November 20, 2024 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
In just a moment, you'll hear James Stewart as the
six Shooter. There's music for you tomorrow evening with two
of your favorite song stylists. First it's The Dinah Shour
Show and then Songs with Sinatra. There's laughter IWO in
your Friday lineup with three comedy favorites, The Bob Hope
Show with Bob's guest Jerry Kelowna, The Phil Harris Alice
Fay Show, and can you top This? It's a great
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Friday night program lineup, all of them heard only on NBC.
James Stewart as the Sick Shooter. The man in the
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saddle is angular and long legged. His skin is sun
dyed brown. The gun and his holster is gray, steel
and rainbow, mother of pearl. It's handled unmarked. People call
them both the Sick Shooter. The NBC Radio Network presents
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James Stewart as The Sick Shooter, a transcribed series of
radio dramas based on the life of Britt Ponsett, the
Texas Plainsmen who wandered through the Western territories, leaving behind
a trail of still remembered legends.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
There is about seven o'clock on a Saturday evening, and
I was riding down the east trail that led from
Castle Suny over to Crown Ranch, very real warm. The
little breeze was coming up now and things were cooling
off some nice comfortable twilight. I hadn't seen any signs
of habitation for the last few miles. The soil was
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pretty thin, sandy and probably wouldn't grow much. But a
little further on the ground turned brown rich looking, I
noticed a frame house sitting back over fifty yards back
from the trail. When I was almost even with the house,
the front door opened. Somebody came running out toward me. Hey, Hey,
would you hold young boy looked like about fifteen sixteen,
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wearing blue jeans and a checkered shirt and a little
peak cap pulled down over his ears. Wulfgar w boy,
weo boy, horty sign?
Speaker 3 (02:43):
What can I do for you?
Speaker 4 (02:44):
You come from town? Mister got try? You didn't run
across Friendly de Witt on the trail, did you?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Friendly du Wit?
Speaker 4 (02:51):
You know him, don't you? Mister? He runs the Traveling Mercantel.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
How's I?
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Oh? Sure, we're too far out to get into town
very much. So he brings around a wagon load of
goods every one while I I just don't know what
we do without him.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Well, don't stand out there all night, joy, just find
out about friends they like.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
I told you the gentleman ain't seen him. Ma'am. Oh,
I got fern. You can wear something else to have too.
The supperations are waiting. Cindy Lou What what was that?
Speaker 3 (03:20):
She called you?
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Cindy Loo.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
But that's a girl's night.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
Oh oh oh oh oh.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
In this light here and the way you were dressed,
I I sort of thought maybe you would.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
It don't matter.
Speaker 7 (03:32):
Thanks again, mister, So long h ah, so long.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Mm Cindy Lou.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Well, I gave scarlettle touch of my heel. Uh cool.
Come on, come on, he started off. I figured I
had about eight miles to go before I'd reached the
Crown Ranch. I I hadn't been through this part of
the country in quite a spell. Bye. Was pretty certain
Floyd Prince had remembered me from the old days. He'd
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signed me on for the summer if he had an opening.
Come on, squirt, come on, come on. It's about fifteen
minutes later, and I came to the fork in the trail.
I saw a wagon rolling along from the south. There's
some wagon too, almost twice the size or anything I'd
ever run into for and the way the canvas balls
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hours looked like it was loaded to the brand. Wow,
it stood the reason that this was the traveling Mercantield
and Cindy Leward mansion. Wolfscar oo oo Pee you know Piege,
Hey friend ann ave Nan, you're mister deuet I tag it.
You take it right, churchhip for that, mister punt, just
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call the friendly. Like the rest of the folks, a
friend in need.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Is a friend.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
Indeed, something you need in mister, No, you needs it?
