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Gunsmoke - "Scared Boy" (Old Time Radio, 1959) · Gunsmoke | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: CBS radio broadcast Gunsmoke, episode 371, Scared Boy, on May 17th, 1959.
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  Speaker 1: In 1870s, Dodge City, Kansas, Cora Meadows and her young son, Tad,
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  Speaker 1: witness a killing, leaving Marshal Matt Dillon to pursue the
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  Speaker 1: case while the frightened boy remains at its center. The
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  Speaker 1: investigation draws the Meadows family into a Dodge City case
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  Speaker 1: that Dillon must bring to a close. William Conrad plays Dylan,
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  Speaker 1: joined by Parley Bear as Chester, Georgia Ellis as Kitty,
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  Speaker 1: and Howard McNear as Doc Adams. Marion Clark wrote the script,
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  Speaker 1: and Norman MacDonald produced and directed. It comes from the
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  Speaker 1: series' seventh radio season. And now, we return 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
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  Speaker 2: just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers,
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  Speaker 2: and that's with a U.S.
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  Speaker 3: Marshal and the smell of gun smoke. Gunsmoke, starring William Conrad.
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  Speaker 2: The story of the violence that moved west with young America.
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  Speaker 2: And the story of a man who moved with it.
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  Speaker 4: I'm that man.
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  Speaker 5: Matt Dillon, United States Marshal. The first man they look
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  Speaker 5: for and the last they.
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  Speaker 4: Want to meet.
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  Speaker 5: It's a chancy job. And it makes a man watchful.
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  Speaker 5: And a little lonely.
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  Speaker 6: All right, now, boy, you saddle out and wash up.
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  Speaker 7: I'll have your supper on the table before you're back.
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  Speaker 6: Tab, do you hear me?
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  Speaker 4: In a minute, ma'am.
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  Speaker 6: Ain't no minute about it. I've got to finish what
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  Speaker 6: I want to say. You finish it after supper. Get
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  Speaker 6: along now. I only got a little bit to go
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  Speaker 6: and it'll be just like the one part. Tab Meadows.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, ma'am.
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  Speaker 4: Mind you use the soap. Yes, ma'am. I'm going.
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  Speaker 8: Ma'am, there's a man running toward the house.
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  Speaker 4: Get back inside. Close the door. Ma'am, what is it?
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  Speaker 6: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Just be quiet. Don't. Don't shut me out, please.
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  Speaker 6: Please don't shut me out.
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  Speaker 4: Open the door. Let him inside. Open the door. Will
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  Speaker 4: you let me hide? Will you let me hide? Rock.
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  Speaker 4: Don't let him get me. You're hurt, mister. You're hurt.
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  Speaker 4: No use trying to hide, Rock. Don't shoot me. Please, don't.
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  Speaker 4: You shot a dying man. He wasn't dying long. You
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  Speaker 4: shot him in the back. Keep it still, Dad. You're
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  Speaker 4: a right smart boy, ain't you? Where's your daddy?
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  Speaker 5: Dad.
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  Speaker 4: Let the boy talk. Where's your daddy, I said? He
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  Speaker 4: is dead. You two living here all alone? We ain't scared.
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  Speaker 4: Of course you ain't.
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  Speaker 9: Too bad it had to happen right in your kitchen, ma'am.
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  Speaker 9: Rourke has had that coming a long time.
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  Speaker 4: What are you going to.
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  Speaker 1: Do, mister?
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  Speaker 4: Why, just nothing, ma'am. Nothing at all, if you'll let me.
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  Speaker 6: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 9: You just remember this was my affair, mine and Rourke's.
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  Speaker 9: And now I'll walk right on out of here. Forget
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  Speaker 9: about it. As long as you two forget about it.
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  Speaker 4: Marshall's going to come after you, sure enough. Tag, shit. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: like I said, he's a real smart boy, ain't he, ma'am?
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  Speaker 4: I guess you're right, though. I guess he does talk
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  Speaker 4: a mite too much.
