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Gunsmoke - "The Blacksmith" (Old Time Radio, 1954) · Gunsmoke | Old Time Radio

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Emil, in Dodge City, is a good-natured German blacksmith and
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: the target of repeated bullying by Gil Tallman. As the
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: harassment escalates, Marshal Matt Dillon and the town are drawn
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: into a test of Emil's patience, dignity, and resolve. Set
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: in Dodge City, Kansas, this Saturday night CBS sustaining broadcast
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: of June 5th, 1954 is Gunsmoke, episode 111, The Blacksmith.
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: William Conrad stars as Dylan, with Parley Bear as Chester,
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  Speaker 1: Georgia Ellis as Kitty, and Howard McNear as Doc, John Diener,
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  Speaker 1: Gene Bates, Vic Perrin, and Lou Krugman are also heard.
• 0:44
  Speaker 1: John Meston wrote the script. Norman MacDonald directed and produced
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  Speaker 1: for CBS. Here is the original broadcast.
• 1:01
  Speaker 2: Around Dodge City and in the Territory on West, there's
• 1:04
  Speaker 2: just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers,
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  Speaker 2: and that's with a U.S. Marshal and the smell of
• 1:10
  Speaker 2: gun smoke. Gunsmoke, starring William Conrad. The transcribed story of
• 1:33
  Speaker 2: the violence that moved west with young America. The story
• 1:36
  Speaker 2: of a man who moved with it. Matt Dillon, United
• 1:40
  Speaker 2: States Marshal.
• 1:41
  Speaker 3: Gunsmoke I sure do thank you for that breakfast, Mr. Dillon.
• 2:08
  Speaker 4: Forget it, Chester.
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  Speaker 5: My steak, eggs, potatoes, and a glass of beer. By that,
• 2:16
  Speaker 5: it could last a man clean to noon dinner.
• 2:18
  Speaker 4: I guess it could.
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  Speaker 6: Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Dillon, you figure Emil will have your horse showered by
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  Speaker 5: the time we get there?
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  Speaker 4: He should.
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  Speaker 3: You think he's any minute good?
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  Speaker 4: He's a good blacksmith, Chester.
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  Speaker 7: If he trimmed up his feet right before he reset
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  Speaker 7: those shoes, he ought to be fine.
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  Speaker 3: Funny the way he took throw on his foreleg.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Looks like there's somebody else waiting.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Gil Tolman, eh?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I think it is.
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling you something else, Dutchman.
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  Speaker 6: You can whistle for your money.
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  Speaker 1: You won't get it from me.
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  Speaker 7: All right.
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  Speaker 6: I don't make you pay.
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  Speaker 1: The morning after I got him home, he was so
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  Speaker 1: lame he couldn't walk.
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  Speaker 3: That'll break your head.
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  Speaker 9: Please, if it was my fault, something I did wrong,
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  Speaker 9: don't pay me anything.
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  Speaker 4: That seems fair enough, Tolman.
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  Speaker 10: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, Marshal, this fool Dutchman messed up my pony and
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  Speaker 1: then he wants to get paid on top of it.
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  Speaker 4: Well, maybe it's a stone bruise.
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  Speaker 1: It ain't no stone bruise, Marshal. It's pinched feet, that's what.
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  Speaker 7: Is that the horse you're talking about?
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  Speaker 1: No, no, he's back at the place. This is another one.
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  Speaker 4: How about my horse, Emil?
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  Speaker 7: You finished with him?
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  Speaker 6: All finished. Now he walks good.
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  Speaker 4: Ah, fine.
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  Speaker 7: Well, how much I owe you?
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  Speaker 6: Two dollars, all right, Marshal?
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  Speaker 4: Sure.
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  Speaker 7: Here you are.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Chester, you get up behind. I'll ride you back
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  Speaker 4: to the office.
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  Speaker 7: Come on. There we go.
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  Speaker 4: Marshal.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Mr. Tolman told lie.
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, the horse he ride just.
