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Gunsmoke — Kitty Caught [episode 276], Broadcast 7/21/1957 (Western Radio Drama) · Gunsmoke | Old Time Radio

• 0:13
  Speaker 1: Around Dodge City and in the territory on West, there
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: is just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: And that's where the US Marshal and The Smell of
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: Guns Smoke go, starring William Conrad. The story of the
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: violence that moved west with young America and the story
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: of a 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.
• 0:57
  Speaker 3: Want to meet.
• 0:59
  Speaker 2: It's a chance up and it makes a man watchful
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  Speaker 2: and a little lonely.
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  Speaker 3: Oh ma, anybody here this morning?
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  Speaker 1: All right?
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  Speaker 3: Man? The girls grow tall in Kansas. Let me see.
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  Speaker 4: Cool, mandous, abusive, the girls grow tall.
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  Speaker 3: He came. That's a poor way to start today.
• 1:51
  Speaker 5: And what's the poor start today?
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  Speaker 3: Man? Getting up in the morning, And.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not going to talk to you.
• 1:56
  Speaker 5: Where's chest I'd rather talk to him now?
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  Speaker 3: There's you back? Anytime he's due back. When they took
• 2:01
  Speaker 3: a prisoner over to witch you talk a couple of days, Oh,
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  Speaker 3: dog got it.
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  Speaker 5: If I'd have known that, I'd have gone with him.
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  Speaker 3: Oh what for?
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  Speaker 5: Oh just to get out of Dodge for a while.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you've been out of Dodge for the last two days.
• 2:11
  Speaker 1: Oh, yes, delivering a baby and am dougout isn't exactly
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  Speaker 1: what I was.
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  Speaker 3: Thinking about, man, I know what you were thinking about it.
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  Speaker 5: You're how was witchitadge?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, a big town, Doc, real big. But it wasn't
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  Speaker 3: there long. The Santa Fego and East got there at noon.
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  Speaker 3: The next one coming back here left at two o'clock.
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  Speaker 3: You could have stayed another day, Yes, why didn't you?
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  Speaker 5: How often does a man get a chance to handle it?
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  Speaker 3: Fun? Well, I what have But the shrift there had
• 2:40
  Speaker 3: some news. You wanted me to tell them what you're doing?
• 2:43
  Speaker 3: Some news? Yeah, it's about the cart brothers, And the
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  Speaker 3: sheriff said he heard they had headed this way.
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  Speaker 2: I don't even know the cart brothers are in Kansas.
• 2:49
  Speaker 2: I thought they worked a Dakotas.
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  Speaker 3: Territory bank robbers, aren't they, man, So I've heard Doc,
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  Speaker 3: But nobody's caught him at it yet. Well, we'll catch
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  Speaker 3: them if they come to Dodge.
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  Speaker 2: That maybe they could be here right now, I'll come.
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  Speaker 2: The sheriff didn't send me a telegram. Chester had been
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  Speaker 2: a little faster.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I don't know, I biding. I didn't think you're asking.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to go out of the bank. I'll be
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  Speaker 2: back directly. I'm a hello man, you're up early this morning.
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  Speaker 5: I went to bed early last night.
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  Speaker 6: Oh where you had it, Dermonica? I heard they got
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  Speaker 6: some fresh eggs and spoil.
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  Speaker 3: But I'll go with you if you like, as I
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  Speaker 3: can find miss Well.
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  Speaker 2: I got to see mister Bodkin at the bank here
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  Speaker 2: first over. Why don't you go on ahead now join?
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  Speaker 3: Ye Oh? How long will you be just a couple
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  Speaker 3: of minutes.
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  Speaker 6: I'll wait in the bank for you, okay, But if
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  Speaker 6: you're longer. In a couple of minutes, you can find
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  Speaker 6: me at the restaurant. I'm feeling pretty healthy this morning.
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  Speaker 3: You want to go to bed early every night?
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  Speaker 6: If I did, I couldn't afford breakfast.
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  Speaker 3: The place is deserted.
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  Speaker 6: You must be the only people up in the dodge
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  Speaker 6: except for the cashier. Maybe you ought to wait till
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  Speaker 6: after breakfast.
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  Speaker 2: Man, No, kiddy, I'm afraid this business has waited too
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  Speaker 2: long as it is. Well, Marshall Dillon, come in, come
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  Speaker 2: in morning, mister Buckin, you come to deposit money.
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  Speaker 3: Marshall and the bars.
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  Speaker 2: On neither I came to protect it. What mister Barcans,
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  Speaker 2: you ever hear of the car brothers?
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  Speaker 3: No, Marshal, let I don't believe I have. I have
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  Speaker 3: never been around Dodge.
