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Gunsmoke - "The Surgery" (Old Time Radio, 1958) · Gunsmoke | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: Doc Adams believes Lucy Middleton needs an operation without delay,
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  Speaker 1: but her husband, Aaron, refuses to permit it. That conflict
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  Speaker 1: between a doctor's judgment and a frightened husband brings us
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  Speaker 1: to Gunsmoke. The Surgery episode three hundred seven, first heard
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  Speaker 1: on CBS February twenty third, nineteen fifty eight. William Conrad
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  Speaker 1: heads a cast that includes Parley Bear, Howard mcneer, Georgia Ellis,
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  Speaker 1: and John Denner. Marion Clark wrote the script, with Norman
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  Speaker 1: MacDonald directing and producing. Rex Cory supplies the music for
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  Speaker 1: the program, with Tom Hanley and Bill James credited for
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  Speaker 1: sound effects. In Dodge City, Lucy's welfare stands at the
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  Speaker 1: center of a grave decision. Now back to the golden
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  Speaker 1: age of radio.
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  Speaker 2: Around Dodge City and in the territory on West, there
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  Speaker 2: is just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
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  Speaker 2: And that's where the US Marshal and the smell of
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  Speaker 2: gun smoke. Gun Will Smoke, starring William Conrad, The story
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  Speaker 2: of the violence that moved west with the young America
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  Speaker 2: and the story of a man who moved with it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm that man. Matt dyllon United States Marshall, the first
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  Speaker 3: man they look for and the less they want to meet.
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  Speaker 3: It's a chancy job and it makes a man watchful
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  Speaker 3: and a little lonely.
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  Speaker 4: How is she duck? What's gonna be all right?
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  Speaker 5: As your wife is a sick woman? Eron, very sick woman?
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  Speaker 4: Don't seem hardly right. Lucy always been strong, she don't
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  Speaker 4: get sick.
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  Speaker 5: But she's sick now. Whatever have you been giving her?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, giving her pot herb tea strong, real strong.
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  Speaker 5: All cured us up before, and that's not going to
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  Speaker 5: cure an how powering all that stuff down hair has
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  Speaker 5: nearly killed her. You fix her up, Doc, you're trading
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  Speaker 5: the idea too before we'll know anything, before I can.
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  Speaker 4: Even do anything.
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  Speaker 5: What do you mean she's two weak after all that
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  Speaker 5: stuff that you've been being her to stand in operation,
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  Speaker 5: I'll have to go to a ration and there's just
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  Speaker 5: a chance that it'll save her. That something's got to
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  Speaker 5: relieve that pressure. You won't taken knife to loose. It's
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  Speaker 5: the only thing I know to do it. It may
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  Speaker 5: not work. I can't promise you the world, but she'll
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  Speaker 5: die sure.
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  Speaker 6: No, no, no, you ain't gonna take no knife to
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  Speaker 6: Lucy Doc, No, she ain't that sick.
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  Speaker 5: I tell you, if you go on feeding in those herbs,
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  Speaker 5: she'll die.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you cut indoors, she'll die. Sure. No, Doc, get
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  Speaker 4: away from the door.
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  Speaker 6: Doc, I'm going in there and I'll take care of you.
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  Speaker 7: Listen, your wife's got one chance.
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  Speaker 5: It isn't a very good chance, but she's got one,
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  Speaker 5: and I'm not gonna let you take it away from her.
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  Speaker 7: If I have to keep you out of there with a.
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  Speaker 4: Gun, Doc, you got no right.
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  Speaker 7: I've got no right to let her die either.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to send for the Marshall. He'll stop you.
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  Speaker 5: That's a good idea. That's a very good idea.
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  Speaker 7: Jed, Jed, Yeah, come in here, is it?
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  Speaker 4: Ma?
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  Speaker 5: No, son, your mother's all right so far?
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  Speaker 7: What's Doc got the gun for?
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  Speaker 4: Oh? You won't let me go in there with your ma?
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  Speaker 4: He wants to take a knife to her.
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  Speaker 7: A knife.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not here to hurt anybody. Boy. I just want
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  Speaker 5: to try to save your mother's life.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 5: I want you to go into town and bring back
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  Speaker 5: the Marshall. The Marshall, and that's what I said. Somebody's
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  Speaker 5: got a subtlest thing.
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  Speaker 4: Paul. There, you go on, bring the Marshall.
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  Speaker 5: Jet lord, protect a man's rights.
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  Speaker 7: But what will happen to mam?
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  Speaker 5: Go along, boy, go on now, nothing will happen to
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  Speaker 5: your mom.
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  Speaker 6: Nothing gonna happen to her, now that's a fact. Go on, Jed,
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  Speaker 6: you get the marshal out. It only didn't waste no time.