You to backer flowers or kitchen utensils, ammunition yard, he
his own equipment, anything at all, Just you name it.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
I got it here in my wagon.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Sounds like fighting the sartment there.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
Oh that's only a part of it. I didn't even
touch on my medicals flies, old duck Boster's painkillers, that
simple old purpose self Miss Jinny's Bunyon plasters and corn removers.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
You got any corns? That's trouble in you, mister. They're
just a thing.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
No, No, I don't do too much walk Oh some
liniment then, no, thanks, just the sam I'm in pretty
good health.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Well, what about wearing apparel?
Speaker 6 (05:27):
I got a full line of leave My shirts, Bend
Dennis Cutting and wools some.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Fred.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
I'm just not in the market for anything friendly. The
only reason I stopped was to tell you that those
folks down the trail are getting kind of anxious about you.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Folks down the trail.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Uh huh, you know the farmhouse a couple of miles
back there.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
I just can't imagine who you're talking about, mister. I
ain't even hated that way. I'm making a delivery over
the Davis Ranch near Evergreen. Davis girls getting married tomorrow morning.
I'm bringing all the paraphernaga for the window. You sure
somebody in this neighborhood's looking for me?
Speaker 2 (05:58):
They seem to be. I don't oh the family's name exactly.
The girl I bumped into is called Cindy lou Well.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Grand must be sending lou Eames.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
But where would great yellow Pumpkins Pattie Eames that dress
she ordered for her daughter fund? What time you make
it out to be, mister, I ain't unpacked my ship
in the alarm clocks he.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Had all must be seven point thirty.
Speaker 6 (06:19):
And maybe I can get there before they leave. If
I don't hat Eames, we'll skin me alive. Yeah, fiddy,
come on, come on, Frances, come on. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
It's something else. When I was working on that dress.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
Only this morning too, shortening the hell song mister Oki
and George Square dass dance?
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Why do you come on?
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Card?
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Come on dance? What are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Where?
Speaker 3 (06:43):
That's where you're heading?
Speaker 6 (06:44):
Eat it?
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Conrads.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Yeah, as a matter of fact, it is. But I
didn't know about any dance or anything. I was going
to ask Floyd perncon for jobs.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
You mean coming.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
You ain't heard about the celebration, the news, not a
word where there's air Connor Floyd Princey's son.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
He just come home from schooling.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Breck East while you me and Marty Print. Yeah that's
the boy's name, you know, I'm miss law. Used to
he was just a little shaver of then he's all
growing up.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Huh.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
Well he must be twinter so somewhere along in there,
I guess he'll be taking over the crown one of
these days.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Let's see. Well, I reckon better put off my job
hunt until some other time. I wouldn't want to bother
Floyd to give him a party. I'll ride along with
Hill first call frankly, Well, if you're.
Speaker 6 (07:22):
An acquaintances deployd princess, I imagine you'd be more than
welcome in his party. Correct to everybody, neighborhood's been buddied.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
And Ivery saw him. I'll be solved. But the fact is,
I'm not too good at square dancing. I don't know,
but there's something about my legs a little too much
of them.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
All right, Well, I just hope you're the only absentee.
What he means, Well, I had his daughter Fern. She
was planning to wear this. He addressed some more holders
from me tall. Yeah, like it's not she's having a
tenth room right now. She sure takes half to Haddie.
She does, yes, sir, and may not live in her
outfit on time. Well, there'll be real catastrophe, you see.
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Hatty is eeming to marry her Fern off to this
young only prince, and she'll probably manage it too.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
And he usually gets her own way in or look over.
Speaker 6 (08:06):
There, Amiston Bucky coming up the trail, and we had
in Purne on the way to the Crown.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Yeah, I wouldn't be a bit Surprime's too.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
They do anything about the press now if they're started off,
and the best thing for me to do is to
stay out of sight, I'll get my wagon over here
under these trees. Hand you easy pants is easy enough.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
But oh, barios, they're bound to see you sitting there.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
You don't know how he aims like I do a minute?
Why she's his nears heded as a buffalo. Can't see
your hand in front of a face unless she's wearing
her bicocals.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Oh man, she won't be wearing them either, not if
she's heading for Sindy.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Well, what about the daughter?