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  Speaker 2: All I know is that their brothers, and the older
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  Speaker 2: one's name is Joe.
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  Speaker 3: Why are you telling me this, Marshall?
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  Speaker 2: But I've heard they're headed for Dodge, and I've also
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  Speaker 2: heard that they're bank robbers.
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  Speaker 3: Bank robbers. Yeah, well, what are you planning to do? Well?
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  Speaker 2: I can't hire deput is until after a crime has
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  Speaker 2: been committed, mister Blackin. But Field like to it might
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  Speaker 2: be a good Idea'll let a half a dozen, let.
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  Speaker 3: Them loaf around here for a while. Certainly, certainly, Marshall,
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  Speaker 3: I don't mind a little expense. What's that?
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  Speaker 4: That's them?
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  Speaker 3: Now? Where's my gun? Don't shoot? We kill a woman.
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  Speaker 3: We're not shooting.
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  Speaker 2: Get killed the cashier and get.
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  Speaker 3: Around there and start filling that stack. Okay, all right,
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  Speaker 3: lady you walking from either one of you, try something,
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  Speaker 3: she dies. He's coming this way, Marshall shooting.
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  Speaker 2: There'll be a fool kiddies on the way. And besides, he's.
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  Speaker 3: Got a gun in her back. They're rubbing my bank.
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  Speaker 3: He was shut up.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, Yeah, Well, I'll be I caught the marshal itself,
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  Speaker 7: or I will as soon as I get his gun.
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  Speaker 3: Don't move, No, I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: It is the first time I ever disarmed a low man.
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  Speaker 3: It feels good. Joe Carp, how do you know my name?
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  Speaker 3: And I heard you were ahead of this way, Carp.
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  Speaker 3: But I didn't hurt the time. You sure didn't, Marshall,
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  Speaker 3: that's your brother. You came in with a difference to
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  Speaker 3: make you look.
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  Speaker 2: Take your money, Carp. Take it and I'll ride out
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  Speaker 2: with it. Nobody will bother you.
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  Speaker 4: No man, Shut up, Kitty.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I see.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody will shoot at you if I'm alone.
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  Speaker 3: Not while we're in dodge, maybe, but we'd be followed.
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  Speaker 2: I doesn't take me with it as far as you're like, no, no, Marshall,
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  Speaker 2: we'd be followed anyway.
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  Speaker 3: I got a better idea. We're taking her, Kitty. Don't
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  Speaker 3: do it. Of course, I'll do it. The first sign
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  Speaker 3: I see we're being chased.
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  Speaker 7: Whoever it is gonna find Kitty laying right in the trail,
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  Speaker 7: fresh killed. And if you don't think I'll do it,
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  Speaker 7: I'll tell you something. First person I ever killed was
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  Speaker 7: a woman, So don't let nobody follow us. Nobody ELSEO
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  Speaker 7: follow you.
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  Speaker 3: I promise you that I hate to lose that your
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  Speaker 3: pretty girl, Matt. It's all right, sure, Joe.
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  Speaker 7: Let's get you going that office and sit down, Marshall.
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  Speaker 7: Hank's got the money ready and we're leaving.
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  Speaker 3: So on, Kitty, so.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, Marshall. If I if I do shoot Kitty, I
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  Speaker 7: promise you one.
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  Speaker 3: Thing, what I'll do it with your gun? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: What Chester?
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  Speaker 3: You reckon? You'll give her any break? I don't know. Chester.
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  Speaker 3: People don't need much food. Chester. They can go for
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  Speaker 3: days without an it all. I know that, Doc. But well,
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  Speaker 3: miss Kiddy just being used to its water people need,
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  Speaker 3: and they'll have water. They will pitt any with them.
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  Speaker 3: Mighty dry out on the prairie this time. Yeh, it's
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  Speaker 3: not that dry any food and fine water. So we're like,
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure it can. If you Paller of the Buffalo
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  Speaker 3: heard long enough, we maybe those other way. It's just like,
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  Speaker 3: what do you ever hear of a divining run? Oh?
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  Speaker 8: What's outlaw doing with divine I wasn't talking about outlaws.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I wasn't talking.
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  Speaker 3: Chester. Yes, sir, I guess we went it long enough.
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  Speaker 2: They must be covered three or four miles, went on, Yes, sir, everything.
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  Speaker 3: Already, everything I can think of, mister, that's got going.
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  Speaker 2: Good luck, mat O, Thanks Doug, keep an eye on things,
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  Speaker 2: and maybe a long time before we get back. From
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  Speaker 2: the bank window, I'd watched the Carp brothers ride north
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  Speaker 2: out of Dodge, so Chester and I started in the
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  Speaker 2: same direction and on the other side of the Arkansas.
