Classic Radio 11-13-25 - The Preacher, The Map, and the Dam - Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cox

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That's all coming up on this. You're happy. It's Thursday,
thirteenth day of November, three hundred and seventeenth day of

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the year, forty eight days left. In twenty two twenty five,
Collier's Magazine on this date. In nineteen oh nine accused
Secretary of the Interior Richard Ballinger of questionable dealings in
Alaskan coal fields. The Supreme Court declared Alabama and Montgomery
laws requiring segregated bus as illegal, ending the Montgomery bus

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boycott on this dated in nineteen fifty six. It was
on this date in nineteen sixty, sixty five years ago. Today,
Sammy Davis Junior married Swedish actress Mae Britt. At that
time sixty five years ago, interracial marriage still illegal in
thirty one of the fifty United States. The American Space

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pro Mariner nine became the first spacecraft orbit another planet
in nineteen seventy one, swinging its planned trajectory around Mars
without a hitch. Nuclear activist Karen Silkwood killed in a
car crash on this date in nineteen seventy four while
she was traveling to an interview with New York Times
reporter David Burnham. In nineteen seventy four, Ron Debayo Junior

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murdered his family in Amityville, New York, the basis of
the Amityville Horror. A boxing match held in Las Vegas
on this night in nineteen eighty two ended when ray
Mancini defeated Kim duck Ku.

Speaker 8 (02:15):
I was on top of the world. You know, I
was just twenty one years old. I was I had
reached my peak as a fighter. You know, I was
riding a wave. Well, they told me that I was
going to fight the PM Pacific Asian Champion to woo Kim.
I knew it'd be an action fight, but I felt
my strength would overcome and my ability would be able.

Speaker 5 (02:35):
To defeat him.

Speaker 8 (02:37):
So at the beginning of the fourteenth rownt I ran
across the ring and I noticed that he was coming
off his so slow, So right away I jumped on
him as the right hand, I hit him left hook right,
and then a straight right hand cut him right on
the chin and dropped him. Would you see a guy
go down? You feel like hercules, You feel like a
shark smelling blood. At the cond of nine, he held

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on the room and pulled himself up, but that he
staggered back and the referee, Richard Green stopped it. I
never knew that it got killed off by stretcher. I
never knew that unt I saw on TV. Immarily after
the fight, we were in my.

Speaker 5 (03:17):
Hotel room.

Speaker 8 (03:18):
My trainer, Mfred Griffith came up. He said, Ray don't
look good. I swear I said, this boy, Kim don't
look good. He said, you better prepare yourself for the worst.

Speaker 7 (03:28):
Raymond Sini Kim's death five days later led to significant
changes in boxing. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, designed by Maya Linn,
dedicated on this state in nineteen eighty two. On the
National Mall in Washington, d C. One of the speakers
that they took note of the black granite walls that
bears the name of the war dead.

Speaker 9 (03:49):
We see reflected in a dark mirror, demly a chance
now to let go of the pain the grief.

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On this date, in nineteen eighty three, ignoring advisors who
fared for his safety, President Ronald Reagan visited the militarized
zone between North Korea and South Korea and spoke with
soldiers there.

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We fully understand the hardship of your task.

Speaker 10 (04:14):
We know about the cold, windswept nights that leave you
aching from head to foot, I'm sure.

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In other news on this date in history, zav R.
Suarez sworn in as Miami's first Cuban born mayor in
nineteen eighty five. Released in theaters on the State in
nineteen ninety one, Beauty and the Beast. Voters in Sweden
on the state in nineteen ninety four decided to join
the European Union in a referendum. The Disney musical The
Lion King opened on Broadway in nineteen ninety seven. President

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Clinton agreed on this date in nineteen ninety eight to
pay Paula Jones eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars to
settle a sexual harassment lawsuit, in the first such act
since World War Two. President Bush signed an executive order
on this date in two thousand one allowing military tribunals
against any foreigners suspected of having connections to terrorist acts

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or planned acts on the US. Afghanistan's ruling Talaman abandoned
the capitol Kabbal on this date in two thousand and
one without a fight, allowing US back Northern Alliance fighters
to take over the city. Alabama's Chief Justice Roy Moore
thrown off the bench on this date in two thousand
and three by a judicial ethics panel after refusing to

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remove a granite ten Commandments monument from the state courthouse
was on this date. In two thousand and nine, Attorney
General Eric Holder announced plans to try profess nine to
eleven Mastermind colleague Chik Muhammad, and four others in civilian
court in New York in two thousand and nine. Obama
administration later backed off the plan. In twenty thirteen, Hawaii

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legalized same sex marriage. A World Trade for World Trade
Center officially opened on this date. In twenty thirteen. The
worst attack on French soil since World War II took
place on this date. In twenty fifteen, as Islamic State
militants carried out coordinated attacks in Paris on the National Stadium,
restaurants and a crowded concert hall, killing one hundred and

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thirty people and wounding more than three hundred and fifty.
This woman, Charlotte, eating dinner when the shooting began.

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We immediately dropped the floor as we continued to hear
numerous gunshots. For the woman next to me had a
fatal injury.

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And it was three years ago today a mass stabbing
in Moscow, Idaho for University of Idaho students killed in
off Cannapis campus housing. Among those passing away on this
date in history, Italian film director Vittorio de Sica, comedian
Junior Samples, pro wrestler Eddie Guerrero, and singer songwriter Leon Russell.

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This is the birthdate of a man with an amazing voice, Alexander.

Speaker 12 (07:00):
Scorby the first Book of Moses called Genesis Chapter one.
In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth,
and the earth was without form and void, and darkness
was upon the face of the deep, and the spirit
of God moved upon the face of the waters, and

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God said, let there be light.

Speaker 13 (07:27):
And there was light.

Speaker 12 (07:29):
And God saw the light that.

Speaker 13 (07:31):
It was good.

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And God divided the light from the darkness. And God
called the light day, and the darkness he called night.
And the evening and the morning were the first day.

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Alexander Scorby recorded the entire Bible, and you can find
it all at scorebe dot com, sco Rby dot com.
It's available for purchaseing MP three, or they have links
to YouTube where you can see it with us pain
He was born on this date in history, as was

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Spine actor Jack Elim, the game show host Jack Nars,
another delightful man that we lost, the leader of the
Westboro Baptist Church, Fred Phelps, actor Richard Mulligan, producer, director, writer,
actor Gary Marshall, and the young man who sang why
can't we Live together? Timmy Thomas, all born on this

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date in history. They have all left the building.

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Hi, this is Jeff Foxworthy. It is now time for
the birthday announcements.

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The following people are now officially older than Dirt.

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From Criminal Minds. Joe Mantegna is seventy eight today, Princis.

Speaker 15 (08:44):
Goring abductor three women, we're looking for a fourth.

Speaker 7 (08:48):
Joe Mantagna is seventy eight. Today, actor producer Chris Noth
is seventy one.

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I'm asking the Republicans and Democrats to join me in
a bipartisan conversation to find.

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From the Good Wife. Chris Knoth is seventy one, Whoopy
Goldberg's seventy. From Scrubs in the Middle, Neil Flynn is
sixty five, Jimmy Kimmel fifty eight, and from high school
musical Monique Coleman is forty five. Those just a few
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I think is the way they refer to it now. Marshall,
Matt Dillon William Conrad Gun Smoke seventy years ago, November thirteenth,

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nineteen fifty five, The story of the Preacher.

Speaker 2 (13:04):
Gun Smoke, brought to you by Chesterfieve to put a
smile in your smoking always by Chesterfieve, made the modern
way with accuray. Around Dodge City and in the territory
on West, there's just one way to handle the killers

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and the spoilers, and that's with a US Marshall and
the smell of gun Smoke. Guns Smoke, starring William Conrad,

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The transcribed story of the violence that moved west with
young America and the story of a man who moved
with it.

Speaker 18 (13:59):
I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall, the first
man they look for and the last they want to meet.
It's a chancy job and it makes a man watchful
and a little lonely. John John I said something wrong, Chester.

Speaker 19 (14:44):
There's going to be a fight up there with the
stage office. You better coming, You don't.

Speaker 18 (14:47):
What's the trouble.

Speaker 19 (14:48):
They're around back of the stage. You can't see him
from here.

Speaker 2 (14:50):
Who is it?

Speaker 19 (14:51):
A couple of packers. One's a great big man with
red here about the biggest man I ever seen.

Speaker 18 (14:55):
The other one, iron O.

Speaker 20 (14:56):
He's kind of old, real thin and poor, looking like
he'd been road half to death.

Speaker 21 (15:01):
Oh that red headed double.

Speaker 19 (15:02):
Ruined him, mister Dunn.

Speaker 18 (15:03):
The size of a man doesn't matter much to a
six gun Chester.

Speaker 19 (15:06):
They ain't armed, neither one of them carrying no gun.

Speaker 18 (15:09):
Then they won't get in too much trouble.

Speaker 6 (15:10):
Wait you see him, that big one.

Speaker 19 (15:12):
He's got hands like shovels.

Speaker 18 (15:14):
Mister Dun, Yeah, I can see him.

Speaker 19 (15:16):
Oh look how he's slapping that poor little color.

Speaker 21 (15:18):
If he really hit him.

Speaker 22 (15:19):
He killing him.

Speaker 23 (15:22):
Get your hands on. How can I beat a man
who won't fight him?

Speaker 18 (15:26):
All right, back, everybody, all right, hauling? That's enough?

Speaker 23 (15:42):
What are you saying?

Speaker 24 (15:43):
That's enough?

Speaker 18 (15:45):
He ain't by far, this man doesn't even fighting you.

Speaker 23 (15:49):
I'm trying to make him fight, ay.

Speaker 18 (15:51):
And why should they fight?

Speaker 25 (15:53):
Because we come in on that stage coach together, and
he sat there the whole eight hours in the bared
at the floor, never said a word like that drove
me crazy.

Speaker 18 (16:06):
I think it did drive you crazy. He isn't gonna
hurt you anymore, mister that. You better get out of here.

Speaker 24 (16:14):
I don't care what he does.

Speaker 26 (16:18):
You fight him mister, you'll break him up a little.

Speaker 18 (16:23):
All what nobody's gonna touch him?

Speaker 23 (16:25):
Were you scared of this?

Speaker 18 (16:26):
Old Crows said, leave him alone?

Speaker 25 (16:29):
You said, you're talking the same kayler, mister, I'm a
bear cat.

Speaker 23 (16:37):
People do what I say.

Speaker 18 (16:40):
You're talking to a United States Marshall. Marshall, will Now,
how come you're not wearing a gun?

Speaker 13 (16:48):
Killer?

Speaker 23 (16:49):
Man's gotta wear gun?

Speaker 18 (16:51):
Most men don't.

Speaker 26 (16:53):
My hands do my fighting.

Speaker 18 (16:54):
And you're bicking enough to whip most of a hymn alive,
aren't you?

Speaker 23 (16:57):
I sure, am?

Speaker 18 (16:58):
But you go on arm so they can use his
gun against you if he'd be held up from murder
if he did, wouldn't they? Hew, you have figured yourself
a nice, big advantage killer. But you're a coward. What
you're a coward, And I'd still be a fool to
go up against your bare handed.

Speaker 26 (17:18):
You don't dare use that gun.

Speaker 6 (17:22):
You said so yourself.

Speaker 18 (17:23):
There are lots of ways to use a gun. Killer, Marshall.

Speaker 25 (17:28):
I'm gonna knock your head into peak, and then I'm
gonna knock the peak off.

Speaker 27 (17:35):
Right now, he dropped like a pool as ki.

Speaker 24 (17:48):
You killed the man because of me.

Speaker 18 (17:51):
I haven't killed him, but he's gonna be kind of
touchy when he comes to and you better get out
of sight.

Speaker 28 (17:56):
Men are always fighting each other.

Speaker 26 (17:59):
Who are you?

Speaker 24 (18:02):
My name's Seth Tandy Marshall or Tuning.

Speaker 18 (18:05):
If I don't like men fighting, Dodgers, no town for
you Chesters. She drust some water on Kidder and if
he wants more fight, tell him I'll be in my office.

Speaker 13 (18:33):
Stop.

Speaker 28 (18:35):
Start smoking with a smile with chester.

Speaker 2 (18:38):
Field, Yes, but a smile in your smoking. It's as
easy as ABC because Chesterfields made with accurra are a
always milder b, better tasting, c cooler smoking. Yes, a
Chesterfield is always milder.

Speaker 29 (18:55):
Accurrae controls your Chesterfield in the making, gives it a
more even distribution. Fine tobaccos that burn more evenly smoke
much milder.

Speaker 2 (19:04):
A Chesterfield is better tasting.

Speaker 29 (19:06):
And accurate Chesterfield draws more easily, lets you enjoy all
the flavor.

Speaker 2 (19:10):
And a Chesterfield is cooler smoking.

Speaker 29 (19:13):
Fourteen percent more perfectly packed than cigarettes made without accurate.
You enjoy cooler smoking, no hot spots, no hard draw.

Speaker 2 (19:22):
So always buy Chesterfield.

Speaker 4 (19:25):
The smile and you smoke and just give them a
dry light up.

Speaker 9 (19:29):
A Chesterfield they satisfyed.

Speaker 19 (20:02):
Uh, Keeller, come too, all right, mister, you didn't hurt
him so very.

Speaker 18 (20:05):
Bad, And I haven't been worrying about that, trust him. No,
sure that's been two hours. It's after dark. He couldn't
have been unconscious all this time.

Speaker 30 (20:13):
No, sure he wasn't.

Speaker 20 (20:14):
Uh see, I stopped off to the tom soil, I
got me my winter haircut.

Speaker 19 (20:21):
Or you should have seen killer when he come to
My goodness, he is mad. He wasn't getting buffaloed as
much as everybody laughing at him. Seems like he just
can't stand that.

Speaker 23 (20:29):
He looked like he was about to go.

Speaker 18 (20:30):
Wid Oh, there'll be more trouble from him.

Speaker 13 (20:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 20 (20:33):
See, it's like this friend of his that showed up
after the fight, a fella called humberd He just couldn't
believe it when he seen Keller lay in there, this humbred.

Speaker 19 (20:41):
He said somebody would get killed for it.

Speaker 18 (20:43):
Sure, Chuster, I'm gonna go down to the Long Branch
and have a drink.

Speaker 23 (20:48):
Oh wow, walk part way, will you?

Speaker 13 (20:50):
I can.

Speaker 18 (20:56):
What happened to that's seth Tandy.

Speaker 19 (20:58):
I don't know he laughed, but there's something wrong with him.
Mister Dylan, did you know it's the funny look on him. Well,
he's got eyes like a blind horse. What kind of
man is he?

Speaker 18 (21:08):
All I know is he's the kind that lets himself
get knocked around. It doesn't seem to care one way
or the other. Yeah, you want to drink.

Speaker 31 (21:16):
I'm trying to thank you.

Speaker 19 (21:18):
I got business, but you tell miss kiddie.

Speaker 31 (21:20):
Hello, huh yeah, sure, evening math.

Speaker 18 (21:35):
As this glass yours.

Speaker 13 (21:37):
One of the.

Speaker 1 (21:37):
Girls brought it over, but she's busy now that beer
pictures hers too.

Speaker 18 (21:42):
I'll leave some money with you and you can give
it to her, they said.

Speaker 1 (21:47):
Santa Fe is going to start laying track west of
here soon.

Speaker 18 (21:51):
Yeah, more railroad, more people, more trouble. I'm sorry, kitty,
I'm in a poor mood.

Speaker 21 (22:05):
Hang up your gun, Matt, Yeah, and do what.

Speaker 18 (22:08):
I'm too lazy to work for a living.

Speaker 1 (22:10):
I suppose keeping the peace around there isn't work. And
then there's getting shot.

