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Hopalong Cassidy - "Audition Program" (Old Time Radio, 1941) · Hopalong Cassidy | Old Time Radio

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Speaker 1: At the Paradise Saloon, a cattle rustler threatens to take
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Speaker 1: over an elderly judge's homestead, and Hopalong Cassidy arrives to
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Speaker 1: oppose him. On August 11, 1941, CBS's forecast anthology brought
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Speaker 1: Hopalong to radio in an audition presentation, his first known
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Speaker 1: appearance on the air. Tonight's Hop Along, Cassidy audition program
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Speaker 1: is episode four, with Lou Merrill and Gerald Moore in
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Speaker 1: the cast, and Art Gilmore as announcer.
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Speaker 2: The action moves from the saloon into western cattle country,
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Speaker 2: where the judge's ranch property stands under pressure, and Hop
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Speaker 2: Along takes up the matter. Ladies and gentlemen, from the
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Speaker 2: radio theater of 1941, Hop Along, Cassidy. And now, our
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Speaker 2: story begins.
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Speaker 3: From Hollywood, California, the Columbia Broadcasting System presents Hop Along, Cassidy,
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Speaker 3: great Western character created by Clarence E. Mulford and brought
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Speaker 3: to the screen for Paramount release by Harry Sherman. This
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Speaker 3: is another new CBS program plainly marked for future reference.
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Speaker 4: See that rolling cowboy riding down that lonesome trail Twilight
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Speaker 4: shadows sway into the tune of his lonesome way. Well,
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Speaker 4: he's riding home.
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Speaker 5: A roving cowboy.
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Speaker 3: Like a knight riding out of the West, a lone
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Speaker 3: figure gallops through the prairies and mountains of the land
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Speaker 3: he loves, lending a hand to those who need him,
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Speaker 3: solving problems in his own way. The greatest of all cowboys,
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Speaker 3: in fact, or fancy, the foreman of the famous Bar
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Speaker 3: 20 Ranch, here he comes, Hopalong Cassidy.
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Speaker 6: Look out there. Hello, Hoppy, what's up?
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Speaker 7: Russell is an eagle past. Hopalong Cassidy.
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Speaker 6: Everywhere in the West, that name.
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Speaker 7: Is feared by lawbreakers.
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Speaker 6: Hurry up, Hubert.
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Speaker 7: Change them brands and let's get this herd moving.
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Speaker 3: Hey, boss.
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Speaker 6: Who's that coming?
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Speaker 7: Holy smoke.
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Speaker 5: Get moving.
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Speaker 7: Every man for himself. Let's hop along, Cassidy.
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Speaker 3: More than one outlaw has gone gunning for Hopalong Cassidy. Well, Cassidy,
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Speaker 3: it looks like I've got you where I want you
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Speaker 3: at last.
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Speaker 6: Careful, Benson.
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Speaker 3: Don't go for that gun.
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Speaker 6: I threw the arm.
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Speaker 7: He ought to know better than to try and outdraw
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Speaker 7: Hopalong Cassidy.
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Speaker 3: Wherever folks are in trouble, Hopalong Cassidy is the man
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Speaker 3: to fix it.
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Speaker 8: You let go of me.
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Speaker 9: Oh, no, you don't, Chester.
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Speaker 4: Come here.
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Speaker 6: All right, three times.
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Speaker 3: Hopalong Cassidy.
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Speaker 10: We'll roll, roll, roll.
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Speaker 11: Onto an unseen goal, swinging along to the song of
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Speaker 11: the pioneers.
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Speaker 4: We'll ride, ride, ride over the deep-skinned white, swinging along
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Speaker 4: to the song of the pioneers.
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Speaker 3: The whole West is Hopalong Cassidy's range. But Hoppy and
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Speaker 3: his pals are happiest when they're at home on the
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Speaker 3: Bar 20, the famous Buck Peters Ranch in Arizona where
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Speaker 3: Hoppy is foreman and where the top hands in the
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Speaker 3: West gather in the bunkhouse at the end of the day.
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Speaker 7: It's Johnny, Hopalong's protege, who is speaking. Hoppy, I found
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Speaker 7: a break in the drift fence down in that West pasture.
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Speaker 3: And so? Send one of the boys down tomorrow.
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Speaker 7: Okay.
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Speaker 3: Right now, I'd like to hear some music. How about
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Speaker 3: a song, boys?