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  Speaker 2: We picked up their trail and followed it easily all morning,
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  Speaker 2: but we were careful to stay far behind him and
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  Speaker 2: out of sight, although we probably could have run him
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  Speaker 2: down in a few hours. That was the hardest part
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  Speaker 2: of it, forcing ourselves to hold back and go slows.
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  Speaker 3: You doing you think carp would really do it? Do
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  Speaker 3: what I said? You know? Do you? Yeah? Oh?
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  Speaker 4: Chester?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? Look up ahead there on the ground. What's she doing?
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  Speaker 3: Sehot it? It's a man? What you doing? Must be
• 9:58
  Speaker 3: some cowboy's been shot. Bring your water bag? Yes, he
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  Speaker 3: was still breathing. Yeah, let me have it. If you
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  Speaker 3: want to drink.
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  Speaker 2: You're thirsty, drink some more water here? Yeah. Oh, are
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  Speaker 2: you a Marshall dullon from a dodge? Tell me what happened?
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  Speaker 4: Marshall? You know it's right right? Two men. That girl.
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  Speaker 4: Oh oh, my head up?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Is that better?
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  Speaker 9: Smell of blood? Marsh there? I mean bad? Yeah, my knees.
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  Speaker 3: Blame or what happened.
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  Speaker 9: Them? Them two men marshalled did after the mid I'm
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  Speaker 9: after him. I seen him in the road up and
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  Speaker 9: then I asked him who they was and they didn't
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  Speaker 9: like that. No, and if something was wrong the girl
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  Speaker 9: and all, But I ain't no gunman. They shot me
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  Speaker 9: right out of the side them, both of them, the
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  Speaker 9: ones we got them blame. That's when they helped.
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  Speaker 4: It don't matter now. But that girl shouldn't be with him.
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  Speaker 3: Could you hear them?
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  Speaker 2: Do they say anything.
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  Speaker 4: Something about the cabin? The cabin?
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  Speaker 2: Look, blame my partner here at Chester. He will stay
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  Speaker 2: with you, sure I will. I'll take care of you.
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  Speaker 2: Blame that thing'll do no good. You better go help
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  Speaker 2: catch him.
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  Speaker 3: I'll handle him.
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  Speaker 2: Take whatever you want off my saddle, Chester, and get
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  Speaker 2: a fire going here.
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  Speaker 3: You're gonna be fine. So on.
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  Speaker 2: I rode ahead, tracking slowly for a couple of hours,
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  Speaker 2: and then Chester caught up with me. He looked at
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  Speaker 2: me for a moment, and then, without saying a word,
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  Speaker 2: we continued on the trail across the prairie. We traveled
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  Speaker 2: in silence until dark, and then we saw a cabin.
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't chance going up to it, so we unseddled
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  Speaker 2: and turned our horses loose and crept into a little
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  Speaker 2: draw about one hundred yards away and got down and waited,
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  Speaker 2: and we waited all night. Dawn came and there's something
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  Speaker 2: hot as.
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  Speaker 3: Ever ain and never coming out of that cabin is dealing.
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  Speaker 4: Sooner or later.
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  Speaker 2: Chester.
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  Speaker 3: Look, they go to park going now smoke coming out
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  Speaker 3: of the chimney breakfast. I am so.
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  Speaker 2: Hungry, I I mac, I got along with up the food.
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  Speaker 2: Chester Like Doc said.
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  Speaker 3: Well, at least miss kiddies can get some beat. Yeah,
• 13:33
  Speaker 3: mister doing. What in the world are we gonna do
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  Speaker 3: right now?
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  Speaker 2: There's nothing we can do but sit here and wait
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  Speaker 2: and keep quiet. You know what'll happen if they find
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  Speaker 2: out we're out here.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I ain't thinking about it. You better get
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  Speaker 3: back down.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, I'll stay up here where I can watch ye
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  Speaker 2: taken see you as you do.
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  Speaker 3: Know.
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  Speaker 2: I got a little bunch of buffalo grass in front
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  Speaker 2: of me, and so the you s s bring is
• 13:57
  Speaker 2: getting hot. Just be sure and keep your voice low.
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  Speaker 3: I well ain't if it wasn't for sea him in
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  Speaker 3: the cabin, he'd be awful, peaceful out here, wouldn't it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 14:07
  Speaker 3: I would, mister Jane, Why rattle sneak? Mm? She's behind
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  Speaker 3: you on top of the hole, about five foot back
• 14:16
  Speaker 3: of your head, Chester, and whatever you do it, don't move.
• 14:22
  Speaker 2: He's a pretty big one, maybe three and a half
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  Speaker 2: four foot I look, how far are you from him?