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  Speaker 9: Now is the one I shoe two days ago. You
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  Speaker 9: can see he's not lame.
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  Speaker 4: He didn't seem to be.
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  Speaker 3: Sure, nothing wrong the way he travels.
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  Speaker 4: Emil, why is Tolman Huron here, huh?
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  Speaker 7: Do you know?
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  Speaker 6: Maybe because I'm German. Maybe something else. Who knows?
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  Speaker 7: I'll ask him to settle his bill with you if
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  Speaker 7: you like.
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  Speaker 6: No, no, Marshal.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you won't get rich if you aren't paid, Emil.
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  Speaker 6: Money is good, yeah, but better to have no enemies.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Emil.
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  Speaker 7: Well, Chester.
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  Speaker 4: Hang on.
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  Speaker 8: Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Dillon?
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  Speaker 7: What, Chester?
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  Speaker 3: Did you know that Lily Lankrey's gonna be here in
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  Speaker 3: a couple of weeks?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, how did you know?
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  Speaker 6: Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Hipple over at the opera house told me.
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  Speaker 1: And in case I don't get to see her, he's
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  Speaker 1: gonna let me have one of them big picture posters.
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  Speaker 4: He is?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, sir. The Jersey Lily.
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  Speaker 8: My.
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  Speaker 1: I sure would like to be tall hog at that trough.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, hello there, Chester.
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  Speaker 1: Hello, Doc. Hey, did you know Lily Lanker's going to
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  Speaker 1: be here, Doc?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, of course, Chester.
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  Speaker 1: I already paid Hipple for a chair.
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  Speaker 11: Oh.
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  Speaker 5: Is this all you two got to do, just sit
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  Speaker 5: around and talk?
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  Speaker 4: Well, things are quiet, Doc.
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  Speaker 7: We can't always have a few shot-up cowboys just to
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  Speaker 7: keep you busy.
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  Speaker 4: Besides, we're waiting for the evening stage.
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  Speaker 3: Wish I had the loan of a dollar. Maybe I'd
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  Speaker 3: get to see the lily, too.
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  Speaker 4: Chester here. Here's the dollar.
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  Speaker 3: Now, will you be quiet? Well, sir, I sure do
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  Speaker 3: thank you, Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Dillon.
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  Speaker 6: Marshal Dillon?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, Emil, come in, come in.
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  Speaker 6: I just come by to see how your horse is.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, fine, Emil, fine.
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  Speaker 7: I think that shoe-in fixed him up.
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  Speaker 1: Good. Hey, you're all dressed up, Emil. You got your
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  Speaker 1: Sunday clothes on.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. I'm meeting stage five o'clock.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, is that so?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Got a new wife coming.
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  Speaker 1: Oh. You got one?
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  Speaker 4: It's right. I didn't know you were married, Emil.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, not yet married. I will get married after she arrives.
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  Speaker 1: Well, forevermore.
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  Speaker 6: Who is it, Emil? Well, I am doing good now.
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  Speaker 6: I want to have wife and children.
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  Speaker 9: But girls here in Taj don't want husbands.
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  Speaker 3: They like better the Texas Trail and Longhorn.
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  Speaker 7: Well, there's a lot of excitement and money to be
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  Speaker 7: had working around the saloon.
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  Speaker 6: That's true. So I answer advertisement in St.
• 6:28
  Speaker 1: Louis paper. You did what?
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  Speaker 6: Advertisement.
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  Speaker 3: Says the young German woman wants husband.
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  Speaker 6: So I write to the paper. And say, come to
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  Speaker 6: Dodge City, be wife of Emil Volheta.
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  Speaker 4: And she's coming in on this evening's stage?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right. Oh, that's just fine, Emil.
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  Speaker 4: You got a place for her to stay?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, I talked to Mr. Green at the Dodge house.
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  Speaker 9: She'll stay there until I get a place ready behind
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  Speaker 9: my smithy.
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  Speaker 1: It's here.
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  Speaker 3: The stage just pulled up the other side.
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  Speaker 4: Of the plaza.
