The Lone Ranger - The Lone Ranger (12-08-43)

Original Air Date: December 08, 1943
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Show: The Lone Ranger
Phone: (707) 98 OTRDW (6-8739)

Stars:
• Brace Beemer (Lone Ranger)
• John Todd (Tonto)
Writer:
• Fran Striker
Producer:
• George W. Trendle
Music:
• Ben Bonnell

Exit music from: Roundup on the Prairie by Aaron Kenny https://bit.ly/3kTj0kK

Episode Transcript

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M. Welcome to the Old TimeRadio Westerns. I'm your host Andrew Ryins,
and let's get into this episode.This episode is going to be The
Lone Ranger. Original rates December eighth, nineteen forty three, and the title

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is the Lone Ranger. Let's getinto it, and I hope you enjoy.
I also a piery of harsh forthe speed of light, a cloud

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of dust, and a hardy highold silver. A lone Ranger. Arnold

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Gearson, whose wealth reached out todevelop the vast resources of the far West,
decided to strike at the heart ofthe Barbary Coast. In an effort
to stamp out the viciousness, Gearsonsought for and found the Lone Ranger.
This masked rider of mystery, thoughreluctant to leave the plains and mountains of
the Cattle Country, answered the calland smashed the forces of evil in the

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Barbary Coast. His work in SanFrancisco finished, Toto and the mask Man
headed north for the gold fields andthe land of Big Timber. Return with
us now those thrilling days of yesteryear, from out of the past, from
the thundering hoof beats of the greathorse silver. A lone ranger rides again,

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a lone ranger in a stalwart companion. Toto entered the rich Plasterer mining
regions northeast of Sacramento. Was anhour past daylight, and from their secluded
camp of the hills, the maskedMadame's Indian friend could watch the mist rising
in the body below. As theysaddled their horses, says, I mean,
I'm tough running ahead and these hills. Make sure your cinch Kim a

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sabi because hy what the matter?Chima thabby. For a moment, I
guess I was sinking of dam somehow. It doesn't right for him to be
away Fellows toner, savvy, meplenty lonesome for young fellow too. Well,
he's bound to get a lot ofgood out of schooling, and I
suppose we should be grateful to him. Man like Arnold Gearson looking after the

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boy. That's right, gears himhave boy same age as Dan him savvy.
How that's wrong, boy him plentyscared. Wait, there's something or
someone back in the brush. Whateverit is, Silver has a spotted it
must look quick there I see ita bear and a big one too,

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huh, Silver him catch bear?Scent plenty scared. I hate to risk
a shot here. These heels arefull of prospectors. I'd like to keep
this camp secret as long as wecan. There's plenty stout humble. Did
not make noise to take more thanone hour to stop him. He's a

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big brute and he's sure a charge. He does. Look after the horses.
This must be plenty good shot atthe horses. Toto's coming right at
us. All those arrows aren't goingto stop him so easy, now,

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steady. I've seen some big grizzlybears, or rather I thought I had.
This fellow certainly is huge. Looktwo arrows, four bulletinnel. He
was too charging us as long asthere was a spark of life in his
body. If all that shooting didn'tgive ourself location away, didn't have plenty
of fresh bear meat for a while. Three shots. That sounds like like

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I call for help. I thoughtsomeone in trouble. Nou listen, someone
heard is killing that bear. Andthose shots are too evenly space to be
anything but a call for help.Come on, are going to investigate?
Shouldn't come from overhill? Had abig fellow, Let's go easy enough,

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that's better, and what happened?Old timer was riding the King's Landing shot
from an bush? Who are you? What's your name, Jolie Williams?
You who wearing a mask? I'myour friend, Charlie. You've got to
believe me. Friend. Man ain'tGod friends in this country. I was

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carrying about twelve thousand in gold.It's gone. What's gone to Kimasai?
And you even get a glimpse ofthe man. Mister william No, it
must have cut down on me withthe rifle. What kind of horse were
your? Big rangy black? White? Starn is for it? One shoe