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Will?
Speaker 6 (08:37):
I told you Fern takes after a mother Jesus, blind
as a bat without her respectacule you.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Hear the call?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
What did tell y'all I've gone? They never even glanced
over to us.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
Well, I guess I might as well mosy over the
Davis Ranch.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Nice meeting you, miss, mister. Oh I'm sorry, friendly, I'm
meant to introduce myself. My name's Poncer Brick Ponson.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Oh Oh, why mister Ponson, I didn't recognize you.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Oh, no reason why you should, friendly, No reason you should?
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Well?
Speaker 6 (09:17):
I heard so much about you and that gun here,
Miss ponson here, I got me some samples of a
new hair. Tony smells really looking too. Maybe let me
try it. They say it grow fuzzer, not that there's
anything met with your hair. You understand, well, my supply
is kind of decreasing.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Little Tommy might be very handy just to.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Say, you know, I can't race take here?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Yeah it is thanks friendly, my my pressure will I say,
uh I, I just happened to think, Uh what happened
to the other daughter?
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Mmmm?
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Well that buggy that just went by and there were
only two women and now the girl I'm at the
back at the farm.
Speaker 6 (09:58):
She wasn't Oh you mean cydey Loo. She wouldn't be
going to Prince's dance, so she wouldn't. In all, see,
Hattie ain't got much use for her. Cindy ain't had
his real kids.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
She just steppeddaugher.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
Oh yeah, Haddie in Firn where they just seem to
go out of their way to make things miserable for her,
a lot like these here dance, for instance. Everybody knows
that Monty Prince and Cindy Lou used to be real
friendly when it was kids. Well, she'd probably give her
eye tooths to go to that part tonight see him again.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
But well it's too bad she can't.
Speaker 6 (10:27):
Yeah, yeah, but there's nothing anybody can do about it.
Why she don't even have a dressed to her name?
You know, I've got a hunt. She'd be real pretty
if Hattie ever allowed her to fix herself up.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
But she seemed a mighty nice looking girl.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Yeah, sure is.
Speaker 6 (10:42):
Yeah, what's the matter. Why shouldn't Cindy Lou go to
that dance tonight? With all the stuff in this wagon,
I could fix her up so she'd be the prettiest
girl there.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Oh, maybe a cod friendly, maybe a cord.
Speaker 6 (10:55):
It sure be a good trick to play on Hattie
infer Why if they couldn't tell my wagon and at
fifty feet that never knows Cindy Loo when I got
done with her, Come on, mister Ponsit fine. Well, girl
can't go to Square Dance Hall by herself.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
She's gonna have this course.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Oh I suppose so, But oh my hold on front
of what you don't mean me?
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Well you're a friend of the princess. You said so yourself.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Why I'm old enough to be here If we.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
Don't her, Miss Ponson, Square dancers. Be all then step
five to there Francis. Come on that piggy, this dorg Trevelen,
Come on.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Mister Post.
Speaker 7 (11:36):
I just don't understand, mister de Witt, you mean you
want to loan me address.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
And all the criminals sindelu before I get done with you.
You'll be so dooted up that your own stepmother will
recognize you.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
And you want to take me to the dance mister.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Ponson, Yeah, sure that is if you want to go all.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
That's right kindly of you both.
Speaker 7 (11:58):
But the fact is I I don't have no interest
in attending the doings at the Crown.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Oh oh you don't. Uh well, in that case, I.
Speaker 7 (12:07):
Don't know where you ever got such a notion, mister
de Witt, as if I cared anything about seeing money.
Prince againmar Well, I haven't even thought of him since
he went away to school.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Not once.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
Mm well, awaken your step sister Fern's done something thinking
about him.
Speaker 7 (12:21):
A lot of good it'll do her money wouldn't look
to I mean, it's none of my business one way
or the others.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Mm no, no, I guess there's uh. I'm sorry, we
bother god, huh, let's go friendly wool.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
Game as bunching night and Lou.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Mister de Witt, mm, was there something you wanted, Cindy Y?
