October 16, 2025 • 24 mins
Dive into the gritty world of 'Old Time Radio: Gunsmoke', where each episode delivers suspense and raw storytelling from the days of frontier justice. Perfect for history buffs and fans of classic radio dramas.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Around Dodge City and in the territory on West. There
is just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
And that's where the US Marshal and The Smell of
Gun Smoke, Gun Will Smoke, starring William Conrad. The story
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of the violence that moved west with Young America and
the story of a man who moved with it.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshal, the first
man they look for and the less they.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Want to meet.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
It's a chancy job and it makes a man watchful
and a little lonely.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Well, you're up early, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Jes here Harris Skylin hiss. Young Danny leads around.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Hey Room fourteen, straight down the hall. Now, thanks he
chucked in last night.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Miss Jonie's pulled down in his paws. Had a nice
crap sometime.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
I might have. Okay, it's pretty hard to get along with.
I'm surprised the boy has studied as long as he has.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
It sure was a funny sound to know what he
sent over to the office. What do you make of it?
Speaker 5 (01:45):
As if I could make anything of it, we wouldn't
have to come here ask it.
Speaker 6 (01:48):
Only I didn't think you'd read Marshall.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Dylon warned Danny might have come in.
Speaker 6 (02:01):
Well, I I was just about to go out.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
I didn't won't take.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Him another half. I uh, I.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Just wanted to find out what you meant by this note.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
Danny, you better go on out to the farm and
ask my part.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
I'm gone too, but I just thought maybe you could
give me some idea first.
Speaker 6 (02:19):
You better talk to him, Marshall.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
I was he anyway last time I saw him. He
was having some trouble.
Speaker 6 (02:24):
He never changes, you know that, except to get meaner.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
Oh you too have trouble, did you?
Speaker 6 (02:31):
We had trouble?
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Yeah, that's why you stayed here in toime last night.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
I walked out, Marshall, and I ain't going back. I've
took all off him. I'm going to look. I got
some things to do now.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
So I'm trouble have anything to do with this note.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
Not exactly. He wanted you to come out to the farm.
I told him. I passed the word to you. Look, Marshall,
he can tell you all this. I haven't got time yet.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
You got time to answer a couple of questions, Danny. Now,
what does he want to see me about?
Speaker 6 (03:01):
It's trespassers again. They camping down by the pond to
be close to water. Uhu, they ain't hurt nothing. We
don't even use that lower section. But that don't make
no difference to him.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Now, your PA's always been like that.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
Trouble is he thinks the whole world's his and everybody
and it including me. But I ain't a kid no
more that he can cuss that and take a whip.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Are you expecting somebody?
Speaker 6 (03:29):
Well, not exactly.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
I I'd better find out who it is, don't we?
Speaker 6 (03:34):
Well, d you no, wait, Marshall up.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
At good morning, young lady.
Speaker 7 (03:39):
Naomi, I am come to see you Denny like I
see I am.
Speaker 6 (03:43):
Uh uh this is uh Marshall, Dylan and uh Chester
proud foot. This is Naomi.
Speaker 8 (03:50):
How do you do what you do?
Speaker 9 (03:51):
Hey?
Speaker 7 (03:51):
Friends of Danny, it's friends of me.
Speaker 6 (03:54):
Uh look, Naomi, they they just going you wait here,
I'll I'll walk out with him. You coming, Marshall?
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Yeah, okay, Danny. Uh, pleasure of meeting you, ma'am. Yes,
good night.
Speaker 6 (04:09):
Look Marshall, it ain't like your thinking.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
I wasn't thinking anything, Danny.
Speaker 8 (04:15):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Naomi there she's a gypsy and she well what other?
And I was trespassers camping out at your paws farm.
Speaker 6 (04:23):
Alright, their Gypsies, and she's one of 'em. What about it?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Now, you're asking for trouble, Danny.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
You sound chest like my pH Gypsies take care of
their own They make their own laws, and they're pretty
strict laws.
Speaker 6 (04:37):
Why don't you let me worry about it. Uh?
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Well, that's what you will do, Donny.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
If you're smart, you'll worry about it a lot. I reckon,
there's one plague the whole world knows and mostly respects.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
It's I.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
It's on a stamp here in my album Heah that
the United States Post Office put out in October nineteen
hundred and sixty three. They honor the one hundredth birthday
of the International Red Cross. I'll find it here now now, Now,
maybe you didn't know. There are two Red Cross organizations.