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  Speaker 3: M far enough? Unless hee on coils moves?
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  Speaker 4: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: Alright, just keep very still. He may go away.
• 14:37
  Speaker 3: See you ain't about to go away. You just move
• 14:40
  Speaker 3: a man just a little. Well, don't do it again,
• 14:44
  Speaker 3: mister done. He's stretching out. He's moving.
• 14:46
  Speaker 4: Why which way toward you?
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: Study?
• 14:50
  Speaker 6: Uh?
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  Speaker 3: She stopped? He's coiling again, Chester.
• 14:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: If that snake strikes at me, don't yell. They'll hear
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: you at the Kevin. Just start thinking about it now.
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: If he strikes you, close your eyes and stop breathing.
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: You hear me, We'll try shoe. Well you do it?
• 15:14
  Speaker 4: You understand, yes?
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  Speaker 3: And he's looking at me again?
• 15:19
  Speaker 4: Do you move?
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: Chester? You must have I got my rifling.
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: Now do you stop it?
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: When you get your finger off that trigger? Right now?
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: If I can't sit here and just watch that rack.
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  Speaker 3: If my shoot, kiddy, you'll die.
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  Speaker 4: Don't you know that I didn't move?
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: What? You don't know? As I didn't wait a minute,
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: wait a minute.
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: I got an idea. What Chester, you chewing?
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: What chewing? Chewing? Hold a back? Yeah, move sure, but
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: I I got a fairly fresh quid in my shirt. Poky.
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: Okay, well, chance it. Get that quid into your mouth.
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: But do it slow, slow, and as steady as you.
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: Can manage it.
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: Once you start moving your hand, don't stop you understand.
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  Speaker 3: Alright, go ahead, okay, already got fingers my pocket there
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: he's so unsteady. Now I'm trying sure chin mouth now, alright.
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: Now, juice it up. Uh, get a big mouthful.
• 16:26
  Speaker 10: I am.
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  Speaker 2: Alright, Chester, I've heard your brag about how good you
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: can spit. Can you hit that rattler from there?
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: Maybe? Okay, do it? But I only got one shot.
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: I I can't make it.
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: I just can't wait a minute. Wait a minute, Chester,
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: you got a mouthful?
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: Dressure?
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: Alright, take your time. Now, move and make him look
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: at you. And then he was spettering him right in
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: the eyes.
• 17:02
  Speaker 8: Okay, go ahead, snake, hate snake. Look I got him,
• 17:15
  Speaker 8: mister telling me I got him. He's leaving there he goes,
• 17:19
  Speaker 8: he's gone.
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: It's word. Well, they can't stay in that cabin forever,
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: mister Doing. They'll die that he cooped up in there.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: It's only about ten o'clock.
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: Chester. Oh, I hope they gave him miss kitties some breakfast.
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: Chester at the doors open? Is he coming out? Got
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: your rifle? Take it easy enough? It's miss Kitty.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, joke carps behind her, and there's his brother. They're
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: all outside.
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: Now what are we gonna do?
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: Are you gonna have to kill him?
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: Chester? You mean just shoot 'em down from here? Cold buddy?
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: How would you wanna do it? I'm ready, mister Dylan, alright,
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: then take the one on your side. I'll take Joe.
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: He's Kiddy's standing a level close to him, and I
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: know she is.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: When I say hold your breath, you do it. Then
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: you count yourself one, two, three, and then the fire.
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: Let me see.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: Alright, hold your breath.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: Alright, come on, let's go, Chester, Okay, get back in time.
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: You joke rp still alive? It shedly hunting Bridge gone,
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: Come on, I did. They're both dead.
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: Now, Okay, Kitty are you all right, kitty. Goodness see
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: you man, you too, chest I said, he you all right?
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: Shut him down like dogs, didn't you?
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: You bet? Thank you man. Here here's she made him?
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: What you're doing, It's a good thing you caught her.
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: I'll carry her inside, Chester.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: Come on, we've got some breakfast going, and I probably
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: didn't feed her after all.
• 20:05
  Speaker 10: Guns Vote Sodus then directed by Norman McDonald starrs William
• 20:10
  Speaker 10: Conrad as Matt Dyllan Us Marshall. The story was specially
• 20:13
  Speaker 10: written for guns Voot by John Messen. Featured in the
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  Speaker 10: cast with John Dayner, Vic Pern and Harry Bartel. Harley
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  Speaker 10: Baird is Chester, Howard mcneer is Doc, and Georgia elisis Kiddies,
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  Speaker 10: When is you?
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: Guys?
• 20:26
  Speaker 10: Next week for another story on gun quote.