Speaker 7 (12:50):
I guess maybe I'm acting kind of ungrateful. I mean, well,
you both did put yourself out for me, and sh
it was real generous of you to do it. I
don't suppose it would do me no harm to go
to that square dance for a little while anyway, if
you really.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
Want me to, Well, now there's more legged and they
see now the uh, first thing we gotta do is
find a dressy, you come on out to my wagon.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Uh see you.
Speaker 6 (13:15):
We we'll pick something that will make you look like
a princess, Yes, sir, a real princes.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Well, I wanna tell you friendly wasn't very far wrong.
That's just exactly how Cindya alut looked when she came
out of the bedroom about half an hour later, and
for a minute we just stood there, just not saying
a word, just staring at us.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Something wrong? Don't I look good enough to go to
the dance?
Speaker 2 (13:49):
M good enough?
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Well, I seemed, Lou. You you're a British picture, ain't
you pretty?
Speaker 2 (13:57):
She sure is? Well, if uh you're already so I do.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Uh, there's just one thing we forgot, the shoes.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Shoes.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
I don't have any party slippers of my own.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Oh well, we seem to do that.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
That that's about the only item I don't stalk in
my wagon. I well, I guess you can make do
with the shoes you wear.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Can't you.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Oh? Oh, I don't see how I mean roll Look
at 'em yourself.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
M yeah, and no, no we we.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
I am carrying one pair of fancy slippers.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
They're part of the Davis Girls. Wou not fit well?
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (14:41):
Oh no, no, I I couldn't roll 'em to Cindy though.
I I got to leave for the Davis Ranch as
soon as you two start off of the dance. I
I promise i'd be there first thing in the morning.
And it's a good eight hours driving that wagging a morning.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Oh, I say, uh, well it it.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
Was real nice of you both. Anyhow, I'll never forget
what she tried to do for me, how I felt
what I put on this dress, how wonderful.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Now hold on seem to hold on? Hold on? Sorry,
I just let me do something figure in here. See
you ain't fine. I was leave here by midnight.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
I could be the deepest place long about eight a m.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
That don't be well enough.
Speaker 6 (15:21):
We ain't no reason why you both couldn't be back
here before at twelve o'clock.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
No, no, no reason.
Speaker 7 (15:26):
No.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
Well, then I guess the next thing to do is
to find out whether them slippers will.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Fit or not.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
I'll bring right in.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
I just don't know what to say, mister Pont. Nothing
like this has ever happened to me before. It all
seems like something out of a story book.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
You know, Sindy, I was just thinking the same thing.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Yes, he did try him on.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
See they sure do look small, don't they.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Hmm?
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Yeah, you think you can make it?
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Oh? I don't. Oh there, Oh she's kind of tight.
Speaker 6 (15:59):
But I well, i'll try the other one. You can
get one on the other one to go to.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Good.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Good.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Now you're gonna be able to walk on.
Speaker 7 (16:11):
I'll be able to walk all right into do it
the way I feel I can almost flo Really.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
You better get story. You won't have too long of
the dance.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
You know.
Speaker 6 (16:18):
He don't forget brit You gotta have her back here
by midnight.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Don't worry, Friday, I won't forget.
Speaker 6 (16:33):
You.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Are listening to James Stewart as the six Shooter. The
story of Britt Ponsett, the Texas plainsman whose name has
become legend throughout the Great Southwest. Now Act two of
the story, called When the Shoe Doesn't Fit.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
I hoisted Cindy Lou up on scars. She managed to
see hers home in front of the saddle. I kind
of held on to her keeper from fall off. We
started off with the Crown Ranch. Took us about forty
five minutes to get there, and that party was in
full swing. We walked into the parlor, broke your kind, brand,
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your cat, bring your honeyhead, and ahead. Floyd Prince came
over to the door when he saw it and told
me we're more than welcome. He's real nice. Considering I
had invited myself, I started managed to avoid mentioned Cindy
Lu's name, and what with all the hubdub, Floyd didn't
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seem to notice that I hadn't introduced her propertly. But
Floyd's son, Manti Will, he didn't wait any introduction. He
just took one look at Cindy and as the last
I saw of her. As far as I can tell,
the other girls the party were just completely out of
the picture. From then on, I wait until there was
an animation and the dancing, and I mosied over the
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punch bowl.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
Can I help you?