(05:19):
Both of them started in Geneva, Switzerland, and had headquarters there,
but they each do different jobs. Yeah, this stamp shows
how one of them helped free anti Castro Cuban fighters
who got captured at the Bay of Pigs. That's what
the International Committee of the Red Cross does is a
neutral body. They're making arrangements for exchange of prisoners, trying
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to protect sick and wounded soldiers, and helping civilians and refugees.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
In war areas.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
The other is the League of Red Cross Societies. It
operates in almost almost ninety countries, given aid in every
kind of emergency or disaster, and carrying on health, safety
and relief projects. Uh huh, I kind of figured this
is one of the best stamps in my book.
Speaker 8 (06:22):
Yeah, you're coming out to seek.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
A nice place here out of our too. He's put
twenty hours a day on him for the last ten years.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Hey caterer, oh arn, Marshall Kester just a minute, lie
jump out and the rest of their speed. Are you
eat your head off?
Speaker 7 (06:50):
Now?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
You mean gemarments? What's some weight on any pool and trash?
The raise hogs on the prairie. Stein't got good sense,
Marshall look all right to me, and they won't make
a sense of course more to feed him in. They
were trying to took your time coming out, didn't you.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
I'd a few call three hours taking our time. That's
when I got your note.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
It workless, young pup. I told him to tell you
last night. Soon he got into town over here and
set in the shade.
Speaker 8 (07:19):
All right, Cater, you and Danny have an argument.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
I talked and he listened. He ain't got the gumption
to argue.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
He tells me he's not coming back home.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
And here you come back. He'd starve to death if
he had to feed yourself. Somebody a yellow blue at
him in the dark, and he'll come high, tailing back fast.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
And I'm afraid I don't agree with you, Cater. And
then they always looked at me like a pretty decent kid.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
You ain't worth the powder and blow him up. The
last straw was when he was two, Lily livered to
run them trespassers off.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Why don't you leave those people along, Kata. They're figuring
to move on by the end of the week anyway.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Sure, and take half the farm with them.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
Likely not.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
I'm missing five pullets now, stole just since they've been there.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
And I might have been a coyote er of weasel
maybe yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
And it might have been that pack of even gypsies too, Marshall.
I didn't build this farm by putting up with squatters,
and I ain't about to start now. I've fought for
this land, every square foot of it, and I'll keep right.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
On fighting times.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
They're different from when they were when you first came
to the prairie.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
Kid.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Yeah, people eat, they're all ought to take what you
got away from you. You always got to keep out
guessing them and out fighting them. That's what I tried
to learn that boy of mine. But he ain't got
the backbone of angle worm. Why I didn't even take
a gun when I send him over to run them with,
even gypsies out in a kada.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
There are other answers in this world besides guns.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Yeah, but it was guns that won this country, and
they'll keep on winning the two. You back one yourself,
don't you, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I use it to enforce the law, but not to
settle every personal argument that comes along.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Well, then starting forcing the law, you go over there
and talk to them gypsy and tell them to get out.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
I have talked to them Chester, and I just came
from there. Eat your run them out.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
They're repairing their wagons, building wheels and setting hubs.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
They'll try to put out some time tomorrow so.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
They out bleft you too, did they what they do
dangle one of their women in front of you. That's
what they're done, with Danny. Yeah, she what's going on?
You were a sweet eye and one of them all
week and she was letting him to Now listen, man,
look your duty, marshall. Stop taking up for them, partner.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Will you listen to me?
Speaker 5 (09:36):
I said, are those people that touchy enough?
Speaker 3 (09:40):
At best? You go and soft them. You're gonna have
some real trouble on your hands.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Gipsy, your bad luck, and I want them out of there.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
They'll be out put tomorrow evening.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
And in the meantime, you leave that rifle of yours
in the house and stay away from that pond.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
Do you understand?
Speaker 6 (10:13):
Man?
Speaker 7 (10:14):
If words were dollars, you'd be the biggest miser in
the long branch.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Well, what do you mean, kitty?
Speaker 7 (10:21):
Well, you sure haven't been talking.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 7 (10:26):
And what's worse, you haven't been listening to me.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
Oh I thought there was more choice.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Okay, what were you saying?
Speaker 5 (10:34):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (10:35):
I don't remember. But it's a principle. Girl can't stand
being ignored.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Ignored and I'm not dress you're wearing. You'd be pretty
hard to ignore.
Speaker 7 (10:45):
H Well, it's not that's kimpy.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Well, it's the latest thing.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
It's fine, Kitty, it's fine. Oh, I don't know, kiddy.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
I guess I'm just kind of dull this evening.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Oh trouble and not yet.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
But I just got a feeling there's gonna be What
do you mean, I don't know, it's just a hunch.