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  Speaker 6: No, no, he don't talk.
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  Speaker 4: He don't, huh? Well, I'm mighty glad to hear that.
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  Speaker 4: Because it'd be a.
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  Speaker 9: Shame for a bright boy like that to get his
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  Speaker 9: throat cut because he didn't know when to keep.
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  Speaker 4: His mouth shut, now, wouldn't it? Wouldn't it? He won't talk,
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  Speaker 4: I promise. That's good. That's real good. And both of
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  Speaker 4: you just stand quiet till I get away from here.
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  Speaker 4: There won't be no trouble.
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  Speaker 6: What about him?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. Plum forgot my manners. Well, I guess
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  Speaker 4: I better get him out of here.
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  Speaker 6: Matt!
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  Speaker 4: Oh, Matt! Anybody here? Oh, for heaven's... Chester!
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  Speaker 6: I'm all back here, Doc!
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  Speaker 4: Doc! What's he in the world are you doing? Well, hello, Doc.
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  Speaker 4: What are you digging there, a.
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  Speaker 6: Set of graves?
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  Speaker 4: Graves? My goodness, Doc, don't talk like that. This here
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  Speaker 4: is a garden. A what?
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  Speaker 6: A garden.
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  Speaker 4: It looks more like a buffalo wallow. Does Matt know.
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  Speaker 10: That you're doing this right outside of his back door?
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  Speaker 4: Well, no, we don't.
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  Speaker 10: I'm kindly surprising him. Besides, I ain't hurting nothing, Doc.
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  Speaker 10: Just fading up the dirt. Well, I can see that. Look,
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  Speaker 10: let me show you how my garden's going to be.
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  Speaker 10: That seat right here is where the beans are going.
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  Speaker 10: And here is the carrot. And yonder is the pea.
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  Speaker 10: I don't see anything. Well, they ain't planted yet, but
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  Speaker 10: I got everything ready. All I need now is a seed.
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  Speaker 8: Now, where did this garden idea come from?
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  Speaker 4: You.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: What do you mean? Well, sure. Don't you remember that
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  Speaker 4: time you was talking, Mr.
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  Speaker 10: Dillon, about how people eat out here on the frontier
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  Speaker 10: and how they might get scullery?
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  Speaker 4: Scullery? Yeah, from not eating enough greens and sardines. Oh, yeah. Oh. Chester,
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  Speaker 4: not scholars.
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  Speaker 10: Well, whatever it is, I got thinking on it and
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  Speaker 10: decided to do something about it so I don't get
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  Speaker 10: that disease.
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  Speaker 4: I mean... Oh, that's fine. Yes, but as I remember it,
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  Speaker 4: that talk we had was months ago. That's right, it was.
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  Speaker 6: And I've been worrying about it ever since.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, you're a man of action. The trouble is, I'm broke. Plum.
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  Speaker 4: I can't buy no seed. Well, see, let me... Oh, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 4: now don't look at me. Well, now, Doc, you'd like
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  Speaker 4: a plate of greens every now and then, wouldn't you? Well,
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  Speaker 4: sure I would, but not enough to pay for the seeds.
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  Speaker 4: You might get scurvy, Doc. Scurvy, Chester, and I won't
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  Speaker 4: get it. Wouldn't pay very much to buy them seeds
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  Speaker 4: from Mr. Jones. Just a few pennies is all.
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  Speaker 6: Well, Doc, and then none of us would never have
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  Speaker 6: to worry again.
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  Speaker 8: Well, now, Chester, now, suppose you did get those seeds. Now,
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  Speaker 8: you think everything that you plant is going to bloom
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  Speaker 8: like a sunflower? Well, my gracious, Doc, this ain't no problem.
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  Speaker 8: You just kind of push that little seed into the ground,
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  Speaker 8: and before you know it, you've got vegetables.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, my, you're quite a farmer. All right, now, Doc.