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mission left foreshoe? I think rememberthat, Pallo, mister Williams, listen,
is there anyone we should notify?Yes, daughter lives in Plaster City.
Plaster City, you've just come fromthere. She's married young fellow Paul

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mate O mastand hello, he's gone. We're going to ride. We'll go
back to Plaster City later, butfirst we're going to King's Landing to look
for a killer. Give me ahand here. King's Landing was typical of

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the many boisterous, lawless towns.Let's sprawl in dishetly confusion along the bank
of the Sacramento River. It waslate afternoon. On the rough board walk,
in front of a big Nugget cafe, A group of men were lodging,
surveying the scene with casual interest.Close by the hitch rail stood a
big man, his stats and anglingforward, slightly shading his stony features,

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skillfully disguise, but a clever IndianTottel. The lone ranger watched the activities
of King's landing, missing not aretail. A moment later, Totto stopped
by his side, staring out acrossthe money street, and he lucked,
No, not sea horse. Maybeif not here about the livery stable.
Did you look there? Huh olblack horse? Mike Williams comer saying,

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livery and we'll have to try somethingelse. Evidently the horse has already left
town where he's hidden somewhere he musthave a look. Coming up the street,
a big rangy black ah white staringfor it. I wonder if left
foreshoe missing pass? How don't wefind out? Wait? You ding into
the rio, Kim, Hubby,let's lead us to me. Aldi.

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Hi never, it's about a nicehorse. Yeah, yeah, he's all
right. I guess I don't knowmuch about him? What did you care
to sell him? Nope, ain'tfor sale. You don't mind if I
look at him? Do you?Huh? Shucks? No, mister,
look all you want, little boysteady. I always like to see how

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these Californians take care of horses andbad the folks back in Texas. So
I'm from Texas myself. What broughtyou from Southwest? Yeah? Boy?
Lift up or son? I havegotten must to throw the shoe someplace.
Got help me up a blacksmith livefor shoe? Miss you know? Got

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a question for you, mister,and better answered carefully? What did you
get this horse? Well? Sinceyou're getting so thank going personal life,
reckon, I eat none of yourbusiness, but I'm making it my business.
Oh sue to me, feller,which do you handled best? Your
fists or them six guns? You'relugging? Once more? Where'd you get

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this guild? And I already saidit's none of your business. I'll get
back, get away from my horsebefore I knock your ears off. You
better answer my question, you bet, I'll answer it for you. My
christ forward, Well, I'm lookinghim for each other smoke. Your robbers
are rather fight than eating. Who'sthe other guys. I don't know,
but he's got doing a job ofa dad to find him that dollar.

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Robbers don't your own? Mister jStrang, you like that one teller?
Right? How do you like thisone? By winding as grump as I've
seen since I left Canders all over, I'll come, Stranger, I'll come
you on Smoker to mix her upso fast and furious. I can answer
that for you. This Jen askedme a question. I got sassy see,

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so he give me a lesson.Brother, you sure can swing your
dukes. I still went and over. You got that horse? Yeah?
How come yours all fired? Interestedin my horse? That horse belongs to
a man who was murdered on thetrail from Plassa city this morning. That
horse belongs to me. I boughthim. Yeah, prove it during tooth
now prove it? Acers loose andMcClean. Maybe you better tell this Jen,

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how I come by the black guilland Robberts is telling you true,
mister, he bought that black thismorning, like he says, that's right.
I was there and Smokey bought theblack. What's that you were saying
about a man getting murdered on thetrail of Pleasa, a man named Charlie
Williams. He was murdered and robbeda twelve thousand dollars in gold. The
killer took his horse, This horseright here. That killer must be caught