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Speaker 7: Sure, Hoppy.
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Speaker 3: Skinny's guitar just got here.
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Speaker 6: Dick brought it up from town with the mail. Sure
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Speaker 6: is pretty, too, Hoppy.
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Speaker 7: Listen.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, he does.
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Speaker 4: Well, old range, my work is through. There's a roundup
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Speaker 4: in the sky. I give my pony back to you.
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Speaker 4: There's a roundup in the sky. I'm gonna burn my
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Speaker 4: brand on the silvery height of a shooting star. And
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Speaker 4: take a ride to a land beyond the great divide.
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Speaker 4: To the roundup in the sky.
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Speaker 10: Here along go we. Hoppy, here comes Buck. I wonder
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Speaker 10: what he wants. Don't know.
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Speaker 4: Guess I'll.
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Speaker 9: Go outside and see.
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Speaker 6: Hello, Hoppy.
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Speaker 5: Boys sound pretty happy tonight.
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Speaker 3: Yes, Buck. The roundup's over. They're celebrating.
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Speaker 5: That's fine. Good fun. Hoppy, I got a little job
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Speaker 5: for you. Red Connors can run.
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Speaker 3: The place for a while. Sure he can. What's up?
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Speaker 5: You remember Judge Marlin from down Twin Forks Way?
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Speaker 3: Why, sure. Went up into Utah for his wife's health.
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Speaker 5: That's right. Well, I had a letter from him today.
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Speaker 5: His wife passed on. The judge ain't as young as
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Speaker 5: he used to be. Said in his letter that he's
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Speaker 5: having trouble.
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Speaker 3: Hmm. That's too bad.
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Speaker 5: My hunch is that the judge is having plenty of trouble, Hoppy.
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Speaker 5: I thought it might be a good idea if you'd
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Speaker 5: kind of drift up that way.
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Speaker 3: Might be. Mind if I take Johnny and California along?
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Speaker 5: Take anybody you want.
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Speaker 7: Good.
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Speaker 5: And by the way, let's just say that it's a
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Speaker 5: cattle-buying trip.
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Speaker 3: Good idea.
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Speaker 5: And give my best to the judge.
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Speaker 6: I'll do that.
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Speaker 3: Mighty nice of you to put us up in your
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Speaker 3: own home, Judge.
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Speaker 12: Well, I'd have sure felt put out if you'd gone
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Speaker 12: anywhere else, Hoppy.
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Speaker 8: Dad has told me so much about you, Mr. Cassidy.
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Speaker 8: We've been hoping for a long time you might visit us.
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Speaker 7: We'd have been hoping, too, if we'd known about your
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Speaker 7: good cooking, Miss Myron.
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Speaker 11: Or if we'd have known that Judge had such a
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Speaker 11: pretty daughter.
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Speaker 7: There he goes again, Happy.
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Speaker 12: Oh, go on, California.
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Speaker 7: Oh, hello, Bart.
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Speaker 3: Well, visitors.
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Speaker 11: Uh, Bart, this is Hopalong Cassidy and two of his
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Speaker 11: boys from the Bar 20.
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Speaker 12: Johnny Nelson in California. My nephew, Bart Collins.
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Speaker 3: How do you do? Sorry I couldn't get back for dinner.
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Speaker 3: Ed Crandall looking over the spread again. He sure is
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Speaker 3: itching to buy it. You selling your ranch, George?
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Speaker 12: Well, I don't want to, Hoppy, but it looks like
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Speaker 12: I might have to.
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Speaker 3: We've been losing too many cattle lately.
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Speaker 12: I had a fine big herd at one time, Hoppy.
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Speaker 11: But somebody's been running them off a few at a
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Speaker 11: time and getting to the point where we don't know
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Speaker 11: what to do.
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Speaker 3: Have you done anything about it, Judge?
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Speaker 12: All that we can. But every time we trail a herd,
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Speaker 12: we wind up in the same place. They leave a
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Speaker 12: plain trail over to Silver Creek, then they just disappear.
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Speaker 3: All right, Clyde, everything.
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Speaker 12: I tell you, whoever's taking these cattle is plenty smart.
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Speaker 11: Hoppy, it's got me licked. I'm afraid I'm going to
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Speaker 11: have to take Crandall's offer. And me with the best
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Speaker 11: water rights in the country.
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Speaker 8: But, Dad... I don't trust Crandall.
