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Gunsmoke - "Crowbait Bob" (Old Time Radio, 1956) · Gunsmoke | Old Time Radio

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Les Crutchfield wrote this gun smoke drama with Norman MacDonald
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  Speaker 1: producing and directing. It brings us to Dodge City for
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  Speaker 1: Crowbait Bob, episode 239, originally broadcast on CBS, November 10th, 1956.
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: A dying, penniless man asks that A will be drawn up,
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  Speaker 1: leaving all he owns to Kitty Russell. As his modest
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: possessions and final affairs come into view, the request draws
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  Speaker 1: the attention of others. William Conrad stars as Marshal Matt Dillon,
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  Speaker 1: with Georgia Ellis as Kitty, Parley Bear as Chester, and
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: Howard McNear as Doc Adams. Here is the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Around Dodge City and in the Territory on West, there's
• 0:59
  Speaker 2: just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers,
• 1:02
  Speaker 2: and that's with a U.S. Marshal and the smell of Gunsmoke.
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  Speaker 2: Gunsmoke Gunsmoke, starring William Conrad. The transcribed story of the
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  Speaker 2: violence that moved west with young America. And the story
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  Speaker 2: of a man who moved with it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm that man. Matt Dillon, United States Marshal. The first
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  Speaker 3: man they look for and the last they want to meet.
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  Speaker 3: It's a chancy job. And it makes a man watchful.
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  Speaker 4: And a little lonely.
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  Speaker 5: Damn, that cussed smile.
• 2:14
  Speaker 6: It can make me so mad.
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  Speaker 7: It's like they think if I ain't got a lick
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  Speaker 7: of sense in his head, I must meet Keith. Honestly,
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  Speaker 7: I swear to goodness, Mr. Dillon, there are times a
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  Speaker 7: man's got to choke his words right back down in
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  Speaker 7: his craw to keep him starting.
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  Speaker 4: Up a ruckus. Oh, what's the trouble, Chester?
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  Speaker 5: What?
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  Speaker 6: There's a fellow over at.
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  Speaker 7: The Dodge house, a traveling drummer out of Baltimore, and
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  Speaker 7: you know what he said?
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  Speaker 4: Now what'd he say?
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  Speaker 7: He said they got a railroad train over there in
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  Speaker 7: England somewhere that goes 150 miles in three hours flat.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, is that so?
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  Speaker 6: He said they'll have trains.
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  Speaker 7: Like that here one of these days going clean across
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  Speaker 7: the country. In 30 or 40 years, according to him,
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  Speaker 7: a man can get on one in New York City
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  Speaker 7: and get off a week later in San Francisco.
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  Speaker 4: You don't say.
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  Speaker 6: Well, now, you don't believe that, do you, Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Dillon?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I guess we'll just have to wait and see, Chester.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I don't believe it. A human body just ain't
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  Speaker 7: built to go that fast. It'd get a man's innards
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  Speaker 7: all out of whack, choke him to.
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  Speaker 6: Death trying to breathe.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe, maybe.
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  Speaker 7: The good Lord wanted a man to go 50 miles
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  Speaker 7: an hour.
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  Speaker 4: He'd have put wheels on him.
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  Speaker 7: Well, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, lad.
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  Speaker 6: Hello, Chester.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, come on in, Doc. Good morning.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, my, I've just been at the livery stable, Matt.
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  Speaker 4: Well, what's the matter? Is Moss sick?
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  Speaker 6: No, it's old Crowbait Bob.
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  Speaker 7: Moss Grimmick's been letting him sleep in the hayloft in
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  Speaker 7: return for helping with the chores.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I heard he has.
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  Speaker 7: Well, old Crowbait took sick in the night sometime.
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  Speaker 6: He couldn't get up this morning.
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  Speaker 4: Well, what's wrong with him? Well, nothing that 30 years
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  Speaker 4: off his age wouldn't cure.
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  Speaker 7: And a thousand or so less bottles of rock-gut whiskey.
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  Speaker 4: Well, if he's sick, we ought to... Get him out
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  Speaker 4: of that hayloft. Well, but I can't figure any place
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  Speaker 4: to move him.
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  Speaker 7: He wants to see you, Matt. Right away.