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  Speaker 4: Ain't no need to smart off. All right. All right, Chester.
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  Speaker 4: All right. Here's some money. There. Now, go and get
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  Speaker 4: your seat. Well, thank you, Doc.
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  Speaker 10: And from now on, you're half owner of this garden.
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  Speaker 10: You can have part of whatever I grow free.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, that's good of you, Chester. It's pretty warm, ain't it?
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  Speaker 4: It usually is in the sun. Must be near noon. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: let me see. It's just about quarter to twelve. Quarter tilt.
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  Speaker 4: My gracious, I'm going to be late. Late? Where are
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  Speaker 4: you going? Over to meet Mr. Dillon at Delmonico. Lunch or.
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  Speaker 6: What about our garden? I'll get to it, Doc.
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  Speaker 10: But after all, if Dodge ain't had no green vegetables
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  Speaker 10: for all this time, it ain't going to hurt us
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  Speaker 10: none to wait a little longer.
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  Speaker 4: I'll see you later.
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  Speaker 6: I don't mind a man making money, Mr. Dillon, but
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  Speaker 6: by jing, I don't think he should be making it.
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  Speaker 4: All off of me. Oh, what do you mean, Chester?
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  Speaker 10: Why that, Zach Holden, charging 15 cents for a meal
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  Speaker 10: like that?
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  Speaker 4: I swear that steak still had a piece of.
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  Speaker 6: The hide on it.
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  Speaker 4: Well, prices are going up, Chester. He just got a
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  Speaker 4: piece of it.
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  Speaker 10: But it's getting so the man don't hardly have nothing
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  Speaker 10: left after feeding himself a.
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  Speaker 6: Little, and that's a fact.
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  Speaker 4: Look here, Mr. Dillon, there's a lady going into the office...
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  Speaker 4: Breakin' what she wants.
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  Speaker 5: Well, if she's like most women, we won't be long
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  Speaker 5: in findin' out. Uh, you wanted to see me, ma'am?
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  Speaker 4: You're... you're the marshal?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, that's right, Matt Dillon. Uh, this is Chester Proudfoot.
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  Speaker 10: I do, ma'am.
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  Speaker 4: How do you do?
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  Speaker 6: Uh, I'm Cora Meadows, marshal.
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  Speaker 7: My boy and I live out west of town, the people.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, well, won't you sit down, Miss Meadows? Thanks, sir. Mr. Dillon? Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: what's that, sir?
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  Speaker 6: As long as you and Miss Meadows is going to be.
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  Speaker 10: to be talking for a spell, I believe I'll just
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  Speaker 10: go on back and see Zach Holden about charging that
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  Speaker 10: outlandish price for a meal that's still sticking in my craw.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Chester, you do that. Excuse me, ma'am. Hello,
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  Speaker 4: Miss Meathers. Marshal, I don't rightly know what to do. Well,
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  Speaker 4: suppose you just tell me what's the matter.
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  Speaker 7: Well, that's just it, Marshal. I'm afraid of what'll happen
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  Speaker 7: if I tell you, and I... I'm afraid of what'll
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  Speaker 7: happen if I don't.
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  Speaker 4: You need help?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, Marshal, I need help, all right.
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  Speaker 4: Uh-huh. Just speak right out. Well, it's my boy.
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  Speaker 6: My boy, Tad, he's missing.
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  Speaker 4: Oh?
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  Speaker 7: I think he's taken out after that man. And he'll
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  Speaker 7: kill the boy.
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  Speaker 4: If he sees him.
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  Speaker 6: And he'll kill me if he knows I've been there.
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  Speaker 4: Now, wait a minute. What man are you talking about?
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  Speaker 7: The one that shot that fellow out to my place yesterday.
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  Speaker 7: He shot him down just like it was an animal.
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  Speaker 5: Now, you're telling me there was a killing there yesterday
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  Speaker 5: and that your son may have gone after the murderer?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, Marshal, I am.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I think you better go back to the beginning
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  Speaker 5: and tell me the whole story.