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  Speaker 6: If you say so, I say so. Go on now,
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  Speaker 6: I'll take care of your more. I aim to take
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  Speaker 6: care of her.
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  Speaker 3: Gun or no gun.
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  Speaker 7: You can let your horses here, I'll take care of them.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks for.
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  Speaker 8: All right, Come on, Chester, I'm glad you're here. Mat
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  Speaker 8: about dark I want you to tell you he's going
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  Speaker 8: to lift his wife one at a time.
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  Speaker 7: Well he got no right a question.
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  Speaker 3: Now you want me to straighten this thing?
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  Speaker 8: I was sure I do.
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  Speaker 3: I can't do it with both of you talking at once.
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  Speaker 3: You going out on the porch with Chester while I
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  Speaker 3: talked to Doc. I'll call you in in a few minutes.
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  Speaker 3: Well no, I'm not going I gotta get a few
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  Speaker 3: things straight. You go with him Chester?
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  Speaker 5: All right, come on here, Doc, what's this all about?
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  Speaker 3: What are you doing holding a gun on a man
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  Speaker 3: in his own house?
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  Speaker 5: I guess it looks crazy, mad, but it was the
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  Speaker 5: only thing I could think of.
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  Speaker 3: He threatened here.
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  Speaker 5: He threatened the life of.
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  Speaker 7: That woman in there.
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  Speaker 5: His wife's got to have care, Mad, whether Airon agrees
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  Speaker 5: to it or not. It's this business about a knife,
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  Speaker 5: and I've got to operate matter. There's something inside. They're
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  Speaker 5: causing a terrible pressure, but it isn't relieved.
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  Speaker 4: It'll killer.
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  Speaker 3: Have you done this before? Are you sure the chickens savor?
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  Speaker 4: No, man, I'm not.
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  Speaker 5: I haven't done him before either, but I've wrote about it,
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  Speaker 5: and I can tell you this. She's got no chance
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  Speaker 5: at all if I don't try it now, That's all
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  Speaker 5: I'm sure of.
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  Speaker 3: It's pretty chancey. And the husband refus on his permission.
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  Speaker 5: And maybe so i'd rather have his permission, of course.
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  Speaker 5: I'd like to have you with me, too, Mad, But
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  Speaker 5: I'll tell you I'll find some way to do this.
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  Speaker 5: Do you stand behind me enough? I can't let that
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  Speaker 5: woman die because of a lot of fear and superstition.
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  Speaker 3: Doctor, I don't know. Can she talk?
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  Speaker 4: Is she conscious?
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  Speaker 5: She's just barely like?
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  Speaker 3: Can I see her for a minute?
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  Speaker 5: I guess it was only a minute ago, all right,
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  Speaker 5: Missus Middleton, Lucy, Missus Marshall Gibbon.
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  Speaker 3: He wants to see her for a minute. Marsh I
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  Speaker 3: want to ask you. You know what's going on here.
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  Speaker 3: You know what Doc wants to do. You know your
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  Speaker 3: husband's against it.
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  Speaker 4: I know.
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  Speaker 3: Well, can you tell me? Do you want doctor go ahead?
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  Speaker 1: Yes?
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  Speaker 4: Marshall?
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  Speaker 3: Are you sure about that?
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  Speaker 7: Yes?
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  Speaker 4: Anythings better than this?
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  Speaker 5: I can't stand It's all right, Lucy, don't you worry?
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  Speaker 4: Come on, man, that's it?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, well man, I sure hope you're right, Doug.
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  Speaker 4: How can I help? Well?
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  Speaker 5: I want you to get her into my office. You
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  Speaker 5: can help me for that?
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  Speaker 3: Or is not going to make things even worse carrying
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  Speaker 3: her out of here away from her husband.
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  Speaker 5: I can't help that. I got to build her up
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  Speaker 5: for a couple of days. If I leave her here,
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  Speaker 5: and I'll go right on pulling that witch's brew into her.
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  Speaker 5: She can't stand again any weaker hair?
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  Speaker 3: All right?
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  Speaker 4: I got chested to hitch up a wagon.
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  Speaker 3: And I'll tell eron.
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  Speaker 9: Thanks, Matt, Well, Marshall, gonna clear him out of here.
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  Speaker 3: No, Aeron, I'm not. You're needs help, and Doc's the
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  Speaker 3: only man to give it to her, and I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to take his word for it. You've got no, right,
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  Speaker 3: I'm taking the right erin. Doc says he's got to
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  Speaker 3: take care of her in his office for a couple
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  Speaker 3: of days. You can't take her away, Yes he can, Aaron,
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  Speaker 3: And I'll tell you how it's going to be. You
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  Speaker 3: can stay right here calling us all names, or you
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  Speaker 3: can come along and help us move. And now that's
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  Speaker 3: up to you.
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  Speaker 5: Lucy needed any care, you know, I'll do the carrying,
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  Speaker 5: all right, Come.