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  Speaker 4: See me? What for? Well, I wouldn't say. But he
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  Speaker 4: claims it's mighty important. It's something he wants to do
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  Speaker 4: before he dies. Before he dies? I'm just trying to
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  Speaker 4: make him comfortable, Matt.
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  Speaker 6: That's all I can do. Well, as far as I'm concerned, Marshal,
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  Speaker 6: you're the only man in Dodge City that's worth a
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  Speaker 6: hoot and a holler. Except Moss Grimmick. Why, but for
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  Speaker 6: him and.
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  Speaker 6: Marshal, I'm a goddamn liar.
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  Speaker 4: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, there's lots of nice folks here. Of course there is.
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  Speaker 6: I reckon the only ones I'm really talking about is
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  Speaker 6: that highfalutin niece of mine and that Sneaky old husband
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  Speaker 6: of hers.
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  Speaker 3: And I was wondering, Bob, if maybe we ought to
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  Speaker 3: let Ruth and Albin know.
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  Speaker 4: About your being sick.
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  Speaker 6: No, sir, no. No, let them know nothing. Let them
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  Speaker 6: sit out there in the precious ranch and rock. They
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  Speaker 6: ain't showed me no care for years.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it's up to you, I guess.
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  Speaker 6: Marshal, the reason I sent for you is because I
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  Speaker 6: want to make my will. will no i know i
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  Speaker 6: know it don't seem likely a worthless old coot like
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  Speaker 6: me and have a reason to but that's where you're wrong.
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  Speaker 3: Well bob i'll do whatever i can you know.
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  Speaker 6: That i only got one thing to leave let's see
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  Speaker 6: it's here yes it's right here in this here leather
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  Speaker 6: box won't you take care of it for me marshall See,
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  Speaker 6: that ain't open till after I'm gone.
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  Speaker 3: Ah, Bob, that'll probably be years somehow.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, no, no, you don't know. Doc's trying to fool me, too,
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  Speaker 6: but I know where I stand.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Bob, I'll take care of it for you.
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  Speaker 3: Look, Doc's gone after a rig, and we're going to
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  Speaker 3: move you over to the jail. At least you'll be
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  Speaker 3: warm there, and there'll be somebody with you. And I'll...
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  Speaker 3: write up a will of some kind, and you can
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  Speaker 3: sign it.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, much obliged to you, Marshal. That there box is
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  Speaker 6: mighty valuable. And I want to be sure the right
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  Speaker 6: party gets it.
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  Speaker 4: Sure. Well, what does it go to, Bob?
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  Speaker 6: It goes to Miss Kitty.
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  Speaker 5: What?
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  Speaker 4: Kitty Russell? Yep.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, she's a fine girl, Marshal. Just a gallant angel,
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  Speaker 6: that's what she is. Just a golden angel.
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  Speaker 8: I've been looking for you, Matt.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, Kitty.
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  Speaker 4: How does it feel to be an heiress?
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  Speaker 8: Oh, stop it. That's all I've been hearing for the
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  Speaker 8: last three hours. How's the old man, Matt?
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  Speaker 3: We got him moved over to the jail, Kitty. Fixed
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  Speaker 3: up a cell for him. Chester's staying there this evening
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  Speaker 3: to look after him.
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  Speaker 8: Must be terrible to know you're dying. To be all
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  Speaker 8: alone like that with nobody of your own.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I, uh, I asked him about sending for his niece,
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  Speaker 3: Ruth Guttler, and her husband, but he was dead set
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  Speaker 3: against that.
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  Speaker 8: And I don't blame him. Not the way they've treated him.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Seems like they might have done something for him.
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  Speaker 8: They could have found a place for him out there
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  Speaker 8: in the ranch. So he drank too much. Maybe he
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  Speaker 8: had a reason to drink.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe.
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  Speaker 8: Maybe he is worthless. But he never meant any harm
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  Speaker 8: to anyone.
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  Speaker 4: No. Crobat's all right. I, uh.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't know that you and him were so thick, though.
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  Speaker 8: I treated him like a human being.
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  Speaker 6: That's all.
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  Speaker 8: Now....
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  Speaker 4: Good evening, Mac and Kitty. Hello, Doc.