Speaker 7 (11:08):
Well, why don't you go get your fortune told? There's
a band of gypsy's in town.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
Oh, how did you know?
Speaker 7 (11:15):
Some of 'em are in here, not drinking or anything,
just looking around.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Who's that?
Speaker 6 (11:20):
So?
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Did you know?
Speaker 7 (11:22):
Young Danny Let's has got himself a gypsy girl. He's
pretty as a picture.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
It's some of the best term Tell me, kitty, Hm,
she's still in town.
Speaker 7 (11:30):
Oh she was a couple of hours ago. Why am
I something wrong?
Speaker 5 (11:36):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Nah, I guess not.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
I suppose he ought to have a chance to find
at least one thing for himself in this world. Oh,
cater has never let him call up breath of his own.
Speaker 7 (11:48):
I like Danny.
Speaker 6 (11:49):
He's a good boy. Put that cater uh out side.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Busting's a rough life.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Kitty makes a man either mean or wise or else
that kills him.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Yam so far as just made Cater me.
Speaker 7 (12:02):
Oh, he was born that way, That's all he's got
in the world is his son? You'd think he'd treat
him decent.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
You better go on over to the depot.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Oh, what is a chester?
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Danny Leech's been hurting real bad. He's unconscious.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Huh, all right, I'll meet you there.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
You go get dark.
Speaker 7 (12:32):
Old.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
How is he got? Oh he he'll be all right. Mad,
just been beat up a little. He had a bad
whack on the head there. Oh, hell, he's coming around.
Wake up, lad, Come on, you can't sleep forever. Anybody
know how it happened?
Speaker 9 (12:53):
No, the station agent come out and seeing him lay there, said, come.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
On back to the world of the living.
Speaker 6 (13:01):
What is uh?
Speaker 8 (13:03):
What happened?
Speaker 3 (13:04):
And that's what I was about to ask you Downnay,
what did happen?
Speaker 5 (13:07):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (13:08):
I don't know. I just waiting here til train time.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
Huh where is she?
Speaker 6 (13:14):
Huh? Where's where's Naomi? Easy? Now, boy, they took her.
They took her down the Gypsies. She said they would.
She said they would if we didn't get away in time.
Speaker 9 (13:23):
Uh what she mean?
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Gypsy? Letter?
Speaker 9 (13:25):
Doc?
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Later, go on down me.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (13:27):
He was aiming to leave going to Kansas City. I
got tickets on the train.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Were not in any shape to travel some.
Speaker 6 (13:34):
Yeah, we got here early, stayed right down here at
the end of the platform, out of sight. Naomi was scared.
She said it was going to end bad. She was right.
He was aiming to get married in Kansas City.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Marshall, I'm sorry, downy.
Speaker 6 (13:50):
They come out of the shadows there hit her, ten
of 'em. Next thing I knowed, they grabbed Naomi. They
come at me with knives. Then then one of 'em
hit me from behind. So no, let me go down.
You're in no condition to be standing up, Danny. I
never have stood up down here, boy, let go thedn't
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stand up when they come and took her and then
lift her hand.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
You couldn't have done anything, Danny.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
Maybe Paul's right. If you want anything, if you wanna
keep it, you gotta hit out of anybody that gets
close in him first. That's the way Paul thinks.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
And he's hated for it.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
Danny.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
He hasn't got a friend in the world.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
Well, what have I got The only thing I ever wanted,
the only person that ever thought I am mounted to something,
and I let them come and take her back without
even fighting for her.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Why don't you go to your room and resta while
then go to bed without my supper?
Speaker 6 (14:42):
Is that what you mean?
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Or Dorney? H Well, what do you all gat for that?
Ain't you ever never seen a coward before?
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Take it easy now, Donny.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
I gotta get out of him, Marshall.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
I gotta get out of here before I bust want.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Because you green throwing out ride on time and once.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Yeah, still by this happened down there and that girl
might have got on fine, what girl are.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
You talking about?
Speaker 7 (15:10):
Man?
Speaker 6 (15:10):
I'd like to know what's going on here once in.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
A while too.
Speaker 9 (15:14):
What y'arre at? Come back here, Marshall, Marshall, Marshall, you
see that and say what mister hey, young fella, the
one that was hurt, he grabbed my gun out of
my holster and let out not horse like the old
nick was after.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Let's get our horses syster.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Hometowns in America have a lot in common, and yet
they're each one of a kind. Take for example, Stillwater, Oklahoma.
