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Gunsmoke - "Pokey Pete" (Old Time Radio, 1959) · Gunsmoke | Old Time Radio

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: William Conrad returns as Marshal Matt Dillon, joined by Parley
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: Bear as Chester, Georgia Ellis as Kitty, and Howard McNear
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: as Doc. On August 16th, 1959, CBS Radio presented Gunsmoke,
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: episode 384, Pokey Pete, written by Marion Clark and produced
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: by Norman MacDonald. Dodge City is familiar with the monthly
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: visits of an elderly silent outsider called Pokey Pete, whose
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: appearance has made him the subject of gossip and ridicule.
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: Then Chester tells a local boy an exaggerated story about
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: hidden treasure, and the rumor begins to spread through town. Matt, Chester, Doc,
• 0:44
  Speaker 1: and Kitty find themselves involved in a matter that reaches
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: beyond the tales people have told about a man they
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: scarcely know. And now we return to the original broadcast.
• 1:05
  Speaker 2: Around Dodge City and in the Territory on West, there's
• 1:09
  Speaker 2: just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers,
• 1:12
  Speaker 2: and that's with a U.S. Marshal and the smell of
• 1:14
  Speaker 2: gun smoke. Gunsmoke, starring William Conrad. The story of the
• 1:37
  Speaker 2: violence that moved west with young America. And the story
• 1:41
  Speaker 2: of a man who moved with it.
• 1:43
  Speaker 3: I'm that man. Matt Dillon, United States Marshal. The first
• 1:47
  Speaker 3: man they look for and the last they want to meet.
• 1:51
  Speaker 3: It's a chancy job. And it makes a man watchful.
• 1:56
  Speaker 3: And a little lonely.
• 1:58
  Speaker 4: Gunsmoke Hey, fellas, lookie there.
• 2:16
  Speaker 5: Pee-pee, pokey pee, he wears boxes on his feet.
• 2:21
  Speaker 6: Pee-pee, pokey pee, he wears boxes on his feet.
• 2:24
  Speaker 7: Here now, Jitky, you stop that.
• 2:31
  Speaker 8: I did. Now you leave that poor old man be.
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  Speaker 9: Well, I ain't doing nothing, Chester.
• 2:36
  Speaker 7: Well, it ain't right you tormenting old Pete like that.
• 2:38
  Speaker 10: All the fellas do at Chester don't mean nothing. Old
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  Speaker 10: Pete don't care.
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  Speaker 8: How do you know he don't care?
• 2:45
  Speaker 7: Well, he don't say nothing. Yeah, it don't make no
• 2:48
  Speaker 7: difference if he says nothing or not. It just ain't
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  Speaker 7: right teasing the body for no reason at all.
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  Speaker 4: He's awful funny looking, Chester.
• 2:55
  Speaker 7: Well, now, ain't that a shame? You live as long
• 2:59
  Speaker 7: as old Pete, you might be funnier looking yet.
• 3:02
  Speaker 10: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 7: You can't never tell what might happen to you, Ted. Why,
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  Speaker 7: you might just grow another ear or another nose.
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  Speaker 8: Or something like that.
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  Speaker 7: Aw. No, sirree, you can't tell at all how you
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  Speaker 7: might turn out. I'd be mighty careful before I poked
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  Speaker 7: any fun.
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  Speaker 8: Mighty careful.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I guess we.
• 3:22
  Speaker 8: Here. Pull this while I see if it's strong enough.
• 3:25
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 3:26
  Speaker 8: Hey, that's a fishing pole, ain't it?
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  Speaker 7: That's a fishing pole. Of course it's a fishing pole. Ted,
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  Speaker 7: if you spent more time down at the river instead
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  Speaker 7: of tagging along after old Pete, you wouldn't ask fool
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  Speaker 7: questions like that.
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  Speaker 8: Hold it steady now. Let me see.
• 3:42
  Speaker 7: Yeah. Yeah, I guess that'll do all right.
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  Speaker 10: You going fishing now, Chester?
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  Speaker 9: We'll see.