Speaker 18 (22:15):
Spent a long time since anybody put a bullet in me, kitty,
just cause you're learning the duck. You know, up in
Canada they got a bird called a loon, and they
claim that these loans really can duck a bullet.

Speaker 32 (22:30):
Why don't you go up there and study him a while,
see how they do it.

Speaker 18 (22:34):
It might be a good idea.

Speaker 19 (22:36):
Mister Dylan.

Speaker 21 (22:38):
Mis kitty, what's the trouble Chester?

Speaker 19 (22:40):
That fellow Tandy said?

Speaker 13 (22:41):
Tandy?

Speaker 20 (22:41):
What about him?

Speaker 32 (22:42):
Well?

Speaker 19 (22:42):
Some fellows he him stumble out of an alley just now.
They took him up to the dogs.

Speaker 21 (22:46):
He was all beat up.

Speaker 19 (22:47):
Oh, somebody had really worked on him.

Speaker 12 (22:49):
Oh, I don't know.

Speaker 19 (22:50):
Nobody's seen it happen.

Speaker 18 (22:51):
All right, let's get up to Doc's Chester. We'll see
you later, Kitty.

Speaker 32 (22:53):
Sure a mess.

Speaker 23 (23:10):
Come in? Come in?

Speaker 18 (23:14):
Oh hello, man, Chest, how's Tandy? Doctor?

Speaker 33 (23:18):
Well, there's nothing broken that I can find, but he's
sure colored up.

Speaker 19 (23:23):
He's sitting in the back room there if you want
to see him.

Speaker 18 (23:26):
How'd he say?

Speaker 6 (23:26):
Who did it?

Speaker 24 (23:27):
Oh?

Speaker 33 (23:28):
He hasn't said a word about anything so far. Maybe
you can get him to talk, all right, let's stand
back Chest.

Speaker 31 (23:35):
Well okay, now.

Speaker 18 (23:42):
Well how do you feel? Tandayu? Tandy? I want to
know who did this? I'm sure it was Sam Keeler,
but I want to hear it from you.

Speaker 24 (23:56):
No, Marshall, there's been enough.

Speaker 18 (24:00):
The next time he might carry it, Tanny.

Speaker 28 (24:02):
It doesn't matter what it's not important, not no more.

Speaker 18 (24:09):
What's your trouble, Tanny? Maybe I can help you.

Speaker 28 (24:12):
Nobody can help me, Marshall. The man loses faith in
his God, he loses everything. I've lost my faith. I
no longer believe.

Speaker 2 (24:26):
I am.

Speaker 18 (24:28):
You're a preacher.

Speaker 24 (24:30):
I was a preacher thirty years Now.

Speaker 18 (24:33):
What you come to dodge for?

Speaker 24 (24:36):
No reasons?

Speaker 28 (24:37):
To get away from people that knew me before and
didn't want them to see me. Maybe start them dalting too.
I've got nothing left, Marshall. It doesn't matter what happens
to me now.

Speaker 13 (24:56):
I've dark.

Speaker 18 (24:59):
I heard him, man, Well tell him something.

Speaker 33 (25:01):
I don't know what to tell him. He's a preacher,
he doesn't believe in God anymore. Oh man, I'm an
ignorant frontier doctor. Sure I can dig bullets out of
people like this, sew him up too. I can shove
their bones back in the place. But nobody ever taught
me how to patch up a preacher who's lost his religion.

Speaker 28 (25:20):
Don't trouble yourselves about me, gentlemen.

Speaker 24 (25:23):
I'll be moving on.

Speaker 18 (25:25):
No, not tonight. You want now, you can do what
you want tomorrow, But tonight, either you or Sam Keeler
is gonna sleep in jail, jail. I'm not gonna let
Keeler catch you again tonight, and if you won't say
it was him, I can't arrest him. Oh well, did
he do.

Speaker 2 (25:44):
It, Marshall.

Speaker 26 (25:47):
I'll sleep in your jail.

Speaker 18 (25:55):
Maybe seth. Tanny didn't care what happened to himself, but
he sure went out of his way to keep other
people from having any trouble. But I put Sam Keeler
in jail that night. That had been quite a battle,
and Tandy knew it. So we took him downstairs, and
after we found him something to eat, we gave him
a blanket and locked him in a cell where he'd
be safe. Chester slept in the office with a shotgun

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by his bed, and after looking the town over for
a couple of hours, I went to my room. It
was just after daylight when I was awakening.

Speaker 9 (26:31):
What you done, oh Chester, stop the racket and come
on in.

Speaker 23 (26:39):
The door's unlocked.

Speaker 18 (26:41):
All What time is it?

Speaker 34 (26:46):
Chester?

Speaker 18 (26:46):
What are you doing here?

Speaker 19 (26:47):
It's that Tandy?

Speaker 30 (26:48):
He's gone. What you doing?

Speaker 25 (26:50):
What?

Speaker 24 (26:50):
Yes?

Speaker 35 (26:51):
Right?

Speaker 20 (26:51):
I went out to get us some breakfast and he
didn't feel like going, so I unlocked his sail and
left him sitting there in the office, and when I
got back he was gone.

Speaker 13 (26:57):
Here.

Speaker 19 (26:57):
I found this note stuck on the door.

Speaker 18 (27:02):
Marshall, if you want to see Seth Tanney alive, come
to Turkey Bend at noon. No loan and unarmed, ain't
sign No, it doesn't.

Speaker 19 (27:12):
Have to be sam Keeler huh yeah, what are you
gonna do?

Speaker 18 (27:18):
What it says?

Speaker 19 (27:19):
I guess, but you can't go up there alone not
wearing no gun. Mister Dylan, he'll kill you. That Sam
Keeller could kill him.

Speaker 18 (27:24):
I thought, what will happen to Tanny?

Speaker 19 (27:26):
He don't care what happens to him, he staid Joe hisself.
You'd be risking your life for a man who don't
even care about living.

Speaker 18 (27:36):
Chester Go to the stable and get my horse while
I'm dressing, will you?

Speaker 31 (27:42):
And you're gonna do it?

Speaker 18 (27:43):
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Speaker 18 (29:21):
Maybe chester was right, Maybe it didn't make sense. That's
still I had to do it. It was about twenty
miles up river to Turkey Bend, and I got there
about noon. I waited around for a while, and then
Keeler's friend Humbert rode up. He was unarmed too. He
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he motioned me to ride up stream ahead of him.
About a half hour later we reached their camp. Keeler
was there and seth Tandy sitting on a small pile
of cottonwood logs, staring blankly at the fire. I got
on and one up to him.

Speaker 2 (30:03):
Here's that noon, Keller, real prompt.

Speaker 26 (30:06):
Marshall does things right, don't you. Marshall?

Speaker 13 (30:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 35 (30:12):
Sometimes, so you're done this right, you come alone and
you ain't armed. You done your part and I done mine.
There's your friend Dandy.

Speaker 24 (30:25):
And he's still alive.

Speaker 18 (30:28):
What do you want, killer, I'll tell you, Marshall.

Speaker 35 (30:33):
You you had everybody laughing at me back in Dodge.

Speaker 26 (30:39):
I don't like that. I can't stand people laughing at me.

Speaker 18 (30:44):
Once I got to do with seth Tane started over
him and he's going to finish over him. What do
you mean.

Speaker 35 (30:53):
I'm gonna beat him to death, Marshall, and you're going
to stay in.

Speaker 6 (31:00):
There and watch me do it.

Speaker 35 (31:02):
No, wait a minute, and when there's nothing left to him, I'm.

Speaker 26 (31:08):
Going to go to work on you.

Speaker 23 (31:10):
No, you shut up, Candy.

Speaker 24 (31:13):
I don't care what happens to me.

Speaker 28 (31:14):
But the Marshall came risking his.

Speaker 26 (31:16):
Life, he did for sure, Candy.

Speaker 18 (31:19):
Wait a minute, Killer, Now what do you want?

Speaker 13 (31:22):
Humbert?

Speaker 37 (31:23):
You told me you were gonna have a little fun.
You didn't say nothing about killing people.

Speaker 13 (31:27):
Well, I like this.

Speaker 21 (31:29):
I don't want the part of it.

Speaker 26 (31:31):
What's the matter with you, Humbert?

Speaker 37 (31:33):
I don't hold with killing people. I don't want to
end up on a rope.

Speaker 26 (31:38):
You don't like it.

Speaker 23 (31:41):
Don't you start.

Speaker 13 (31:42):
Nothing with me?

Speaker 23 (31:42):
Now you leave me alone, I'll learn you to go
again me. No, God, you're loone with.

Speaker 32 (31:52):
Nothing.

Speaker 18 (31:53):
Get out of my way. I want one of those
flows Taylor O kailor.

Speaker 23 (32:21):
Your brain the Marshall to save my life of that log.

Speaker 18 (32:25):
Yeah, your life and tanday isn't probably mine.

Speaker 37 (32:31):
I got a gun over here in my blanket, Marshall.
I'll give it to you before it comes.

Speaker 18 (32:36):
To okay, Marsha. Yeah, what you came here knowing you
might be killed, and there's always a chance of that.

Speaker 28 (32:47):
But you came willing to sacrifice your life to save mine,
and no one mine's worthless.

Speaker 18 (32:57):
You listen to me, No man his life is worthless, tending,
whether he thinks so or not.

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I can see that now.

Speaker 18 (33:09):
Well you're riding on from here.

Speaker 28 (33:12):
Oh no, no, marsh I'm going back. My foot stands
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Good Night, Gun Smoke, We're Houston.

Speaker 14 (34:50):
Directed by Norman McConnell, stars William Conrad as Matt Dylan
Us Marshall. Our story was specially written for Gunsmoked by
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patterns by Tom Henley and Phil Jane. Featured in the
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Speaker 2 (36:15):
Of the wild violence of the West End. Gun Smoke.

Speaker 7 (37:24):
Seventy years ago, November thirteenth, nineteen fifty five. Gun Smoke
here on Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt cogs up. Next.
John Dayner, whom you heard yesterday as a ish you'll
hear him today is Paladin and have gun will travel?

Speaker 2 (37:47):
Will you take the step?

Speaker 19 (37:51):
Hi?

Speaker 42 (37:51):
Ded?

Speaker 43 (37:51):
You want some help washing the car?

Speaker 1 (37:53):
What?

Speaker 24 (37:54):
Oh sure?

Speaker 2 (37:55):
Tom?

Speaker 43 (37:55):
You want something? Nothing?

Speaker 13 (37:57):
Pop?

Speaker 30 (37:58):
Mind?

Speaker 43 (37:58):
If I put some civil defense stickers in here? Stickers
were four oh see pomp put them on the radio
down at six forty and twelve forty that's conor.

Speaker 16 (38:07):
Rad four Wheels to Survival. That's your car in the
civil defense emergency. It will help you move away from
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It's in good mechanical condition, tires properly inflated, battery and
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Speaker 16 (38:22):
Mark your car radio at six forty and twelve forty
for official information.

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Another sticker at the half full mark will help remind
you to keep plenty of gasoline in the tank.

Speaker 16 (38:31):
Know the six steps to survival. Make this year your
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Speaker 44 (38:38):
Civil Defense an American tradition now.

Speaker 7 (38:42):
On Classic Radio Theater with Why at Couch John Danerius
Paladin in an episode A Half Gun will Travel from
sixty five years ago today November thirteenth, nineteen sixty The
Story of the Map.

Speaker 45 (39:04):
I memorized the map and destroyed it. If you'll kill me,
you'll never find the money.

Speaker 46 (39:22):
Have gone. We'll travel, starring mister John Dayner as Paladin.
San Francisco, eighteen seventy five, The Carlton Hotel, headquarters of
a man called Paladins.

Speaker 45 (39:51):
Paladin all right, yes, yes, yes, what's all the excitement?

Speaker 6 (40:00):
You in trouble with the army. Trouble with the army. No, oh,
that's a good Why do you ask?

Speaker 43 (40:06):
Well?

Speaker 6 (40:06):
Here boy, here, army colonel ask for you downstairs? Hey boy, thought,
maybe are you in trouble. I'll give you a chance
to get away.

Speaker 5 (40:13):
Oh too late.

Speaker 45 (40:15):
Huh it's Potter, Colonel Potter, Well potter, what are you
doing to see it?

Speaker 6 (40:22):
Last I heard of you, you.

Speaker 45 (40:23):
Were on the trail of those payroll bandits. What are
you doing now? I'm still on their trail, That's all.
I have come to you.

Speaker 6 (40:29):
Three years and you still haven't caught them. What come
on in come money?

Speaker 45 (40:32):
Thanks, I'll talk to you later, Hey boy.

Speaker 6 (40:36):
Well, sit down, John, have a cigar? Oh, thank you here?

Speaker 47 (40:50):
Well you you seem to have done all right, ballad.

Speaker 6 (40:56):
I try. I just hope you're not so well off.
You can't you use five hundred dollars.

Speaker 45 (41:01):
I can always use five hundred dollars. John, you want
me to join the search. We're getting close to him Paladin.
With your help, I think we can get him.

Speaker 6 (41:09):
How close are you? How much do you remember the case?

Speaker 45 (41:13):
Let me think it was a payroll for Fort Anderson.
Two men made off of the money and they took
how much was it? Eighty thousand dollars ninety ninety and
there were three men in on it.

Speaker 47 (41:24):
Three, that's right. We discovered there was an army man involved.
He did all the inside work. Didn't take as long
as find him. A private by the name of Jim Griffin.
We've been hauling him in the prison at the presidio.
Money's not doing him much good. No, no, but he
never got his hands on it anyway.

Speaker 6 (41:41):
What makes you think? So this what's that?

Speaker 47 (41:46):
We found it in his personal effects. It's a piece
of a map. It indicates the position of the payroll money.
And you think they buried yes, yes, Jim Griffin's been
in the hospital at the prison for the last six months.
Part of that time he's been hirious.

Speaker 45 (42:01):
We've heard him mumbling about the map, and from what
we can gather, he and the other two men made
a pack to have somebody bury the money and draw
up a map, and apparently they divided the map into
three pieces. Who buried the money, well, we don't know,
but whoever it was, they killed him. We learned that
much from Griffin. He's also been talking about meeting the
others on December twelfth or it'll be too late.

Speaker 6 (42:24):
I see. Now, where do I fit in with your plans?

Speaker 47 (42:28):
Well, Jim Griffin died this morning.

Speaker 6 (42:33):
Huh, we want you to be Jim Griffin. What are
you talking about? John?

Speaker 47 (42:39):
Here, take a look at this tin type. Let's see,
it's a picture of Griffin taking several years ago. This
this is Griffin. You look enough liking to be his
twin paladin.

Speaker 6 (42:57):
Will you do it?

Speaker 25 (43:00):
Well?

Speaker 24 (43:00):
I don't know, John, This map.

Speaker 6 (43:03):
Gives no location. I wouldn't know where to start.

Speaker 47 (43:06):
Oh, we can help you there. Griffin has a girlfriend
who's come to visit him three or four times. She
probably knows where.

Speaker 5 (43:13):
The meeting place is.

Speaker 6 (43:14):
And if she doesn't, maybe.

Speaker 47 (43:17):
The other two men will come looking for you. Like
I said, there's a five hundred dollars reward providing a
course that you get the proof on the other man
and get the money back.

Speaker 45 (43:33):
How do you want the money stock, John, Then you'll
do it. I'll do it, Colonel Potter, shake hands with
Jim Griffin.

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Speaker 45 (44:48):
Three days later, I had become Jim Griffin. Colonel Potter
gave me as much information as they had of the
man's background, and I was dishonorably discharged from the Army.
I even said goodbye to Griffin's old the cell mates,
and to a man.

Speaker 6 (45:01):
They accepted me.

Speaker 45 (45:03):
But the real test was to come with Anna Baker,
Griffin's girlfriend. The colonel's men had found out that she
lived with her mother fifteen.