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Speaker 3: Now, look, Myra, I don't trust Crandall either. He's a
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Speaker 3: bad actor, but still he's offering you and Uncle Dan
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Speaker 3: a chance to get some money out of the place
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Speaker 3: if he can't make a go of it.
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Speaker 8: Some money is right. Just about enough to pay what
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Speaker 8: we owe on the place and leave us with nothing.
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Speaker 12: There's no use being bitter about it, Myra.
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Speaker 11: That's the chance every cattleman takes. But I hate the
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Speaker 11: idea of selling to Crandall.
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Speaker 3: We all feel the same way about Crandall and his
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Speaker 3: way of doing business. Every honest man in the country
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Speaker 3: hates the name of Clark Crandall. Clark Crandall, eh? I
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Speaker 3: wonder if he's the same one we know, Hoppy. Yep.
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Speaker 3: Same one we ran out of twin forks, Johnny. I
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Speaker 3: knew it was here. Judge, knowing Crandall as I do,
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Speaker 3: I'd like to have you hold up the sale until
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Speaker 3: I get a chance to look things over. Now, wait
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Speaker 3: a minute, Cassidy.
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Speaker 12: We don't want to spoil the only offer we've got
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Speaker 12: for the place.
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Speaker 8: I think Mr. Cassidy's right, boss. If Crandall's too anxious
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Speaker 8: to buy, he'll wait a few days more.
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Speaker 3: Well, it's up to you and Uncle Dan, Myra. I
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Speaker 3: want to do what's best for you.
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Speaker 11: Um, Hoppy, you've always been a good troubleshooter in cases
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Speaker 11: like this.
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Speaker 3: Will you help us out... I'll be glad to, Judd.
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Speaker 3: The boys and I will follow the trail of those
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Speaker 3: missing herds first thing in the morning. That's fine. Maybe
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Speaker 3: we can find something that's been overlooked before. You want
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Speaker 3: to come with us, Bart?
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Speaker 7: Oh, yes.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, sure. Yeah, I'm going to be pretty busy with
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Speaker 3: Crandall coming up and everything, but I'm sure I can
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Speaker 3: find time to ride with you.
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Speaker 8: Oh, by the way, Bart, I put Mr. Cassidy in
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Speaker 8: California in your room. You sleep downstairs tonight.
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Speaker 3: That's all right with me. I could sleep anywhere.
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Speaker 12: Will I be getting to bed turning in, Cassidy?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you will. I did a lot of
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Speaker 3: riding today. Come on, California.
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Speaker 12: Johnny, you can share my room with me. You ready
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Speaker 12: to turn in?
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Speaker 3: No, I'm not sleepy, Judge.
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Speaker 8: I think I'll just sit here for a while with Myra.
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Speaker 8: Shall I get out the family album?
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Speaker 6: Don't bother.
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Speaker 7: Johnny's just interested in looking at one member of the family.
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Speaker 3: Come on, California.
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Speaker 7: Good night, Alfie. Your room's right upstairs.
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Speaker 3: Thanks, Judge. Good night. Well, see you in the morning, Bart. Oh,
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Speaker 3: wait a minute, Cassidy. I didn't want to say anything
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Speaker 3: in front of Myra and the judges. But Clark Crandall's
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Speaker 3: gunning for you. He knows you're here. He's been gunning
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Speaker 3: for me for a long time. I know. But he
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Speaker 3: means business. Take my tip and be on your guard
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Speaker 3: every minute, as long as you're here. Hmm. Well, thanks, Bob.
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Speaker 3: Good night. Come on, California. Good night.
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Speaker 7: Hey, that part's pretty nice, fella, Hoppy.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: We never should have let Crandall out of Twin Forks, though.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Bad penny always turns up again somewhere. Here we are.
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Speaker 7: You got a match, Hoppy?
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Speaker 3: No, wait a minute. Stand over there.
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Speaker 12: What for?
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Speaker 3: Where's the lamp here? I can't see a thing.
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Speaker 5: Oh, here it is.
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Speaker 3: Put it on the table there. Now get over by
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Speaker 3: the wall.
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Speaker 7: What's this all about, Hoppy?
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Speaker 3: Stay out of sight now, California. Let's see what happens. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: there's a light. Anybody's watching, they can see what's going
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Speaker 3: on in here.
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Speaker 7: Well, who'd be a watcher without that light?