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  Speaker 7: Now, that sounds like.
• 3:49
  Speaker 8: A good idea.
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  Speaker 10: Got a special place to go?
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  Speaker 11: Boy.
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  Speaker 7: Boy, I got me a place where them catfish is
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  Speaker 7: so big you can hear them meowing before you.
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  Speaker 8: Even reach the river.
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  Speaker 10: I'd like to see that, Chester.
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  Speaker 7: Well, it's a sight to see, Ted. A sight to see.
• 4:08
  Speaker 11: Well, that's real nice.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: That's just what you need, Matt. Another gun.
• 4:28
  Speaker 9: What do you mean, Doc?
• 4:29
  Speaker 8: Well, your office is full of them now.
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  Speaker 5: Well, now, this is a new model, Doc. I want
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  Speaker 5: the Marshal to look at it over for me before
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  Speaker 5: I order any number of them.
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  Speaker 9: It's a center fire repeater.
• 4:40
  Speaker 8: Yeah, whatever that means.
• 4:42
  Speaker 3: Well, if it works right, it means something mighty good, Doc,
• 4:45
  Speaker 3: as far as rifles are concerned, I'll tell you that.
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  Speaker 9: Well, they say it works all right, Marshal.
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  Speaker 5: And they're making it in three sizes, a 15-shot rifle,
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  Speaker 5: a 12-shot carbine, and a half-size six-shot. It's a new
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  Speaker 5: kind of gun, Doc.
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  Speaker 6: If folks had put as much time in on inventing
• 5:01
  Speaker 6: things to cure people with as they do inventing things
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  Speaker 6: to kill them with, it would.
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  Speaker 9: Ah, hello, Pete. I'll be right with you, Pete.
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  Speaker 3: All right, now, go ahead, Jonas. You wait on him, huh?
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  Speaker 8: All right. I'll try to take care of him right
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  Speaker 8: away when he comes in. He don't come in very often.
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  Speaker 9: Sure, go ahead.
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  Speaker 3: Take your time.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: All right, now, Pete, what can I do for you
• 5:23
  Speaker 5: this month? Oh, want some of them candles over there?
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  Speaker 10: All right.
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  Speaker 9: Now, how many you want, Pete? Six. Oh, just two.
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  Speaker 5: You sure that'll last you the month?
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  Speaker 6: All right, all right.
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  Speaker 9: Just two it is.
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  Speaker 3: Now, what else?
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  Speaker 7: Beans.
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  Speaker 9: All righty.
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  Speaker 5: Now, I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll start pouring
• 6:02
  Speaker 5: them out. You let me know when to stop, huh?
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  Speaker 5: Just raise your hand, Pete, when I pour it out enough.
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  Speaker 12: All right.
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  Speaker 8: That's fine.
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  Speaker 9: Now, what else do you need? Lamp wicks? Lamp chimney?
• 6:26
  Speaker 3: Oh, coal oil.
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  Speaker 9: Well, sure. Sure.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, Jonas, we're gonna go. I want to catch Jim
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  Speaker 3: Buck before he takes the stage out. I'll be back
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  Speaker 3: to see the gun later, huh?
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  Speaker 9: Why, sure, Marshal. Any old time. So long, Jonas.
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  Speaker 3: All right, now, Pete. Pete's a strange old coot, isn't he?
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  Speaker 3: How long has he been around here, anyway?
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  Speaker 12: Who, Pete?
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  Speaker 9: Oh, heavens, Matt, I don't know.
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  Speaker 8: I doubt if anybody does.
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  Speaker 6: He's been coming into town once a month. Ever since
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  Speaker 6: I've been here and probably long before that.
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  Speaker 3: Why doesn't he talk, Doc? You know what ails him?
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  Speaker 7: No, I don't, Matt.
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  Speaker 8: He's never asked for any help.
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  Speaker 6: He's never been anywhere near my office.
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  Speaker 3: No wonder he's so patient with all the tormenting that
• 7:14
  Speaker 3: he takes.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, he's always been gentle with the youngsters. Sometimes he
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  Speaker 6: can get riled with grown-ups, though.