Speaker 6 (45:10):
Miles from San Francisco.

Speaker 45 (45:12):
If I could get by the girl, I could get
by anybody as Jim Griffin. Early one morning, I rode
out there, and as I came into the yard, an
old woman greeted me, followed.

Speaker 6 (45:22):
By a flock of chicken when she had been feeding.
Hello there. Yes, yes, he miss Baker. Don't you know me?

Speaker 18 (45:33):
I know you?

Speaker 6 (45:35):
Ah, I've I've come to see Anna.

Speaker 32 (45:39):
She's not here. It was up to me.

Speaker 11 (45:42):
She'd never be here to you, Griffin, go on, I
got work to do.

Speaker 6 (45:52):
When will she be back?

Speaker 43 (45:53):
I don't know.

Speaker 32 (45:55):
Took a horse to be shod.

Speaker 6 (45:56):
Don't you mind if I wait?

Speaker 11 (45:58):
Jim Griffin, you a welcome here. You've brought nothing but
Sarah to us. Now, why don't you just ride out
of Anna's life?

Speaker 6 (46:06):
I am leaving missus Baker.

Speaker 45 (46:07):
I I wanted to say goodbye Dinna.

Speaker 11 (46:11):
If she comes, have you a goodbye and be done
with her.

Speaker 6 (46:15):
Jim, Hello, Anna, Jim.

Speaker 32 (46:19):
They told me you were sick. They wouldn't let me
see you. They said you didn't know when when I
could see you?

Speaker 45 (46:27):
What's the matter? Why are you looking at me that way?

Speaker 32 (46:32):
You've uh you've changed? Jim?

Speaker 6 (46:35):
Yeah, Well, prison does things to him.

Speaker 32 (46:38):
Man ask me. It ain't done enough to you? Mother? Please?

Speaker 18 (46:42):
He should have killed.

Speaker 32 (46:43):
Him, Jim, are you you're out of the army now?

Speaker 6 (46:49):
I'm out all right? For good?

Speaker 13 (46:51):
Anna?

Speaker 32 (46:53):
Wiley Carson was by a day before yesterday. Wiley, Yes,
he said I was to see you. They wouldn't let
me in at the prison. He said, I was to
get something from you.

Speaker 13 (47:04):
Oh what.

Speaker 30 (47:06):
You know?

Speaker 32 (47:07):
The piece of math? Have you got it?

Speaker 6 (47:10):
Yeah, I've got him.

Speaker 32 (47:12):
Wiley said, maybe you'd give it to me. Now that
you're out, you can meet him yourself.

Speaker 6 (47:18):
Did he say?

Speaker 32 (47:19):
Where the Blue Nose Saloon in Johnson City? But you
have to hurry?

Speaker 6 (47:24):
Yeah? Will you?

Speaker 32 (47:27):
Will you come back this way? Jim?

Speaker 6 (47:30):
You know I will Anna. It's a promise, it's a promise.
Good luck by.

Speaker 45 (47:45):
Johnson City consisted of a main street, some twenty odd houses,
and a Blue Nosed saloon.

Speaker 6 (47:51):
There I waited for Wiley Carson. I didn't know what he.

Speaker 45 (47:54):
Looked like, but I sat at a table where I
could see anyone who entered, and they could see me.

Speaker 6 (48:00):
Wait a whole day, and then most of another.

Speaker 23 (48:04):
I'm about another drink, mister.

Speaker 6 (48:07):
Uh well yeah, fine, all right right away.

Speaker 3 (48:10):
I see now he'd ain't none of my business?

Speaker 2 (48:12):
But are you waiting for somebody?

Speaker 6 (48:14):
You're right, it isn't any of your business? And no
offense mister, just today.

Speaker 46 (48:19):
I don't remember seeing you before, and I been sitting
here for two days. Now, are you just passing through?

Speaker 13 (48:25):
Maybe?

Speaker 31 (48:25):
Maybe not in a no offense now you understand that
he just thought it.

Speaker 5 (48:28):
Asked tender, I've got a drink.

Speaker 2 (48:30):
They coming right away, mister.

Speaker 10 (48:34):
Well look here, what ain't there's the light of the army.
Jim Griffin, Hello, Wiley bye, tender. You can bring my
drink over here. Yes, sir, this is a surprise. Didn't
think they'd ever let you out. I was expecting Anna.

Speaker 6 (48:49):
And I decided to come myself.

Speaker 10 (48:52):
You look different, Jim at prison done things to you.

Speaker 6 (48:57):
You try it sometime.

Speaker 10 (48:59):
You hear Curtis either warden, Yeah, discharge h dishonorable.

Speaker 5 (49:05):
Sounds like maybe they'd know we was to have a meeting.

Speaker 6 (49:10):
What are you trying to say?

Speaker 10 (49:11):
I'm saying, maybe you're working for the army now. Maybe
a couple of years in prison they got you.

Speaker 45 (49:17):
You listen to me because I spent two years in
a rotten, stinking hole, just dreaming of the time when
we can get that money.

Speaker 5 (49:27):
I was wrong, Jimmy, that prison makes you mean her never.

Speaker 45 (49:32):
You just remember that whiley I remember, Jim.

Speaker 19 (49:41):
You you two friends.

Speaker 46 (49:43):
Ready for your drinks?

Speaker 6 (49:44):
Now just set them down.

Speaker 2 (49:47):
Yes, sir, you.

Speaker 5 (49:50):
You bring your piece of the map.

Speaker 6 (49:53):
I've got it.

Speaker 10 (49:54):
Let's see it, I said, I've got it right, all right,
don't get hard about it.

Speaker 6 (50:01):
Now you've been outside. What are the plans now?

Speaker 5 (50:04):
Same as I wore three years ago?

Speaker 10 (50:06):
All right, we meet Jake tomorrow at the Cabinet hard Rock,
just like we agreed, Jim, Then.

Speaker 6 (50:13):
We better get started drink up.

Speaker 5 (50:15):
Yeah, this stuff so bad. Better take a couple of
bottles with us.

Speaker 6 (50:21):
Suit yourself.

Speaker 10 (50:24):
You wait the old Jim, I remember the old days.
You'd have wanted to bring a bottle yourself.

Speaker 45 (50:28):
You listen to me. There's only one thing I want.
I've been waiting three years for that.

Speaker 5 (50:34):
Money, Jim.

Speaker 6 (50:36):
We all been waiting serving time. I've been thinking two
by four, cell.

Speaker 47 (50:42):
I get me a bottle. We'll go right now, Jim.

Speaker 45 (50:57):
Hard Rock was sixty miles from Johnson City. The most
direct route ran through a series of grassy plateaus that
finally tapered out into high desert country. I knew that
land like the back of my hand, so I knew
the easiest way to get there.

Speaker 6 (51:12):
Wiley and I didn't talk much.

Speaker 45 (51:13):
I preferred not to Towards sundown that day. He began
to try to steer me away from the best route,
but I stuck to my guns. I was soon to
find out the reason for his actions. You're getting off
the trail, jim No, I'm not.

Speaker 6 (51:29):
This is the best way, and you know it.

Speaker 5 (51:31):
I think we ought to be heading more into them hills.

Speaker 45 (51:33):
Oh, this is the way.

Speaker 10 (51:39):
Sure, you don't want to drink, jim No, And I'll
have one. Oh boy, stuff's beginning to taste better the
farther we get from town.

Speaker 45 (51:55):
Yeah, let's go wasting time. Hey, what a minute, Look
over there where? I don't see nothing over that way.

Speaker 6 (52:05):
No horse all saddled. He's just standing there.

Speaker 5 (52:10):
Oh yeah, I see it.

Speaker 6 (52:12):
Come on, come on, and Wiley, there's somebody in the ground.

Speaker 18 (52:25):
So there is.

Speaker 13 (52:32):
The heat.

Speaker 45 (52:32):
Must have gutten, Yeah, they heat. Hey, this man's getting shot. Wiley,
give me a hand.

Speaker 5 (52:43):
That way you are, mister, what are you doing?

Speaker 6 (52:45):
Put that gun away?

Speaker 5 (52:49):
Who are you?

Speaker 6 (52:51):
It's the matter with you?

Speaker 13 (52:52):
Wiley?

Speaker 5 (52:52):
T down your gun?

Speaker 13 (52:54):
Why?

Speaker 10 (52:54):
Because that ain't no man lying there. That's Jake, the
one we're supposed to meet. You didn't recognize him. Not
a gun?

Speaker 47 (53:00):
Throw it down easy, like, Yeah, we're gonna have ourselves
a little talk, and I'm gonna get you a piece
of the map and kill you just like i'd done
to Jake.

Speaker 48 (53:31):
Look, Bob, here's why you can't balance his book. Put
this little item over here and you come out Okay,
you're right, then what's wrong with you?

Speaker 19 (53:38):
I've had a nagging back ache lately with sleepless nights.
Makes me feel worn out.

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And why not do something about it? But what I'd
try Dones pills.

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Speaker 5 (54:42):
All right, that's far enough.

Speaker 10 (54:44):
Sit down right here, I'm gonna find out who you
really are you sure had me full?

Speaker 30 (54:52):
Mister?

Speaker 5 (54:53):
You're enough like Jim to be his twin.

Speaker 6 (54:55):
So you killed Jake to get his piece of them up?
Is that an?

Speaker 5 (54:58):
I'll ask the questions.

Speaker 6 (55:00):
You're tough, aren't you?

Speaker 13 (55:01):
One?

Speaker 10 (55:02):
Parks are that's my business. I'll make you talk. I'll
hand over that map.

Speaker 6 (55:10):
I haven't got it. I guess you think I'm fooling.
I told you I haven't got it.

Speaker 5 (55:16):
It'd be awful easy for me to kill you, mister
and then take it.

Speaker 45 (55:19):
I wouldn't do you any good. I memorized it, threw
it away. You kill me and you won't get anything.

Speaker 6 (55:30):
Let's go call it. You won't kill me, Wiley?

Speaker 45 (55:35):
No, no, no, I didn't think. So we got to
get that money, all right? Then you show me the
pieces of map you have and I can take us
to it.

Speaker 5 (55:46):
Oh, I guess I'm going to have to trust you, mister.

Speaker 6 (55:53):
I guess you aren't that Wiley. H m hmm. Should
be here a whiley unless unless what.

Speaker 45 (56:17):
Hell unless somebody got to it before we didn't, and
keep digging h m h.

Speaker 28 (56:24):
M hmm.

Speaker 6 (56:28):
Yeah, there's something here for sure.

Speaker 45 (56:30):
Yeah, that's the fox I was in. I give me
your hand, dig it out. No, yeah, it's too heavy
for me. Will you give me a hand?

Speaker 26 (56:42):
All right?

Speaker 5 (56:44):
But I'll be holding his gun on you don't try nothing?

Speaker 23 (56:48):
Why maybe not? You give me that gun?

Speaker 6 (56:57):
Yeah, willy, willy? Are you asked for it?

Speaker 32 (57:05):
Turn around, mister h Annah dropped the gun?

Speaker 6 (57:13):
Annah? Why are you doing this?

Speaker 32 (57:17):
I've come for Billy's money, Billy, my brother, Billy. Open
that box.

Speaker 6 (57:24):
You're making a mistake, all right.

Speaker 32 (57:32):
You didn't really think you could fool a man's woman.

Speaker 26 (57:35):
Did you, No?

Speaker 6 (57:37):
I guess not. Now the money's here, all.

Speaker 32 (57:43):
Right, and me five thousand dollars, my five thousand. That's
what they promised Billy. They got him to bury the money,
draw the map. Then they put a bullet through his head.
He was only sixteen.

Speaker 6 (58:02):
I didn't know that. Who are you doesn't matter? Here's
your five thousand dollars.

Speaker 32 (58:14):
Now, where's Jim Griffin?

Speaker 6 (58:18):
He's dead, dead, He died in prison.

Speaker 32 (58:26):
Jim.

Speaker 6 (58:28):
No, No, you loved him, didn't you.

Speaker 32 (58:35):
We were we were going to be married. He was
going to work hard, make something of himself an army.
And he he heard about this payroll. Something happened to him.
He had to have that money. Jim planned the whole

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thing in It changed him. I guess, I guess it
changed all of us.

Speaker 6 (59:11):
M h, you really want this money?

Speaker 31 (59:18):
No?

Speaker 6 (59:20):
Not no, I'll take the rifle. Anna h Well, miss

(59:45):
wall how are you this morning?

Speaker 32 (59:49):
I find me? Did army officer find.

Speaker 11 (59:53):
You last night?

Speaker 6 (59:54):
Girl Potter? Yes he did.

Speaker 45 (59:56):
He took me out to dinner, bought me lots of brandy,
me five hundred dollars.

Speaker 32 (01:00:01):
That's nice.

Speaker 24 (01:00:04):
Huh, Miss Wong, what's the matter with you?

Speaker 32 (01:00:07):
Something? Hey boy said?

Speaker 18 (01:00:10):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (01:00:10):
Well, for goodness sake, what did you say, hey boy?

Speaker 1 (01:00:13):
Ask me?

Speaker 32 (01:00:15):
Why is wedding ring like eternity, eternity eternity? Missus Wong says,
you not know?

Speaker 6 (01:00:23):
Then what did he say?

Speaker 32 (01:00:24):
Hey boy say, because it has no beginning.

Speaker 1 (01:00:30):
And no end?

Speaker 32 (01:00:33):
Hey boy, make a fun of getting married?

Speaker 6 (01:00:36):
No, no, he's not. Miss Wong's two.

Speaker 32 (01:00:41):
He say that and laugh?

Speaker 6 (01:00:42):
Why no, that's only a riddle.

Speaker 32 (01:00:45):
Riddle?

Speaker 18 (01:00:45):
Mm hmm what's he riddled?

Speaker 6 (01:00:47):
Mister Parlina, Well, Lisa, Umm. Riddle is well, that's when
you ask a question.

Speaker 24 (01:00:57):
And uh and and and uh.

Speaker 45 (01:00:59):
Give a silly answer. No, no, hey boy, wasn't making
fun of marriage?

Speaker 32 (01:01:03):
You sure?

Speaker 6 (01:01:03):
Sure?

Speaker 49 (01:01:05):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:01:05):
Good?

Speaker 13 (01:01:07):
Oh I go now.

Speaker 32 (01:01:08):
Thank you, mister Fun.

Speaker 45 (01:01:10):
Miss Wong, you shouldn't take Hey Boy so seriously. You
just remember that I tried to remember.

Speaker 46 (01:01:40):
Have Gun Will Travel, created by her Metal and Sam Roth,
is produced and directed in Hollywood by Frank Paris and
stars John Dayner as Paladin, with Ben Wright as hey
Boy and Virginia Gregg as Miss Wang. Tonight's story was

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specially written for Have Gun Will Travel by Tom Hanley.
Featured in the cast were Virginia Christine, vic Parrin, Tim Graham,
and Ken Lynch. This is Hugh Douglas inviting you to

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join us again next week when CBS Radio presents Have
Gun Will Travel.

Speaker 7 (01:03:21):
The only radio show to be spawned from a television show,
going back sixty five years to November thirteenth, nineteen sixty
Have Gun Will Travel on Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt
Cox Tomorrow on our Friday Edition, Edward Arnold as Mister President,

(01:03:42):
an episode of Romance and The Egg Farm, Dark Fantasy,
The Man Who Came Back, The Whistler, and Nightmare. On Saturday,
Gene Autry's Melody Ranch part of a Western Bloc including
Jimmy Stewart and the six Shooter, and another episode of Havegun,
Will Travel, Gunsmoke. On Sunday, Jack, Benny, Avant and Costello,

(01:04:04):
The Aldrich Family, and Amos and Andy. On Monday, Broadway
is My Beat, Calling All Cars, Frank Sinatra, Is, Rocky
Portune and Sam Spade. On Tuesday, another episode of the
Aldrich Family, this one not with Bobby Ellis but actually
going back to Ezra Stone as Henry. Also Bud Avn't

(01:04:26):
Lu Costello, The Great Gildersleeve, and My Favorite Husband. On Wednesday,
Counterspy and The Case of the Pseudo Spuds, Calling All
Cars Escape and a six nineteen sixty one episode of Suspense.
And a week from today, a very mixed bag as
we start heading toward Thanksgiving with an episode of The

(01:04:48):
Amos and Andy Show, Let George Do It, The Cavalcade
of America, and Jeff Reagan Investigator, all four shows dealing
with Thanksgiving themes. That's coming up a week from today
here on Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cox Visitors anytime
at Classic Radio Dot stream a program that we have

(01:05:10):
a single episode of Saunders of the Circle Acts.