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  Speaker 7: Well, good luck, Emil.
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  Speaker 6: Marshal, you and Doc and Chester come too? I want
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  Speaker 6: you to meet Gretchen.
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  Speaker 4: We'll be proud, Emil.
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  Speaker 6: Funny thing, I'm not afraid of anything.
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  Speaker 4: But now, my stomach is sick. There's only one woman
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  Speaker 4: getting off the stage. That must be her.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: She's a pretty little thing, ain't she?
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  Speaker 7: Well, go on, Emil.
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  Speaker 4: She's standing there waiting. We'll stay here.
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  Speaker 6: Go on.
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  Speaker 4: Well, uh... Well.
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  Speaker 1: Go on, man, go on, go on. There's plenty of
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  Speaker 1: time to be nervous later. Oh, well, well.
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  Speaker 6: Grüß Gott. Guten Abend. Ich bin eben wohl da.
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  Speaker 3: Ich bin fröhlich und glücklich, dass Sie gekommen sind.
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  Speaker 9: Jawohl, Heter.
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  Speaker 6: Ich hoffe, die Reise war nicht zu schwierig. Nein, ganz
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  Speaker 6: gar nicht.
• 8:03
  Speaker 5: Makes you wonder how they can understand each other, don't they?
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  Speaker 3: Talking that way.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, Chester, for heaven's sake. Oh, look, he's bringing her
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  Speaker 1: over here.
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  Speaker 3: Speaking English.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, of course.
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  Speaker 6: Good, good. Marshal Dillon. Gentlemen. Miss Gretchen Schiller. How do
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  Speaker 6: you do, gentlemen?
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  Speaker 4: How do you do, ma'am? Welcome to Dodge, Miss Schiller.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Marshal.
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  Speaker 7: I hope you'll be happy here. You've certainly got.
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  Speaker 4: A fine man.
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  Speaker 1: I know much about him already.
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  Speaker 6: We have written. Now, Marshal, I will take Gretchen to
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  Speaker 6: the hotel.
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  Speaker 1: Come and see.
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  Speaker 6: Again, it's Gretchen. Come here.
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  Speaker 3: Ah, there.
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  Speaker 1: She seems a little scared, doesn't she, Marshal?
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  Speaker 4: Now, Doc, she took a chance on coming out here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, so did Emil.
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  Speaker 1: Getting married to a mail-order bride is like buying a
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  Speaker 1: pig in a poke.
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  Speaker 3: You can't be sure till.
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  Speaker 6: It's too late.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, come on, Mac.
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  Speaker 1: This is an excuse for some sort of a celebration.
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  Speaker 1: I'll buy you a glass of rye.
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  Speaker 6: You too, Chester.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Doc, since you're buying.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I was just thinking.
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  Speaker 5: She's so little and Emil's so big, I hope he
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  Speaker 5: don't take it into his mind.
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  Speaker 1: To beat her none.
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  Speaker 7: Emil's about the gentlest man I've ever known, Chester.
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  Speaker 1: And besides, Chester, men don't always beat their wives.
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  Speaker 3: My pa did.
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  Speaker 1: Sam, set out some glasses and a bottle of Rye
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  Speaker 1: was here. And then when the stage comes in a
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  Speaker 1: few minutes ago, I see where he gets himself a
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  Speaker 1: gal bought out of a newspaper.
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  Speaker 3: And Gil Tolman.
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  Speaker 4: Again, Mr.
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  Speaker 11: Dillon.
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  Speaker 3: One of them foreigners is all we need around here.
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  Speaker 1: Now there's two. We ought to tar and feather the
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  Speaker 1: both of them and send them on their way.
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  Speaker 7: Doc, you and Chester wait here.
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  Speaker 6: Come on, Feathers.
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  Speaker 5: It's too good for foreigners that are trying to take
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  Speaker 5: over the town.
• 9:59
  Speaker 7: You're right.
• 10:05
  Speaker 4: Dolman, how drunk are you?
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  Speaker 6: I ain't at all.
