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Gunsmoke — Crowbait Bob [episode 239], Broadcast 11/10/1956 (Western Radio Drama) · Gunsmoke | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: moved west with young America and the story of a
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  Speaker 1: man who moved with it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall, the first
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  Speaker 2: man they look for and the last they want to meet.
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  Speaker 2: It's a chancy job, and it makes a man watchful
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  Speaker 2: and a little lonely.
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  Speaker 3: They cusn't smile if you make me so mad. I
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  Speaker 3: hope they think about ain't got a look of sense
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  Speaker 3: in his head. Honest, honestly, I swear to goods, mister Dylan.
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  Speaker 3: At times, man's got to choke his word right back
• 2:02
  Speaker 3: down in his.
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  Speaker 2: Crowd, keeping starting up rucas, Oh, what's the trouble.
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  Speaker 4: There's a fellow over.
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  Speaker 5: At the Dodgehouse, a traveling drummer out of Baltimore.
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  Speaker 6: And you know what he said?
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  Speaker 2: No, what he said?
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  Speaker 5: He said, they got a railroad train over there in
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  Speaker 5: England somewhere. It goes one hundred and fifty miles in
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  Speaker 5: three hours flat.
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  Speaker 2: Oh is that so?
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  Speaker 6: He said?
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  Speaker 5: They'll have trains like that here are one of these
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  Speaker 5: days going clean across the country in thirty or forty years.
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  Speaker 5: According to him, a man can get on one in
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  Speaker 5: New York City and get off a week later.
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  Speaker 6: In San Francisco.
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  Speaker 7: You don't say, well, now, you don't believe that, do you,
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  Speaker 7: mister Dillon.
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: I guess we'll just have to wait and see.
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  Speaker 6: Said, I don't believe it.
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  Speaker 5: A human body just ain't built to go that fast.
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  Speaker 5: It get a man's inners all out of white, choke
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  Speaker 5: him to death trying to breathe.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe maybe the Good Lord wanted a man to go
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  Speaker 2: fifty miles an hour, hit a foodwheels on him.
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  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, good.
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  Speaker 2: Money man, Come on in doct.
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  Speaker 6: Oh my, I've just been at delivery stable man.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, what's the matter.
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  Speaker 8: Is Moss sick? No, it's old crow bait Bob Moss.
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  Speaker 8: Grimma's been letting him sleep in the hayloft in return
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  Speaker 8: for help.
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  Speaker 6: Him with the children. Yeah, I heard he has, But
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  Speaker 6: old crow Bait took sick in the night sometime. He
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  Speaker 6: couldn't get up this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Oh what's wrong with him?
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  Speaker 8: Nothing that thirty years off his age wouldn't here and
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  Speaker 8: a thousand so less bottles of rock got whisky out.
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  Speaker 2: If he's sick, we want to get him out of
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  Speaker 2: that hayloft.
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  Speaker 6: But I can't figure any place.
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  Speaker 2: To move him.
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  Speaker 6: He wants to see you, man, right away, see me
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  Speaker 6: what for? Man?
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  Speaker 8: I wouldn't say, but he claims it's mighty important.
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  Speaker 6: It's something he wants to do before he dies.
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  Speaker 2: Before he dies.
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  Speaker 6: I'm just trying to make him comfortable, man, That's all
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  Speaker 6: I can do.
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  Speaker 9: Well, where as I'm concerned, Marshall, you're the only man
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  Speaker 9: dodd City that's worth a hoot and holler except Moss Grimmick.
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  Speaker 4: But for him.
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  Speaker 9: And Marshall, I'm and goldarn layer.
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  Speaker 2: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 9: Oh, there's lots of nice folks here, of course there is,
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  Speaker 9: I reckon. The only ones I'm really talking about is
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  Speaker 9: that high flute niche of mine and that sneaky old
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  Speaker 9: husband hers.
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  Speaker 2: And I was wondering Bob if maybe we ought to
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  Speaker 2: let the ruf on ILP. But no about your being sick, No, sir.
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  Speaker 9: No, no, let him know nothing. Let him sit out
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  Speaker 9: there in the precious ransom rock.
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  Speaker 2: He showed me no care for years. Well, uh, it's
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  Speaker 2: up to you, I guess.
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  Speaker 9: Hey, Marshall, the reason I senter is e cause I
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  Speaker 9: wanna make my wheel like a will.
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  Speaker 4: Oh.
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  Speaker 9: I know, I know I don't seem likely he worth
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  Speaker 9: this old coot like me and have reason to.
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  Speaker 4: But sh it's where you're wrong.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Bob, I'll do whatever I can, you know.