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Speaker 3: That's just what I thought. Come on, California. Get Johnny
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Speaker 3: and the horses. We're going to trail that bushwhacker. Come on.
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Speaker 10: Hold on, boys.
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Speaker 6: Go down, boys. Right into town easy.
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Speaker 12: Sure, just like we're smoothing along and coming in to
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Speaker 12: see the sights.
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Speaker 7: I hear this is a tough town. Don't look like
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Speaker 7: it to me.
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Speaker 12: Was you ever in a tough town, California?
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Speaker 7: Was I? Why, I was in Tombstone when it was booming. Now,
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Speaker 7: there was a tough town. I saw four shooting there
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Speaker 7: just while I was tying up my horse. Had to
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Speaker 7: blast a couple of armors myself. They come up to
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Speaker 7: me spoiling for a fight.
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Speaker 12: California's dreaming again, Hoppy. What are we going to do
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Speaker 12: with him?
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Speaker 3: Just let him keep on bragging about how tough he is, Johnny.
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Speaker 3: Someday somebody will make him prove it.
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Speaker 7: I'd like to see him try it. Hey, hey, Indians,
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Speaker 7: let me hear that.
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Speaker 3: Oh, whoa, hold on, California. That's just a shooting gallery, California.
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Speaker 6: Fine thing.
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Speaker 7: Shooting gallery in a tough town like this.
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Speaker 6: Did you see him start running, Hoppy?
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Speaker 12: Step right up and hit the bullseye.
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Speaker 3: Why, I remember down in Tombstone.
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Speaker 12: Oh, shut up.
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Speaker 6: Never mind those, Hammer.
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Speaker 3: Let's tie our horses here.
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Speaker 7: Paradise Saloon, huh? Shores lit up.
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Speaker 12: Looks like the hottest spot in town.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I reckon the trail leads right in there, boys. Remember now, California,
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Speaker 3: not too many drinks.
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Speaker 7: Why, Hoppy, you know you never let me have nothing
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Speaker 7: but sarsaparilla.
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Speaker 12: What'll it be for you, gentlemen?
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Speaker 7: Oh, I'll have a.
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Speaker 3: Sarsaparilla all around.
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Speaker 12: Yeah, that's right.
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Speaker 6: That's a very refreshing drink, California.
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Speaker 12: Let's sit down here at this table and listen to
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Speaker 12: the music.
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Speaker 10: In the glory, oh, my darling When the.
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Speaker 9: Lights are dim and low.
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Speaker 4: And the quiet shadows falling.
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Speaker 9: Softly come and softly go When the winds are sobbing
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Speaker 9: faintly With a gentle unknown woe Will you think of
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Speaker 9: me and love me as.
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Speaker 10: You did.
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Speaker 4: Once long ago?
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Speaker 7: Hey, that was quite pretty.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, but we're here on business.
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Speaker 5: Hoppy, look who's coming over. It's Crandall.
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Speaker 3: He's our business.
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Speaker 4: Thank you.
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Speaker 3: Well, just like old times. Welcome to Stony Creek, Cassidy.
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Speaker 3: I heard how well you were doing here, Crandall. Thought
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Speaker 3: I'd drop in and see you. Yeah, I sure appreciate that.
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Speaker 3: But I guess you'll be moving on in the morning,
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Speaker 3: won't you?
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Speaker 5: Maybe.
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Speaker 3: I know how it is on these cattle-buying trips. You
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Speaker 3: have to keep moving. Sometimes. There's a lot of fine
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Speaker 3: stock up in Grass Valley. A lot of fine cattle here, too.
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Speaker 3: Or there was, till the rustlers moved in. Yeah. Too bad,
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Speaker 3: ain't it? I think it is. You aiming to do
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Speaker 3: something about it?
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Speaker 11: Maybe.
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Speaker 3: Hoppy, we're collecting the crowd. Sit tight, Johnny. Cassidy, you're
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Speaker 3: off your range, ain't you? I've always made a habit
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Speaker 3: of riding where I wanted to, Crandall. Things are different
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Speaker 3: here than they were in Twin Forks. This time I'm
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Speaker 3: in the saddle. And I'm warning you to keep your
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Speaker 3: hands off. Sorry, Crandall. I'm not taking your advice. If
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Speaker 3: you've got any more to say, you can find me
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Speaker 3: at Judge Marlin's ranch. Come on, boys.
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Speaker 6: Watch the door, Hoppy.
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Speaker 3: Oh, let him go.