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  Speaker 7: And talking of getting riled, Chester said he.
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  Speaker 6: Was going to bring a package up from the depot
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  Speaker 6: for me.
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  Speaker 8: Where is he, anyway?
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  Speaker 3: Chester is taking a day off.
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  Speaker 10: A day off?
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  Speaker 6: What's Chester need with.
• 7:31
  Speaker 8: A day off?
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  Speaker 3: Well, he told me he wanted to take a friend fishing.
• 7:34
  Speaker 8: Fishing?
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I better get out to people and get it myself.
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  Speaker 7: I'll see you later, man.
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  Speaker 4: I don't hear no catfish meowing, Chester.
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  Speaker 10: We're right on the bank, too.
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  Speaker 7: Well, see, it's just this wrong time of day. They
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  Speaker 7: don't tell them to do it when the sun's so high.
• 8:00
  Speaker 7: You're more likely to hear them carrying on around suppertime.
• 8:03
  Speaker 9: You sure talk funny.
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  Speaker 7: No, I ain't talking funny at nobody the way you
• 8:07
  Speaker 7: were doing to.
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  Speaker 8: Old Pete this morning.
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  Speaker 10: I won't do it no more.
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  Speaker 7: That's a good thing. Might not come out so good
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  Speaker 7: next time. How's that?
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  Speaker 9: Well, because old.
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  Speaker 7: Pete might just turn around and snap you right in two.
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  Speaker 7: That's how's that.
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  Speaker 9: Ah, he don't do that.
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  Speaker 8: Mind your line.
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  Speaker 7: It's hidden with that snag down for him.
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  Speaker 8: Watch it.
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  Speaker 3: That's better.
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  Speaker 7: Uh, no, old Pete ain't done nothing yet.
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  Speaker 8: But he's getting older and.
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  Speaker 7: Tireder and what with not even getting any sleep at all.
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  Speaker 8: No sleep?
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  Speaker 7: Well, they say he don't sleep a wink. He just
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  Speaker 7: sits there with that little old sack of his.
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  Speaker 8: Guarding that treasure. Here you go.
• 8:43
  Speaker 7: Want some more bread and cheese?
• 8:45
  Speaker 6: Ugh, she smells kind of funny.
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  Speaker 7: Well, it is pretty stout, but that just signifies it's good.
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  Speaker 7: Eat all you want, it's good for you.
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  Speaker 8: Uh, what kind of treasure does old Pete have?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, he's got a little old dab of treasure buried
• 9:02
  Speaker 7: out there. They say he told to clean up the Mississippi.
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  Speaker 11: Off in a pirate ship.
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  Speaker 7: You ever seen it, Chester? Well, no, I ain't never
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  Speaker 7: seen it exactly, but... He uses gold money when he
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  Speaker 7: comes to town. He sure has to get it from somewhere.
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  Speaker 8: Pirate gold. That's what it is, a piece of eight.
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  Speaker 8: Piece of what? I'd sure like to see some pieces
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  Speaker 8: of eight.
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  Speaker 9: Well, now, I ain't so sure that it's pirate gold.
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  Speaker 8: I might just take me to run out there and see.
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  Speaker 7: Now, that ain't likely to be very good.
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  Speaker 8: Now, sit still, Ted.
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  Speaker 7: If you fell in that river, the catfish would have
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  Speaker 7: to help you.
• 9:34
  Speaker 8: Where are you going?
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  Speaker 4: I gotta get back, Chester.
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  Speaker 8: I got something to do. Well, now, don't you get
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  Speaker 8: lost getting home. Boys... They sure don't grow up like
• 9:46
  Speaker 8: they used to.
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  Speaker 7: It's just hard to tell what the world's coming to.
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  Speaker 4: Hello, Matt.
• 10:04
  Speaker 10: You couldn't hold out, huh?
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  Speaker 9: You win, Kitty.
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  Speaker 3: It's too hot to sit in that office waiting for
• 10:09
  Speaker 3: something to happen.