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Misters? I, oh, yes, ma'am, thank.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
You, I'm missus Eames. Oh, Fern, fir over here, dear,
I want you to meet somebody.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
This is my daughter, Fern.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Mister Pons, I'm pleased. Make your Fern well.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Speak up, Speak up, Fern sort of shy.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
Oh, by the way, that young lady that you brought
to the party, she doesn't seem to be spending.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Much time with you, does she. Oh, that's the trouble.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
When a man brings a pretty girl to a dance,
he's apt to find himself all alone.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Furnu.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
Of course, Now some girls have character as well as Look,
I say, my goodness, it's got in another dance now,
mister PONTI don't think that you have to ask my
permission to dance with Thurn.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
You just go ride in.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Yes, as Fern, my guy said, I'm not much of
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a square dancer. But there just didn't seem to be
any way of turning Furn down. Well, I guess I
should say there wasn't any way of turning her mother down,
so we did our best. Sorry, as evening wore on,
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it didn't look like she had any other part lined up. Well,
I figured it was up to me to sort of
fall in woo. Oh well, I sure didn't mean to
kick you. Heern there's one thing about her, though, She
sure didn't talk a man to death. And somehow the
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time passed, and the next thing I knew, it was
after eleven o'clock. Now that meant Cindy and I had
to be starting home. So I looked around for her,
but she wasn't in sight. I excused myself to Berne
and headed out the front porch. Uh, Cindy was there alright.
But thing that surprised me was she was all alone.
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Looked like she'd been crying. Uh, Cindy, Oh what are
you all right?
Speaker 6 (20:48):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (20:49):
I'm fine, just fine.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Where's Marty?
Speaker 4 (20:52):
I don't know?
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Uh, well, maybe you'd better find him and say good night.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
I never want to see him again, not as long as.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Oh well, what happened? I thought you two were hitting
off real good?
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Eh?
Speaker 7 (21:05):
I I thought so too at first while we were
inside dance and everything was just wonderful, And then all
of a sudden he started acting like he didn't care
about me at all.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Said he couldn't be spending all his time with one girl,
he had to dance with some of the others.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
M Well, after all, the party is in his honor,
and that ain't all.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Mister pons, he didn't even.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Know who I was.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Well, didn't you tell him?
Speaker 4 (21:37):
I thought?
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Sure?
Speaker 8 (21:38):
He No.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
I never figured he'd forget me, not in just a
few years.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Mm. Well you've changed, sent me in the way you're
all fixed up.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Why that wouldn't matter.
Speaker 7 (21:49):
Not if Monny really liked me, I'd never forget him.
I'd know him, no matter how much he changed or
how he dressed.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Well, all he had to do was just tell him
who you were. You know.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
I just couldn't. And you mustn't tell him either. You
got to promise me you won't, now, please, mister promises.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
That's what you want. Well, I I think maybe you'd
better leave.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Yeah, Well, I I'm ready, Uh.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Y you Uh you got everything?
Speaker 4 (22:19):
Hm? I guess so why?
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Uh? I don't know. I I I just thought maybe
you'd lost one of your slippers or.
Speaker 7 (22:27):
Slippers whatever gave you that I I I don't know,
I don't I just sort of crossed my mind.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
I'm uh, never mind, I I'll I'll get scarfed. Well,
it just goes to show you that stories in real
life don't work out the same way. And instead of
falling in love, Cindy and Monty Prince were as far
away as ever and even farther, and they didn't seem
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be anywhere getting 'em together either. In leastways. He will
isn't going to be able to do it by finding
one of her slippers at the dance, that's for sure.