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Speaker 7: Looks like we got the place to ourselves, Hoppy.
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Speaker 6: I don't think.
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Speaker 7: We want it.
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Speaker 9: Come on.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Let's go outside.
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Speaker 6: Hey, what you limping for, California?
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Speaker 7: Who's limping?
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Speaker 5: You are. Oh, it ain't nothing.
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Speaker 7: One of them varmints kicked me in the shins. I'm
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Speaker 7: very sorry, though.
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Speaker 3: Wait a minute. Who's this coming?
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Speaker 12: You all right, Cassidy?
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Speaker 3: It's fine. Sure, we're all right.
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Speaker 5: Why?
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Speaker 3: Well, you got away from the house in an awful hurry.
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Speaker 3: I heard the shouting by the time I got out
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Speaker 3: of the house, you fellas were riding away. Yeah, we
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Speaker 3: trailed a bushwhacker into town. Did you find him? I
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Speaker 3: don't know. But we had a talk with Crandall.
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Speaker 12: Yeah, and we had a lot of fun, too.
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Speaker 7: We cleaned out the Paradise Saloon. Why, you ought to
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Speaker 7: see me.
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Speaker 3: Eight men... You're lucky, Cassidy. That Crandall's a dangerous man. Frankly,
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Speaker 3: he's got me worried. Maybe we can worry him some
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Speaker 3: after we look over the ranch in the morning.
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Speaker 9: The End.
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Speaker 12: A thousand head of my cattle have been driven up
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Speaker 12: this stream, Hoppy.
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Speaker 3: The rustlers always bring them this way? Yep.
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Speaker 12: When they get a little farther up, they just disappear.
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Speaker 12: Right at Shoshoki Falls. Bart's trailed them time after time.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know what to make of it. Cattle
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Speaker 3: can't just fly away. Well, they walk this far. Plenty
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Speaker 3: of signs of them along the banks here.
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Speaker 8: There's the waterfall right up ahead.
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Speaker 6: Say, right pretty spot. Isn't that romantic, Miss Myra?
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Speaker 7: You come in California?
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Speaker 8: Yep.
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Speaker 7: What's the idea of riding in the middle of the creek?
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Speaker 6: Because Hoppy says so.
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Speaker 3: Come on. All right, let's ride up on the bank here.
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Speaker 6: Come on, boy. Come on, boy. Come on, boy.
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Speaker 7: Atta boy.
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Speaker 12: So this is where the trail ends, right by the waterfall.
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Speaker 7: Yep.
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Speaker 12: Ends right here, Hoppy, right here with no place to go.
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Speaker 6: We've scouted both ways from here for miles. There's not
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Speaker 6: a sign of it, Fred. Well, I'd say there's only
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Speaker 6: one answer to that.
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Speaker 7: What do you mean, Hoppy?
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Speaker 3: The cattle don't climb the cliffs and they don't stay here,
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Speaker 3: so the only place for them to go is right.
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Speaker 6: Through that waterfall.
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Speaker 7: Well, where does that set them?
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Speaker 3: On the other side of the waterfall. All right, horses,
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Speaker 3: let's go on in. Cut some torches from that dead tree, boys.
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Speaker 3: How do you aim to get through, Cassidy?
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Speaker 12: That water will pound you to pieces.
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Speaker 6: It doesn't pound the cattle to pieces, boss. Besides, there's
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Speaker 6: a little ledge that feeds in there from the side.
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Speaker 3: Oh?
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Speaker 5: Help me.
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Speaker 7: You ain't aiming to walk under that water, are you?
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Speaker 12: No.
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Speaker 3: I'm going to climb along that lake there and go
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Speaker 3: in right behind it. It doesn't look very safe to me, Cassidy.
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Speaker 6: We can get through, all right. Judge, I'll lead the way.
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Speaker 6: You stay close to me. All right.
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Speaker 3: I'll help Myra. You go ahead, California. I'll bring up
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Speaker 3: the rear.
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Speaker 6: Watch your step now.
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Speaker 3: Take my hand now, Myra. Fire!
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Speaker 6: Look out!
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Speaker 3: Wait, Hoppy.
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Speaker 7: Bart fell.
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Speaker 6: Come on.
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Speaker 10: Give him a hand.
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Speaker 6: Oh. Easy now. On my leg. Landed right on a rock. Hey,
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Speaker 6: let me see it, Bart.