And when you're taking Stillwater, you get with it. Oklahoma
State University because the town is the university and the
university is the town. And any student from these parts
who's really serious about animal husbandry veterinary medicine or engineering
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will be there. He'll likely belong to Sigma Nux or
maybe be a beat It, and she'll become one of
the kkgs or possibly pledged to save it. His bright
new bleezer is from Beates Brothers down at the end
of University Avenue in the campus corner, and her latest
mod is from Blonnies in the student union. Downtown's a
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ten minute walk, and you can't miss the new First
National Bank because it's right across Maine from the old
about ten miles out. You can water ski on Lake
Carl Blackwell or go somewhat farther to O'Keene for the
annual rattlesnake hunt.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
But if your hometown is still water you.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Already know this. We only wanted to remind you it's
still there.
Speaker 10 (17:02):
MM.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
How way are trust you with them gypsies?
Speaker 4 (17:21):
You pulled down what you're doing.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
They broke camp and pulled out.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Yeah, and I got that business at the depot got
'em spooked. But I hadn't bet anything that this is
where Donnay was heaping.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Maybe we passed him some mood stream here and down
some majoy hims yelled any shadows under him crazier.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
Yeah, at donnay is that you?
Speaker 6 (17:46):
Yes me, Marshall, Come on, trust.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Me, clerics black inside of the car around here, Fella
could ball right.
Speaker 6 (18:03):
Smack into that palm. Yeah, you'd come out to wed
nurse me back to town, Marshall.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
But you're saying that, Danny, I'm not.
Speaker 6 (18:14):
I guess you can see for yourself. They pulled out gone, Yeah,
they sure have. I'm going after Marshall. I'll find him
if it takes me ten years.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
I don't be a fool, Danny.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
Oh that's what I've been, alright, but I ain't now.
She didn't wanna go, Marshall. They took her against her will,
and I'm.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
Going after it, Danny.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
They'd kill her before they'd let her marry an outsider.
That's the way gypsies are.
Speaker 6 (18:35):
Maybe I can change their minds. PA's way talking over
the sights of a gun.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Yeah, but his way is not yours, Danny, and your
better off.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
It's not.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
It's got on everything he wanted, has it. There ain't
no use arguing about it, Marshall. And you got no
right to stop me.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
I wasn't figuring to stop yet, Danny. Not that word.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
Well, then I'll be riding out, Marshall. I'll try to
cover the trail. The longer they go, the hotter, it's
gonna beat a fine hat out.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Have I seen the flash, mister Dillon?
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Yeah, he's over there in that brush, h Chuster.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
When I fire, you'll roll away faster, you shit? Alright?
Speaker 4 (19:21):
You alright, mister Dillon.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Yeah, I'm alright.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
Some of them gypsies must stay behind.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
Maybe he's Danny over there at you, mister Dillon.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Yeah, yeah, he's here at Chester.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
You are there, You with thieve environments, or you'll.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Get more of the same.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
Joe Keeter.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Yeah, there's apostle you of a hundred an others out
here in the brush. Cater it's Matt Dylan Marshall. Put
that rifle down and come out out. Sure, Marshall, I.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Got what happened to that gypsy they pulled out. Maybe
you ought a check on it before you started shooting.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Well, I heard horshert and talking. I naturally figured it
with them. I don't plague me about it, Marshall. I
I paid for it good and proper.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
What do you mean you're a pretty good shot in
the dark.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
You put a bullet right through my arm.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Now you're a better shot kater. You put one right
through your son's head. Yeah, you paid for it all right.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
Well, when it comes to political terminology, I guess that
old character Elijah Cuddlestone.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Is used at all.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
For instance, and I say that all of them. If
you every man Jack nominated a run against me, he
is cast in the same mold. Pour it out of
the same bottle, chips off of the same political stump.
If you're di there's no choice among them. That is
the fact is I say, it is a fact that
you'll see them ring in a dark horse candidate a
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dark horse, that is because they can't make up their
minds otherwise. What I mean, well, dark horse in the
political sense in which Elijah used it means pretty much
as he explained it, an unexpected nominee brought in to
break a deadlocked balloting for a candidate from among the
leading nominees. Presidents Polk, Pierce, Garfield and Harding were dark horses. Originally,
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dark horse was a racing term for a horse whose
abilities were kept in the dark until displayed in the race.