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  Speaker 6: Well, Kitty, I hear you're about to inherit a million dollars.
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  Speaker 6: That's foolishness, Doc.
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  Speaker 8: Old Bob never had two quarters to rub together.
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  Speaker 6: Never can tell now.
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  Speaker 4: At least you get it, Kitty, whatever it is.
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  Speaker 8: I wish he hadn't done it, Matt. I didn't expect
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  Speaker 8: any payment.
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  Speaker 4: Payment for what?
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  Speaker 8: Nothing, again.
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  Speaker 4: Mac, you mean you didn't know... Didn't know what, Doc.
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  Speaker 8: Doc, you keep quiet now.
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  Speaker 7: Where do you think Crow Bait's been getting his meals?
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  Speaker 3: I suppose Moss at the delivery stable was feeding him.
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  Speaker 3: Moss has been letting him sleep there is all.
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  Speaker 8: Doc, if you don't... Why, Kitty's been feeding.
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  Speaker 4: Him for the last two years. Kitty, is this true?
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  Speaker 8: All right. What of it? They waste enough food here
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  Speaker 8: in a long branch to feed ten men like him.
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  Speaker 8: Didn't cost me anything. It was just... Oh, come on.
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  Speaker 8: Let's have a drink.
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  Speaker 3: Well, how's it going, Chester?
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  Speaker 8: Fine, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Dillon.
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  Speaker 5: We got visitors.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, good evening, Miss Cutler.
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  Speaker 6: Alvin.
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  Speaker 4: What brings you people into town? You know dang well
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  Speaker 4: what brings us, Marshal.
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  Speaker 9: Poor Uncle Robert laying back there sick to his death, maybe.
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  Speaker 9: And this upstart saying we can't see him.
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  Speaker 6: Upstart?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I'll be... Now, just take it easy, Chester.
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  Speaker 3: Take it easy.
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  Speaker 4: Poor old Uncle Robert. Would that be Crowbait Bob by
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  Speaker 4: any chance?
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  Speaker 1: Marshal, now you're insulting a dear relative of my wife.
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  Speaker 9: What a thing to call Uncle Robert while we had
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  Speaker 9: no idea he was took down and ailing this way.
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  Speaker 3: No, I don't suppose you did, since you haven't spoken
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  Speaker 3: to him in the last five years.
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  Speaker 4: Well, that was just a family misunderstanding, Marshal.
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  Speaker 9: When one's own kin is took bad sick about, he'd
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  Speaker 9: be mighty heartless if they didn't let bygones be bygones.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, sure.
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  Speaker 9: Well, I even brung him some nice chicken broth and
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  Speaker 9: baked him an egg custard pie.
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  Speaker 4: That's real thoughtful of you, Miss Gutter. You must have
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  Speaker 4: heard the rumors.
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  Speaker 7: Rumors?
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  Speaker 4: About him turning out to be wealthy.
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  Speaker 8: Well, we haven't heard a thing.
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  Speaker 4: That dance hall girl ain't getting one cent, Marshal.
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  Speaker 6: No, sir. We'll take her to court.
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  Speaker 3: Why don't you do that, Elvin, if you know some
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  Speaker 3: way of beating.
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  Speaker 4: A legal will?
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  Speaker 7: Well, he was out of his mind.
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  Speaker 4: Doc and I'll say different.
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  Speaker 9: We demand to see him. Right this minute.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry. He left orders against it.
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  Speaker 9: Well, then take that food back to him and tell
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  Speaker 9: him who brung it. That'll change his mind.
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  Speaker 4: All right. Chester.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, sir?
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  Speaker 4: Take this back to the cell with him. All right.
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  Speaker 10: He's asleep for a little while.
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  Speaker 4: Well, if he's asleep, just leave him. All right, sir.
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  Speaker 9: You be sure and tell him we brung it.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, I'll hire a brass band and tell the whole
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  Speaker 6: country to come out.
• 11:45
  Speaker 4: Now, Marshal, you know that's a terrible thing.
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  Speaker 1: A woman like that to undermine a man's feelings for.
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  Speaker 4: His own kin.
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  Speaker 3: Look, Albin, if you want to do something for him,
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  Speaker 3: why don't you pay off some of his bills around town?