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Speaker 7: No.
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Speaker 3: No, don't worry about me.
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Speaker 7: You go ahead.
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Speaker 6: I'll be all right when you get back.
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Speaker 8: Are you sure you're all right?
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Speaker 6: Sure.
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Speaker 7: Sure.
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Speaker 3: Just help me up the bank, will you?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, come on. We got him, Hoppy. You all go
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Speaker 6: on with Cassidy.
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Speaker 7: We've got to find out what's behind those balls.
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Speaker 6: Too bad you can't go with us, Bar. Now, come on, folks.
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Speaker 7: Let's see where those cattle have been going.
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Speaker 6: Right this way.
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Speaker 8: Hold on to me. I don't want to slip.
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Speaker 6: I will. Watch out for that water now.
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Speaker 7: Oh, it's cold. Too much water for me. Now, now, now,
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Speaker 7: over that rock. Oh, doggone.
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Speaker 3: We're in.
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Speaker 8: I didn't think we'd make it.
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Speaker 6: Well, there's the answer to your disappearing cattle, Judge.
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Speaker 12: Looks like you hit it right on the head, Hoppy.
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Speaker 6: Look at that. A regular cave back in here. Come on,
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Speaker 6: let's get back to those falls, huh?
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Speaker 7: Sure is big in here.
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Speaker 8: I got snow coming through there, but it's worth it.
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Speaker 7: Where do we go from here, Hoppy? The cave just
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Speaker 7: cut us off.
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Speaker 6: And all that tunnel. Well, that's easy, California.
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Speaker 3: There's the trail the cattle left leading right up that creek.
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Speaker 12: Where do you suppose all that water comes from, Hoppy?
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Speaker 6: It's way below the river that makes those falls.
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Speaker 3: We'll soon find out. This stream comes from the place
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Speaker 3: we're going to. Well, Judd, you satisfied? Those are your brands.
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Speaker 12: That's right, Hoppy. Every head of cattle that's been stolen
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Speaker 12: from me is right here. And a lot of others, too.
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Speaker 6: What a setup.
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Speaker 12: With those cliffs on all sides, nobody can get.
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Speaker 3: Into this canyon or out of it without going.
19:43
Speaker 12: Through the cave.
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Speaker 3: And there's plenty of feed and water. That's the creek
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Speaker 3: that flows through the cave.
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Speaker 7: Well, if I ever take up rustling, I going to
19:50
Speaker 7: find me a place just like this.
19:52
Speaker 3: Yeah, sure is ideal for that. But we'd better be
19:56
Speaker 3: getting out again. We've been here for a long time,
19:58
Speaker 3: and Bart's waiting for us outside.
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Speaker 8: Oh, I forgot all about Bart.
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Speaker 3: Well, don't worry too much. I don't think he was
20:03
Speaker 3: hurt very bad.
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Speaker 12: Uh, Hoppy, I wonder if there could be another trail
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Speaker 12: out of this canyon.
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Speaker 3: If there is, Judge, we haven't got time to look
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Speaker 3: for it. We'll go back the way we came.
20:10
Speaker 6: All ready?
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Speaker 3: Let's go.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, all ready.
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Speaker 9: Take my arm, Myra.
20:14
Speaker 8: And I'll hold on to you with one hand, Johnny,
20:15
Speaker 8: and on to Hoppy with the other.
20:19
Speaker 7: Coming to shoot from that cliff.
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Speaker 6: You'll never hit him with a colt at that range, Johnny.
20:23
Speaker 7: Everybody into the cave.
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Speaker 6: Come on. Uncle Walt.
20:26
Speaker 7: You okay, Judge?
20:27
Speaker 10: I'm all right.
20:28
Speaker 7: Well, we're safe from that fella. Yeah. Here's a bum
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Speaker 7: shot anyhow.
20:32
Speaker 3: I remember when I.
20:33
Speaker 6: Come on, come on. We've got to hurry.
20:34
Speaker 3: What's up? That must have been one of Crandall's men.
20:36
Speaker 3: Now that we've found their hideout, there's no time to
20:38
Speaker 3: lose it.
20:38
Speaker 12: I don't understand.
20:39
Speaker 3: This is our only way out. We'd better get out
20:41
Speaker 3: before they get around by that waterfall.
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Speaker 6: We go this way, down this tunnel. No, no, we don't.
20:44
Speaker 6: We follow the stream this way.