Speaker 43 (01:05:22):
What's with the basket? Mam Picnic?

Speaker 32 (01:05:24):
Nope, this is Grandma's Pantry Modern version.

Speaker 43 (01:05:27):
Great Mom only what's it for civil defense?

Speaker 32 (01:05:30):
And you're the one who brought the idea home from
scout meeting.

Speaker 43 (01:05:32):
Here, help me check off the list.

Speaker 32 (01:05:33):
Fruit, juice, yup, power, and milk, right canned meats.

Speaker 16 (01:05:37):
Into civil defense comes Grandma's pantry, the symbol of preparedness
unexpected company. Grandma always had plenty for.

Speaker 44 (01:05:45):
Everyone, no matter what unexpected disaster. Your family should have
a seven day supply of food on hand, kept well
protected in jars or tins, and safe in a shelter area.

Speaker 16 (01:05:55):
In an emergency or during evacuation. In case of enemy attack,
it's too late to plan. You will have to depend
on your own resources. On Grandma's pantry.

Speaker 44 (01:06:03):
Assure the future. No, the six steps to survival. Make
this year your family's year for civil defense. You take
the first step.

Speaker 16 (01:06:12):
Civil defense an American tradition.

Speaker 7 (01:06:15):
And you need to have that stuff in case of
emergency or supply changes eruptions which we still encounter today.
Now on Classic Radio Theater with Wyfcox, we go back
eighty four years to November thirteenth, nineteen forty one. The
only surviving copy of a Western cereal Saunders of the

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Circle X from November thirteenth, nineteen forty one and it's
the problem with a darn old dam Saunders.

Speaker 9 (01:06:50):
Of the Circle X. We bring you the seventh episode

(01:07:12):
and the new story of the Western Range. Saunders of
the Circle X Singapore. Bill Saunders, foreman of the Circle X,
returned from Salt Springs, bringing with him a ten year
old boy, hungry, penniless, and orphan.

Speaker 31 (01:07:24):
The lad Tom.

Speaker 9 (01:07:25):
Vigger was promptly taken under the wing of Jimmy the
Little Boss. Shortly after their arrival, it was discovered that
the spring supplying water to the ranch was dry, due
probably to the action of Dinnell of the d and
L Ranch, who had threatened down the creek feeding the
spring and divert the water to his own purposes.

Speaker 31 (01:07:43):
Now, late at.

Speaker 9 (01:07:44):
Night, we find Saunders and three Circle X men heading
for the d n All to reason with Dinnell and
to make his argument more binding. Saunders carries a keg
of dynamite.

Speaker 26 (01:08:00):
Years again, Singapore.

Speaker 31 (01:08:03):
Bye, boys, let's have another look.

Speaker 50 (01:08:09):
What's you gonna do?

Speaker 47 (01:08:10):
Singapore?

Speaker 31 (01:08:10):
You may stay on your horses. I have another look
at it, all right, pony, calm down, dry as a
bag of salt.

Speaker 51 (01:08:23):
That's what you expected of you.

Speaker 31 (01:08:24):
I don't know figured maybe there was another fall from
the ground someplace and the water just naturally disappeared.

Speaker 50 (01:08:29):
Could happen earthquakes in the light opening cracks in the ground.

Speaker 51 (01:08:32):
Only earthquake to happen. You're about, is mister Danelle the
d n O.

Speaker 31 (01:08:36):
I sort of figure you're right, Pepo. How far away
from the dn O line? Peterson?

Speaker 50 (01:08:42):
About two miles?

Speaker 31 (01:08:43):
I'd say, how far after that to the ranch house.
I ain't never been on a DNO.

Speaker 52 (01:08:48):
It's about another three miles. Singapore ranch flies in the
beginning of the foothills.

Speaker 51 (01:08:53):
Ranch house is built in a holler.

Speaker 31 (01:08:55):
Any of you know Danielle, don't know nothing good about him,
anything bad of his sight. He's damning up the creek.
He's city folk. I reckon, you can't hold that against him.

Speaker 52 (01:09:04):
Well, what Peterson means is he ain't our kind.

Speaker 31 (01:09:07):
But I suppose you can understand American when he's spoken.

Speaker 30 (01:09:10):
That's just a fine.

Speaker 52 (01:09:12):
He's one of these polite individuals, soft talker that's.

Speaker 53 (01:09:15):
Just now talk soft and sticks a knife in your
back when you ain't looking.

Speaker 52 (01:09:19):
Yeah, and they say other things about them like what
like that. He went to College of Learning someplace back east,
learned about ransom and raising cattle out of books.

Speaker 31 (01:09:31):
Sounds like an up and coming individual got in my language.

Speaker 51 (01:09:33):
He ain't learning you get out of books. Don't do
you no good when you mean real business.

Speaker 31 (01:09:39):
I reckon. There's two schools I thought when it comes
to that question. Hey, sometimes they print some pretty good
things and book, well, you can't.

Speaker 51 (01:09:46):
Prove it for me.

Speaker 52 (01:09:47):
Only book I've read in the past dozen years is
the week Report for the State of Montana for the
year eighteen eighty.

Speaker 51 (01:09:53):
Read it twice though for entertainment.

Speaker 50 (01:09:55):
Yeah, and stuff has never been the same thing.

Speaker 51 (01:09:57):
Now, ain't no call you making this? Where done more?

Speaker 50 (01:10:00):
They can't stop me thinking, hag you young sprout? All
three think you know where from the rest.

Speaker 31 (01:10:06):
Of your all right, hey, heave your agrievmance. Do we
get back to the bunk?

Speaker 13 (01:10:09):
Uh?

Speaker 31 (01:10:10):
This didn't getting us to mister Dannell. Let's get started
for the dam and then we'll visit mister Denell. Oh,
just eat that bit out from between your teeth. Pony,
All right, boy, let's go.

Speaker 30 (01:10:33):
This looks like a slumpers.

Speaker 31 (01:10:35):
All right, boys, let's drop anchor. What that's just it?

Speaker 53 (01:10:39):
Seeing men go mean climb off your horses?

Speaker 31 (01:10:47):
Well, how does it look to you? Singapore, answered douring
good looking, damn if you ask me. Seemingly, he stacked
up branches of trees and backed with sacks full of
mud and sand.

Speaker 51 (01:10:56):
Yeah, mister Dannell, don't do things half way, Singapore.

Speaker 53 (01:11:00):
If you know what do you calculate the game by
going up to the ranch house?

Speaker 31 (01:11:04):
I got to reason with Dannail, don't I.

Speaker 53 (01:11:06):
I got a better argument than talk, Like what, Let's
just stick a couple of sticks of dynamite and a
damn right now, set them off and head back for
the circle eggs.

Speaker 51 (01:11:13):
That's common sense, Singapore.

Speaker 31 (01:11:15):
It may be common sense. But what you said about
mister Dannell being a soft talking knife sticker, I got
an idea. Maybe I'd enjoy a little soft talking argument.
Is that don't work, then we'll use the dynamite.

Speaker 53 (01:11:29):
Well, if you ask me, I figured it's a waste
of time arguing with d Nails like arguing with a
heela monster.

Speaker 50 (01:11:35):
He don't argue back, he just ruck.

Speaker 30 (01:11:37):
I always say, do.

Speaker 9 (01:11:41):
Control. Hurry fit ast to me, hurry up, don't talk,
Try not to move your feet, let your arms slow
straight out from your shoulders. Keep on that way, Breathe
slow and don't move your body more than you have to.
Where you got, Pepper, I'll forgive it. Stay where you are.
You want to go down to Poor? Don't talk, pit

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up Pepper. Yeah, give me the rid off my sad.

Speaker 43 (01:12:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 51 (01:12:07):
You can't see him.

Speaker 9 (01:12:10):
To drop a rope over him, Saunder and I can
hear him. Now listen to me, pinof.

Speaker 31 (01:12:15):
He don't listen to me?

Speaker 9 (01:12:16):
Yeah, do what I tell you. Lift your arms slow,
straight over your head.

Speaker 50 (01:12:22):
Don't talk, it's almost.

Speaker 9 (01:12:25):
Don't talk you see you.

Speaker 50 (01:12:28):
Don't don't open your mouth.

Speaker 9 (01:12:30):
You seem like that with your lips together again. All right,
I got you located.

Speaker 31 (01:12:43):
Don't talk.

Speaker 23 (01:12:47):
This.

Speaker 9 (01:12:48):
Hold over your arms fast, keep the loop around your way,
grab hold Peterson, grabbit Pepper, all right now, Poor, don't struggle,
you don't.

Speaker 50 (01:12:58):
Just keep your head back.

Speaker 13 (01:13:06):
All right?

Speaker 26 (01:13:08):
Can you stand?

Speaker 28 (01:13:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 30 (01:13:10):
The needs a week?

Speaker 31 (01:13:11):
But you mind telling me what's going on here?

Speaker 26 (01:13:14):
Oh?

Speaker 31 (01:13:14):
I don't reckon, we'd mine friend, But I ask who
you happen to be? You might I am Josephson. You

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are still sitting there, Jimmy, Yes, dead. Now I know
what it's like a horse to wear blinders with these
rags on my eyes. I can't even tell who's in
the room with me. If anybody, I ain't ask him
for simpathy. Why don't you go to bed.

Speaker 39 (01:13:57):
I'll wait up till the men come back.

Speaker 31 (01:13:59):
There's no need for still.

Speaker 39 (01:14:01):
I'll wait.

Speaker 31 (01:14:03):
Funny thing, Jimmy, your mother was the gentlest woman I
ever did know, reasonable full of understandings, but brought that
up nothing. I was just wondering where you get your
stubborn I'm your daughter. There ain't nothing stubborn about me, Jimmy.

Speaker 39 (01:14:20):
There certainly isn't, as long as you get your own way.

Speaker 31 (01:14:24):
You a young hottols. I'll go to bed.

Speaker 39 (01:14:27):
No, would you like me to read to you?

Speaker 28 (01:14:29):
Dad?

Speaker 31 (01:14:30):
I ain't got the patience to listen to book reading.
What'd you do with young Tom Bigger?

Speaker 54 (01:14:36):
He wouldn't let me do anything for him. I was
down to the bunk house an hour ago talking to
Bob Wiley. He said Tom was sleeping, and Singapore's bunks
said he was going to stay away till Singapore came back.
So he climbed into the bunk and began breaking a
piece of rope and fell asleep two minutes later.

Speaker 31 (01:14:52):
I just don't like the idea of having a kid
of Artemis bigger on the circle eggs.

Speaker 54 (01:14:56):
Somebody has to take care of him. He's only ten
years old.

Speaker 31 (01:15:00):
They don't have to be me. I got no time
for Mavericks.

Speaker 1 (01:15:03):
Dad.

Speaker 54 (01:15:04):
If you were as hard hearted as you pretend to be,
you'd be a caution.

Speaker 31 (01:15:08):
I never said I was hard hearted.

Speaker 19 (01:15:10):
I'm just too old.

Speaker 31 (01:15:11):
I have youngsters under my feet. You're bad enough.

Speaker 39 (01:15:14):
Thanks. Maybe you'd like to ship me off the Boston
again for more finishing.

Speaker 31 (01:15:19):
Oh, it's a funny thing. You're more nuisance than a
shit of lambs of cheering time. But I get so
used to your pesty ways. I wouldn't know what to
do without it.

Speaker 39 (01:15:29):
Anyway.

Speaker 54 (01:15:29):
The ladies at the Boston school gave me up because
a bad job. I guess some people aren't just meant
to be finished.

Speaker 13 (01:15:35):
I get what time?

Speaker 18 (01:15:38):
Is it?

Speaker 39 (01:15:39):
A little laughter too?

Speaker 31 (01:15:40):
Well? Singapore and the boys may not be backfaul Sonner,
If then I ain't gonna have you set up all night.

Speaker 54 (01:15:46):
Would you'd rather have me saddle dynamite and go after them?

Speaker 9 (01:15:49):
Jimmy, don't you go start.

Speaker 39 (01:15:51):
Don't argue A bought my city up dead?

Speaker 54 (01:15:55):
Now what supposing Singapore can't talk to now and to
turning the water back in the Chris said, and.

Speaker 31 (01:16:01):
I reckon, Singapore, use a couple of sticks of dynamite and.

Speaker 39 (01:16:03):
Blow up the damn It's likely to mean trouble.

Speaker 31 (01:16:06):
It's trouble already, I know.

Speaker 54 (01:16:09):
But then now isn't the kind you'll fight in the open?
You'll know if you when your facts turned.

Speaker 31 (01:16:14):
I've fought everything from wildcat's toy scorpions. I reckon, I'll
find a way to beat him.

Speaker 54 (01:16:20):
Only you'll have a little advantage of him now now
that you can't.

Speaker 31 (01:16:24):
See, I ain't going to be blind always. No, look here, Jimmy,
you ain't hiding something from me, are you?

Speaker 39 (01:16:31):
Of course not. What do you mean the.

Speaker 31 (01:16:34):
Doctor didn't tell you things he didn't tell me. Why
why you're lying for.

Speaker 54 (01:16:39):
Me, Jimmy, Now, Dad, that's plump foolishness.

Speaker 31 (01:16:42):
What did he say?

Speaker 39 (01:16:43):
You know what he said?

Speaker 9 (01:16:44):
And I'm asking you what he said?

Speaker 54 (01:16:47):
When dynamite, When dynamite threw you blow on your head,
it hurts the nerve of your eyes, and it's well,
go ahead. But sometimes it took quite a while to
straighten things out like that, he said. He said it
was a matter of.

Speaker 31 (01:17:07):
Time Jimmy, what did he say, I'd ever see again?

Speaker 13 (01:17:14):
For me?

Speaker 39 (01:17:15):
He said, we we just had to give it time.

Speaker 31 (01:17:20):
Jimmy. Yeah, you and I we've always been square with
each other. I holler at you and you sass me,
but we've never figured it was worthwhile lying to each other,
not about anything I know, don't you see earlier. I
am never afraid of the truth any more than you are.

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But to hold out hope to me when the race
and no hope.

Speaker 24 (01:17:44):
Let's not playing.

Speaker 15 (01:17:45):
Honest, folker.

Speaker 31 (01:17:47):
I think if you didn't play square with me and
I found it out, which I would, that's one thing
I couldn't stand up on.

Speaker 39 (01:17:56):
Yeah, don't please, so tell.

Speaker 31 (01:17:58):
Me the truth. Jimmy, what did the doctor say?

Speaker 54 (01:18:03):
He said dead. He said he didn't know the answer.
He'd have to leave it to time. Maybe you'd see him,
maybe you wouldn't.

Speaker 31 (01:18:19):
Never seen no more, just to say, they and they
are listening to the ticking of the clock. Never seen
the sun go down on the edge of the prairie.

Speaker 39 (01:18:31):
You're dead, Joe.

Speaker 31 (01:18:32):
Never seen the panting enoughles of a wounded horse, never
seen the herd rush between the bars and the corral.

Speaker 55 (01:18:38):
Well, I ain't gonna stand it.