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  Speaker 4: You talk like a man that's been drinking.
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  Speaker 1: Ain't a man allowed to say what he thinks around
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  Speaker 1: Dodge no more, Marshal.
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  Speaker 4: Not when he's thinking that way, Tolman.
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  Speaker 6: This is between Walhater and me.
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  Speaker 1: It has nothing to do with the law.
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  Speaker 4: It's got a lot to do with me, Tolman. Now
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  Speaker 4: you drink up and get out.
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  Speaker 7: And you take Spooner and Willie here with you.
• 10:32
  Speaker 1: Just a minute.
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  Speaker 4: Now you listen to me. All of you.
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  Speaker 7: Walhater's trying to mind his own business. And if there's
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  Speaker 7: any trouble, I'll know who started it. And he'll go
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  Speaker 7: to jail.
• 10:45
  Speaker 1: You saying you're going to lock me up?
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  Speaker 7: Tolman, if Emil Woolhater ever gets mad enough, he'll kill
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  Speaker 7: you with his bare hands.
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  Speaker 4: Now leave him and his girl alone.
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  Speaker 3: Girl.
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  Speaker 1: All right, she's probably nothing.
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  Speaker 8: But a little....
• 11:05
  Speaker 4: All right, Tolman.
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  Speaker 7: You and Spooner carry Willie out of here.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, Marshal. We'll go.
• 11:13
  Speaker 1: Just remember, I got a score to settle.
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  Speaker 4: With that blacksmith.
• 11:32
  Speaker 7: By the end of the next week, Emil Walhater had
• 11:35
  Speaker 7: finished fixing up the little room out behind his smithy.
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  Speaker 4: And the week after that, he married Gretchen Schiller.
• 11:42
  Speaker 7: On their wedding night, they made quite a picture, standing.
• 11:45
  Speaker 4: There by the fire out behind the smithy.
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  Speaker 7: The great giant of a man and his tiny little bride,
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  Speaker 7: smiling and happy.
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  Speaker 4: Doc had come along, too, and he was busy with
• 11:58
  Speaker 4: his fiddle.
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  Speaker 7: People were laughing and eating and drinking. Somebody had brought
• 12:04
  Speaker 7: along a barrel of beer, and there were hard-boiled eggs
• 12:07
  Speaker 7: and pickled pig's feet, roast chicken and smoked beef. Some
• 12:12
  Speaker 7: of the women had brought sugar cakes and dried apple pie.
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  Speaker 4: And some of the men, whiskey. It was good fun.
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  Speaker 7: Until Tolman and his sidekicks arrived.
• 12:26
  Speaker 3: Well, I didn't think he'd show up here, Mr.
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  Speaker 11: Deller.
• 12:28
  Speaker 4: No, neither did I.
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  Speaker 3: Well, to dancing. I'm kind of drunk.
• 12:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so are Willie and Spooner.
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: Willie, go find yourself a gal. You too, Spooner. Me,
• 12:40
  Speaker 1: I got one waiting. I'm gonna dance with.
• 12:44
  Speaker 3: This little old gal.
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: How about it, Mrs. Warlator?
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  Speaker 4: Amen. Come on, gal.
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  Speaker 11: Dance.
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  Speaker 1: He don't care.
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  Speaker 11: Amen.
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  Speaker 6: We are all friends here. But I.
• 12:56
  Speaker 7: Nobody's dancing right now, Tolman. Why don't you forget it, huh?
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: Well, if it ain't the marshal.
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  Speaker 6: You are welcome here, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Tolman.
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  Speaker 6: There's food on the table.
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  Speaker 4: And drink.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want nothing to drink. I want to dance.
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  Speaker 11: Ah!
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  Speaker 1: Cut that fiddle playing.
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  Speaker 6: Come on, you.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to dance.
• 13:15
  Speaker 6: Maybe you drink too much to dance.
• 13:18
  Speaker 1: Don't you lay a hand on me.
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  Speaker 4: Why don't you just go home, Tolman, and sleep it off?