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  Speaker 7: Pay off his bills?
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  Speaker 4: That's right.
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  Speaker 3: $ 10 or $ 15 to Moss Grimmick, $ 20 or so to
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  Speaker 3: Wilbur Jonas at the general store.
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  Speaker 9: Why don't he pay them himself if he's got.
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  Speaker 6: All that money?
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  Speaker 4: Now, wait a minute, Ruth.
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  Speaker 6: Might just make him stop and think twice if we
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  Speaker 6: was to pay him off.
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  Speaker 9: Pay good money on bills, that worthless old.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, shut up, Ruth.
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  Speaker 4: All righty, Marshal. We won't bother you no longer. We'll
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  Speaker 4: be going now. Come on, Ruth.
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  Speaker 6: Good night, Marshal.
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  Speaker 10: Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Dillon.
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  Speaker 4: Huh? What's wrong, Chester?
• 12:42
  Speaker 6: You better find Doc in a hurry, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Dillon.
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  Speaker 10: That old man don't look too good. It's a mighty
• 13:18
  Speaker 10: good pie, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Dillon.
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  Speaker 5: Even if old Mrs.
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  Speaker 4: Guttler did bake it. Yeah, it looks real good, Chester.
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  Speaker 10: Makes men feel kindly funny eating it, though.
• 13:27
  Speaker 5: No?
• 13:28
  Speaker 10: Well, I reckon old Colbate wouldn't want it.
• 13:30
  Speaker 4: To go to waste. No, I don't think he would.
• 13:36
  Speaker 10: I wonder what is in that box, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Dillon. I don't know. We'll find out as soon as
• 13:43
  Speaker 4: Kenny comes over.
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  Speaker 10: Died in his sleep, Doc said.
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  Speaker 4: Peaceful as anything. Mm-hmm.
• 13:56
  Speaker 10: If you really ain't gonna eat that last peach pie.
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  Speaker 4: I haven't eaten any of it, Chester. Why don't you
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  Speaker 4: finish it?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, it oughtn't to go to waste, Artie.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, Kitty.
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  Speaker 4: Kitty, come on in.
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  Speaker 8: Doc told me, Matt. I'm real sorry.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, no kidding. Oh, fellas.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I hope he had a good life somewhere back
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  Speaker 8: along the line. His last years sure weren't very happy.
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  Speaker 4: Well, here's a box, Kitty. It's all yours.
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  Speaker 8: I wish you hadn't done it, Matt.
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  Speaker 4: Why not?
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  Speaker 8: Oh, I don't know. Looks like I did things for
• 14:37
  Speaker 8: him just because I expected something. I just felt sorry
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  Speaker 8: for him, that's all.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I wouldn't count any chickens ahead of time.
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  Speaker 8: I don't even care what's in it.
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  Speaker 4: Marshal. Oh, come in, Alvin. Marshal, you tricked us.
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  Speaker 6: All that good hard.
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  Speaker 8: Cash paid out for.
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  Speaker 4: You folks acquainted with Miss Kitty Russell here?
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  Speaker 8: I know who they are, Matt.
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  Speaker 4: How do you figure I tricked you, Alvin?
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  Speaker 10: How do I.
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  Speaker 3: Well, them bills are his.
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  Speaker 6: I paid out $ 86.
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  Speaker 2: 40 in that old soak before I run into Doc,
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  Speaker 2: found out he'd died.
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  Speaker 6: And him without even knowing what we'd done for him.
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  Speaker 8: You ought to be ashamed of yourself.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, mighty fine talk for you, doing his kin out
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  Speaker 9: of what's rightfully theirs.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, you beady-eyed old goat. Why, you little girl.
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  Speaker 6: All right, settle down.
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  Speaker 3: So you think I tricked you, huh, Alden?
• 15:35
  Speaker 7: Well, you don't think I'd have paid them bills if
• 15:36
  Speaker 7: I'd known he was that far gone.
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  Speaker 3: I thought I was giving you a chance to do
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  Speaker 3: something decent for once in your life.
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  Speaker 9: Well, he ain't responsible for his debts.
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  Speaker 4: No, not legally.
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  Speaker 6: Now he's gone and died.