As a matter of fact, she couldn't have lost the
shoe at the dance if she'd wanted to. When we
got her home, we found out she couldn't even get
them off.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Gone it, Cindy, you must not be trying. You didn't
have as much trouble getting them on.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
Oh I'm sorry, mister, do it. I'm doing my best.
My keep must have swelled up from the dancing or something.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Here, Let me do it.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
I'm sure.
Speaker 6 (23:33):
They just clean stuff pairs.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
I know, maybe in the morning, might feel go back
to normal.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Yes, hey, look.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Out the window there, friendly, There isn't not a buggy
out there. Holy smooth, burning heady, So long, sin't it
vibrate friendly. I don't want them catching me here either.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
But what about the slippers in the wedding tomorrow?
Speaker 6 (23:52):
The brides wearing a long grass reaches clear down to
the floor.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
She can get married in the bare feet if chanced
to what thanks for everything?
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Then sudden I'm I'm sorry things didn't work out better
for you, but you're not.
Speaker 7 (24:10):
Well.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Long about noontime the next day, I was in my
hotel room washing up front to dinner. They were uh
planning to serve fried chicken and corn footers and apple pote.
The Castle Hotel always put the food on family style,
so I figured I'd better be real prompt or they
wouldn't be anything. Yeah, yeah, I come in. Oh oh Marty,
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Oh what are you doing in town? I?
Speaker 6 (24:38):
Uh, I came to see you.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Mister sponset as I saw.
Speaker 8 (24:42):
It's about about that girl you brought out to the
Crown last night.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Well, I sort of had the impression you weren't too
interested in her.
Speaker 8 (24:52):
Oh I'm interested, alright. I wish I wasn't, but I am.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
How was then?
Speaker 8 (24:57):
Well, you see, mister Puncy before I went back east,
I it was well, well, I was real fond of
another girl.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Cindy Lou aims.
Speaker 8 (25:04):
Her name is Oh, and we sort of uh promised
that we'd wait for each other. But last night that
girl with you, well, she sort of made me forget Cindy.
She did, huh for a while anyway, and then I remembered,
and I I felt real bad because it it didn't
seem like I was being fair to Cindy. So I
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went inside and I left the other girl to herself.
But don't go the All night long, I kept thinking
about both girls and they they sort of got mixed.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Up in my mind.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
I couldn't even keep 'em straight.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Uh huh uh. You've got quite a problem there, haven't you.
Speaker 7 (25:40):
Yeah, excuse me, good morning, mister Positive.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
I finally managed to.
Speaker 8 (25:47):
Get Oh, Cindy Lou, Well, Monty Gully, it's good to
see you. I was hoping you'd be at the dance last.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
Night, were you?
Speaker 3 (26:00):
You know you haven't changed a bit?
Speaker 7 (26:04):
No, now, I guess I haven't. They're in this paper bag,
mister Pontcett. Those things I borrowed last night.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Oh, I thought.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
Maybe you could return them to mister de Witt form.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Well, I'm not sure I'll be running into him again.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
Senny here, mister pont Now be careful, don't.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Oh, mister p gone on, Sindy, I just just sort
of slipped out of my fingers. I'm well, pire, I'll
put these party shoes back on the.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
Side there, goodbye and sayings goodbye money.
Speaker 8 (26:34):
Cindy, Wait a minute, what where'd you get those shoes?
Speaker 4 (26:39):
I I don't know what you mean.
Speaker 8 (26:41):
Why they're the same ones? That they're exactly the same. Cindy,
Who you weren't the square dance last night? You and
that other girl? Why there wasn't any other girl?
Speaker 3 (26:53):
It was you? No wonder I couldn't get you.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
Straightened down in my group? What are you talking?
Speaker 8 (26:58):
Tell her, mister Ponts what I told you just before
she came in.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Well, I think maybe you'd better tell her yourself, Monty.