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Gun Smoke We're used and directed by Norman McDonald, Stars
William Conrad as Matt Dylan US Marshall. Featured in the
cast were Marley Bear as Chester, Howard mcneer as Doc,
and Georgia Ellis as Kitty George Walls Speak. Join us
again next week for another specially transcribed story.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
On gun smoke.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
This is the United States Armed Forces Radio and television service.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
In the
Speaker 10 (24:30):
AN
Around Dodge City and in the territory on West. There
is just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
And that's where the US Marshal and The Smell of
Gun Smoke, Gun Will Smoke, starring William Conrad. The story
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of the violence that moved west with Young America and
the story of a man who moved with it.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshal, the first
man they look for and the less they.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Want to meet.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
It's a chancy job and it makes a man watchful
and a little lonely.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Well, you're up early, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Jes here Harris Skylin hiss. Young Danny leads around.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Hey Room fourteen, straight down the hall. Now, thanks he
chucked in last night.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Miss Jonie's pulled down in his paws. Had a nice
crap sometime.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
I might have. Okay, it's pretty hard to get along with.
I'm surprised the boy has studied as long as he has.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
It sure was a funny sound to know what he
sent over to the office. What do you make of it?
Speaker 5 (01:45):
As if I could make anything of it, we wouldn't
have to come here ask it.
Speaker 6 (01:48):
Only I didn't think you'd read Marshall.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Dylon warned Danny might have come in.
Speaker 6 (02:01):
Well, I I was just about to go out.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
I didn't won't take.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Him another half. I uh, I.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Just wanted to find out what you meant by this note.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
Danny, you better go on out to the farm and
ask my part.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
I'm gone too, but I just thought maybe you could
give me some idea first.
Speaker 6 (02:19):
You better talk to him, Marshall.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
I was he anyway last time I saw him. He
was having some trouble.
Speaker 6 (02:24):
He never changes, you know that, except to get meaner.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
Oh you too have trouble, did you?
Speaker 6 (02:31):
We had trouble?
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Yeah, that's why you stayed here in toime last night.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
I walked out, Marshall, and I ain't going back. I've
took all off him. I'm going to look. I got
some things to do now.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
So I'm trouble have anything to do with this note.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
Not exactly. He wanted you to come out to the farm.
I told him. I passed the word to you. Look, Marshall,
he can tell you all this. I haven't got time yet.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
You got time to answer a couple of questions, Danny. Now,
what does he want to see me about?
Speaker 6 (03:01):
It's trespassers again. They camping down by the pond to
be close to water. Uhu, they ain't hurt nothing. We
don't even use that lower section. But that don't make
no difference to him.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Now, your PA's always been like that.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
Trouble is he thinks the whole world's his and everybody
and it including me. But I ain't a kid no
more that he can cuss that and take a whip.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Are you expecting somebody?
Speaker 6 (03:29):
Well, not exactly.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
I I'd better find out who it is, don't we?
Speaker 6 (03:34):
Well, d you no, wait, Marshall up.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
At good morning, young lady.
Speaker 7 (03:39):
Naomi, I am come to see you Denny like I
see I am.
Speaker 6 (03:43):
Uh uh this is uh Marshall, Dylan and uh Chester
proud foot. This is Naomi.
Speaker 8 (03:50):
How do you do what you do?
Speaker 9 (03:51):
Hey?
Speaker 7 (03:51):
Friends of Danny, it's friends of me.
Speaker 6 (03:54):
Uh look, Naomi, they they just going you wait here,
I'll I'll walk out with him. You coming, Marshall?
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Yeah, okay, Danny. Uh, pleasure of meeting you, ma'am. Yes,
good night.
Speaker 6 (04:09):
Look Marshall, it ain't like your thinking.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
I wasn't thinking anything, Danny.
Speaker 8 (04:15):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Naomi there she's a gypsy and she well what other?
And I was trespassers camping out at your paws farm.
Speaker 6 (04:23):
Alright, their Gypsies, and she's one of 'em. What about it?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Now, you're asking for trouble, Danny.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
You sound chest like my pH Gypsies take care of
their own They make their own laws, and they're pretty
strict laws.
Speaker 6 (04:37):
Why don't you let me worry about it. Uh?
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Well, that's what you will do, Donny.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
If you're smart, you'll worry about it a lot. I reckon,
there's one plague the whole world knows and mostly respects.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
It's I.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
It's on a stamp here in my album Heah that
the United States Post Office put out in October nineteen
hundred and sixty three. They honor the one hundredth birthday
of the International Red Cross. I'll find it here now now, Now,
maybe you didn't know. There are two Red Cross organizations.