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  Speaker 3: On, Chester, let's get a wagon.
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  Speaker 4: Another drink? Sam for me?
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  Speaker 5: Nor one?
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  Speaker 4: You sure? Eron?
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure I.
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  Speaker 9: Never saw you take more than one two drinks.
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  Speaker 4: I got laws to drink.
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  Speaker 10: Now you just gone for you're the boss, you got
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  Speaker 10: cause to drink. I'm the man to drink with you.
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  Speaker 10: That's good, mister, And ought to have somebody drink when
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  Speaker 10: all you then it's it's all right if Sam boors me.
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  Speaker 4: Want to bore him?
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  Speaker 11: One said, all right, you sound like.
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  Speaker 10: You've got big druggle, mister. I'm always ready to listen
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  Speaker 10: to a man's troubles when he's buying my drinks. I
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  Speaker 10: won't even let me see her my wife, Lucy keeping
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  Speaker 10: a man from his wife, Yeah, that ain't right, No,
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  Speaker 10: it ain't mister, it sure ain't.
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  Speaker 5: And what I say ain't right.
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  Speaker 10: The way they got her, got her up the docks
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  Speaker 10: for two days. I can't even see her.
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  Speaker 4: Why that a terrible thing.
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  Speaker 10: That's a terrible thing. Or say my my glasses in, Sam,
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  Speaker 10: fill him up, Sam, all right, it's a terrible thing.
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  Speaker 4: It's one of you, is all right? Oh shoe.
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  Speaker 10: And tomorrow, tomorrow Duck's gonna cut into.
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  Speaker 4: Her, cut into her. Are you gonna let him do that?
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  Speaker 4: Well to your wound?
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  Speaker 10: No, no, I ain't.
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  Speaker 4: I ain't gonna let any Butcher and Duc do.
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  Speaker 5: We can go right up there and get her away.
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  Speaker 10: That's what he's got.
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  Speaker 4: We got plenty of help around here. And you just
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  Speaker 4: buy these boys a drink. You got plenty of help, hey,
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  Speaker 4: you fellows there, hey, not down the end of the bar.
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  Speaker 9: There, this stands buying.
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  Speaker 4: Right on by by.
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  Speaker 9: Come on saying.
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  Speaker 3: You down.
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  Speaker 8: Listen, Doc, Doc has gotten this man's wife locked up
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  Speaker 8: in his office.
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  Speaker 7: We're gonna stand for that war. Well, come on here,
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  Speaker 7: come on.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, I'll buy more drinks after, but right now we're
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  Speaker 10: gonna get my Lucy away from that butcher.
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  Speaker 3: In doctor, right, hey, doc, hold.
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  Speaker 4: On there, eran let's your hurry. We're gonna take Lucy
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  Speaker 4: away from that butcher, and you.
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  Speaker 3: Just stand back there. You gotta leave Lucy alone. Doc's
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  Speaker 3: the only chance she's got.
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  Speaker 10: Gonna get that butcher, and Doc and all these men
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  Speaker 10: gonna help me, they say, go and get Doc.
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  Speaker 4: Now you standing out of the way, more knocked like it?
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  Speaker 4: Look at pick him up? Sam?
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  Speaker 7: All right?
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  Speaker 10: Yes, it figured you'd be siding with dog.
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  Speaker 3: Are you listening to me?
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  Speaker 8: All of you?
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  Speaker 3: There's some excuse for Aaron acting the way he did.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry I had to hit him. But the rest
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  Speaker 3: of you standing around here working him.
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  Speaker 4: Up to Doc's got no call. I'm gonna tell you something.
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  Speaker 3: There's not one of you that has the right to
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  Speaker 3: say anything about Doc anyway. From Sunday, you'll get some
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  Speaker 3: rotten whiskey Brennan and your bellies, and you're ready to
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  Speaker 3: take off like a pack of coyotes on the best
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  Speaker 3: man in this town. He's been patching you up and
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  Speaker 3: saving your skins, drunken, sober, for money or for free
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  Speaker 3: of us since you can remember the first time you
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  Speaker 3: get a chancher howling at his heels. How you listening
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  Speaker 3: to me?
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  Speaker 5: Good?
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  Speaker 3: Any one of you makes another move, I'll sell it
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  Speaker 3: with my gun, not my fists. Go on, get out
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  Speaker 3: of here, all of you.
• 14:06
  Speaker 4: That was quite a speech, Matt.
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  Speaker 12: Do you want to have a beer and Simon down?
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  Speaker 4: Oh?
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  Speaker 5: Thanks?
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  Speaker 3: Kidding?
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  Speaker 4: I better get up to Ducks just in case.
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  Speaker 5: Matt.
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  Speaker 12: Are you sure Doc's right about all this? You sure
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  Speaker 12: it is the right thing to do?