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so long as he's loose. Alot of you prospectors are safe. Roberts,
you described the man who sold youthis horse. I'll do heat better
than that big fella. I'll ridewith it if you don't mind, and
point him out personally with a fortyfour slug. Ain't no sidewine. I'm
gonna sell smoky Robberts horse and getaway with it. Come on, hit
that trail right now. Maybe maybeyou'll let the engines kind of go along

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too. Need plenty good on trail. Sure, you're welcome to ride with
us. We'll pick up this traileast of town. Come on, horse,
let's see if you can run.Absolutely lead the way smoking, get
up now eastward where the old TrinityTrail seems to pause and majust e splendor

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before dipping sharply down into the foothills. A lone horseman rained his mom to
a stop and looked long and searchinglyalong the back trail. Who please,
you have a chance to run yourbrains out full long. Apparently satisfied with
what he saw, the man turnedand fixed his attention on a small clearing
far below. War scored to settle, and then you can run all the

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way to San Francisco. Give aminded it's wasted shaked leather. He knows
it, or nerty. Paul maysteadsjust now fixing the heaven accident. Very
bad accident hit a bay. Afterthree months of hard work, Paul Maystead

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sat in his cabin and disappointedly appraisedthe fruit of his mining venture, four
ounces and three months less than threehundred dollars worth of the stuff. Digging's
not getting any better? Well,you can just look like I'm lit.
Who's there? He me, stimy, remember me your old party target.

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I thought you were a very stretchedrope and Plasta city. You can another
thing coming fill. So you madegood your brag and escape here. You
see, I figured I owed yousomething, and I'm here to settle up.
Put up that gun. There isany goal here, not more than
three hundred dollars worth. It's youknow, I solder this claim to begin

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with. Remember it ain'ts your goal. I'm after me instead. But I'll
take what you got and be obligedjust the same. I just don't like
people who go around testifying against mycharacters, have any character that's rich.
First you grubstake me onto as solidclaim, and then you try to swindle
the whole town. And because Itold the truth about you in the mine,

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it's because of that part me you'regonna die. Right here, The
curtain falls on the first act ofour Lone Ranger story. Before the next
exciting scenes, please prominister pause forjust a few moments now to continue our

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story. Paul Maystad, the youngprospector, had testified against Ranch Tigger,
the outlaw in Miner's court. Tiggerto escape from prison and return to Maystad's
cabin, where he threatened to killhim. What are you doing? He's
fixing up a little accident party thisputty. I was planning to leave tomorrow

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for good. You'll leave him tonightfor good. Get away from that blasting
pottery. Make this fuse plenty.Sure folks will say that's young mastad Philly,
she was Cannis. Wasn't me sick? Get away? Let me alone
here here? How about you've doneenough to me already, Please and leaves

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me city. Since you won't beneeding it. They'll just tell myself this
little bit of dusty and then sitthis lamp right into the fuse. Let
the police make one move, oneflight. You're a dead man, you
I know you, I know youwill, Reggie loll Ranger. This man

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is Ranch Taggart, the man whomurdered Charlie Williams and the man who sold
me that black horse. Taggart istoo bad. You ain't packing a gun.
I shot carries a shoulder gun,smoky and the dirt Journey's sleeve.
That's fine, just fine. Iget that lamp out of your hands.
Tagget and make your play. I'llfix you, all of you. I'll
blow the shack the Kingdom Gump.I got the lamp. He'll fire the
fuse. I know flobbers. Lookout a fusees light. I'll make sure

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if your are you trying to shoothim out in the pack, will you?
Robert's hurry get outside, down,get out quick tunnel. In the

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tiny, danger filled room of PaulMaystad's cabin, the lone Ranger moved with
the lightning speed as Ranch Taggart throughthe at a lamp directly into the fuse
which attached to Maystead's supply of blastingpotet m Kimo Sabby Robert, Is he
all right? Robert? From himgone, that's too bad, good l

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he's killing. Days are over,Totto. He died the same death he'd
planned for Paul Maystead. Him unconsciousbut still alive. You're all right,
I think got some water, Givehim first aid and get him to a
doctor in Plaster City. I'm tellinghow badly he's hurt from that explosion.
How to make lamp flame spring fullof gravel, not much water. Never