(05:19):
Both of them started in Geneva, Switzerland, and had headquarters there,
but they each do different jobs. Yeah, this stamp shows
how one of them helped free anti Castro Cuban fighters
who got captured at the Bay of Pigs. That's what
the International Committee of the Red Cross does is a
neutral body. They're making arrangements for exchange of prisoners, trying
(05:42):
to protect sick and wounded soldiers, and helping civilians and refugees.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
In war areas.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
The other is the League of Red Cross Societies. It
operates in almost almost ninety countries, given aid in every
kind of emergency or disaster, and carrying on health, safety
and relief projects. Uh huh, I kind of figured this
is one of the best stamps in my book.
Speaker 8 (06:22):
Yeah, you're coming out to seek.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
A nice place here out of our too. He's put
twenty hours a day on him for the last ten years.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Hey caterer, oh arn, Marshall Kester just a minute, lie
jump out and the rest of their speed. Are you
eat your head off?
Speaker 7 (06:50):
Now?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
You mean gemarments? What's some weight on any pool and trash?
The raise hogs on the prairie. Stein't got good sense,
Marshall look all right to me, and they won't make
a sense of course more to feed him in. They
were trying to took your time coming out, didn't you.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
I'd a few call three hours taking our time. That's
when I got your note.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
It workless, young pup. I told him to tell you
last night. Soon he got into town over here and
set in the shade.
Speaker 8 (07:19):
All right, Cater, you and Danny have an argument.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
I talked and he listened. He ain't got the gumption
to argue.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
He tells me he's not coming back home.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
And here you come back. He'd starve to death if
he had to feed yourself. Somebody a yellow blue at
him in the dark, and he'll come high, tailing back fast.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
And I'm afraid I don't agree with you, Cater. And
then they always looked at me like a pretty decent kid.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
You ain't worth the powder and blow him up. The
last straw was when he was two, Lily livered to
run them trespassers off.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Why don't you leave those people along, Kata. They're figuring
to move on by the end of the week anyway.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Sure, and take half the farm with them.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
Likely not.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
I'm missing five pullets now, stole just since they've been there.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
And I might have been a coyote er of weasel
maybe yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
And it might have been that pack of even gypsies too, Marshall.
I didn't build this farm by putting up with squatters,
and I ain't about to start now. I've fought for
this land, every square foot of it, and I'll keep right.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
On fighting times.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
They're different from when they were when you first came
to the prairie.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
Kid.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Yeah, people eat, they're all ought to take what you
got away from you. You always got to keep out
guessing them and out fighting them. That's what I tried
to learn that boy of mine. But he ain't got
the backbone of angle worm. Why I didn't even take
a gun when I send him over to run them with,
even gypsies out in a kada.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
There are other answers in this world besides guns.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Yeah, but it was guns that won this country, and
they'll keep on winning the two. You back one yourself,
don't you, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I use it to enforce the law, but not to
settle every personal argument that comes along.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Well, then starting forcing the law, you go over there
and talk to them gypsy and tell them to get out.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
I have talked to them Chester, and I just came
from there. Eat your run them out.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
They're repairing their wagons, building wheels and setting hubs.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
They'll try to put out some time tomorrow so.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
They out bleft you too, did they what they do
dangle one of their women in front of you. That's
what they're done, with Danny. Yeah, she what's going on?
You were a sweet eye and one of them all
week and she was letting him to Now listen, man,
look your duty, marshall. Stop taking up for them, partner.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Will you listen to me?
Speaker 5 (09:36):
I said, are those people that touchy enough?
Speaker 3 (09:40):
At best? You go and soft them. You're gonna have
some real trouble on your hands.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Gipsy, your bad luck, and I want them out of there.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
They'll be out put tomorrow evening.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
And in the meantime, you leave that rifle of yours
in the house and stay away from that pond.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
Do you understand?
Speaker 6 (10:13):
Man?
Speaker 7 (10:14):
If words were dollars, you'd be the biggest miser in
the long branch.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Well, what do you mean, kitty?
Speaker 7 (10:21):
Well, you sure haven't been talking.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 7 (10:26):
And what's worse, you haven't been listening to me.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
Oh I thought there was more choice.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Okay, what were you saying?
Speaker 5 (10:34):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (10:35):
I don't remember. But it's a principle. Girl can't stand
being ignored.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Ignored and I'm not dress you're wearing. You'd be pretty
hard to ignore.
Speaker 7 (10:45):
H Well, it's not that's kimpy.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Well, it's the latest thing.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
It's fine, Kitty, it's fine. Oh, I don't know, kiddy.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
I guess I'm just kind of dull this evening.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Oh trouble and not yet.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
But I just got a feeling there's gonna be What
do you mean, I don't know, it's just a hunch.