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  Speaker 3: Kidding? I'm not sure, but man's got to take his stand,
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  Speaker 3: and I've got a back Doc.
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  Speaker 12: I sure hope it proves out.
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  Speaker 5: I guess we'll know tomorrow.
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  Speaker 3: We'll know tomorrow.
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  Speaker 11: If you're doing when you spoon going on up in
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  Speaker 11: Doc's office. We've been sitting on these steps here a
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  Speaker 11: long time.
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  Speaker 3: You can't do things like this in a her age, Chester.
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  Speaker 11: I reckon. Now awful hot out here in the suno.
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  Speaker 3: Ain't it not as hot as it feels up in
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  Speaker 3: the Dark's office?
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  Speaker 11: Yes, sure, right, mister John. How come miss kiddies up
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  Speaker 11: there helping Doc? I mean, wouldn't there be some neighbor lady?
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  Speaker 3: Now Chester, there wouldn't be the neighbor of ladies don't
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  Speaker 3: approve of the operation, or at least their husbands don't.
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  Speaker 8: It?
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  Speaker 11: Sure does beat af You notice are in there waiting
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  Speaker 11: across the street.
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  Speaker 3: I see him.
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  Speaker 11: He took his eyes off, Doc. When you're all morning
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  Speaker 11: with you? If it was your wife or no, well,
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  Speaker 11: well of course not I would.
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  Speaker 9: It's over that.
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  Speaker 12: Doc's finished.
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  Speaker 4: Lucy. What happened to Lucy?
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  Speaker 12: She's alive, an That's all I can tell you. You
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  Speaker 12: don't have to wait for Doc.
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  Speaker 4: He said, to be out, Kitty.
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  Speaker 9: You look all on and yeah, sure I am.
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  Speaker 4: What is she going to pull through? Lucy?
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  Speaker 7: She's gonna pull through.
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  Speaker 4: I understand.
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  Speaker 12: I'm telling you if I know, you just have to
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  Speaker 12: wait for Doc.
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  Speaker 11: Could I get you something, miss Kitty? Some coffee or
• 16:21
  Speaker 11: a drink? Maybe?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 12: Thanks, just I'll just go along now. Erro'll fix me up.
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  Speaker 11: Oh miss Kitty, Oh Doc, Doc, Doc?
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  Speaker 4: How is she?
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  Speaker 5: She's soon's terri for sure? But I think she came
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  Speaker 5: through very well. She's got a lot of quote.
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  Speaker 4: Is she going to make it? Doc? Is she going
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  Speaker 4: to get well?
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  Speaker 5: I think she is here with time, a lot of time. Yes,
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  Speaker 5: I think she's got a good chance.
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  Speaker 4: Can I see her now just for a minute.
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  Speaker 5: And don't expect too much. She's been through a lot,
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  Speaker 5: and don't talk to her. Just just stand by.
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  Speaker 4: There and here horrid.
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  Speaker 6: Oh say, Doc, yes, sir doctor, I wasn't no help
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  Speaker 6: to you.
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  Speaker 4: I guess, doc.
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  Speaker 5: I was afraid.
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  Speaker 4: I know.
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  Speaker 5: Fear does terrible things to a man.
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  Speaker 4: But now I want to think, Oh it's all.
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  Speaker 5: Right, and you're going up there, and you get up
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  Speaker 5: there and see all right here, Doc saiddafact you could
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  Speaker 5: use some doctor in herself. Yeh, yes. It was a
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  Speaker 5: hard thing, man, It's a very hard thing. Except for
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: kidding you didn't that much help you, not much, just
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: you and Chester. And I think.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody was making it easy for you, that's for certain.
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  Speaker 5: Most of them didn't know anybody. That's no help.
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  Speaker 4: No, it isn't.
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  Speaker 5: And I just wish we had some kind of operation
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  Speaker 5: that would take care of it.
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  Speaker 3: What do you mean, doctor, I mean some kind.
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  Speaker 5: Of an operation that would cut out the fear and
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  Speaker 5: the ignorance and the superstition, so that the doctor wouldn't
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  Speaker 5: be fighting two battles whenever he tries to save a life.
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  Speaker 3: There had to be some knife that cut all that
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  Speaker 3: out of a person.
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  Speaker 5: Yess, man, it would sure would, but it's one knife
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  Speaker 5: for that. I wouldn't mind using.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Gunsmoke.
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  Speaker 8: We're used and directed by Norman McDonald, stars William Conrad
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  Speaker 8: as Matt Dylan u s Backsho.
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  Speaker 2: Featured in the cast.
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  Speaker 8: Were part Bear as Chester, Harry mcnehir as Doc, and
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  Speaker 8: Georgia Alis as Kidding.
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  Speaker 1: We close with gun Smoke episode three hundred and seven,
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