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  Speaker 4: Did he tell you where the man was drugged from, Mr. Dillon? Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: out the kitchen door, Chester. The track should be along
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  Speaker 4: here somewhere. Yes, sir. Ah, over here, Chester. See there?
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  Speaker 4: Looks like heel marks. Yeah. Leading over to them bushes. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: they sure do. Come on. I don't think you'd have
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  Speaker 4: taken much time with him.
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  Speaker 7: Oh.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. There he is. Seems to me he could have
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  Speaker 4: took the trouble to bury him. And when a man
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  Speaker 4: shoots you in the back, he's not going to worry
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  Speaker 4: about your funeral, Chester. I've seen him before, Mr. Dillon.
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  Speaker 4: He was at the Long Branch a lot, playing cards. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: he's a gambler by the name of Rourke. Well, I
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  Speaker 4: guess the burying's up to us. Yes, sir. Oh, it's you, Matt.
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  Speaker 4: I'm glad you're here.
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  Speaker 11: Well, I came as soon as I got your message, Doc.
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  Speaker 11: Is there something wrong? Yes, Matt, there is. Come to
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  Speaker 11: the other room. It's this youngster, Matt. I found him
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  Speaker 11: by the road.
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  Speaker 4: What's the matter with him? He's been beaten.
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  Speaker 10: Cruelly, brutally beaten.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't even know if I could bring him out
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  Speaker 4: of it for a while.
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  Speaker 10: Did he say who he is? No, and that's the
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  Speaker 10: funny thing, Matt. He hasn't talked at all.
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  Speaker 11: He's been conscious most of the day, but he won't
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  Speaker 11: say a word.
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  Speaker 4: I guess you can blame him.
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  Speaker 5: Whoever did this was trying to scare him to death,
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  Speaker 5: even if it didn't quite kill him.
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  Speaker 4: Is it okay if I try to talk to him?
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  Speaker 4: I guess it won't hurt him if he'll talk. Do
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  Speaker 4: you know who he is? Yeah, I think so. Hello, Tad. Tad? Tad,
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  Speaker 4: I'm Marshal Dillon. You don't have to turn your head away, Tad.
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  Speaker 4: I want to help you.
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  Speaker 5: I want to help you and help your mother. Now,
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  Speaker 5: you want me to catch the man who did this,
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  Speaker 5: don't you?
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  Speaker 4: I can do it if you'll help me.
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  Speaker 5: Look, Tad, I promise you won't get hurt anymore, and
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  Speaker 5: I promise that your mother won't get hurt either. Tad, look,
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  Speaker 5: the only way to be sure that you're safe is
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  Speaker 5: to bring this man in. I'm not going to answer that.
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  Speaker 4: No, I guess not. All right, Doc, let's leave him alone.
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  Speaker 5: How long are you going to keep him here, Doc?
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  Speaker 10: Oh, I expect he'll be up by tomorrow if he's quiet.
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  Speaker 10: The boy recovers mighty fast.
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  Speaker 4: Mm-hmm. Would he be well enough to stay in town
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  Speaker 4: with Kitty for a few days? Oh, sure, Matt, I
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  Speaker 4: guess so. But if you know who he is... Why
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  Speaker 4: don't you take him home?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I'll tell you later, Doc, but there are a
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  Speaker 5: couple of people I want to see first.
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  Speaker 4: How about Sam? Hello, Marshal. Did you drink? No, thanks, Sam.
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  Speaker 4: Is Kitty around? She's upstairs, Marshal. Ought to be down
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  Speaker 4: in a minute or two. Oh, well, I'll go on up. Thanks. Sure.
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  Speaker 10: Hello, Matt.
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  Speaker 6: You looking for me?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah. I'd like to talk to you, Kitty.
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  Speaker 6: I'm coming down.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 6: Come on over to the table.
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  Speaker 4: We can sit down. No, thanks, Kitty. I haven't got time. I...