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Speaker 12: Well, here's where we left the torches.
20:48
Speaker 6: Get them lighted again.
20:49
Speaker 7: All right.
20:50
Speaker 6: We've got a long way to go before we get
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Speaker 6: to that waterfall.
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Speaker 7: Well, we're pretty near there, Miss Myra.
21:08
Speaker 8: I hope we're in time.
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Speaker 5: Don't you worry, Myra.
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Speaker 12: We've been in worse places than this, Hoppy, and we've
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Speaker 12: always come out.
21:14
Speaker 7: Reminds me of the time when I was trapped in
21:15
Speaker 7: a mine down in Arizona.
21:16
Speaker 8: But we're not trapped, California.
21:18
Speaker 7: Well, neither was I. I got out all right. In fact,
21:21
Speaker 7: a rabbit dug me out.
21:22
Speaker 12: California's blown another soap bubble, Hoppy.
21:24
Speaker 8: California, you're just making that up.
21:26
Speaker 7: No, I'm not. Three days I was in there. And
21:29
Speaker 7: then I see this rabbit come and dig him down
21:31
Speaker 7: through the ceiling. Trying to wince at me, and we
21:33
Speaker 7: start digging together. And the first thing you know, we're
21:35
Speaker 7: out on top. Oh, I sure was grateful to that rabbit.
21:39
Speaker 7: I kept him for a pet, fed him on carrots.
21:41
Speaker 7: He grew so big and tough on him, he just
21:43
Speaker 7: chased coyotes right off the ranch.
21:45
Speaker 2: California?
21:46
Speaker 7: I don't believe that.
21:47
Speaker 8: What's the difference, Johnny? At least his yarns cheer us up.
21:50
Speaker 12: There's the entrance, way up ahead.
21:52
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right.
21:53
Speaker 6: Wait, Harvey.
21:55
Speaker 7: Isn't that a man crouching down?
21:56
Speaker 3: Yeah. Wait a minute.
21:59
Speaker 12: Oh, it must be Bart.
22:00
Speaker 3: Hey, Bart!
22:00
Speaker 5: Quiet, quiet.
22:02
Speaker 7: That's funny.
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Speaker 6: He ran. Let's get up there. Oh, something's gone wrong here.
22:06
Speaker 6: Get back, all of you. He left something behind.
22:08
Speaker 7: You bet he did.
22:08
Speaker 3: Look out!
22:09
Speaker 10: Bart, look out!
22:29
Speaker 7: Water's piling up awful fast, Hoppy.
22:31
Speaker 3: Sure it is. With the entrance blocked by that blast
22:34
Speaker 3: and that steam pouring in from the canyon.
22:36
Speaker 12: You think we can make it back to the canyon?
22:37
Speaker 3: Not a chance. That low place in the tunnel's plumb
22:40
Speaker 3: full of water by now. Oh, steady, Myra.
22:42
Speaker 12: This is mighty serious, Hoppy.
22:44
Speaker 5: What do we do?
22:45
Speaker 3: Well, there may still be a way out, Judge, if
22:47
Speaker 3: we work fast.
22:48
Speaker 7: How?
22:49
Speaker 3: Something you said a while back gave me an idea. Hmm?
22:52
Speaker 3: What did you say the name of these falls was?
22:54
Speaker 12: Shoshoke Falls.
22:56
Speaker 3: Why? That's a Shoshone Indian name, isn't it? I guess so.
22:59
Speaker 12: Lots of Shoshones in these pots.
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Speaker 3: Shoshoke. Shoshoke. Hmm. They must have meant that it was
23:07
Speaker 3: near the falls somewhere. What do you mean, Hoppy?
23:09
Speaker 6: Never mind.
23:09
Speaker 3: Let's get going.
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Speaker 12: But which way?
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Speaker 3: That's easy. See the smoke from these torches?
23:13
Speaker 6: Yeah.
23:14
Speaker 3: The air that's coming from the canyon can't get out
23:15
Speaker 3: down at the falls. But it's getting out some way
23:17
Speaker 3: because that smoke's moving and we're moving with it.
23:35
Speaker 6: Well, here's where your smoke goes, Hoppy.
23:38
Speaker 12: Nothing but a pile of broken rock clear.
23:40
Speaker 7: To the ceiling.
23:40
Speaker 8: We'll never get out of here.
23:42
Speaker 5: Easy, Myra.