Speaker 7 (11:08):
Well, why don't you go get your fortune told? There's
a band of gypsy's in town.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
Oh, how did you know?
Speaker 7 (11:15):
Some of 'em are in here, not drinking or anything,
just looking around.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Who's that?
Speaker 6 (11:20):
So?
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Did you know?
Speaker 7 (11:22):
Young Danny Let's has got himself a gypsy girl. He's
pretty as a picture.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
It's some of the best term Tell me, kitty, Hm,
she's still in town.
Speaker 7 (11:30):
Oh she was a couple of hours ago. Why am
I something wrong?
Speaker 5 (11:36):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Nah, I guess not.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
I suppose he ought to have a chance to find
at least one thing for himself in this world. Oh,
cater has never let him call up breath of his own.
Speaker 7 (11:48):
I like Danny.
Speaker 6 (11:49):
He's a good boy. Put that cater uh out side.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Busting's a rough life.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Kitty makes a man either mean or wise or else
that kills him.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Yam so far as just made Cater me.
Speaker 7 (12:02):
Oh, he was born that way, That's all he's got
in the world is his son? You'd think he'd treat
him decent.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
You better go on over to the depot.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Oh, what is a chester?
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Danny Leech's been hurting real bad. He's unconscious.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Huh, all right, I'll meet you there.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
You go get dark.
Speaker 7 (12:32):
Old.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
How is he got? Oh he he'll be all right. Mad,
just been beat up a little. He had a bad
whack on the head there. Oh, hell, he's coming around.
Wake up, lad, Come on, you can't sleep forever. Anybody
know how it happened?
Speaker 9 (12:53):
No, the station agent come out and seeing him lay there, said, come.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
On back to the world of the living.
Speaker 6 (13:01):
What is uh?
Speaker 8 (13:03):
What happened?
Speaker 3 (13:04):
And that's what I was about to ask you Downnay,
what did happen?
Speaker 5 (13:07):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (13:08):
I don't know. I just waiting here til train time.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
Huh where is she?
Speaker 6 (13:14):
Huh? Where's where's Naomi? Easy? Now, boy, they took her.
They took her down the Gypsies. She said they would.
She said they would if we didn't get away in time.
Speaker 9 (13:23):
Uh what she mean?
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Gypsy? Letter?
Speaker 9 (13:25):
Doc?
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Later, go on down me.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (13:27):
He was aiming to leave going to Kansas City. I
got tickets on the train.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Were not in any shape to travel some.
Speaker 6 (13:34):
Yeah, we got here early, stayed right down here at
the end of the platform, out of sight. Naomi was scared.
She said it was going to end bad. She was right.
He was aiming to get married in Kansas City.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Marshall, I'm sorry, downy.
Speaker 6 (13:50):
They come out of the shadows there hit her, ten
of 'em. Next thing I knowed, they grabbed Naomi. They
come at me with knives. Then then one of 'em
hit me from behind. So no, let me go down.
You're in no condition to be standing up, Danny. I
never have stood up down here, boy, let go thedn't
(14:10):
stand up when they come and took her and then
lift her hand.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
You couldn't have done anything, Danny.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
Maybe Paul's right. If you want anything, if you wanna
keep it, you gotta hit out of anybody that gets
close in him first. That's the way Paul thinks.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
And he's hated for it.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
Danny.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
He hasn't got a friend in the world.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
Well, what have I got The only thing I ever wanted,
the only person that ever thought I am mounted to something,
and I let them come and take her back without
even fighting for her.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Why don't you go to your room and resta while
then go to bed without my supper?
Speaker 6 (14:42):
Is that what you mean?
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Or Dorney? H Well, what do you all gat for that?
Ain't you ever never seen a coward before?
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Take it easy now, Donny.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
I gotta get out of him, Marshall.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
I gotta get out of here before I bust want.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Because you green throwing out ride on time and once.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Yeah, still by this happened down there and that girl
might have got on fine, what girl are.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
You talking about?
Speaker 7 (15:10):
Man?
Speaker 6 (15:10):
I'd like to know what's going on here once in.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
A while too.
Speaker 9 (15:14):
What y'arre at? Come back here, Marshall, Marshall, Marshall, you
see that and say what mister hey, young fella, the
one that was hurt, he grabbed my gun out of
my holster and let out not horse like the old
nick was after.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Let's get our horses syster.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Hometowns in America have a lot in common, and yet
they're each one of a kind. Take for example, Stillwater, Oklahoma.