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  Speaker 10: I'll sit down.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks.
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  Speaker 10: Sam, bring us some beer, will you please?
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  Speaker 8: Sure, Kitty.
• 10:15
  Speaker 9: Oh, it is hot.
• 10:19
  Speaker 10: I'm surprised that you're not. It's usually Chester who complains
• 10:22
  Speaker 10: about the heat.
• 10:23
  Speaker 3: Well, he'd be complaining he just isn't here.
• 10:26
  Speaker 10: Well, you know, I feel kind of sorry for Chester,
• 10:28
  Speaker 10: running your errands in all this heat.
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  Speaker 3: Kitty, Chester is not running my errands.
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  Speaker 11: He's fishing.
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  Speaker 3: Here's the beer. Ah, thanks.
• 10:40
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I can.
• 10:43
  Speaker 3: Just see him now sitting out there with his feet
• 10:45
  Speaker 3: in the water someplace fishing.
• 10:47
  Speaker 10: Oh, I'm sorry to hear that, too.
• 10:49
  Speaker 3: Oh, why?
• 10:51
  Speaker 10: Well, he usually comes in with a string of smelly
• 10:53
  Speaker 10: catfish and presents them to me, and I never know.
• 10:56
  Speaker 8: How to refuse him.
• 10:57
  Speaker 10: I don't know how to get rid of him, either.
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: Hello, Pete.
• 11:05
  Speaker 3: Poor old fellow.
• 11:06
  Speaker 10: This is his regular visit to the bar. You could
• 11:10
  Speaker 10: run a calendar the way he comes in here every month.
• 11:12
  Speaker 3: Oh, he, uh, ever say anything, Kitty?
• 11:16
  Speaker 7: Never.
• 11:17
  Speaker 10: Just Puts his money down in the bar, has three drinks,
• 11:21
  Speaker 10: no more, no less, and walks on out.
• 11:25
  Speaker 3: He keeps to himself pretty much, doesn't he? Mm-hmm.
• 11:29
  Speaker 10: I wish everybody that steps up to that bar would
• 11:31
  Speaker 10: be as quiet.
• 11:32
  Speaker 9: Those two are just coming in.
• 11:34
  Speaker 3: Don't they hear you? Bring the bottle. Bring it up here.
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  Speaker 9: Hey, little lady.
• 11:39
  Speaker 3: Hey.
• 11:44
  Speaker 8: Come on up here and have a drink with us.
• 11:46
  Speaker 8: Come on, have a drink.
• 11:47
  Speaker 10: No, thanks, boys. Not right now.
• 11:50
  Speaker 3: You come up here.
• 11:52
  Speaker 9: And I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll pay for
• 11:55
  Speaker 9: all the glasses I buy.
• 11:57
  Speaker 10: Oh, looks like I better go up there and settle it.
• 11:59
  Speaker 9: Looks like we're both going, okay?
• 12:03
  Speaker 8: There.
• 12:04
  Speaker 9: Now, that's better. Oh, so you come with her, mister,
• 12:10
  Speaker 9: all right? I'll buy it for you, too. No, thank you.
• 12:14
  Speaker 9: Move right in here. Come on, come on.
• 12:16
  Speaker 11: Give him room.
• 12:16
  Speaker 8: It ain't me, Morty. It's that big galoot. Well, move
• 12:19
  Speaker 8: him down.
• 12:21
  Speaker 9: Go on, old man.
• 12:22
  Speaker 10: Move along.
• 12:22
  Speaker 9: Don't bother, Pete, boys.
• 12:23
  Speaker 10: We got room.
• 12:24
  Speaker 9: Go on, old man.
• 12:26
  Speaker 5: Move.
• 12:26
  Speaker 10: Now, boys.
• 12:27
  Speaker 8: Ain't you hear good?
• 12:30
  Speaker 7: Answer me.
• 12:31
  Speaker 8: Can't you hear good? Now, look here.
• 12:32
  Speaker 9: My body ought to get a civil answer.
• 12:34
  Speaker 10: All right.