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mind the water, Totto. He'scoming around now that's got started for Kimosabbi.
You come quick. What is it? Look here, explosion, bring
down gravel bank. Look here andhere gold, more gold than Paul Maystead
of a dream of finding. Hewas right, Toto, right from the
beginning. This is a strike.He thought he discovered. He found the

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goal that Taggart had platted. Here. Come on, you've got to get
Mastead to a doctor. Like wildfire, the news of the great discovery spread
from every direction. Men came pouringinto Plasca City. Almost overnight. The
town was changed from a tiny miningcamps were roaring Boomtown. Toto stood outside

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the Mainstead home. Oh, comein, Chad, Paul, be glad
to see you. Paul company?Who writing title? Chando sat? Chando
is in company. He's a memberof the firm. Yes, sir,

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the Lone Ranger, Toto and PaulMaystead Incorporated. Don't a plenty gland so
you feel so good? Say where'sthe lone Ranger? Didn't he come him?
Go away? Make trip? Leavemessage for you? A message for
me? What is it a loneranger? Say? You get men,
many men to work? Claim himcome back soon. Well, I appreciate

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the advice, all right, butI'm afraid it's out of the question for
me to hire any men right now, at least not until I've had a
chance to get organized and get somefinances together. Yes, you see towndle,
Paul hasn't been able to look afterthings lately. It's been nearly three
weeks since he was hurting that explosion. But I'm all right now fit is
a fiddle and ready to start work. Aren't you not able to work alone?

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Better? Do what lone rangers saying? Hire men? But don't you
understand that I'm broke. We've alreadyused up? What goal we had?
Maybe weeks before the mine gets intoheavy production? Were many men in town
now and then? Won't work?Lone rangers? Say you hire them?
Give them job at mine? You'renot worried about money, don't worry about

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it? Well, how could Ihelp it? Well? You be plenty
sure, lone Ranger Keith promise,yes, but you all right to.
It's a risk, but I'll takeit down. I'm good. I'd send
plenty fun of do you you givehim job at mine? Oh? Wait,
you're not leaving town, are youall? I know where to get
in touch with you at the LoneRanger for lone ranger him find you when

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him come back? And he osAnd to think, Helen. The first
time I saw the Lone Ranger Ithought he was a robber. Oh,

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come in, Lefty, shut thedoor you send for me, mister Lantry.
That's right, you got a littlejob for him? Yeah, what
kind of job? Some very specialwork, Lefty, you're kind of special
work. All right, let's hearabout it. You know where the mainstead
strike is located? Sure? Ain'tnobody in a hundred miles don't know that.

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And listen, I want you togo out there, get a job
on Mastead's payroll. He's hiring menright now, lots of men. Find
out what you can or report backto me. See find out everything you
can what he's doing out there,how many men he's got and everything?
And lefty, I want you todo everything you can to slow up work
around there. It might just bewe can convince young Mastead he ought to
sell off. See sure, I'llbe on the job, Landry. Hey,

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where can I find the boss aroundhere? Right over? Young de
fella that's called me Stair? Thanksheard tell you his hiring men on mister
Mastead? Ever do any plus ofmoney before? Sure? Lots of it?
All right? Then you're hired twentydollars a day in farm. That
suits me? What's your name?Birch? Left to Birch. You're always
supposed to do? You got fifteenmen here are to go to work?