Speaker 31 (01:18:39):
God, Please, I ain't gonna stand it.

Speaker 9 (01:18:42):
I tell you, I'd rather hang myself from a beating.

Speaker 31 (01:18:44):
Them go through life without seeing.

Speaker 39 (01:18:45):
Yeah, don't take the clothes off.

Speaker 31 (01:18:47):
Leave go on me, Kimmy, leave, go my aunt.

Speaker 49 (01:18:49):
Just stop at the doctor says, you gotta keep them corn.

Speaker 9 (01:18:52):
Tell me what the doctor says. What good rights on
my eyes? If I ain't never gonna see you any more,
nobody can make me stop it.

Speaker 50 (01:18:58):
There there, Jimmy dead, kim Me.

Speaker 41 (01:19:06):
I can see I can see see you standing there.
I can see the fool cloth saying twenty minutes past too.
I can see the lamp on the table, and the
window and the door, and there are much saddle on
the hoop.

Speaker 31 (01:19:24):
Gimme get out, dynamite. I'm following Singapore and the boys.

Speaker 22 (01:19:31):
Yeah, please, please, darling, you can see in.

Speaker 39 (01:19:34):
That's wonderful. How didn't think you were ever going to
see again?

Speaker 31 (01:19:37):
But don't spoil it now, all right, Jimmy, I reckon,
you're right. Maybe you've got more sense than I have. Yeah,
tie the raggs on for me again. We will set
here and wait for the boys to come home.

Speaker 54 (01:19:54):
Oh, I want to swear a cry, laughing me too.

Speaker 31 (01:19:59):
I I could learn you some good round laughing, because
it's right now. If you weren't a woman and my daughter.

Speaker 39 (01:20:06):
Gone and learn that, it'll do it both good and no.

Speaker 31 (01:20:10):
But Jimmy, promise me one thing.

Speaker 39 (01:20:12):
I'll promise you anything in the world.

Speaker 9 (01:20:14):
When the boys come back, don't tell him I can
see you.

Speaker 56 (01:20:18):
I want to surprise him.

Speaker 50 (01:20:34):
You, Joseph Dennett. I'm well, mister Dannell. You ain't got
no idea how glad we are to meet up with you,
you know.

Speaker 31 (01:20:42):
But a halter around your tongue and leave her talking
to me. Mister Dennell, I'll ask you to not bother
to pay any tentionment paint. Oh he's excited. He's had
a little trouble, really, is that so?

Speaker 13 (01:20:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 31 (01:20:55):
He was out in the creek bed stepped into some
quick saying really, we don't say so. Well, he doesn't
seem to be any the worse for it. No, we
dropped the rihatto over his ears and he ain't him out.

Speaker 57 (01:21:05):
Very fortunate indeed, And how may I ask what you're
doing on my land and who you are?

Speaker 31 (01:21:11):
Answer your first question. We're on your land on the
way to visit you. The entrance to the wrench house
is a quarter mile of the west. Yes, but we
thought we'd take a look at the damn. First note
that we can see much at night.

Speaker 57 (01:21:23):
No, it's not badly constructed. I'd suggest you come by
in daylight.

Speaker 31 (01:21:27):
If you're interested in learning how to build a dam.

Speaker 9 (01:21:30):
Maybe we're more interested in blowing up with them.

Speaker 31 (01:21:33):
Yes, keep your bit near, Teeve Peterson.

Speaker 53 (01:21:35):
Well, we didn't come here to make polite talk with
mister Danell Singapore.

Speaker 31 (01:21:38):
You can never tell. Sometimes you get further with polite talk.
And now look here, my friend.

Speaker 57 (01:21:44):
Your philosophical remarks are very well taken, and you'll refuge.

Speaker 50 (01:21:47):
That's fancy talk.

Speaker 31 (01:21:49):
But I'm not interested in listening to philosophy.

Speaker 57 (01:21:51):
At two o'clock in the morning, I asked you who
you are and what you're.

Speaker 31 (01:21:55):
Doing on my land. I'll be glad to make you
acquainted with us. This is Joe Peterson, This is Hank Peffck,
this is Peter.

Speaker 13 (01:22:03):
My name is Phil.

Speaker 31 (01:22:04):
Saunders continued, Well, I'm still in the dock.

Speaker 57 (01:22:08):
We ride the Circle X really, Well, it's very pleasant
to meet men from my neighbor's land. The Circle Act
is a fine holding. I have always wanted to own
a piece of it. I don't suppose you could induce mister.

Speaker 31 (01:22:20):
John Mork to consider a deal. It might be for
a price. I had an idea we could get together,
might be.

Speaker 50 (01:22:27):
Cut out the polly and Singapore.

Speaker 51 (01:22:28):
Let's has some action.

Speaker 31 (01:22:30):
Your friends are impetuous with Saunders. Well, you see we
had a reason in coming here, mister. I don't doubt that.

Speaker 57 (01:22:37):
Now, if you don't mind mind making a suggestion, you're
as far as you like. I suggest you come up
to the ranch.

Speaker 31 (01:22:42):
House with me, just the two of us. Why we
can talk undisturbed.

Speaker 57 (01:22:47):
Your men might put down to my bunk house, make
themselves acquainted with my men, maybe heat a puttin of coffee,
or even find a little stronger freshment if they're so disposed.

Speaker 31 (01:22:57):
Hank, you and Peter and Peterson wait here for me.
I'll go with mister Dannell.

Speaker 30 (01:23:03):
I don't know.

Speaker 51 (01:23:04):
Singapore appears to me like it might be well if
we all come along with you.

Speaker 31 (01:23:08):
You ain't been invited. We'll stay here, all right, mister Daniell.

Speaker 57 (01:23:13):
Let's go, all right, mister Saunders, after you, sir, thanks,

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just sit down in that deep chair at Sundays. You
will find it comfortable.

Speaker 31 (01:23:45):
Yeah, Now here's the situation, mister Dennel. You'll excuse mister.

Speaker 57 (01:23:50):
Sunders Gussie h bring the butter from the cupboards and glasses.
I always find it more pleasant to discuss business over
a drink. You're something of a philosopher, and I am
something of a philosopher, so we can appreciate these things,
all right. Guess yeah, poor the drinkers in yours, not

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for me?

Speaker 13 (01:24:11):
Thank you?

Speaker 31 (01:24:12):
No, won't you drink with mister Saunders? I don't drink.
Thanks really, well, then I won't do that, and.

Speaker 57 (01:24:18):
Sit down over there and ploy yourself on guardia. Right,
and now, missus Saunders, you want to discuss with me
this matter of damning the tweak that flows through my
land and finds an outlet.

Speaker 13 (01:24:29):
In the circle.

Speaker 31 (01:24:30):
Xingly, you know just what I've come here for. Well,
I've been expecting because it is from the circle x
I reckon, you didn't figure we'd take a line down.
The fact is, I don't know how else you're going
to take it.

Speaker 13 (01:24:44):
Well.

Speaker 31 (01:24:44):
I don't just know the legal language, but some place
back of my mind, I have an idea. The watershed
comes under public domain. It's for the common good of
the people and all are entitled to their share, share
and share a life.

Speaker 57 (01:24:58):
That's quite as long as it's for the common good.
But we've got to decide just what the common good is.

Speaker 31 (01:25:06):
I reckon in this United States of America, it's the
good of the private individual.

Speaker 13 (01:25:11):
I question that.

Speaker 31 (01:25:13):
For example, I think it's.

Speaker 57 (01:25:14):
Much more to the interest of the common good that
I irrigate the section of the territory of Arizona and
turn the prairie too good agricultural land than for another
man to claim the water to take care of a
herd of cattle that can be.

Speaker 31 (01:25:26):
Cared for other ways.

Speaker 57 (01:25:28):
What way by driving them into other sections where water
is plentiful.

Speaker 31 (01:25:32):
Mister Danielle, I'm a sea fair man, then it see
most of my life.

Speaker 13 (01:25:36):
Then, of course you don't pretend to know.

Speaker 31 (01:25:38):
Much about cattle. I don't pretend to know much about
earthing I've just taken. We have an old custom at sea,
we whistle for a breeze. I've heard of the superstition.
Of course it is a superstition. Doesn't do any good. No,
I reckon it, judgment, anymore than it'll do you good
to whistle up argument that you don't believe yourself. No,

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let's just approach this thing easily. We mustn't get excited. Oh,
I ain't got an idea of getting excited. I reckon,
I ain't going to be any need of it. I
understand you, and you understand me. You know, all we
got to do is agree. Just how soon are you
going to turn the water back into the creek bed
so we get our share? Sunders?

Speaker 57 (01:26:24):
What if I decided my agricultural development is still the
more important issue and climb to turn it back there?

Speaker 31 (01:26:32):
In that I've come prepared with a keg of dynamite.
I'll order my men to blow up your damn, and
I'll order them to blow up every damn you'll build
if it takes from now to the other place.

Speaker 13 (01:26:43):
Fees it?

Speaker 19 (01:26:44):
You suddenly come prepared.

Speaker 31 (01:26:46):
It's good business. I'm trying to agree with you. I
had an idea you would.

Speaker 13 (01:26:51):
And now, if you will just.

Speaker 31 (01:26:53):
Turn around and glance over your shoulders, mister Saunders, you will.

Speaker 57 (01:26:57):
Find that my good man Garcia is sitting there behind
you with a gun leveled right at your ears.

Speaker 31 (01:27:02):
Just turn slowly, mister.

Speaker 57 (01:27:03):
Sunders, and don't make any false moves, because I've got
you covered from the side. Just wipe that grin off
your face. Gus here, it's not polite that Thunders is
our guest in your I hope it doesn't make you nervous,
Miss Sunders having a couple of guns level that too.

Speaker 31 (01:27:22):
I ain't got a nerve in my body, mister Danell. No,
I have an idea.

Speaker 30 (01:27:26):
That's the truth. You look like a good man.

Speaker 31 (01:27:29):
Thanks well, I put up my heady, mister Danell. If
you're bitter, how many cars do you want?

Speaker 30 (01:27:38):
None?

Speaker 31 (01:27:38):
Thunders, I have a pat hand, a bluff cat hands
in my time, I don't have the bluff.

Speaker 57 (01:27:45):
I not only have a pat hand, but I'm playing
with a mock deck.

Speaker 30 (01:27:49):
And I know what's in your hand.

Speaker 31 (01:27:51):
Then I reckon it's your next move.

Speaker 57 (01:27:54):
I'm inclined to think you're right. So I'm going to
ask you to relax in that chair, Thunders, and I'll
just sit here with my gun in my hand, it
being my fifth piece, and garsia guzia, it's in your
Just keep your gun in your hand, get me a
lasso roof from under the table, he and tie our

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visitor to the chair.

Speaker 13 (01:28:17):
Be careful the.

Speaker 57 (01:28:18):
Rope doesn't cut him, because he's likely to be tied
up quite a spell. I hope you don't mind being tied,
mister Saunders, not in the least. I only asked because
it makes some people nervous, sort of a.

Speaker 31 (01:28:30):
Phobia with him, all right, get busy, gatier he Now.

Speaker 13 (01:28:36):
I suppose you're figuring this a lot.

Speaker 57 (01:28:38):
Of nonsense, Saunders, But tying you up will keep the
rest of your men from doing damage.

Speaker 31 (01:28:43):
And giving it much thought. I'm just as stupid individual,
miss you dinner. Oh I think you are not so
stupid as son, But you see, tying you up now
I can go down to the bunk house. Wake up
my men, take.

Speaker 57 (01:28:56):
A dozen of them down to the dam, and beat
the living daylight out of your sheep. It is that
may act as a warning mister Mott not to send
anymore night visitors up here.

Speaker 31 (01:29:06):
Probably will.

Speaker 13 (01:29:09):
Keep over tail. Grab my god, he's got up line.

Speaker 43 (01:29:11):
He hated away to the.

Speaker 13 (01:29:13):
Con he got caught.

Speaker 9 (01:29:18):
You'll keep him, you'll kill.

Speaker 13 (01:29:20):
Him, I don't know.

Speaker 31 (01:29:21):
Come on, we'll find him up and we'll find out
if he's dead. You asleep, Tessant. Nope, here's to set
in your wool gathering me.

Speaker 50 (01:29:43):
I'm getting kind of tired of wool gathering.

Speaker 31 (01:29:46):
I'd like a little.

Speaker 51 (01:29:47):
Action me too.

Speaker 53 (01:29:48):
Seems like Singapore is taking an all five long time
pollying reckon.

Speaker 51 (01:29:52):
It takes Singapore long time to say what he has
to say.

Speaker 13 (01:29:55):
That want saying.

Speaker 31 (01:29:56):
He talked floor m noise of that creak sounds really
pretty doing it sounds three.

Speaker 50 (01:30:03):
You're running past the ranch house of a circle ax.

Speaker 58 (01:30:07):
Er.

Speaker 51 (01:30:07):
What you're doing?

Speaker 31 (01:30:08):
Piddle businesself and drink the water of the stream called bedling.

Speaker 9 (01:30:15):
Well, if it wasn't so much trouble to get up
and go.

Speaker 50 (01:30:18):
Over there, I'd have me a drink, you know, hank me.

Speaker 53 (01:30:22):
I figure, if Singapore doesn't put in an appearance pronto,
we should want to go up to the house and
see what's doing.

Speaker 51 (01:30:27):
Singapore says tears and he comes back, and this is.

Speaker 13 (01:30:31):
Where we stay.

Speaker 53 (01:30:32):
If Singapore told you to jump over the moon, would.

Speaker 1 (01:30:34):
You do it?

Speaker 13 (01:30:35):
I don't know. I try.

Speaker 1 (01:30:38):
You know.

Speaker 51 (01:30:38):
It's right funny about that sailor when he first come
up the circle Eggs office. I stay right away there.

Speaker 31 (01:30:44):
The individual eye eating going to light. But it's like
eating strong cheese.

Speaker 51 (01:30:50):
In the beginning, you see, you ain't gonna.

Speaker 31 (01:30:52):
Like it, but after a while or stronger tis the better.
You like it sort of sneaks up on you.

Speaker 23 (01:30:57):
Guys.

Speaker 50 (01:30:57):
Well, I ain't altogether sold on him yet.

Speaker 9 (01:31:00):
Last just because you're a young calf and he's spools
to be suspicious.

Speaker 43 (01:31:03):
I reckon.

Speaker 53 (01:31:04):
It's common sense to be suspicious as strangers till you
find out they ain't nothing to be suspicious.

Speaker 31 (01:31:08):
Oh look it, Hank, Yeah, how do we know?

Speaker 50 (01:31:12):
Son just won't tell us off?

Speaker 43 (01:31:13):
If this did?

Speaker 51 (01:31:14):
That individual I stayed from reality, wouldn't now?

Speaker 31 (01:31:17):
I figure Pepper's right.

Speaker 9 (01:31:19):
Lots of stars in the sky tonight, ain't there?

Speaker 51 (01:31:22):
Yeah, more than a hundreds from Morena setting.

Speaker 31 (01:31:25):
Guy, I reckon, there's lots more than that.

Speaker 51 (01:31:29):
Keep stale, harsh, them ponies.

Speaker 31 (01:31:31):
Is getting restless. Perhaps they smell trouble.

Speaker 9 (01:31:35):
Hey, here comes Singapore.

Speaker 30 (01:31:37):
I hear him.

Speaker 50 (01:31:40):
That you Singapore?

Speaker 51 (01:31:42):
Non Singapore boy, the game's up?

Speaker 31 (01:31:47):
Well, I reckon, we don't know just what you mean, miss.

Speaker 57 (01:31:51):
I mean the twenty of my men standing right behind me,
and every one of them is on.

Speaker 51 (01:31:56):
Yeah, well, uh where to Singapore?

Speaker 4 (01:31:58):
He decided to visit me a while.