• 12:35
  Speaker 3: That's enough pushing. He thinks he's too good to talk
• 12:39
  Speaker 3: to me.
• 12:40
  Speaker 9: I'll fix him.
• 12:50
  Speaker 3: Here, I'll help you.
• 12:53
  Speaker 8: What?
• 12:55
  Speaker 9: That old fool. He knocked me down. I'll fix him.
• 13:00
  Speaker 3: He's a little tougher than he looks, isn't he?
• 13:02
  Speaker 9: I'll fix him good. Whatever he did to you, you.
• 13:05
  Speaker 3: Had it coming.
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  Speaker 9: I'm gonna get him.
• 13:07
  Speaker 3: No. What you're gonna do is get out of here
• 13:09
  Speaker 3: and sober up.
• 13:12
  Speaker 9: Maybe I will for now, Marshal. Maybe I will for now.
• 13:16
  Speaker 9: But that uppity old man ain't gonna get away with this.
• 13:20
  Speaker 9: And there ain't nothing you can do about it.
• 13:23
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't count on that.
• 13:43
  Speaker 8: All right, Mr. Dillon, all right.
• 13:44
  Speaker 7: If you don't want these fish, I'll just take them
• 13:46
  Speaker 7: right on over and give them to Miss Kitty.
• 13:48
  Speaker 3: I don't think I'd do that if I were you, Chester.
• 13:51
  Speaker 9: Why not?
• 13:52
  Speaker 3: Well, she hasn't gotten over that last batch yet.
• 13:55
  Speaker 7: Why, it's been a good week since I gave Miss
• 13:57
  Speaker 7: Kitty them last fish. She ought to be more than
• 13:59
  Speaker 7: ready for this nice new mess.
• 14:01
  Speaker 3: I don't think she is.
• 14:02
  Speaker 8: I swear, I just don't know what.
• 14:05
  Speaker 7: To use for a fellow putting in all that time
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  Speaker 7: fishing if nobody ain't going to appreciate it.
• 14:10
  Speaker 8: Oh, home gate.
• 14:11
  Speaker 9: Hello, Addie.
• 14:13
  Speaker 3: Come in.
• 14:14
  Speaker 2: Matt, I'm afraid I need your help.
• 14:15
  Speaker 3: Oh, sure, Addie. Sit down and tell me about it.
• 14:17
  Speaker 3: Get her a chair, will you, Chester?
• 14:19
  Speaker 8: Yes, sir. Here you are.
• 14:23
  Speaker 9: Thank you, Chester.
• 14:24
  Speaker 3: All right, Addie, what's the trouble?
• 14:26
  Speaker 9: It's my boy, Ted.
• 14:27
  Speaker 8: Why?
• 14:27
  Speaker 7: He's a nice young'un. He couldn't be in no trouble.
• 14:30
  Speaker 3: Never mind, Chester. What about Ted? He isn't home.
• 14:32
  Speaker 8: Wasn't home all day and didn't come home to supper.
• 14:35
  Speaker 10: That's not like him, Matt.
• 14:36
  Speaker 8: I'm afraid for him.
• 14:37
  Speaker 12: Oh, no.
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: At eight boys his age, you get to feeling pretty big.
• 14:41
  Speaker 3: Sometimes I just forget to come home right on time.
• 14:43
  Speaker 8: Not Ted.
• 14:45
  Speaker 4: Ever since his pa died, he's taken great stock in
• 14:47
  Speaker 4: doing the evening chores for me.
• 14:49
  Speaker 8: He wouldn't just run off.
• 14:50
  Speaker 9: Such Miss Gage, he's bound to be all right.
• 14:52
  Speaker 7: I see him this afternoon looking just as fine.
• 14:54
  Speaker 3: You saw him?
• 14:56
  Speaker 7: Why, sure. We was fishing together.
• 14:58
  Speaker 9: Did he come back to town with you?
• 14:59
  Speaker 8: What?
• 14:59
  Speaker 7: No, ma'am, he didn't.