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  Speaker 9: And I only got one thing to leave. And she's here, yes,
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  Speaker 9: and it's right here in this here leather box. Won't
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  Speaker 9: you take care of it from me?
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  Speaker 6: Marshall?
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  Speaker 9: She that ain't open to left him gone.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, Bob, I'll probably be years. And no, no, you
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  Speaker 2: don't know.
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  Speaker 9: Doc's trying to fool me too. But I know where
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  Speaker 9: I staying.
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  Speaker 2: Alright, Bob, I'll take care of it for you. Look, Uh,
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  Speaker 2: Doc's gone after a rig and we're gonna move you
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  Speaker 2: over to the jail. Uh. At least she'll be warm
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  Speaker 2: there and there'll be somebody with you, and I'll uh,
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  Speaker 2: ride up a will of some kind and uh huh
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  Speaker 2: you can sign it.
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  Speaker 9: You have much obliged to your Marshall that their boxes many.
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  Speaker 9: I want to be sure the right.
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  Speaker 4: Party to get you?
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  Speaker 2: Sure? How does it go to man?
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  Speaker 6: He goes to miss Kitty.
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  Speaker 2: Kitty Russell.
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  Speaker 9: Yep, yeah, she's fine, girl, Marshall, just the girl, learned
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  Speaker 9: angel that your she is just the girl, darned angel.
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  Speaker 1: H Free yourself of old fashioned ideas.
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• 8:15
  Speaker 10: I been looking for your mask.
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  Speaker 2: I like kidding you. Ah, how does it feel to
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  Speaker 2: be an heiress?
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  Speaker 4: Oh?
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  Speaker 10: Stop us, That's all I've been here in for the
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  Speaker 10: last three hours. How's the old man mask?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? We got him move over the jail, kidd. He
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  Speaker 2: fixed up his cell for him, and uh chester's staying
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  Speaker 2: there this evening to look after him must be terrible.
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  Speaker 10: Know you're dying be all alone like that with nobody
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  Speaker 10: her own.
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  Speaker 2: I uh I asked him about sending for his niece,
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  Speaker 2: Ruth Gudler and her husband, but uh uh, he was
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  Speaker 2: dead set against that.
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  Speaker 10: And I don't blame him, not the way they treated him.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it seems like they might have done something for him.
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  Speaker 10: They could have found a place for him out there
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  Speaker 10: in the ranch. So he drank too much, maybe had
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  Speaker 10: a reason to drink. Yeah, maybe maybe he is worthless,
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  Speaker 10: but he never meant any harm to anyone.
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  Speaker 2: Ah Crobates, all right, I uh, I didn't know that
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  Speaker 2: you and him were so thick though.
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  Speaker 10: I treated him like a human being.
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  Speaker 4: That's all no.
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  Speaker 2: Good evening, mad Kit allout to die.
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  Speaker 6: Well, Kitty, I hear you're about to inherit a million dollar.
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  Speaker 10: That's foolishness talk, Oh Bob never had two quarters about together.
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  Speaker 6: You never can tell no.
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  Speaker 2: I at least you get it, Kitty, whatever it is.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, I wish he hadn't done it, Matt. I didn't
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  Speaker 10: expect any.
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  Speaker 2: Payment payment for what.
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  Speaker 6: Nothing?
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  Speaker 10: Again, Matt, you mean you didn't know, didn't know what
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  Speaker 10: to keep quiet?
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  Speaker 6: You think crow Bate's been getting his meals alright?
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  Speaker 2: Suppose Mars the delivery stable was feeding him.
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  Speaker 4: Mars has been letting him sleep.
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  Speaker 6: There his home, Doc.
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  Speaker 4: If you know why he's been feeding him for.
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  Speaker 6: The last two years, it is all right.
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  Speaker 10: Whatever they waste enough food here on a long branch
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  Speaker 10: to feed ten men like him didn't cost me anything,
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  Speaker 10: and it was just h come on, let's have a drink.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, how's a gone Chester.
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  Speaker 7: That you're don't we got visitors?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? Oh that adn't known as God learned, Helvin. That
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  Speaker 2: brings your people into town?
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  Speaker 4: You know? Dang well, what brings this, Marshal.
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  Speaker 11: Poor uncle Robert Land back there, sick to his death
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  Speaker 11: maybe and this start saying we can't see it.
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  Speaker 2: Upst Well, I'll just take it easy, Just take it easy,
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  Speaker 2: poor old uncle Robert. Would that be crowbait Bob by
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  Speaker 2: any chance?
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  Speaker 12: Marshall, Now you're insulting a dear relative of my wife.