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  Speaker 2: He left all his wealth to this here.
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  Speaker 4: this here woman.
• 15:49
  Speaker 9: The way I hear, that box is full of diamonds
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  Speaker 9: and emeralds.
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  Speaker 3: Whatever it's full of, it belongs to Kitty, so you
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  Speaker 3: may as well forget it.
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  Speaker 6: Forget it? When a fortune that's rightfully ours is laying
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  Speaker 6: right there on that table and about to slip through
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  Speaker 6: our fingers?
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  Speaker 4: You get your hands up, Marshal.
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  Speaker 6: You too, Chester.
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: Alvin. Alvin, that was a real foolish move you just made.
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: You know. Now you hand over the gun. Stay back, Marshal.
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: I'll shoot. Alvin, I said hand over the gun. Marshal,
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: so help me.
• 16:21
  Speaker 6: If you take one more... You hit him. You hit Elvin.
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: All right, drag him back and lock him up, Justice.
• 16:28
  Speaker 6: Yes, Mr.
• 16:29
  Speaker 8: Dillon.
• 16:30
  Speaker 6: All right, come on. You're locking up Elvin?
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: Assault with a deadly weapon.
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: Judge Bentle figures it's worth about $ 100 in good hard cash.
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: Miss Cutler. And courts at 10 in the morning if
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: you want to be there.
• 16:43
  Speaker 9: But what will I do tonight?
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: Why don't you get yourself a room over at the
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: Dodge house and meditate on your sins?
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: My sins?
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: Good night, Miss Cutler.
• 16:51
  Speaker 6: Oh, Mr.
• 16:51
  Speaker 5: Dillon.
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  Speaker 4: Well, now I suppose you want to take a look
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  Speaker 4: at your diamonds and emeralds, huh, Kitty?
• 17:07
  Speaker 8: Can't we just burn it, Matt? Not even open it?
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: A crowbait wouldn't have wanted you to do that.
• 17:14
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I know.
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: Anyhow, you got too much curiosity to do something like that,
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: and you know it.
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  Speaker 8: Well, you win, Matt.
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: Okay, let's see now. Yeah, I guess if we... Break
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: the seal on the catcher. There we go.
• 17:33
  Speaker 8: Matt, it's full of banknotes.
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Confederate banknotes, Kitty.
• 17:42
  Speaker 8: Well, what do you know? You suppose he thought they
• 17:45
  Speaker 8: might fight the war over again someday, Matt?
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: Maybe. Now, wait a minute. There's something underneath here.
• 17:51
  Speaker 6: What is it, Matt?
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: It's an army medal. Bravery in action. Field citation. Awarded
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: to Lieutenant Robert Danford Conroy.
• 18:02
  Speaker 8: That was his name.
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: For conspicuous heroism during the storming of Chapultepec Heights, September 13, 1847. Signed,
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: General Winfield Scott, Commander-in-Chief, United States Expeditionary Forces in Mexico.
• 18:19
  Speaker 8: Here's a silver dollar, Matt. Uh-huh.
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: Well, at least that's worth something.
• 18:26
  Speaker 8: Look.
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: It's a ribbon.
• 18:29
  Speaker 8: Silk hair bow tied to a curl, like a hair. Matt,
• 18:35
  Speaker 8: I wonder who she was.
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: Oh, whoever it was a long time ago.
• 18:41
  Speaker 8: Metal, a curl, a dollar, a box full of worthless paper.
• 18:48
  Speaker 8: Story of a man's life, Matt.
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah. And there have been worse stories.
• 18:57
  Speaker 8: I'll keep the curl and the metal. You know something?
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: What?
• 19:04
  Speaker 8: We'll spend the dollar on a drink.
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: All right, Kitty. I think I'd have pleased him.
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: Come on. Come on.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: Gunsmoke. Produced and directed by Norman McDonald, stars William Conrad
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: as Matt Dillon, U.S. Marshal. The story was specially written
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: for Gunsmoke by Les Crutchfield, with editorial supervision by John Meston.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: The music was composed and conducted by Rex Corey. Sound
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: patterns by Ray Kemper and Bill James.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: Gunsmoke's Crowbait Bob concludes our program this evening. Follow Gunsmoke
• 19:58
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