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: Me and Gretchen's going to dance.
• 13:24
  Speaker 6: That's why.
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  Speaker 1: Come on.
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  Speaker 6: I'm sorry to do this, Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Tolman. Put me down.
• 13:27
  Speaker 6: But now we put you in the water.
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: Put me down.
• 13:31
  Speaker 6: Who are you?
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: You stupid ox. Put me down.
• 13:35
  Speaker 6: All right. There you go.
• 13:45
  Speaker 7: Well, that'll quiet him some, Emil.
• 13:47
  Speaker 6: Better than hurting him, I think. You filthy Dutchman. I'll
• 13:52
  Speaker 6: pay you back for that.
• 13:55
  Speaker 10: Come on, Willie.
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  Speaker 6: Come on, let's go.
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: Everybody, have fun.
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  Speaker 10: No troubles on wedding night of Gretchen.
• 14:14
  Speaker 7: And there wasn't any more trouble that night, or in
• 14:17
  Speaker 7: the week that followed. I kept my eyes open, but
• 14:21
  Speaker 7: there was no sign of Tallman or his two wranglers,
• 14:25
  Speaker 7: and Dodge was pretty peaceful.
• 14:27
  Speaker 4: Then late one night, trouble did come, but not the
• 14:31
  Speaker 4: way I'd expected it. I'd fallen asleep on a cop
• 14:35
  Speaker 4: in the office. Mr.
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: Dillon.
• 14:38
  Speaker 10: What?
• 14:38
  Speaker 11: Mr.
• 14:38
  Speaker 7: Dillon. What?
• 14:39
  Speaker 4: Wake up, Mr.
• 14:39
  Speaker 6: Dillon.
• 14:40
  Speaker 4: What's the matter?
• 14:41
  Speaker 7: What's the matter, Chester?
• 14:41
  Speaker 3: There's a fire.
• 14:42
  Speaker 4: What?
• 14:43
  Speaker 3: It's a blacksmith shop. I come as quick as I could.
• 14:46
  Speaker 7: Well, is it bad, Chester?
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: A bunch of the men are out there now.
• 14:49
  Speaker 4: Where's Emil?
• 14:50
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: Nobody's seen him.
• 14:52
  Speaker 4: How about Gretchen?
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: Miss Kitty's with her. She's pretty upset.
• 14:55
  Speaker 5: By the time we got bucket lines going, this place
• 14:57
  Speaker 5: is just about.
• 14:58
  Speaker 8: Burned to the ground.
• 14:58
  Speaker 7: Huh. Well, how did it start, do you know?
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: No, sir, I don't.
• 15:02
  Speaker 5: But a shack like that flares up pretty quick. They
• 15:04
  Speaker 5: didn't have time to get anything out, beds.
• 15:06
  Speaker 3: Or tables or the like.
• 15:10
  Speaker 7: Well, there doesn't seem to be much left but a
• 15:12
  Speaker 7: pile of coals.
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: Oh, there's Miss Kitty.
• 15:14
  Speaker 8: Over there.
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: And Gretchen.
• 15:17
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: Oh, Matt.
• 15:20
  Speaker 4: Mrs.
• 15:20
  Speaker 7: Walhater. Kitty.
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: Oh, Marshall. He's gone.
• 15:25
  Speaker 11: All gone.
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: And Emil works so hard.
• 15:28
  Speaker 4: Now, it's going to be all right, Mrs.
• 15:29
  Speaker 7: Walhater. Kitty, why don't you take her on over to
• 15:33
  Speaker 7: your place?
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: That's a good idea.
• 15:35
  Speaker 8: Come on, honey.
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: Oh, no, no, no. I can't. Emil will be back.
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: He'll die.
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: The Marshall can tell him where you are.
• 15:43
  Speaker 7: Where is your husband, Gretchen?
• 15:45
  Speaker 8: He was.
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: Called away. Oh?
• 15:48
  Speaker 7: When?
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: A few hours ago. A man came for him. Said
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: he was needed.
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: Well, who was it?