Speaker 57 (01:32:01):
And now we're going to give you a little lesson
and what it means to trust this on another man's property,
meaning by that meaning I want you, each of you
to stick your hands straight up over your head and
walk single file this way.

Speaker 30 (01:32:13):
How many of you other?

Speaker 51 (01:32:14):
While there's three aside Singapore.

Speaker 13 (01:32:17):
Only see two of you?

Speaker 31 (01:32:17):
Well, Helen, there's three, all right?

Speaker 58 (01:32:20):
Me?

Speaker 56 (01:32:20):
Peterson, Pindle?

Speaker 51 (01:32:22):
Hey, where'd you go?

Speaker 23 (01:32:23):
Fiddle?

Speaker 13 (01:32:25):
Hey, piddle?

Speaker 9 (01:32:26):
Where there's bunderation?

Speaker 13 (01:32:27):
Did you go? You know some Hanks?

Speaker 16 (01:32:32):
You know Hank.

Speaker 50 (01:32:32):
I sort of figured something like this was to happen.
I got thinking that way while I was getting a
drink a while back.

Speaker 57 (01:32:39):
Well, I'm glad you gave some fought the matter, my
young friend, and you can see there's nothing to be.

Speaker 13 (01:32:44):
Done about it.

Speaker 31 (01:32:46):
I wouldn't be sure about that. I'm afraid there's no
question that might mean.

Speaker 13 (01:32:51):
What do you mean?

Speaker 53 (01:32:52):
Well, we come up here to dispose of the damn
you Bill, and figured you might interfere. I've just let
the fuse that go to the dynamite cap attached to
a couple of sticks to dynamite I stuck.

Speaker 50 (01:33:03):
In the day park.

Speaker 30 (01:33:05):
Get your point?

Speaker 9 (01:33:38):
You have heard another episode in Samuel Dixon's Story of
the Western Range. Saunders of the Circle Acts. Listen at
this same hour next Thursday evening. Over most of these
stations when we learn the pain of Singapore Bill Saunders
in another exciting.

Speaker 51 (01:33:51):
Episode of.

Speaker 31 (01:33:56):
Saunders of the Circle.

Speaker 9 (01:34:17):
The night's cast included Blue Toubyn as Thomas Mott, Everett.

Speaker 31 (01:34:21):
Glass as Joseph Tannell, Bert.

Speaker 15 (01:34:23):
Horton as Hank Pepper, Bob Hudson as Pintle, John Coppertsen
as Singapore Bill Saunders, and Langendorff as Jimmy the Little Boss.

Speaker 7 (01:34:50):
And we know nothing else about it a rare episode
of Saunders of the Circle X. We have no other
information about it. The more you just heard eighty four
years ago November thirteenth, nineteen forty one. We know about
the Theater of Romance, and we're going to hear about
that in a moment after I remind you that to

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in the Theater of Romance, which is next.

Speaker 38 (01:35:44):
This is basic Civil Defense information from the Department of
Defense Office of Civil Defense, Washington. If an enemy nuclear
attack ever occurs, many areas of the nation would be
threatened by radioactive fallout. If there is public shelter nearby,
go to it, or if you have a home shelter,
use it unless your local government has given you other instructions.
But if regular shelter isn't available and you have a

(01:36:06):
house with a below ground basement or storm seller, you
could still improvise some protection from radioactive fallout.

Speaker 13 (01:36:12):
In a basement.

Speaker 38 (01:36:13):
Choose a corner most below ground and away from windows.
Drag in a heavy bench or table to make a
roof for your shelter. Cover it with trunks, stacks of firewood, flagstones, books,
anything that is thick and heavy. Then wall yourself in
on the two open sides with heavy appliances or dressers
or chests. Back with earth or sand to help absorb radiation.

(01:36:34):
For more information on this and other ways to improvise
protection from fallout, check with your local civil defense office.

Speaker 7 (01:36:40):
Now we shift from the West to Romance, and one
of the biggest names in Hollywood, at least when I
was growing up, was Henry Fonda, and this goes back
eighty years to November thirteenth, nineteen forty five. This Theater
of Romance episode stins entitled Casanova Brown, played of course

(01:37:01):
by Henry Fonda.

Speaker 15 (01:37:04):
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen from Hollywood, Colgate toothpowder for
a breast at sweet and halo shampoo to glorify your hair.
Bring you, Cassanova Brown, starring Henry Fonder.

Speaker 4 (01:37:18):
Colgate tooth powder for a breath fed sweet and halo
shampoo to glorify your hair. Praise then your Theatre of
Romance from Hollywood.

Speaker 15 (01:37:36):
Night the curtain rises on your Theater of Romance and
its production of international pictures hilarious comedy romance.

Speaker 30 (01:37:42):
Casson over Brown.

Speaker 4 (01:37:44):
Here is your play and your star, Henry Fonda.

Speaker 15 (01:38:05):
Once upon a time, in a small town just outside
of Chicago lived a very shy young professor, the last
living descendant of one of history's most dashing lovers, and
whose name therefore was Casanova Casanova Brown. Since he was
a quiet, conscientious, very good young man, people had long
since forgotten the Casanova and simply called him kaz or professor,

(01:38:27):
or hey you. That was something of an error, as
you presently shall see at this moment, Kaz is preparing
somewhat nervously to officially request the hand of his chosen lady.

Speaker 22 (01:38:39):
Oh my darling, let's go in.

Speaker 49 (01:38:41):
Don't look so frightened.

Speaker 1 (01:38:42):
You know.

Speaker 49 (01:38:42):
Dad's block has always worsened his sight. He really loves
me very much.

Speaker 22 (01:38:46):
I do not Oh listening again?

Speaker 26 (01:38:48):
Eh?

Speaker 49 (01:38:49):
Did we come in town? No, Kav wants to talk
to you Dad, Hello, JJ, Come on, man, not you
mad Go ahead, Kas, I'll wait down stairs.

Speaker 13 (01:39:03):
The water of vaulting female she is? She down cares? Now?
What can I do for you? Well, I've missed our
little talks ever since you came back from New York.
You've sort of avoided me. Not really, you see, I've
not been entirely blind to the little trap Madge just
set for you. But I know you are much too intelligent,
much too shrewd to be taken in by that dreary female.

Speaker 59 (01:39:27):
Perhaps I'd better make my position clear, JJ, before you
say anything else.

Speaker 30 (01:39:33):
I want to marry her. Marry home very Madge. Of course, Marge,
are you out of your mind? I am not what
what ever on earth?

Speaker 1 (01:39:41):
For?

Speaker 13 (01:39:42):
Because I love her? Of course I love Madge. Oh
come now, Kaz, that's just downright silly. He must have
some better reason than that. Besides, you don't know what
love is. You've had no experience.

Speaker 30 (01:39:56):
I have had experience, and I do know what love is,
and I want to marry Madge.

Speaker 13 (01:40:00):
You are insane, absolutely insane. Get out of it while
you still can. Get it on the train.

Speaker 59 (01:40:06):
Get it on the train, get on anything, and get
out of here. I'll see here, JJ, I'm going to
marry Madge and not you or anyone else is going
to stop me.

Speaker 13 (01:40:14):
You'll regret it, mark my words, You'll regret it. Hello, guys,
read yes, hi Pop, I.

Speaker 30 (01:40:27):
Will be in a minute.

Speaker 13 (01:40:28):
Never mind a pop routine. You aren't my son in
law untill after the ceremony tomorrow, and then may Heaven
help you. You know you've still got time to get
out of this booby trap. By one o'clock tomorrow, you
could be across the border into Canada.

Speaker 59 (01:40:44):
It's no use, JJ, I'm not going to be demoralized
by a cold blooded old sinner like you.

Speaker 13 (01:40:49):
Oh well, I suppose under democracy every individual enjoys the
right and privilege of being as much of a nimbecile
as he pleases. By the way, picked up your.

Speaker 30 (01:41:00):
Mail downstairs for you. Thanks, just thought on the table.
You've got to get over that wedding rehearsal.

Speaker 13 (01:41:06):
Say, what are you doing connodling around with the maternity hospital?

Speaker 59 (01:41:11):
Don't be silly? Who's canodling around with us?

Speaker 1 (01:41:14):
What?

Speaker 13 (01:41:15):
Well, that's the return address in this letter, Ellen Harris,
Maternity Hospital, Chicago, Illinoise.

Speaker 30 (01:41:21):
Oh well, that's probably just an ad tossing that blue
tie with you.

Speaker 34 (01:41:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:41:26):
Thanks, Ada, Well, they got a nerve. Soliciting your man's
business before he's even married sounds so mythical to me.
Shall I openly go ahead, dear mister Brown? Well, this
is a rabbit sinister method of solicitation, dear mister Brown,

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a matter of personal importance, and one which I would
rather not be obliged to take up in correspondence, unless
you prefer. I. I was involved in the little Black
male action at one time let us sounded exactly like this.

Speaker 30 (01:42:04):
Well finish it, will you?

Speaker 13 (01:42:06):
I uh suggested at your earliest convenience, certainly not later
than the end of the week, you call it the
hospital and consult with me cordially.

Speaker 34 (01:42:14):
Ors Martha's ERNIKEI MD, let me see that. Have have
you been in or around Chicago recently. No, not not Chicago.

Speaker 30 (01:42:27):
There must be some mistake.

Speaker 13 (01:42:28):
Well, if that letter's a mistake, we are in a
very pretty position to knock up a little quick do
they can't run a round scary young bridegrooms with letters
like that.

Speaker 30 (01:42:41):
That may not be a mistake. What what did you
say you see? Ah?

Speaker 13 (01:42:48):
I don't know.

Speaker 59 (01:42:49):
I can't find out. I try to call her on
the POON long distance, but the number's been temporarily disconnected.

Speaker 13 (01:42:55):
Call Oh.

Speaker 30 (01:42:56):
Oh gosh, I don't know what to do.

Speaker 59 (01:43:00):
I'm in a very a very strange situation. Yeah I
should judge so, but but why Chicago?

Speaker 13 (01:43:07):
I don't know.

Speaker 30 (01:43:08):
What if it had been New York?

Speaker 13 (01:43:09):
Yeah, New York, yes, but Chicago. Would you mind telling
me what this is all about?

Speaker 30 (01:43:16):
Oh, that's gonna be a little difficult. You remember last
spring when I went.

Speaker 59 (01:43:21):
To New York to see about selling my book. Eh, Well,
while I was there, I met a girl.

Speaker 13 (01:43:27):
Ah, no, we're getting somewhere.

Speaker 24 (01:43:31):
What was she like?

Speaker 1 (01:43:32):
Oh?

Speaker 59 (01:43:33):
She was like, Oh she was like no other girl
you've ever seen in your life. I like the way
she walked, I like the way she looked. I like
the way she looked at me. So we You know
we got married. You what we got married?

Speaker 13 (01:43:49):
What makes you think that bigger me is an attractive
state of affairs?

Speaker 30 (01:43:52):
Oh, we aren't married now. Her family had the marriage.

Speaker 13 (01:43:55):
No, she was under age.

Speaker 30 (01:43:56):
Her family and I didn't hit it off, and she
sided with her family.

Speaker 59 (01:44:00):
The reason I've never said anything was because, well, if
it all happens so fast.

Speaker 30 (01:44:06):
I never even had a chance to break the engagement.

Speaker 13 (01:44:08):
With mad people like you should never be allowed in
New York. I'm protected. What are you going to do
about it?

Speaker 59 (01:44:14):
I guess I'd better go to Chicago and see what
this is all about. If I fly, I can be
back in plenty of time for the wedding tomorrow. He
had maybe some sort of mix up. The letter doesn't
say anything about Isabelle or a baby.

Speaker 13 (01:44:25):
Okay, go ahead, Papa. You may be lucky enough to
get out of this marriage in spite of yourself.

Speaker 30 (01:44:31):
I don't want to get out of it. Foolish boy,
foolish boy. I'll see here.

Speaker 59 (01:44:45):
I didn't come up here to answer a lot of
questions or go through all these ridiculous physical examinations.

Speaker 30 (01:44:49):
I came to see doctor Zerniche.

Speaker 22 (01:44:51):
You will in due time.

Speaker 49 (01:44:52):
You cannot expect to change hospital procedure. You know, mister Brown,
any breakulosis in your family, of course not.

Speaker 30 (01:44:57):
I come in here for a talk with doctor Zerniche,
and I am stripped wide floors.

Speaker 49 (01:45:01):
Any member of your family subject to fits.

Speaker 30 (01:45:03):
Don't be insulting insanity? No, not yet, that's all.

Speaker 49 (01:45:07):
You can put your coat on now?

Speaker 30 (01:45:08):
Oh, why do I see doctor ZERNIKEI right now, mister Brown.

Speaker 22 (01:45:11):
The record complete his scar.

Speaker 49 (01:45:13):
He's an excellent physical conditions.

Speaker 6 (01:45:14):
Good.

Speaker 22 (01:45:15):
I'm glad to hear that.

Speaker 30 (01:45:15):
Would you mind telling me just what concern my physical
condition is to you?

Speaker 22 (01:45:20):
Why are we naturally want it is a matter of records?

Speaker 30 (01:45:22):
Who my father reports this? Yes, doctor Nike.

Speaker 22 (01:45:25):
When is the wedding, mister Brown tomorrow?

Speaker 30 (01:45:28):
How did you know about that? We make it our
business to know those things.

Speaker 22 (01:45:31):
That's the reason we were in such a hurry to
get a record of your health. The usual procedure is
it for? Yes, mister Brown. Don't you think it's a
good idea?

Speaker 30 (01:45:39):
Oh so that's what your letter was about.

Speaker 59 (01:45:42):
Well, it seems a little premature, but I am sure
it's very efficient. I didn't know what to think when
I got your letter. Well, goodbye, doctor. If there's ever
any blessed events in our family, will get in touch in.

Speaker 22 (01:45:52):
Just a moment. Don't you want to see your baby?

Speaker 1 (01:45:56):
Why?

Speaker 30 (01:45:57):
My baby?

Speaker 60 (01:45:58):
You must to little love you just come along with me.
Just look through the glass. There she is the one
on the end.

Speaker 30 (01:46:12):
Well, i'll be dark one say. Could could I go
in and hold her for a minute?

Speaker 13 (01:46:20):
If not?

Speaker 22 (01:46:21):
No one is allowed in there but the doctors.

Speaker 59 (01:46:23):
Oh I suppose not. Well, well, it certainly is a surprise.
How does she compare with the uh, with others of
her age?

Speaker 30 (01:46:35):
Weight?

Speaker 22 (01:46:35):
Oh, perfectly normal, just normal, Well, maybe a little better.

Speaker 30 (01:46:41):
Uh she uh has all her arms and legs and
fingers and toes and all that. Nothing missing.

Speaker 22 (01:46:48):
I mean a full set, a customary number and variety.

Speaker 30 (01:46:52):
Oh isn't it wonderful?

Speaker 22 (01:46:54):
Oh it's quite usual.

Speaker 49 (01:46:57):
Uh.

Speaker 22 (01:46:57):
Wouldn't you like to see her mother?

Speaker 30 (01:47:00):
Mother? Is she here?

Speaker 13 (01:47:01):
Well?

Speaker 22 (01:47:02):
Naturally, Yeah, that is a lovely child. It's going to
be a very lucky family that gets her for adoption.

Speaker 13 (01:47:14):
Get her?

Speaker 22 (01:47:16):
What adoption? Didn't you know? Missus Drury has registered the
child for adoption. That's why we needed your medical records.

Speaker 30 (01:47:23):
Well, she can just unregister her.

Speaker 59 (01:47:25):
You're not gonna pedal my daughter around as some lazy
idiot who hasn't any family of his own.

Speaker 22 (01:47:30):
Miss Drury's title, her title of a child is clear
and legal. We've already checked into it.

