up names to call each other.
• 13:51
  Speaker 8: Marshal. Yeah. How long you aim to keep us in
• 13:55
  Speaker 8: this miserable old jailhouse?
• 13:57
  Speaker 6: Well, you got some sense. A guy of old age.
• 14:05
  Speaker 8: How they making out, man?
• 14:06
  Speaker 5: Like a pair of tomcats, Doc. I don't know what
• 14:09
  Speaker 5: I'm going to do with them. I can't keep them
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  Speaker 5: locked up forever.
• 14:12
  Speaker 7: For two nice fellas like them, they sure did turn
• 14:15
  Speaker 7: mean awful sudden.
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  Speaker 8: If you ask me, they're both probably aching to make up.
• 14:19
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 14:21
  Speaker 5: I've been thinking along those same lines, Doug. Seems to
• 14:24
  Speaker 5: me they could have killed each other out there on
• 14:25
  Speaker 5: the farm if they'd really been trying to.
• 14:27
  Speaker 8: Of course they could. Why, they must have fired over
• 14:29
  Speaker 8: a hundred rounds.
• 14:30
  Speaker 6: At each other.
• 14:31
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but if I let them out, they'll either kill
• 14:32
  Speaker 5: each other by accident.
• 14:34
  Speaker 6: Or kill somebody else. Unless they could... Yeah. Uh, Chester. Yes, sir?
• 14:43
  Speaker 5: There's an Indian woman named Summer Dove somewhere around town.
• 14:46
  Speaker 6: Kitty can tell you where she is. Go find her
• 14:48
  Speaker 6: and get her over here as soon as you can,
• 14:49
  Speaker 6: will you?
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  Speaker 8: All right, Mr. Dillon.
• 15:03
  Speaker 6: Boys, this is Summer Dove.
• 15:06
  Speaker 5: These are the two men I was telling you about,
• 15:08
  Speaker 5: Summer Dove. The short, skinny one is Odie Perkins and
• 15:11
  Speaker 5: the fat one is Brace McCoy.
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  Speaker 8: How do?
• 15:14
  Speaker 6: Howdy, Miss Dove.
• 15:15
  Speaker 10: Glad to know you, man.
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  Speaker 5: Summer Dove's one of the best cooks in Ford County, boys.
• 15:20
  Speaker 5: Small I told her, huh?
• 15:22
  Speaker 6: So? Now she needs a place to live. She'll work
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  Speaker 6: for her keep.
• 15:27
  Speaker 10: What are you getting at, Marshal?
• 15:28
  Speaker 5: Well, you boys got a place out there that you're
• 15:30
  Speaker 5: not using, that lean to against the barn, it might
• 15:32
  Speaker 5: be fixed up pretty comfortable. Like I said, Summer Dove's
• 15:36
  Speaker 5: a mighty fine cook.
• 15:38
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 15:39
  Speaker 9: I'd be proud to hire on Miss Summer Dove, Marshal.
• 15:41
  Speaker 9: Providing you fix it to keep that ornery sidewinder away
• 15:43
  Speaker 9: from my property.
• 15:44
  Speaker 8: Sidewinder, you.
• 15:46
  Speaker 9: Grace, you come within 20 yards of me, you better
• 15:49
  Speaker 9: come and shoot me.
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  Speaker 6: All right, boys, hold it.
• 15:52
  Speaker 5: Well, Summer Dove, these are the two men I thought
• 15:55
  Speaker 5: you might like to work for, or one of them,
• 15:57
  Speaker 5: more likely.
• 15:59
  Speaker 8: One man, two men, makes no difference.
• 16:03
  Speaker 6: All right. Wait out in the office for me, will you?
• 16:06
  Speaker 8: Me go.
• 16:06
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 16:13
  Speaker 5: Boys, if you can't come to any agreement, it looks
• 16:17
  Speaker 5: like there's only one way to settle this.
• 16:21
  Speaker 10: What you got there, Moss?
• 16:22
  Speaker 6: Your guns.
• 16:24
  Speaker 5: I figure you couldn't kill each other out there at
• 16:26
  Speaker 5: the farm because you had too.