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: He was one of the men who came our wedding night.
• 15:58
  Speaker 8: She means the night of the chivalry, ma'am.
• 16:00
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 16:02
  Speaker 4: It must have been Willie or Spooner.
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, that's right. Gretchen.
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: Gretchen Leapion.
• 16:07
  Speaker 7: Leapion.
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: Oh, Edmund.
• 16:08
  Speaker 6: Thank God.
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  Speaker 4: Amo, Gretchen, please.
• 16:13
  Speaker 7: It burned too fast. The men couldn't get water to it.
• 16:16
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I know, Marshal. I've heard, but Gretchen is safe.
• 16:20
  Speaker 6: That is important.
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: I'm going to take her with me, Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Willard.
• 16:23
  Speaker 6: You're very kind, Miss Kitty. Right now, she needs a woman.
• 16:25
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 16:26
  Speaker 8: Come on, Gretchen.
• 16:27
  Speaker 6: Let's go. Marshal, I think somebody set that fire.
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: Why do you think so, Amo?
• 16:39
  Speaker 6: Somebody wanted me away from my place.
• 16:41
  Speaker 9: So he told me I was needed down the trail
• 16:43
  Speaker 9: towards Willow Bend.
• 16:45
  Speaker 6: But there was no team of horses with thrown shoes.
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: So maybe you just missed him in the dark.
• 16:49
  Speaker 7: Well, didn't the man who came for you wait to
• 16:51
  Speaker 7: lead you back?
• 16:52
  Speaker 6: No, he rode on. By the time I dressed, he
• 16:55
  Speaker 6: was gone.
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: Did you know him, Emil?
• 16:56
  Speaker 6: Sure.
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: It was the man Spooner.
• 16:59
  Speaker 6: He works with Tolman.
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: Now, he works for Tolman.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: And Tolman's just mean enough to do it. He is.
• 17:06
  Speaker 7: Look, Emil, if you'll say that Tolman did it, I'll
• 17:08
  Speaker 7: have him in jail by morning. No, no, Marshal.
• 17:11
  Speaker 6: No, this I settle myself.
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: I won't have any killing, Emil.
• 17:16
  Speaker 6: No, no, there will be no killing, Marshal.
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: But for the first time, I am getting very angry.
• 17:23
  Speaker 6: Not so much for me, but for little Gretchen.
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: Oh, what are you going to do?
• 17:28
  Speaker 6: I will wait. And when I see Tolman, I will
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: teach him lessons.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: You want more coffee, Mr. Dillon?
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: Uh, no. No, no, thanks, Chester.
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: Did you know Emil Woolhater's been just standing across the
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: plaza there all morning?
• 17:56
  Speaker 6: He's waiting, Chester.
• 17:58
  Speaker 7: Waiting? Yeah, it's Saturday, and Tolman always comes to town
• 18:01
  Speaker 7: Saturday for his week's supplies. He probably figures if he
• 18:04
  Speaker 7: didn't come in this morning, people would suspect.
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: He was afraid to.
• 18:07
  Speaker 7: Yep.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: By golly, Emil's still there. Just standing.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: You think Tolman knows Emil's after him?
• 18:19
  Speaker 7: I don't know it, Chester.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: Mr.
• 18:23
  Speaker 6: Dillon?
• 18:24
  Speaker 10: Yeah?
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: He's coming. Tolman's coming. And he's got Willie Sachs and.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: Spooner with him.
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: Come on, Chester. Let's step out onto the porch, huh?
• 18:33
  Speaker 7: I think we need a little air.
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
• 18:40
  Speaker 6: Hey, look. Look at the three of them.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: Walking right down the middle of the plow.
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 18:46
  Speaker 7: Oh, Tolman, come over here a minute, huh?
• 18:50
  Speaker 6: Why, sure, Marshal. What do you.
• 19:01
  Speaker 11: Want?
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: Tolman!
• 19:01
  Speaker 7: That crazy Dutchman. All right, Tolman, you and your men
• 19:05
  Speaker 7: drop your guns.