Speaker 30 (01:47:36):
Well, we'll just see you about that.

Speaker 22 (01:47:37):
I'll take you to Miss Drury's rule. Perhaps it would
be better if you two disgusted it together.

Speaker 30 (01:47:47):
Hello Isabel, Hello Cash. She you look good?

Speaker 49 (01:47:52):
Thank you?

Speaker 58 (01:47:54):
He looks pretty good yourself.

Speaker 30 (01:47:56):
How do you feel?

Speaker 54 (01:47:57):
Oh?

Speaker 22 (01:47:58):
I'm feeling fine.

Speaker 30 (01:47:59):
Then that's the idea of giving my baby away?

Speaker 22 (01:48:02):
Your baby, isn't it wha technically yes?

Speaker 30 (01:48:06):
Oh? And what's the idea giving my technical baby away?

Speaker 49 (01:48:10):
You seem to forget kas that I'm under no obligation
to account to you at all. What I choose to
do with my baby is my own affair, not yours.

Speaker 30 (01:48:18):
That's a fine attitude.

Speaker 49 (01:48:20):
Suppose I had a chance for a marriage that meant
a lifetime as complete and wonderful happiness. I certainly couldn't
risk that happiness by presenting the man with someone else's child.

Speaker 30 (01:48:30):
Good grief. Are you planning on getting married again? I
only said suppose it was ridiculous. You can't marry anybody?

Speaker 22 (01:48:38):
Why can't I?

Speaker 30 (01:48:39):
Because you're you're a mother.

Speaker 22 (01:48:42):
Well, well that's not stopping you. I'm not a mother,
Well you're a father.

Speaker 59 (01:48:47):
You can't do it, that's all. You can't throw that
baby away and marry some creep you've dug up. And
while we're on the subject, why didn't you write to me?

Speaker 30 (01:48:54):
You know I loved you. You knew there was no
one else in the whole world for me, no matter
how nutty your mother and father I did not know.

Speaker 22 (01:49:02):
You never wrote to me.

Speaker 58 (01:49:04):
I waited and waited. I waited until it seemed foolish
to wait any longer. As far as I could see,
you just forgotten and keep my mother and father out
of this.

Speaker 12 (01:49:15):
I never forgot.

Speaker 30 (01:49:16):
You were never out of my thoughts for one single day.
I tried to drive you out again and again, but
I couldn't please catch you.

Speaker 22 (01:49:24):
You're in love with someone else me who Well you
are engaged to be married.

Speaker 59 (01:49:31):
That's right, Holy smoke, I almost forgot. I gotta get
out of here now, see here, Isabella. I'll have to
come back later and argue with you. But don't you
dare give my technical baby away.

Speaker 49 (01:49:42):
I'm sorry, casts, but I'm going ahead with my plans
just as.

Speaker 59 (01:49:46):
I've made that's your final word. Absolutely, Okay, okay, we'll
just see about that.

Speaker 26 (01:49:57):
DN.

Speaker 30 (01:50:00):
What on earth is wrong?

Speaker 22 (01:50:00):
I'm going to get the jury baby for a feeding?

Speaker 49 (01:50:02):
And she was gone, the attendant said.

Speaker 22 (01:50:04):
A fallman said his name.

Speaker 30 (01:50:05):
Was doctor Brown.

Speaker 22 (01:50:06):
Away. We have no doctor Brown.

Speaker 49 (01:50:07):
It might have been a baby father.

Speaker 22 (01:50:09):
He must have stolen the doctor's colt the building such
it once. You don't find him, call the police.

Speaker 59 (01:50:21):
At all power speaking JJ, listen, I am I find
myself in an extremely awkward predicament.

Speaker 15 (01:50:30):
A sting of passing over brown signing Henry poonder a
word for Colgate toothpowder.

Speaker 4 (01:50:56):
The young married Conlins are going to give a party.
Betty and Jim Condlin are make up the guest list. Say, Betty,
you haven't put down Marie's name?

Speaker 30 (01:51:03):
How could you forget my sister? I didn't forget.

Speaker 22 (01:51:06):
It's him, but wella a little breath of trouble is
snagging Marie.

Speaker 30 (01:51:11):
Well, well, Gars, why don't you tell her?

Speaker 15 (01:51:13):
No, Betty can't very well tell her sister in law
that she has a breath of trouble, I mean unpleasing breath.
It's clearly a case for coldgate toothpowder. You see anyone
can be the victim of unpleasing breath. It happens to
thousands without their knowing, marks them down socially, brings them unhappiness,
and they seldom suspect the real reasons. Don't let that

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breath of trouble catch up with you.

Speaker 26 (01:51:37):
Do this.

Speaker 30 (01:51:38):
Brush your teeth night and morning and before every date with.

Speaker 15 (01:51:41):
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we find Kaz in a room at the Windsor Hotels,
bending anxiously over his offspring. One of the hotel chambermaids
is changing the baby as Frank the bellhop comes in
the door.

Speaker 30 (01:52:45):
How is she's fine? Frank?

Speaker 59 (01:52:47):
Except she's gained announced since her ten o'clock beating holly smoke.

Speaker 22 (01:52:52):
Hey, yeah, honey, I tell you, mister Brown, you ought
to get her formula from the hospital. I never heard
of such growth. She's gained a pound this week.

Speaker 59 (01:53:00):
Yeah, I guess instead of weighing her five times a day,
I better check her wait every hour today. If this
keeps up, I'll have to do something. While she gains
a pounds a week, that's fifty two pounds a year.
At that rate, she'll be about twelve feet high and
four feet square. Had you tried all the formulas in
the book.

Speaker 30 (01:53:20):
I'm on the twelfth now, Monica, I think today will
combine several. We'll take a base of pablum wablam and
lace it with milk and vitro. I got the baby formula. Hey,

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how'd you get it? I asked fourth. I' men if
they heard your name, they gave.

Speaker 13 (01:53:46):
It out to me.

Speaker 30 (01:53:47):
You didn't tell him where I was. I didn't tell him.
How do you take me for a chump?

Speaker 49 (01:53:52):
I just walked in, and I said, walked.

Speaker 30 (01:53:54):
In in that uniform?

Speaker 22 (01:53:56):
Sure with windsor hotel? Haven't done your sleek holy jumping?

Speaker 30 (01:54:00):
Keep it right, I never thought of that.

Speaker 13 (01:54:02):
Brown.

Speaker 30 (01:54:03):
Still, let me think a man.

Speaker 22 (01:54:04):
You think he'll come for it.

Speaker 59 (01:54:06):
Sure, they'll come for they If you're the father, being
a father is not enough. You've got to be a
mother too. A man's not capable of taking care of
a child, not, according to the court. He can build bridges,
he can fly around the world, he can be president
and run the whole United States, but taking care of
a child is too much for him. For that, you've
got to be a woman, any woman.

Speaker 22 (01:54:28):
You mean, if you married again, you could keep her.

Speaker 59 (01:54:30):
That's right, that's right, Monica. I find myself in an
extremely awkward position.

Speaker 30 (01:54:41):
Yes, sir, are you married?

Speaker 13 (01:54:48):
Right?

Speaker 31 (01:54:49):
All right?

Speaker 22 (01:54:49):
I'm coming.

Speaker 13 (01:54:55):
I want.

Speaker 22 (01:54:58):
If you'll excuse me, I'm a little I'm frank Fellha.

Speaker 13 (01:55:02):
Perhaps you'll all be kind enough to let me explain.
I'm JJ Perris, an old friend of mister Brown. This
is my daughter, Madge, whom he was to marry. And
this is Isabelle Oh, who is the mother of a child.
We all met it to Houston. No, would you be
good enough to tell me where mister Brown is?

Speaker 22 (01:55:16):
He's getting married married?

Speaker 1 (01:55:18):
What?

Speaker 13 (01:55:19):
Really? Who made bingle this time?

Speaker 22 (01:55:23):
I'm miss Monica case of cyser. I believe it was
one of those whirlwinds romances.

Speaker 49 (01:55:28):
Oh day, oh nuts, mister brown Brown, it's me right.

Speaker 30 (01:55:41):
We got to move into this room justin's time the hole.
Mom's in there now waiting for you. Where'd you say I.

Speaker 22 (01:55:46):
Was down the city hall getting married.

Speaker 30 (01:55:48):
Yes, we're going down to get the license to the skin.
As they clear out, you let us know and then
you can come over and watch the baby while we go.
Where's Monica? She's downstairs getting dressed. Did anyone see you
come in here?

Speaker 13 (01:55:59):
I do, Isabelle.

Speaker 30 (01:56:01):
It's oh, Frank, Oh, you sporing on me.

Speaker 49 (01:56:04):
I'm sorry, I'm sorry. It's a bad head that I
try to do something.

Speaker 13 (01:56:07):
Well.

Speaker 22 (01:56:08):
I better get back and keep an eye on the
other one. Keep him over there.

Speaker 30 (01:56:11):
What do you mean, I'll try.

Speaker 13 (01:56:15):
Where?

Speaker 22 (01:56:16):
Where's the baby? Case on the bed?

Speaker 1 (01:56:20):
Oh?

Speaker 30 (01:56:21):
Care? Look how she's grown too much? You think?

Speaker 22 (01:56:25):
Oh no, no, she's just perfect.

Speaker 59 (01:56:27):
So don't touch her while she's feeding. It makes her nervous.
She's very high strung, not too high strong, is she?

Speaker 30 (01:56:33):
Oh no, no, just sensitive.

Speaker 22 (01:56:35):
Oh she hasn't been.

Speaker 59 (01:56:37):
Sick, so, of course not. She's had the very best
of care. I've tried to keep abreast of all the
best authorities. I've read all the latest books on the
subject of childcare. What you might have done yourself if
you had been interested in her?

Speaker 22 (01:56:50):
Oh, cass, you fool, you idiot. I never meant to
give her away. I I couldn't live without her.

Speaker 30 (01:56:57):
Then, why did you say you were going to Because.

Speaker 49 (01:56:59):
I wanted you to come running and stop. I wanted
you to see her and wander and and want me again.

Speaker 22 (01:57:07):
I I just became to Chicago to have her because
I thought that would be the easiest place for you
to get.

Speaker 30 (01:57:12):
To you did, uh huh?

Speaker 22 (01:57:16):
Of course, Now it's now, it's too late for anything.

Speaker 30 (01:57:19):
Too late? Why is it too late?

Speaker 22 (01:57:22):
The bellboy told us, what what you've done? As I
do sincerely hope that you'll both be very happy?

Speaker 13 (01:57:30):
He's both.

Speaker 30 (01:57:31):
What are you talking about? Who did you get married
this afternoon? Of course? Now, are you crazy? It takes
three days to get married in Chicago.

Speaker 22 (01:57:40):
You mean you mean you're you're not married at all
to anybody.

Speaker 30 (01:57:44):
No, I'm not married to anybody.

Speaker 13 (01:57:47):
Oh are you?

Speaker 35 (01:57:50):
No?

Speaker 30 (01:57:51):
No, I'm I'm not care woa to marry me? Cares
I'd love to marry you?

Speaker 16 (01:57:59):
Ah is it?

Speaker 13 (01:58:00):
I do love you? Said?

Speaker 30 (01:58:01):
Dog gone much?

Speaker 13 (01:58:02):
Hey, if it's not too much to last, would you
mind telling me just what you were up to as an.

Speaker 59 (01:58:07):
Over or hollow JJ, say, I wonder if you'd help
me out. I understand Madge is waiting across the hall,
and Monica is waiting downstairs, and Isabelle and I will.

Speaker 13 (01:58:17):
It's perfectly obvious about Isabelle and you as I think
that once more you will find yourself in there an
extremely awkward position.

Speaker 30 (01:58:27):
Yeah, that's what I mean.

Speaker 13 (01:58:29):
All right, all right, I'll explain to the ladies. Only
do me a favor, will you. I'm an old man
and I can't take much more of this. Marry this one,
will you.

Speaker 22 (01:58:41):
He's going to depair.

Speaker 59 (01:58:43):
That I am going to JJ, and this time is
going to stick as long as we live. Come on, honey,
we'll take a baby and go down to the Lifeles
Bureau and make this whole thing legal.

Speaker 15 (01:59:03):
Henry Ponder's cart, the nice presentation of Cassino the Brown
will return to our microphone in just a moment.

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Speaker 30 (02:00:36):
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To be bad and it was fun to appear on
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Speaker 30 (02:01:01):
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Speaker 4 (02:01:03):
Next week, Charles Bandits production of Theatre.

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Speaker 7 (02:01:48):
Henry Fonda Theater of Romance eighty years ago September thirteenth,
nineteen forty five here on Classic Radio Theater with Wyat Couch.
We'll wrap up this Thursday podcast next with an episode
of Claudia.

Speaker 38 (02:02:09):
This is basic civil defense information from the Department of
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plan to use a home shelter where you'll be on
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Speaker 13 (02:02:35):
When you do this, the.

Speaker 38 (02:02:36):
Pipes inside the house will still be full of water. Next,
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your house to let air into the system. Then use
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Speaker 13 (02:02:56):
You can even drink water that's been exposed to fall out.

Speaker 38 (02:02:58):
However, very young techildren should be given non contaminated liquids
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Speaker 7 (02:03:06):
It's a lot easier today than it was back in
the fifties with five gallon bottles and fifty five gallon
drums available, but it's still something that's very critical and
a lot of people don't even bother. Okay, let's go
back seventy eight years to wrap up this Thursday podcast
with an episode of Claudia and Poor Kitty.

Speaker 55 (02:03:29):
Your Coca Cola Bottler presents Claudia Claudia based on the
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Relax and while you're listening, refresh yourself.

Speaker 2 (02:03:56):
Have a coke.

Speaker 13 (02:04:04):
Now, Claudia.

Speaker 21 (02:04:15):
Er, good morning, Garling, I said, good morning. Sleep ahead, Claudia. Claudia,
where are you, Claudia.

Speaker 1 (02:04:29):
I've been here on the sofa.

Speaker 21 (02:04:30):
Good morning, Good morning, missus Naughton. Did you spend a
pleasant night on the sofa?

Speaker 1 (02:04:35):
I like my own bed better, thank you. But the
kittens enjoyed it here. They just simply refused to go
to sleep unless I.

Speaker 32 (02:04:41):
Stayed with him.

Speaker 1 (02:04:43):
Every time I left him to go back to bed,
they just started crying all over again.

Speaker 21 (02:04:46):
Yes, I heard them.

Speaker 42 (02:04:47):
I tried everything to keep him quiet. Hat box, that
deep chair over there, a pillow under the stove.

Speaker 21 (02:04:53):
So you left your bed and board to sleep on
the sofa with a couple of kittens. Something new and trying, Kata.

Speaker 1 (02:05:00):
Husband, wife and kittens.

Speaker 32 (02:05:02):
Well you're the one that brought them home.

Speaker 1 (02:05:04):
Oh look at them, aren't they sweet?

Speaker 61 (02:05:06):
Hey?

Speaker 21 (02:05:06):
Move over, move over, hey, be careful.

Speaker 1 (02:05:08):
You practically sat on them, and you their father.

Speaker 21 (02:05:11):
I suppose you think these kittens look upon you as
their mother.

Speaker 1 (02:05:13):
Well they haven't got any other mother.

Speaker 21 (02:05:15):
Now, Well, don't let it go to your head.

Speaker 1 (02:05:18):
I think they show wonderful taste in adopting me, don't you.
I do.

Speaker 21 (02:05:22):
Just remember I showed it first.

Speaker 32 (02:05:23):
Oh so you did.

Speaker 1 (02:05:25):
I guess I'll have to come back to you tonight.
By the way, how's your cold?

Speaker 31 (02:05:28):
Oh?

Speaker 30 (02:05:28):
Much better?

Speaker 49 (02:05:29):
Oh it is good.

Speaker 1 (02:05:31):
Hate David.