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  Speaker 11: What a thing to call uncle Robert? Why we had
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  Speaker 11: no idea. He was took down and ailing this way.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I don't suppose you did, since you haven't spoken
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  Speaker 2: to him in the last five years.
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  Speaker 12: So that was just a family misunderstanding, Marshal.
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  Speaker 4: When one's own.
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  Speaker 11: Kin is took bad sick about it, be mighty heartless
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  Speaker 11: if they didn't let by gones be by gone.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 11: Sure, I even brung him some nice chicken broth and
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  Speaker 11: make him an egg custard pie.
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  Speaker 2: That's real thoughtful of you, mus Godda. You must have
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  Speaker 2: heard the rumors about him turning out to be wealthy.
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  Speaker 12: Well we had that head ance. Old girl ain't getting
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  Speaker 12: one cent Marshall. No, sir, we'll take her to call.
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  Speaker 2: Why don't you do that, Alvin, if you know some
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  Speaker 2: way of beating the legal He was out of his mind, doc,
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  Speaker 2: and I'll say different.
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  Speaker 11: We demand to see him right this minute.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry he left orders against him.
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  Speaker 11: Well, then take that food back to him and tell
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  Speaker 11: him who brung it.
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  Speaker 10: That will change his mind.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Chester, sir, take this back to the cell
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  Speaker 2: with him, all right, he's asleep. Well, if he's asleep,
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  Speaker 2: just leave him right.
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  Speaker 4: You be turned, tell him we brung it. Oh, her breath.
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  Speaker 12: Now, Marshall, you know that's a terrible thing, a woman
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  Speaker 12: like that to undermine a man feeling for his own
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  Speaker 12: kid luck Elban.
• 12:42
  Speaker 2: If you want to do something for him, why don't
• 12:44
  Speaker 2: you pay off some of his bills around time?
• 12:47
  Speaker 4: Pay off he's been that's right?
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  Speaker 2: Ten or fifteen dollars to Mosk Grimmick, twenty or so
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  Speaker 2: to Wilbert Jonas at the General Story.
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  Speaker 11: Why don't he pay him hisself if he's wait.
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  Speaker 4: A minute, Ruth.
• 12:58
  Speaker 12: Might just make him up and think twice if we
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  Speaker 12: was to pay him.
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  Speaker 4: Off pa good money on bills that.
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  Speaker 12: With alrighty Marshall, we won't bother you no longer. We'll
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  Speaker 12: be going now then come on rude, good night Marshall.
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  Speaker 2: Mister doing all right? That's wrong Chester.
• 13:31
  Speaker 3: You better find doc in hurry, mister Dolan, that old
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  Speaker 3: man don't look too good.
• 13:57
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• 14:09
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• 14:16
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• 14:18
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• 14:21
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• 14:26
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• 14:26
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• 14:35
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• 14:41
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• 14:44
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• 15:27
  Speaker 7: In a mighty good pie, mister Dylan. Even if missus
• 15:30
  Speaker 7: Guttler did.
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  Speaker 2: Bake it, Yeah, looks real good.
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: Chester makes men feel kind of funny eating it, though, Well,
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: I reckon, Old Kobe wouldn't want to go to ways.
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: No, I don't think you would.
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  Speaker 7: I wonder what is in that box, mister doing.
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: I don't know. We'll find out as soon as Kenny
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  Speaker 2: comes over.
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  Speaker 7: Died in his sleep, dog said peaceful as anything.
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  Speaker 2: Mm hm m.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: If you really ain't gonna eat that last each pie.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't eaten any of it, Chester, Why why don't
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  Speaker 2: you finish you?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, it ortn't to go away?
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  Speaker 2: Started No m oh, oh, kitty kitty, come on in.
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  Speaker 10: Doc told me Matt, I'm real sorry, Yeah, not kiddy,
• 16:26
  Speaker 10: Oh suh. Well, I hope he had a good life
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  Speaker 10: somewhere back along the line. His last year is sure
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  Speaker 10: weren't very happy.
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  Speaker 2: Well, here's a box kitty and that's all yours.
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  Speaker 10: I wish you hadn't done it, man, Why not?
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  Speaker 7: Oh?
• 16:44
  Speaker 10: I don't know. It looks like I did things fun
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  Speaker 10: just cause I expected something. I just felt sorry for him.
• 16:50
  Speaker 6: That's all.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I wouldn't count any chickens ahead of time, or.
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  Speaker 10: You didn't care what's in it.
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  Speaker 4: It's just a marshall. Oh, come on, sho you tricked
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  Speaker 4: that hard cash.
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: Folks acquainted with miss Killy.