23:42
Speaker 6: Come on, Johnny. California. I'm going to clear this rock
23:44
Speaker 6: out by hand. Start right at the top.
23:46
Speaker 5: All right.
23:47
Speaker 3: If I ever get.
23:49
Speaker 7: Out of here, I'll never go through another waterfall. I'll
23:52
Speaker 7: never get in this water anyway.
23:53
Speaker 6: Here, help me with this big one, will you?
23:56
Speaker 9: All right.
23:56
Speaker 6: Here we go. Look out down there. Look out.
24:03
Speaker 3: What do you know?
24:05
Speaker 7: Look through that hole.
24:06
Speaker 3: Well. Kind of had a hunch that's what we'd find. Yes.
24:10
Speaker 7: Hundreds of them cut right in the rock and going
24:12
Speaker 7: up the fresh air.
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Speaker 9: Yippee!
24:14
Speaker 7: Let me at him!
24:15
Speaker 3: There's the Shoshokie.
24:17
Speaker 8: Poppy, did you know we'd find it?
24:19
Speaker 3: Well, I wasn't sure. But in the Shoshone language, the
24:23
Speaker 3: word Shoshokie means long steps. Where's Crandall's office? Upstairs, but
24:38
Speaker 3: you can't go up. He's busy, but we're going up.
24:41
Speaker 3: Come on, Judge.
24:45
Speaker 12: But, Hoppy, I don't understand.
24:47
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Judge. I'll show you something when we get upstairs.
24:50
Speaker 12: Johnny, California, you stay there and see that we're not disturbed.
24:53
Speaker 8: Quiet now, Judge.
24:57
Speaker 3: I can hear him talking.
25:00
Speaker 6: You listen to me, Bart.
25:02
Speaker 3: I made a deal with you to run off the
25:04
Speaker 3: judge's cattle so I could buy the ranch. My deal
25:06
Speaker 3: with you is washed up, Crandall.
25:07
Speaker 10: Oh, no, it isn't.
25:08
Speaker 6: I still want that ranch.
25:09
Speaker 3: You might have had a chance of getting it, Crandall,
25:11
Speaker 3: if you finished custody when you had your chance last night.
25:13
Speaker 12: You missed the chance first.
25:14
Speaker 6: You had a shot at him yourself last night through
25:16
Speaker 6: the window.
25:17
Speaker 7: And I got him today up there in the cave.
25:19
Speaker 3: And I got everything else I needed, too.
25:20
Speaker 6: With the judge in my right of.
25:21
Speaker 7: The way, the ranch belongs to me, and I don't
25:23
Speaker 7: need my deal with you.
25:24
Speaker 8: The ranch and cattle are legally mine now.
25:26
Speaker 6: Look here, youngster.
25:28
Speaker 3: I don't care what you did to your family and
25:30
Speaker 3: Cassidy's outfit... But I do know that nobody's running out
25:34
Speaker 3: on Clark Crandall.
25:36
Speaker 6: My men are here to back.
25:37
Speaker 12: Hey, you!
25:37
Speaker 3: Stop those guns!
25:38
Speaker 6: Cassidy! Stop him! Crandall, there's one thing you forgot.
25:42
Speaker 9: No man ever lived.
25:42
Speaker 12: To get trade shots with Hopalong Cassidy.
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Speaker 3: Hand me those saddlebags, Johnny.
26:11
Speaker 12: All right.
26:12
Speaker 11: Well, Hoppy, I'm sure sorry to see you boys go.
26:16
Speaker 11: You helped us plenty.
26:17
Speaker 3: We're sorry to go, too, Judd. Especially Johnny. Look at
26:20
Speaker 3: him over there with Myra. Myra. Are you sure you
26:25
Speaker 3: wouldn't like to live in Arizona?
26:27
Speaker 8: Sorry, Johnny, but I like it here.
26:29
Speaker 12: Hoppy says Arizona's the greatest place in the country.
26:31
Speaker 8: If Hoppy would tell me that himself, it might be different.
26:35
Speaker 3: Oh, I see. Come on, Johnny.
26:38
Speaker 6: Let's be riding. Okay, Hoppy.
26:39
Speaker 10: Goodbye, Myra.
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Speaker 8: Goodbye, Johnny.
26:44
Speaker 3: Well, Johnny, California, let's head for Bar 20.
26:47
Speaker 10: See those rolling cowboys riding down that lonesome trail. Well, where.
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27:17
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