Speaker 42 (02:05:32):
You'll have to lean over and kiss me because I
can't lean over to kiss you on a cut of
I'm awful of cats.

Speaker 21 (02:05:37):
Hello, David, Hello, you look like the feline version of
Whistler's mother.

Speaker 1 (02:05:43):
Hey, don't pull away, let me see your forehead.

Speaker 21 (02:05:45):
I should have known that kiss was nothing but a decoy.

Speaker 1 (02:05:47):
I meant to kiss Darling before it was an afterthought.

Speaker 2 (02:05:51):
Well I fooled you.

Speaker 21 (02:05:52):
I haven't got a fever.

Speaker 1 (02:05:54):
Who said you did?

Speaker 21 (02:05:55):
You had that look in your eyes.

Speaker 1 (02:05:56):
You're getting a complex about that look in my eyes?

Speaker 2 (02:05:59):
No wonder.

Speaker 21 (02:06:00):
For the past few days, every time you've looked at me,
I felt as though I was getting a complete medical examination.

Speaker 1 (02:06:05):
You probably should get one.

Speaker 21 (02:06:07):
I'm sorry I brought it up. I should have known better.
Don't bother about breakfast, Darling. I always catch you bite
on the way up to RedBerry.

Speaker 42 (02:06:13):
RedBerry, David, you're not planning to go all the way
up to Connecticut today?

Speaker 13 (02:06:16):
I am.

Speaker 21 (02:06:17):
Why shouldn't I whether I wouldn't.

Speaker 1 (02:06:19):
Think of it? Why you you've hardly gotten over your.

Speaker 2 (02:06:21):
Coat, Darling.

Speaker 21 (02:06:22):
I am going to RedBerry. I am driving out there
this morning.

Speaker 1 (02:06:27):
Who says you half? I says I have, and I
says you don't. I may, I say, I only may
that you go to the office, but not to RedBerry.
See the kitten says so too.

Speaker 21 (02:06:36):
He did not that kitten distinctly said stick to your
gun's old boy.

Speaker 1 (02:06:42):
He didn't, he said, catch you two people, shut up
and let me sleep. Oh, David, won't you listen to
reason about going to RedBerry?

Speaker 31 (02:06:51):
No?

Speaker 1 (02:06:51):
Won't you even listen to me?

Speaker 35 (02:06:53):
No?

Speaker 21 (02:06:54):
But I'm glad to see that you don't mention reason
and yourself in the same breath. Shows progress. Very clever, Darling.
I love you, but they are things I have to do.

Speaker 18 (02:07:03):
David.

Speaker 1 (02:07:05):
Then, will you wear your sweater under your jacket?

Speaker 21 (02:07:07):
I will wear two sweaters under my jacket, and don't
forget your jacket, Darling. You better warm some milk for
your little angels.

Speaker 1 (02:07:26):
Come on stay for dinner, mamma. David'll be home in
a little while. I'm having dinner with Aunt Louisa. And
don't tell me I won't have as good a time
as if I stayed here. You won't. Oh. They the
cutest little kittens you ever saw. I'll have to admit it.
But it's too bad about kittens. What's too bad about
kittens that they have to grow up into cats? Oh?
Nothing in life is perfect. I guess we haven't named

(02:07:47):
them yet, have you any ideas? I've only just met them.

Speaker 42 (02:07:50):
I guess we ought to wait until they've developed their personality.

Speaker 32 (02:07:53):
What are they?

Speaker 1 (02:07:54):
You have to know before you name them?

Speaker 42 (02:07:56):
Oh that they're boys, David said. At least the man
in the patch out promised him they were.

Speaker 1 (02:08:00):
But I hope the man in the pet shop keeps
his promise. What happens to girl kittens? Doesn't anybody want him?
Cause somebody must. With all the cats in the world,
must be very hard to be born one, with all
this prejudice. Here, mammy, you wanna hold one? I do
not go on, he won't hurt you.

Speaker 13 (02:08:16):
Go on?

Speaker 32 (02:08:17):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (02:08:17):
What'll have me the pillow first, so I can put
him on top? Oh really, mamma, little cat fuzz is
healthy for cats, but not for my good black wool
by the way house. David's cold, he said.

Speaker 42 (02:08:27):
Fine.

Speaker 1 (02:08:28):
He went off to RedBerry with a sweater under his jacket,
looking like the cat and eating the canary? Which cat?
One of these? H what canary? The one at eight?

Speaker 21 (02:08:36):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (02:08:37):
So you have a canary too? How could we he
ate it feathers with I suppose no, he stuck those
in his hand. A minute. You will have me eating
my hat? Oh, listen to him. He's purry, does mine?
You know, my animals are really most extraordinary. He's the
orange kittens.

Speaker 42 (02:08:56):
They're only a week old and they talk and cry
and her and and stumble around.

Speaker 1 (02:09:02):
You stood up at ten months without any help? Well,
I should hope, so lying around for ten months is
a pretty long time to lie around. Oh kid, Dicky,
you like to have your tummy rubb, do you? Well?
I'm not going to stay here all like to rub it? Mamma.
You know, I think maybe there's something the matter with
this one. Phel his noses, his boiling nonsense. Do you

(02:09:25):
have to have something to worry about?

Speaker 6 (02:09:26):
Oh?

Speaker 42 (02:09:26):
Really, I've been noticing it for the past half hour.
He's he's been acting funny.

Speaker 1 (02:09:30):
Put yours in the pillar, mamma, come on over here,
all right, But there's nothing the matter with him. Look,
Pheel his nose Claudia. Feeding noses is for dog nor
cats too. How else could you tell about their temperature?
They haven't any foreheads, but it does feel warm. And
look his little pauser code?

Speaker 52 (02:09:47):
Is that bad?

Speaker 1 (02:09:48):
I wouldn't know. I've had practically no experience playing mother
to a kitten. What do you think we ought to do?
Maybe he's just tired. What do you do to make
him tired. The other one isn't now did you hear that?
He doesn't act right?

Speaker 18 (02:10:02):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (02:10:02):
I think I'm gonna call the pet shop where David
bought them. See what to do here?

Speaker 32 (02:10:07):
Mammy?

Speaker 1 (02:10:07):
You hold him, nah, kitty, take it easy. Everything is
going to be all right. Oh, tell the man he's
sort of choking, Claudia.

Speaker 30 (02:10:18):
Oh he is.

Speaker 1 (02:10:21):
Two one seven four? How's he now?

Speaker 60 (02:10:27):
Mama?

Speaker 32 (02:10:28):
Shivering?

Speaker 1 (02:10:29):
Poor little rascal.

Speaker 42 (02:10:30):
Cover him with your hand, Mama.

Speaker 1 (02:10:32):
Oh, the other one just fell off this pillow. You
better pick him up. I've only got two hands. They
are a handful, aren't they?

Speaker 19 (02:10:37):
I mean?

Speaker 32 (02:10:38):
Too handful?

Speaker 22 (02:10:39):
Oh?

Speaker 42 (02:10:40):
Hello, oh hello, mister Flannery. This is missus Naughting. You
know the kittens of two little kittens?

Speaker 1 (02:10:46):
You so that that's right? That's the one.

Speaker 42 (02:10:49):
Oh yes, I love them, but one of them is
sick and well I don't know what's the matter. Could
you I hate to ask you, but could you come
up here?

Speaker 1 (02:10:58):
And I'd come to you. But oh that's wonderful, mister Flannery.
Thank you. Than you have the address?

Speaker 32 (02:11:05):
All right?

Speaker 1 (02:11:06):
Goodbye? He said he'd be right up on his way home.
Good now, stop pitting him so much. Put him down.
I'll cover him with my angor a sweater. You're best
sweater here, use my scarf. I'm coming. Oh hello, you're

(02:11:36):
the dog man, I mean, a man about the cat.
Oh how do you do?

Speaker 28 (02:11:40):
Lady?

Speaker 62 (02:11:40):
You're Missus Norton's mother, didn't you?

Speaker 1 (02:11:42):
Yes, come right here in the living room.

Speaker 23 (02:11:45):
Uh.

Speaker 62 (02:11:45):
I came as soon as I closed up the shop.
Very kind of you, not a todll I know what
it means to someone like missus.

Speaker 42 (02:11:51):
Not Oh hello, mister Flannery, it's so nice of you.

Speaker 1 (02:11:54):
He's right here. He looks awful sick to me. Well
what do you think?

Speaker 39 (02:11:59):
Do you think you'll be all right?

Speaker 19 (02:12:00):
Well, no, that's not easy to say.

Speaker 1 (02:12:02):
Maybe it's something he ate. Well he shouldn't have eaten anything.

Speaker 42 (02:12:06):
He didn't.

Speaker 1 (02:12:06):
I gave him nothing but warm milk.

Speaker 62 (02:12:08):
Then that can't be the reason. Oh prime a buster
turn over an old like a good boy.

Speaker 1 (02:12:14):
Are you sure that's all you gave him, Claudes.

Speaker 32 (02:12:16):
I'm sure.

Speaker 1 (02:12:16):
A little warm milk with tiniest bit of.

Speaker 22 (02:12:19):
Egg in it?

Speaker 1 (02:12:20):
Right, Oh, just as I thought for nourishment. Couldn't possibly
hurt him, could it.

Speaker 62 (02:12:25):
Mister Flannery, Well, well perhaps it's a little more than
his own mother would have given him.

Speaker 42 (02:12:30):
Oh, if that's what did it, I'll never forgive myself.
I just thought feeding him up a little. After all,
babies have formulas which are more than just milk, so
why shouldn't baby kittens.

Speaker 1 (02:12:42):
Maybe this will cure you of the habit of slipping
health potions and everybody's food. Mister Flannery, what do you think?

Speaker 62 (02:12:47):
Well, no, this is not And it's hard to tell
with such a little fellow what the matter is. Else
it's plan to see something is wrong.

Speaker 21 (02:12:56):
You're right there, Hm.

Speaker 62 (02:12:59):
Could be a stomach, bulls, lungs, or something else, and
I wouldn't know just how to know which.

Speaker 42 (02:13:06):
I can understand that, mister Flannery, all his apparatus is
such a small space.

Speaker 62 (02:13:12):
But what can we do, well, know, very little mother nothing.
Mother nature knows a way around, though, better than we do,
with things as small as kittens.

Speaker 1 (02:13:21):
I tell you, I'll put him right on top of
a warm, hot water bottle.

Speaker 62 (02:13:24):
Oh, now it's a good idea, and he will take
a little milk with the chill off it. Give it
to him, and give it to him slowly.

Speaker 1 (02:13:31):
Give it to him straight. Claudia, Mama really, this is
no time for jokes. I wasn't joking.

Speaker 62 (02:13:36):
Well that's about all I can suggest. You know, taking
these babies away from their mother is risky business, you know,
Oh yes, indeed, very risky business. But mister Norton seemed
to think it was very very important.

Speaker 42 (02:13:51):
He was just trying to be sweet.

Speaker 1 (02:13:52):
He knows how I love kittens.

Speaker 42 (02:13:55):
But mister Flannery, if you think this one needs his mother,
I'll return him to you.

Speaker 7 (02:14:00):
The time being.

Speaker 22 (02:14:01):
Mmm.

Speaker 62 (02:14:01):
I don't think it would make a particle bit of difference.
You know, he was a lot more to offer than missus,
mother cat.

Speaker 42 (02:14:08):
That's awful nice of you, mister Flannery, But I don't know,
mother is something sort of special, particularly when you're sick.

Speaker 1 (02:14:16):
Thank you.

Speaker 62 (02:14:17):
Now, we'll just leave bus to hear and like as
not by morning it'd be as friskysy otherwise, I hope.

Speaker 21 (02:14:22):
So now, cheer up, young lady.

Speaker 62 (02:14:24):
Kittens may be awfully small, but they don't give up quick.

Speaker 30 (02:14:27):
Why.

Speaker 62 (02:14:27):
I've seen them a lot worse off than this, and
the next day play like nothing at all. It happened.

Speaker 21 (02:14:34):
Everybody home, Hey, Hey, how the kitten?

Speaker 32 (02:14:38):
David?

Speaker 21 (02:14:38):
Hello, Hello, Hello, it's a convention. Hello, mother, David.

Speaker 1 (02:14:43):
David, one of the kittens got sick, so mister Flannery
came over to help.

Speaker 21 (02:14:46):
Oh that's that's very kind of you, mister Flannery. Do
you know what's the matter with him?

Speaker 19 (02:14:51):
I is going to be all right, and so is
missus Norton.

Speaker 21 (02:14:54):
I'll be running along now. Good night everybody.

Speaker 62 (02:14:57):
Now, be sure and calm if you need.

Speaker 1 (02:14:58):
Me very well, I hope we won't have to well
call away.

Speaker 62 (02:15:02):
Having a sick kitten's like having a sick child in
the house.

Speaker 21 (02:15:04):
Good night, good night's flattery.

Speaker 42 (02:15:06):
Oh David, there isn't anything we can do, and he
he can't even tell us.

Speaker 31 (02:15:11):
Where it hurts.

Speaker 21 (02:15:12):
You know, i'd i'd really forgotten how small he was.

Speaker 1 (02:15:16):
He looks even smaller than he did. I I've got
to get him a hot water by Oh David, how's
your cold?

Speaker 58 (02:15:23):
Oh?

Speaker 13 (02:15:23):
All better?

Speaker 21 (02:15:25):
And see I'm back from RedBerry safe and so I'm
glad you don't look very glad. Hey, hey, come here, Dolly.

Speaker 1 (02:15:33):
I haven't got time now.

Speaker 61 (02:15:35):
Later I'll show you how glad. Oh David, he will
get better, won't he tell me you will? I hope, So, Dolly,
he's just got to come on kiddy, we'll go in
the bedroom.

Speaker 1 (02:15:45):
H she gets attached to things, David. It's never been
easy for her to let go.

Speaker 21 (02:15:52):
Oh, she'll learn, mother. It's one of the lessons in
life we can't escape. But I'd be very sorry if
one of my little red herrings is the one to
teach you your little red what David, my little red herrings?

Speaker 1 (02:16:09):
That's what I thought you said, And I think I
know what you mean. I suppose if it hadn't been
for them taking up Claudia's energies, you'd never have been
allowed out of bed to day.

Speaker 55 (02:16:20):
You're a pretty.

Speaker 24 (02:16:21):
Wise old duck. Missus Brown h here you call mamma.

Speaker 1 (02:16:24):
Doctor gare wo she has used in the back of
her head that child.

Speaker 55 (02:16:37):
All story material used on this broadcast of Claudia was
under the supervision of Rose Franken and William Brown Maloney.
Strange how that friendly phrase have a colk makes people
feel at home. It's as though you said, come relax,
refresh yourself. And while we're on that subject, why not

(02:17:01):
work refreshed? Why not enjoy the pause that refreshes before
you pick up that mop or dishcloth again. It's a
pleasant custom that makes work hours easier.

Speaker 2 (02:17:11):
Try it.

Speaker 55 (02:17:18):
Every day Monday through Friday, Claudia comes to you, transcribed
with the best wishes of your friendly neighbor who bottles
Coca cola. So listen again tomorrow at the same time.
And now this is Joe King saying a revoir. And remember,
whoever you are, whatever you do, wherever you may be.

(02:17:38):
When you think of refreshment, think of coca cola or
ice cold. Coca Cola makes any pause the pause that refreshes.

Speaker 7 (02:18:16):
Seventy eight years ago, November thirteenth, nineteen forty seven, Claudia
here on Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cox. Visit with
us tomorrow as will bring you episodes of Mister President,
The Whistler, Dark Fantasy Romance, and Claudia tomorrow on our
Friday edition of the Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cox Podcast.

(02:18:39):
Have yourself a great day. We will see you tomorrow
for more Classic Radio Theater. I'm Wyatt Cox, M

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