• 15:00
  Speaker 8: He come back before I did. I kind of wondered
• 15:03
  Speaker 8: about it, too, at the time. How's that?
• 15:05
  Speaker 7: Well, it sure seemed like he was took with the
• 15:07
  Speaker 7: story I was telling him about old Pete and all.
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: But I just.
• 15:10
  Speaker 7: Started telling him the best part when Ted went on.
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: What part was that, Chester?
• 15:14
  Speaker 7: The part about how old Pete sets up all night
• 15:17
  Speaker 7: guarding that buried treasure.
• 15:18
  Speaker 9: Buried treasure.
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: What buried treasure?
• 15:21
  Speaker 7: Well, I don't really take much stock in it, but
• 15:23
  Speaker 7: the boy seemed to be pretty took with it.
• 15:25
  Speaker 8: Chester, what did you tell him?
• 15:27
  Speaker 7: Well, now, lots of people think old Pete's got some
• 15:29
  Speaker 7: pirate's gold buried up there somewhere.
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: Matt, that must be where the boy went.
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: It might have, Eddie. Chester, go get the horses.
• 15:37
  Speaker 8: Yes, sir.
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: Don't worry, Eddie. If he's there, we'll bring him back.
• 15:53
  Speaker 9: Come on, Reese. Stop dropping your feet.
• 15:56
  Speaker 8: I ain't so anxious to get there.
• 15:59
  Speaker 9: I told you I was gonna get even with the
• 16:01
  Speaker 9: old man, didn't I?
• 16:04
  Speaker 12: I don't see what he done so bad to get
• 16:07
  Speaker 12: his shack burned down.
• 16:08
  Speaker 9: He's got it coming to him.
• 16:10
  Speaker 12: But he didn't do nothing so bad. Well, he didn't
• 16:14
  Speaker 12: sass you. He didn't even say nothing.
• 16:16
  Speaker 9: Shut up and watch where you're going.
• 16:19
  Speaker 8: I can't help it, Mort. I can't see.
• 16:22
  Speaker 9: Where I'm going. You'll rouse the old man for sure.
• 16:24
  Speaker 12: Just don't see why we couldn't have rid up this far.
• 16:28
  Speaker 9: I don't want no horses stomping around. You're bad enough.
• 16:33
  Speaker 8: Now shut up.
• 16:33
  Speaker 9: I want to burn him out without no warning.
• 16:37
  Speaker 8: What's this?
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: Here.
• 16:39
  Speaker 8: Quiet. It's a kid.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: Let go, mister.
• 16:42
  Speaker 8: You'll be quiet.
• 16:44
  Speaker 9: You'll be quiet. What are you doing here?
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: Why?
• 16:49
  Speaker 8: Walk soft. I was just watching for him to come
• 16:54
  Speaker 8: out and guard a treasure.
• 16:56
  Speaker 12: That's all.
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: What's he talking about, Morton?
• 16:58
  Speaker 9: What are you doing here?
• 17:00
  Speaker 8: Come on now, let's have a truth. That's the truth, Mr.
• 17:03
  Speaker 7: Arman.
• 17:04
  Speaker 9: It's pirate treasure. Who told you that?
• 17:08
  Speaker 8: Well, the man from Marshall's office.
• 17:09
  Speaker 10: He says Pokey Pete sits.
• 17:11
  Speaker 8: Up all night guarding it.
• 17:12
  Speaker 9: You'd better not try to fool me, boy.
• 17:14
  Speaker 8: I ain't fooling. Cross my heart, I ain't.
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: All right, then.
• 17:19
  Speaker 9: Where is it buried?
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: I don't know, boy.
• 17:22
  Speaker 8: You'd better tell me.
• 17:23
  Speaker 9: Come on, boy.
• 17:25
  Speaker 8: Let the boy go. That foolish old man ain't got
• 17:27
  Speaker 8: no gold. Boy, he don't even have a decent pair
• 17:30
  Speaker 8: of boots.
• 17:30
  Speaker 9: Maybe he does and maybe he don't. But it's sure
• 17:33
  Speaker 9: worth finding out.