• 16:27
  Speaker 6: Much cover, but here it's different.
• 16:30
  Speaker 8: What are you doing, Marshal?
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: I'm putting your guns on the floor of your cells,
• 16:33
  Speaker 5: but neither one of you touch them now till I'm
• 16:35
  Speaker 5: out of here.
• 16:36
  Speaker 8: Now, wait just a minute.
• 16:37
  Speaker 10: I don't like this, Marshal, and that's a fact.
• 16:39
  Speaker 5: There's nothing between you now but an eight-foot corridor and
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: open bars.
• 16:45
  Speaker 6: Now, you get it settled, boys, one way or the other.
• 16:49
  Speaker 6: I'll be in my office.
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: See.
• 17:12
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think that'll do it.
• 17:15
  Speaker 8: Mate, Doc. Doggone you, Matt. Oh, that was a sneaky move. Yes,
• 17:20
  Speaker 8: it was if I ever saw it.
• 17:21
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it was.
• 17:22
  Speaker 7: I swear I can't get over it, Mr.
• 17:24
  Speaker 8: Jones.
• 17:24
  Speaker 7: Odie and Brace walking out of here that way, arm
• 17:27
  Speaker 7: in arm, like there hadn't never been no crossword between them.
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: Well, it's like Doc said, Chester. They were anxious enough
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: to make up. All they needed was a push.
• 17:36
  Speaker 7: Well, you sure did take a big chance, though, giving
• 17:38
  Speaker 7: them their guns back.
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: Ah, they didn't want to kill each other. Somebody just
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: had to make them realize it, that's all. I wasn't
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: taking much chance.
• 17:46
  Speaker 8: He sure wasn't, Chester. Not the way he did it.
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: Uh, Chester, you can ride out there tomorrow and take
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: these guns to him, if you will, and, uh, see
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: if Summer Dobbs got herself settled out, huh?
• 17:56
  Speaker 8: All right, Mr.
• 17:56
  Speaker 11: John.
• 17:57
  Speaker 8: Um, what do you mean, Doc, not the way he
• 18:00
  Speaker 8: did it? Just that, Chester. Matt doesn't take any chances.
• 18:05
  Speaker 7: You don't call that taking a chance when they might have.
• 18:06
  Speaker 8: Killed each other? Not with the blanks he made and
• 18:09
  Speaker 8: putting their guns. He made blanks? Sure, like those actors
• 18:15
  Speaker 8: use on the stage. What? Of course, I figured what
• 18:17
  Speaker 8: he was up to. He didn't fool me in it. Well,
• 18:20
  Speaker 8: you sure fooled me, Mr. Dillon.
• 18:22
  Speaker 7: I was sitting here on pins and needles just waiting
• 18:25
  Speaker 7: for the sound of death.
• 18:26
  Speaker 8: Oh, you're uneasy, Mark Chester.
• 18:27
  Speaker 6: You know, Doc, I was... Pretty sure about those fellas
• 18:34
  Speaker 6: all the time.
• 18:36
  Speaker 8: You were?
• 18:37
  Speaker 6: Yeah. You see that whiskey bottle out there?
• 18:42
  Speaker 8: Of course I see it. Why?
• 18:48
  Speaker 6: Blanks, Doc?
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: No.
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: Gunsmoke, produced and directed by Norman McDonald, stars William Conrad
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: as Matt Dillon, U.S.
• 19:10
  Speaker 10: Marshal.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: The script was specially written for Gunsmoke by Les Crutchfield,
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: with editorial supervision by John Meston. The music was composed
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: and conducted by Rex Corey. Sound patterns by Ray Kemper
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: and Bill James. Featured in the cast were Vic Perrin,
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: Barney Phillips, and Peggy Ray. Farley Bear as Chester, Howard
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: McNair as Doc, and Georgia.
• 19:30
  Speaker 10: Ellis as Kitty.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: Gunsmoke's Thick and Thin was first heard on CBS radio
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: in 1956. Follow Gunsmoke for more classic broadcasts.