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What's the orders? Well, I'mI'm waiting for this myself. Man,
you're waiting for this, But thatdon't make sense. You're the foss will
you taking orders from? Well?I well, never mind? Just now,
I say, what about our wages? Then? Do we get paid?
Just standing around waiting to go towork. Sure you get paid,
Lefty, you're on the pay rollright now. You can put those guns

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you're wearing into your blanket roll.See you won't meet them in this campaign,
maybe not, but I carry theseshooting irons wherever I go. I'll
just keep them on for luck.If you men want to do something while
you're waiting for orders, you canstart falling some good heavy timbers, lay
up a foundation for a mess shackat bunkhouse and make them stout, because

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we're gonna be mining plastic goal fora long time to come. You mean
you've been here three days and thendrawing no wages. Ain't this mastead mbre
on the level? Or you needn'tworry about Paul Mastead on me. I

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am looking out for lefty birds haveand I'd like to get paid on time.
See ten days not a word fromthe lone ranger. I've got to
get some money somewhere somehow. Iwonder if what now? What's wrong?

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Hey? Hey? What's going onhere? What the color is wrong of
the see? And to teach himsome man? Haven't I got enough problems
about you men starting fights around here? Lefty? I told you not to
wear those guns on the job.Yeah, well I'm worring them. See
if you don't like it, mister, you can pay me off right now.
I'm quitting any house have. Idon't like working for promises. I

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got ten days pay coming and Iwant it. Listen, man, you'll
get your wages. Paul. Itain't that we don't trust you, but
well we ought to know when youfigure to stop this man work. That's
all. If you asked me,this umbre is just playing us for a
bunch of suckers, getting a lotof hard work done free. That isn't
so well. A man don't livethat can cheat Lefty Birch out honest wages.

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It's for you, mistead. I'mcollecting right now. See, I
got two hundred dollars coming. EitherI get it or I'll take it out
of your high do there. Getyour hand away from that gunyah, brother,
And he's almighty tough when he getsriled. Hey, there's a fucking
give you some six gun competition,Lefty. Why don't your park at him?

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Huh? Listen to you, man, This fellow Lefty Birch was sent
out here to stir up trouble.That's a lie. Oh, I don't
tell lies, Birch. Don't tryto pull that gun. You already shot
one man in camp. I'm gonnashoot me another, right, Holy Mac,
would you see that's miss gun?Right? Host? Why chain like
my friend Tuttle found out about thisman, Birch. He works for a

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gambler named Lantry. Okay, Lantywas hoping to get control of the mine
by stopping work. Dear Paul hasenough goal to meet your payroll. Lefty,
you'd better take yours and clear out. Yes, I don't come back
here, all right, You don'tget back Sooners are coming wagons that it

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took me so long. More thanten thousand dollars worth of equipment on those
wagons, paull And had to beguarded all the way. Equipment what kind
of equipments? Equipment for hydraulic mining, the newest thing in Plaster manning poll.
You'll get out more gold in aday with those hydraulic monitors, and
you cut in a month with handrockers. Hey, do you hear that
brought in hydraulics? Poor, we'llreally get them done now, there's te

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yes. He rode with the wagonsfrom the Plaster city in. I came
on a head and you certainly cuthere in the make of time. That
man Lefty, that's the professional troublemaker. He won't bother you again. As
an engineer with the Wagons Poll,he came up from Sacramento to supervised setting
up this equipment. I don't knowwhat to say. First, you saved
my life, and now you've savedthe gold mine which you will turn up

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discovered for me at this equipment.How can I possibly reading? Paul?
You see the money that paid forall of this was yours to begin with
mine, Yes, with money thatranch Taggart stole from Charlie William, your
father in law. Poor old Charlie, he works so hard. He always
wanted to do something for Helen andme. I think Charlie will be glad
to know how much he was ableto do. Yes, he'll be glad

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to now, and he'll be gladto know silver that Helen and I have
a friend who loves us as muchas he did. But wait, you're
not leaving now. Good luck toyou, Paul Sai. I'm on to
get him up this campaign. Thereyou go, then go to old Ranger
Paul, that one friend who didn'tlet you down. Say how better?
This mine turns out to be thebiggest placid deposits in the whole country.

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We'll have to get busy and pickup a name for it now, Yes,
we'll call it alone. Range yourmind, brother. The story you

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