• 19:05
  Speaker 6: Well, now, wait a minute, Marshal.
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: Drop them, I said. That's better.
• 19:13
  Speaker 7: Now, gentlemen, I think the blacksmith wants to talk with you.
• 19:17
  Speaker 10: What?
• 19:18
  Speaker 7: Mr.
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: Tolman.
• 19:22
  Speaker 6: I don't mind when you don't pay me for work.
• 19:27
  Speaker 6: I don't mind when you are a little drunk.
• 19:31
  Speaker 10: But when you do something to upset my wife, I
• 19:36
  Speaker 10: mind very much.
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: What are you talking about? I.
• 19:42
  Speaker 10: I'm going to fight you, Tormund, and hurt you.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: You lay a hand on me and Spooner and Weller.
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: here will tear you to pieces.
• 19:51
  Speaker 10: I don't want to fight other men, but if they
• 19:54
  Speaker 10: try to stop me, it's too bad.
• 19:56
  Speaker 7: You are crazy.
• 19:57
  Speaker 6: No, just very mad.
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: I don't see that they come at you only one
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: at a time.
• 20:02
  Speaker 6: Please, Marshal, you stay out of it, out.
• 20:06
  Speaker 10: If they want to come at me at the same time.
• 20:10
  Speaker 10: Let them.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Boys, get the deck. Now, wait, wait, wait. All right, Emil,
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: that's enough. Emil. Emil, stop it.
• 20:18
  Speaker 10: Stop it.
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: Chester, run up and get the doc.
• 20:47
  Speaker 7: I'm right here, Matt.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: I saw the whole thing. Oh, my, what a beautiful fight.
• 20:52
  Speaker 8: What a beautiful thing.
• 20:54
  Speaker 7: All right, some of you men there, will you help
• 20:55
  Speaker 7: Doc carry these three men up to his place? That's right.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: Young fella, get the feet there. Careful now. Watch their
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: heads against the stairs. Get that man's face out.
• 21:03
  Speaker 11: Of the duct.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: My gracious alive, I've never seen nothing like it.
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 21:10
  Speaker 7: Well, Emil, you want Doc to have a look at you? No.
• 21:19
  Speaker 10: No, no worse than shooing Missouri mule.
• 21:26
  Speaker 7: No, no, Marshal.
• 21:29
  Speaker 6: I go to Gretchen. It is time we start building
• 21:33
  Speaker 6: new homes.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: Gunsmoke, transcribed under the direction of Norman McDonald, stars William
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: Conrad as Matt Dillon, U.S.
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: Marshal.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: Tonight's story was specially written for Gunsmoke by Mr. McDonald,
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: with music composed and conducted by Rex Corey. Featured in
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: the cast were John Daner, Gene Bates, Vic Perrin, and
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: Luke Krugman. Harley Bear is Chester, Howard McNair is Doc,
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: and Georgia Ellis is Kitty. George Walsh speaking. Join us
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: again next week as Matt Dillon, U.S.
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: Marshal, fights to.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: Bring law and order out of the wild violence of
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: the West in Gunsmoke.
• 22:25
  Speaker 11: When rustlers are on the loose, Gene Autry isn't long
• 22:28
  Speaker 11: getting on their trail tomorrow night on most of these
• 22:31
  Speaker 11: same CBS stations. Don't miss Gene's adventure titled Maisie's Boys.
• 22:36
  Speaker 11: And a hard lot you'll find them too. It's the
• 22:39
  Speaker 11: Gene Autry Show with songs by the Melody Ranchers and
• 22:41
  Speaker 11: Adventure 2 tomorrow night at the Star's Address. Stay tuned
• 22:46
  Speaker 11: now for Gangbusters, which follows immediately over most of these
• 22:49
  Speaker 11: same stations.
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: This is the CBS Radio Network.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: That was Gunsmoke, the blacksmith. First heard June 5th, 1954.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: This is Victor Sterling. Until next time, good night. Follow
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Gunsmoke for more classic broadcasts.