And when you're taking Stillwater, you get with it. Oklahoma
State University because the town is the university and the
university is the town. And any student from these parts
who's really serious about animal husbandry veterinary medicine or engineering
(16:10):
will be there. He'll likely belong to Sigma Nux or
maybe be a beat It, and she'll become one of
the kkgs or possibly pledged to save it. His bright
new bleezer is from Beates Brothers down at the end
of University Avenue in the campus corner, and her latest
mod is from Blonnies in the student union. Downtown's a
(16:33):
ten minute walk, and you can't miss the new First
National Bank because it's right across Maine from the old
about ten miles out. You can water ski on Lake
Carl Blackwell or go somewhat farther to O'Keene for the
annual rattlesnake hunt.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
But if your hometown is still water you.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Already know this. We only wanted to remind you it's
still there.
Speaker 10 (17:02):
MM.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
How way are trust you with them gypsies?
Speaker 4 (17:21):
You pulled down what you're doing.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
They broke camp and pulled out.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Yeah, and I got that business at the depot got
'em spooked. But I hadn't bet anything that this is
where Donnay was heaping.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Maybe we passed him some mood stream here and down
some majoy hims yelled any shadows under him crazier.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
Yeah, at donnay is that you?
Speaker 6 (17:46):
Yes me, Marshall, Come on, trust.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Me, clerics black inside of the car around here, Fella
could ball right.
Speaker 6 (18:03):
Smack into that palm. Yeah, you'd come out to wed
nurse me back to town, Marshall.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
But you're saying that, Danny, I'm not.
Speaker 6 (18:14):
I guess you can see for yourself. They pulled out gone, Yeah,
they sure have. I'm going after Marshall. I'll find him
if it takes me ten years.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
I don't be a fool, Danny.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
Oh that's what I've been, alright, but I ain't now.
She didn't wanna go, Marshall. They took her against her will,
and I'm.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
Going after it, Danny.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
They'd kill her before they'd let her marry an outsider.
That's the way gypsies are.
Speaker 6 (18:35):
Maybe I can change their minds. PA's way talking over
the sights of a gun.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Yeah, but his way is not yours, Danny, and your
better off.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
It's not.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
It's got on everything he wanted, has it. There ain't
no use arguing about it, Marshall. And you got no
right to stop me.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
I wasn't figuring to stop yet, Danny. Not that word.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
Well, then I'll be riding out, Marshall. I'll try to
cover the trail. The longer they go, the hotter, it's
gonna beat a fine hat out.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Have I seen the flash, mister Dillon?
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Yeah, he's over there in that brush, h Chuster.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
When I fire, you'll roll away faster, you shit? Alright?
Speaker 4 (19:21):
You alright, mister Dillon.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Yeah, I'm alright.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
Some of them gypsies must stay behind.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
Maybe he's Danny over there at you, mister Dillon.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Yeah, yeah, he's here at Chester.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
You are there, You with thieve environments, or you'll.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Get more of the same.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
Joe Keeter.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Yeah, there's apostle you of a hundred an others out
here in the brush. Cater it's Matt Dylan Marshall. Put
that rifle down and come out out. Sure, Marshall, I.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Got what happened to that gypsy they pulled out. Maybe
you ought a check on it before you started shooting.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Well, I heard horshert and talking. I naturally figured it
with them. I don't plague me about it, Marshall. I
I paid for it good and proper.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
What do you mean you're a pretty good shot in
the dark.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
You put a bullet right through my arm.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Now you're a better shot kater. You put one right
through your son's head. Yeah, you paid for it all right.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
Well, when it comes to political terminology, I guess that
old character Elijah Cuddlestone.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Is used at all.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
For instance, and I say that all of them. If
you every man Jack nominated a run against me, he
is cast in the same mold. Pour it out of
the same bottle, chips off of the same political stump.
If you're di there's no choice among them. That is
the fact is I say, it is a fact that
you'll see them ring in a dark horse candidate a
(21:23):
dark horse, that is because they can't make up their
minds otherwise. What I mean, well, dark horse in the
political sense in which Elijah used it means pretty much
as he explained it, an unexpected nominee brought in to
break a deadlocked balloting for a candidate from among the
leading nominees. Presidents Polk, Pierce, Garfield and Harding were dark horses. Originally,
(21:48):
dark horse was a racing term for a horse whose
abilities were kept in the dark until displayed in the race.
(22:33):
Gun Smoke We're used and directed by Norman McDonald, Stars
William Conrad as Matt Dylan US Marshall. Featured in the
cast were Marley Bear as Chester, Howard mcneer as Doc,
and Georgia Ellis as Kitty George Walls Speak. Join us
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