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  Speaker 4: I want to ask you to do a favor for me. Well, sure, Matt.
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  Speaker 4: What is it?
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  Speaker 5: I want you to take care of a small boy
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  Speaker 5: for me for a couple of days.
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  Speaker 4: A boy?
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  Speaker 6: What is he, a runaway?
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  Speaker 4: No, not exactly, but....
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  Speaker 5: I'd like to have you keep him around the long
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  Speaker 5: branch for a day or two and give him the
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  Speaker 5: run of the place.
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  Speaker 10: Doesn't sound exactly like the best surroundings for a young boy, Matt.
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  Speaker 4: You're going to have to trust my judgment, Kitty. Will
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  Speaker 4: you do it for me? Well... Well, sure. I guess so,
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  Speaker 4: if you want me to. I do want you to.
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  Speaker 4: I'll explain later. Thanks, Kitty. Sure, ma'am. Who is it?
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  Speaker 4: It's Matt Dillon. I'd like to talk to you, Miss Meadows.
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  Speaker 6: Come in, Marshal.
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  Speaker 7: Tad, is it about Tad?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, it is, ma'am. I'm pretty sure we found him.
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  Speaker 4: Where is he?
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  Speaker 6: Is he all right?
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  Speaker 4: He's at Doc Adams' office.
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  Speaker 7: Doc?
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  Speaker 5: He's all right now, Miss Meadows, but he had a
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  Speaker 5: bad beating.
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  Speaker 4: A beating?
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  Speaker 5: I think the killer beat him to keep him quiet.
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  Speaker 5: And it worked because Tad won't talk to anybody.
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  Speaker 7: I'll go get him, Marshal.
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  Speaker 4: I'll fetch him home. Well, that's what I want to
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  Speaker 4: talk to you about, Ms. Meadows. I'd like to keep
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  Speaker 4: the boy in town for a few days.
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  Speaker 7: No, a sick boy belongs in his own home.
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  Speaker 6: I'll go get him right now.
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  Speaker 4: Will you listen to me for a minute, Ms. Meadows?
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  Speaker 5: You've got to understand that as long as this man
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  Speaker 5: is on the loose, neither you or Tad is going
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  Speaker 5: to be safe.
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  Speaker 7: We're not going to get mixed up in that no more, Marshal.
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  Speaker 7: Me and Tad will stay right out here and never
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  Speaker 7: say a word more.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, but if the killer gets worried about you, it
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  Speaker 5: won't matter where you are, especially if he.
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  Speaker 4: Knows that you've been to see me. I shouldn't have come. No,
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  Speaker 4: you did right to come, Miss Meadows.
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  Speaker 5: And if you'll let me keep Tad in town for
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  Speaker 5: a few days, maybe we can get this man. I'm
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  Speaker 5: pretty sure that he's a gambler and he'll be back.
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  Speaker 6: You mean you want Tad to help you?
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  Speaker 5: Well, he won't know anything about it, ma'am. He'll be
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  Speaker 5: perfectly safe, I promise.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, no, Marshal.
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  Speaker 7: You've got no right to.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not talking about rights, ma'am. I'm talking about....
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  Speaker 5: I'm talking about maybe saving your life.
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  Speaker 4: And your boy's life, too.
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  Speaker 6: I want him here at home.
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  Speaker 5: You just let him recognize that gunman for us and
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  Speaker 5: he'll be home, safe and for good.
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  Speaker 6: He's been hurt bad enough already.
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  Speaker 4: He won't be hurt, ma'am.
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  Speaker 5: Now, Chester or I will be watching him every minute.
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  Speaker 5: And as soon as it's over, I'll bring him right home.
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  Speaker 4: Tantor, a good boy. He never had a beating before.
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  Speaker 4: And I want to see that he doesn't ever have
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  Speaker 4: another one.