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  Speaker 10: Russell here, I know who they are.
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  Speaker 2: Man, How do you figure I tricked you?
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  Speaker 4: How do I well them bills?
• 17:15
  Speaker 13: He is?
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  Speaker 12: I paid out eighty six dollars and forty cents in
• 17:19
  Speaker 12: that old soap before I run into doc found out
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  Speaker 12: he died, and him without even knowing what we've done
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  Speaker 12: for him.
• 17:25
  Speaker 10: You ought to be ashamed of yourselves.
• 17:28
  Speaker 11: Mighty fine talk for you doing his chin out of
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  Speaker 11: what's rightfully there?
• 17:33
  Speaker 10: Oh you bee.
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: I don't go. Why are you all right? So you
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: think I tricked you?
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: Well, you don't think i'd have paid them bills if
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: I note he was that far gone.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: I thought I was giving you a chance to do
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: something decent for once in your lives.
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: We ain't responsible for his debt.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: No, not legging.
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: No, he's gone and died. He left all his wealth
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: to this year.
• 17:57
  Speaker 11: This year woman way, I hear that box full of
• 18:00
  Speaker 11: diamonds and emeralds.
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: Whatever it's full of, it belongs to Kitty. So you
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: may as well forget it for Jetty.
• 18:06
  Speaker 12: When a fortune that's rightfully on is laying right there
• 18:09
  Speaker 12: on that table and a bottle slip through our fingers,
• 18:12
  Speaker 12: you get your heads up, Marshall, you too, Chester, Helvin.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: That was a real foolish move you just made, you know,
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: you hand over the gun.
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: Stay back, Marshall.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: I'll shoot Helvin, I said, hand.
• 18:28
  Speaker 12: Over, Marshall, so help me if you you hit Helvin?
• 18:36
  Speaker 10: All right?
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: Dragging him back and melock him up Chesterice, Yes.
• 18:39
  Speaker 6: All right, come on, you're locking.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: Up Helbn assault with a deadly weapon. Judge Bundle figure
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: it's worth about one hundred dollars in good hard cash,
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: Missguler and courts at ten in the morning, if you
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: want to be.
• 18:52
  Speaker 6: There, what'll I do tonight?
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: Why don't you get yourself a room over at the
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: Dodge House and meditate on your sins? Marcy good night?
• 18:59
  Speaker 13: Miss oh well, now, I suppose, uh, you wanna take
• 19:13
  Speaker 13: a look at your diamonds and emeralds.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: Aren't kidding? Mm?
• 19:17
  Speaker 10: Can't we just burn it? Matt? Not even open it?
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: Uh?
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: Crow Bait wouldn't wanted you to do that.
• 19:23
  Speaker 10: Yeah, well, I know.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: Anyhow, you got too much curiosity to do something like that,
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: and you know it, well you win, Matt. Okay, let's
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: see now. Yeah, I guess if we break the seal
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  Speaker 2: on the catch it tirely.
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  Speaker 4: Go.
• 19:42
  Speaker 10: Matt, it's full of bank notes.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Confederate bank notes. Kidding.
• 19:51
  Speaker 10: Well, what do you know? You suppose you thought they
• 19:54
  Speaker 10: might fight the war over again some day, Mat?
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe I'll wait a minute or something underneath?
• 19:59
  Speaker 10: H Oh, what does it meant?
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: It's an Army Medal Bravery in Action Field Citation awarded
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: the Lieutenant Robert Danford Conroy. That was his name, conspicuous
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: heroism during the storming of You Pulled a Peck Heights
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: September thirteenth, eighteen forty seven, signed him the Winfield Scott,
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  Speaker 2: Commander in Chief, United States Expeditionary Forces in Mexico.
• 20:27
  Speaker 10: H here's a silver dollar matter.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: Uh huh, well, at least that's worth something.
• 20:35
  Speaker 10: Oh what it's a ribbon silk hairball. I do a
• 20:40
  Speaker 10: curl lock her hair, Matt. I wonder who she was.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: However, it was a long time ago.
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  Speaker 10: Medal, A curl dollar, a box full of worthless paper.
• 20:57
  Speaker 10: Story of a man's life matter, and.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: There have been worse stories.
• 21:06
  Speaker 10: I'll keep the curl and the metal. You know something,
• 21:13
  Speaker 10: We'll spend the dollar on a drink.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: All right, Kitty, I think I got to please him.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: Come on.
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  Speaker 1: In a moment, our Star William Conrad. Every year in America,
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  Speaker 1: property losses through fire amount to around eight hundred million dollars,
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  Speaker 1: Gun Smoke, Produced and directed by Norman McDonald, stars William
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