• 17:34
  Speaker 11: Now, come on, boy.
• 17:36
  Speaker 9: You tell me where it's buried.
• 17:38
  Speaker 8: I don't know. He's the only one who knows where
• 17:40
  Speaker 8: it is.
• 17:41
  Speaker 9: The old man's the only one. Did you hear that, Reese?
• 17:43
  Speaker 8: I heard it.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: Well, he was too uppity to talk to us before.
• 17:47
  Speaker 9: But we'll sure get some talk out of him this time.
• 17:50
  Speaker 12: I thought we were just going to sneak up and
• 17:52
  Speaker 12: burn the place.
• 17:53
  Speaker 9: We'll burn it after we talk to him, Reese. After
• 17:56
  Speaker 9: we make him talk. Now, come on. Please, mister.
• 18:00
  Speaker 8: Can I go now?
• 18:02
  Speaker 9: What's the matter, sonny? Don't you want to see the treasure?
• 18:06
  Speaker 8: Well, I want to go home.
• 18:09
  Speaker 9: You ain't going home yet, sonny. Not just yet.
• 18:13
  Speaker 6: Mr.
• 18:13
  Speaker 8: Dillon?
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Chester.
• 18:30
  Speaker 7: I'll feel just terrible bad if that boy gets himself
• 18:32
  Speaker 7: into fixing something I said.
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: Forget it, Chester.
• 18:34
  Speaker 8: Boys his age are likely.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: To run out now, isn't it?
• 18:37
  Speaker 7: No, but me telling him that fool's story, that's what
• 18:39
  Speaker 7: started it all.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: Well, if you hadn't told him, somebody else would.
• 18:43
  Speaker 7: I sure do hope he ain't got hurt none, though.
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: A night in the open isn't gonna hurt him, Chester.
• 18:48
  Speaker 7: I know, but that's mighty rough country, and I just
• 18:50
  Speaker 7: ain't too sure what old Pete'll do to it.
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: Look out, Mr.
• 18:53
  Speaker 7: Dillon.
• 18:54
  Speaker 8: What? There's a fire out there. Yeah. Must be Pete's shack.
• 18:58
  Speaker 8: Come on.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: Look around, see if anyone's around here.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: There, Mr.
• 19:20
  Speaker 8: Dillon, just outside the door. Oh, yeah. It's Pete.
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: Must have got himself out of a door somehow.
• 19:33
  Speaker 8: Is he dead?
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: No, not quite. He's been beaten, and he's burned, and
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: he's still breathing. There's somebody over there, Chester.
• 19:44
  Speaker 8: I'll go see. Oh, my gracious.
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: Mr.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: Dillon?
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Chester.
• 20:01
  Speaker 7: It's Ted. I found Ted.
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: He's been hurt, too. Looks like he's coming out of it.
• 20:10
  Speaker 7: I don't see nothing.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Just take it easy, Ted.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: You're all right now.
• 20:15
  Speaker 7: Don't hit me, mister.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: Nobody's going to hit you, Ted. It's Marshal Dillon.
• 20:19
  Speaker 9: Marshal, don't let them get me, Marshal.
• 20:22
  Speaker 10: Don't let them beat me like they did old Pete.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: Nobody's going to beat you, Ted.
• 20:27
  Speaker 8: You're all right now.
• 20:29
  Speaker 10: I kept asking him, beating him, asking.
• 20:32
  Speaker 9: Him, beating him.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: Asking him what, Ted?
• 20:38
  Speaker 9: Where that treasure was.
• 20:39
  Speaker 8: Oh, my gracious.
• 20:40
  Speaker 10: He wouldn't tell them nothing. No matter what they did.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 20:46
  Speaker 10: I'll bet they'll never find the treasure, Marshal.
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: That's right, Tess. They'll never find it. All right, come on, Tess.
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: Let's get them both to dock.
• 21:12
  Speaker 12: Come on, Mort. Drink up and let's get out of here.
• 21:16
  Speaker 9: Oh, quit your fussing, Reese. Ain't no hurry.