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  Speaker 10: Now, Tad, there's one thing about playing poker that you
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  Speaker 10: might as well learn right off. It ain't so much
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  Speaker 10: what you've got in your hand as what folks.
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  Speaker 4: Thinks you've got. Don't you understand that? I think so, Mr. Proudfoot.
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  Speaker 10: Some folks just has a face for it, and that's
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  Speaker 10: a fact. Now, you know, lots of folks call me
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  Speaker 10: Poker Face Proudfoot because nobody don't never know what I
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  Speaker 10: got in my hand.
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  Speaker 4: Um, give me one card, please. All right. Now, don't
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  Speaker 4: you let on what you've got. Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 10: Now, that's good. That is good. You ain't letting on
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  Speaker 10: one bit. Now, I'll take one myself.
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  Speaker 4: Ah!
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  Speaker 6: Well, what's the matter? A thing like this wouldn't happen
• 20:44
  Speaker 6: in six months of Sundays. But I thought you weren't
• 20:46
  Speaker 6: supposed to let on. You ain't, you ain't. But you
• 20:49
  Speaker 6: take a hand like this, a six, and a seven,
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: and a nine, and a ten, and then you pull
• 20:53
  Speaker 6: off and draw an eight, and mine are all blue.
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: You getting hungry, Chester?
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: Yeah, no, I can last it on this kid until Mr.
• 21:01
  Speaker 6: Dunn comes back.
• 21:02
  Speaker 7: Oh, he ought to be here pretty soon. He went
• 21:04
  Speaker 7: out to see your mother, Tad.
• 21:05
  Speaker 6: He wanted her to know.
• 21:06
  Speaker 7: That you've been doing just fine these last few days.
• 21:09
  Speaker 6: Oh, yes, I hope she's fine, too.
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: I'd like to go home. Hello, Kitty.
• 21:13
  Speaker 12: Oh, hello, Matt. Mr.
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: Dillon, you know what I just did?
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: Oh, she's fine, Tad.
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: She said to tell you not to worry about anything,
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: and she sent you some clean clothes.
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: Did she say when I could come home? That ought
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: to be soon.
• 21:27
  Speaker 7: Why don't you take those clothes on up to the room, honey?
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: Yes, ma'am.
• 21:30
  Speaker 7: And when you come down, we'll have Sam bring you
• 21:32
  Speaker 7: some supper.
• 21:32
  Speaker 6: Oh, thank you, Kitty.
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: Mr.
• 21:34
  Speaker 6: Dunn, do you know what happened just a minute ago?
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: No.
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: I was drawn to an inside street.
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: What? What is it, boy? Kitty, that's our man. Take
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: the boy upstairs. Yes, sir, ma'am. Come on, honey. What's
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: all the commotion, Marshal? Can't a man walk in here
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: for a drink? We, uh, been waiting for you, mister.
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: The boy, and I... Well, I don't know what you're
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: talking about. I never saw that boy before in my life.
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: You never expected to see.
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: Him again, either. At least not alive. After that beating
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: you gave him.
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: Beating?
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: Now, you listen, Marshal. You listen to me. Here. That
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: boy knows you. And so does his mother. She ain't here.
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: She'll be here in good time. Marshal. You ain't taking me.
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: You better look out, mister.
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: Because I'm not turning my back on you like Rourke did.
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: Oh, you... You got him, Mr. Jones? Yeah. Well, anybody
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: can shoot a man, Chester.
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: It's that boy's mother, what she did, that took real courage. Well,
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: come on, let's take Tad home. I think his mother's
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: waited long enough.
• 23:28
  Speaker 12: Gunsmoke, produced and directed by Norman McDonald, stars William Conrad
• 23:39
  Speaker 12: as Matt Dillon, U.S.
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: Marshal.
• 23:40
  Speaker 12: The story was specially written for Gunsmoke by Marion Clark,
• 23:44
  Speaker 12: with editorial supervision by John Meston.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: Gunsmoke Scared Boy completes this portion of our evening's listening.
• 23:51
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