• 21:20
  Speaker 12: I thought we was just coming through Dodge to get supplies.
• 21:23
  Speaker 9: Well, we got them, didn't we?
• 21:25
  Speaker 12: It just ain't smart to stand around drinking.
• 21:28
  Speaker 8: I don't like it. I'd sooner be headed for Texas.
• 21:31
  Speaker 9: We'll head there. Now, just don't push me.
• 21:34
  Speaker 12: I want to put some distance between me and that shack.
• 21:37
  Speaker 9: There ain't no shack no more. Ain't nobody know we
• 21:41
  Speaker 9: was there.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: The kid does.
• 21:43
  Speaker 9: I took care of the kid. Now, quit fussing at me.
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: You two, you're under arrest.
• 21:51
  Speaker 9: Marshal, there must be some mistake.
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: There's no mistake. Get the guns, Shuster.
• 21:57
  Speaker 7: Yes, sir.
• 21:57
  Speaker 9: You ain't getting my gun. You got no right.
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: You got some idea of resisting arrest, mister?
• 22:03
  Speaker 9: I ain't gonna let you take me in.
• 22:04
  Speaker 8: That'll be just fine with me.
• 22:06
  Speaker 9: I'd like the.
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: Excuse to beat you from here to the jail cell
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: the way you beat old Pete.
• 22:11
  Speaker 9: I don't know what you're talking about, Marshal.
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: You don't know about a burning shack, or beating the
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: old man, or the boy?
• 22:19
  Speaker 9: Why, no, Marshal. You must be looking for somebody else.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: The boy says we're looking for you.
• 22:25
  Speaker 8: Morch, you didn't kill him.
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: Not the boy, not quite. But Pete died in Doc's
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: office just a few minutes ago. Now, come on, let's go.
• 22:36
  Speaker 9: You ain't taking me.
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: Look out, he's gone!
• 22:43
  Speaker 7: You got him, Mr.
• 22:44
  Speaker 8: Dillon? Yeah.
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: Bring the other one along.
• 22:47
  Speaker 8: Now, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Now, it wasn't
• 22:51
  Speaker 8: my idea.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: You did your share.
• 22:53
  Speaker 8: It wasn't my fault. I didn't mean no harm. It
• 22:56
  Speaker 8: was the old man's fault.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: How do you figure that?
• 22:58
  Speaker 12: Well, if he hadn't have been so uppity about talking,
• 23:01
  Speaker 12: we wouldn't have beat him so bad.
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: You wouldn't have killed him.
• 23:04
  Speaker 8: Well, sure not. We wouldn't have killed him. All he
• 23:07
  Speaker 8: had to do was tell us where the treasure was hid.
• 23:09
  Speaker 8: It was his fault.
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: He couldn't tell you. There was no treasure.
• 23:12
  Speaker 8: Well, then why didn't he say so, the old fool?
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: I'll tell you why he didn't say so. He couldn't talk.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: He had no tongue. It had been cut out.
• 23:23
  Speaker 8: No tongue? Yeah.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: Doc discovered it when he examined him. Must have been
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: the Indians who did it years ago.
• 23:34
  Speaker 8: Well, then it's still his fault. He could have let on.
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: Old Pete was too proud to let on for sympathy
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: from the likes of you. He didn't ask for sympathy
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: from anybody.
• 23:43
  Speaker 8: But you can't blame me.
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: Come on, Chester. Let's get him out of here.
• 24:14
  Speaker 9: Gunsmoke.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: Produced and directed in Hollywood by Norman McDonald, stars William
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: Conrad as Matt Dillon, U.S.
• 24:21
  Speaker 9: Marshal.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: The story was specially written for Gunsmoke by Marion Clark,
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: with editorial supervision by John Mester. Featured in the cast
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: were Richard Beals, Barney Phillips, Gene Bates, Vic Perrin, and
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: Bart Robinson.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: We conclude this visit to Dodge City with Gunsmoke, Pokey Pete.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: Until the next broadcast, good night.