As a matter of fact, I'm kind of anxious to
get downstairs while there's still some fried chicken left.
Speaker 8 (27:10):
So now, I've been in love with you ever since
I can remember.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
I don't believe.
Speaker 8 (27:14):
Well it's true, and it doesn't matter what kind of address.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
You wear or how your hair is fixed.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Well, there wasn't much point in my hanging around. See
if Cindy and Monny would finally get together. There's only
one way a story like this canand I get you
know as well as I do. They were just bound
to live halfly ever after.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
The Six Shooter is a transcribed NBC Radio Network production
and association with Review Productions. It is written by Frank
Burt and is based on a character created by him.
Mister Stewart, may currently be seen in the Universal International
Picture of the Glenn Miller Story. Others in the cast
were Barbara Eiler, Cindy lew And, Eleanor Audley, Sandra Gould,
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Bill Johnstone, and Sam Edwards. Special music for this program
was by Basil Adlam, and the entire production is under
the direction of Jack Johnstone. All characters and incidents were fictitious,
and any resemblance to actual characters or incidents is purely coincidental.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
This is John Wall speaking
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Here MacDonald Carey in Jason and the Golden Fleece tonight
on the NBC Radio Network
In just a moment, you'll hear James Stewart as the
six Shooter. There's music for you tomorrow evening with two
of your favorite song stylists. First it's The Dinah Shour
Show and then Songs with Sinatra. There's laughter IWO in
your Friday lineup with three comedy favorites, The Bob Hope
Show with Bob's guest Jerry Kelowna, The Phil Harris Alice
Fay Show, and can you top This? It's a great
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Friday night program lineup, all of them heard only on NBC.
James Stewart as the Sick Shooter. The man in the
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saddle is angular and long legged. His skin is sun
dyed brown. The gun and his holster is gray, steel
and rainbow, mother of pearl. It's handled unmarked. People call
them both the Sick Shooter. The NBC Radio Network presents
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James Stewart as The Sick Shooter, a transcribed series of
radio dramas based on the life of Britt Ponsett, the
Texas Plainsmen who wandered through the Western territories, leaving behind
a trail of still remembered legends.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
There is about seven o'clock on a Saturday evening, and
I was riding down the east trail that led from
Castle Suny over to Crown Ranch, very real warm. The
little breeze was coming up now and things were cooling
off some nice comfortable twilight. I hadn't seen any signs
of habitation for the last few miles. The soil was
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pretty thin, sandy and probably wouldn't grow much. But a
little further on the ground turned brown rich looking, I
noticed a frame house sitting back over fifty yards back
from the trail. When I was almost even with the house,
the front door opened. Somebody came running out toward me. Hey, Hey,
would you hold young boy looked like about fifteen sixteen,
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wearing blue jeans and a checkered shirt and a little
peak cap pulled down over his ears. Wulfgar w boy,
weo boy, horty sign?
Speaker 3 (02:43):
What can I do for you?
Speaker 4 (02:44):
You come from town? Mister got try? You didn't run
across Friendly de Witt on the trail, did you?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Friendly du Wit?
Speaker 4 (02:51):
You know him, don't you? Mister? He runs the Traveling Mercantel.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
How's I?
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Oh? Sure, we're too far out to get into town
very much. So he brings around a wagon load of
goods every one while I I just don't know what
we do without him.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Well, don't stand out there all night, joy, just find
out about friends they like.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
I told you the gentleman ain't seen him. Ma'am. Oh,
I got fern. You can wear something else to have too.
The supperations are waiting. Cindy Lou What what was that?
Speaker 3 (03:20):
She called you?
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Cindy Loo.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
But that's a girl's night.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
Oh oh oh oh oh.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
In this light here and the way you were dressed,
I I sort of thought maybe you would.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
It don't matter.
Speaker 7 (03:32):
Thanks again, mister, So long h ah, so long.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Mm Cindy Lou.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Well, I gave scarlettle touch of my heel. Uh cool.
Come on, come on, he started off. I figured I
had about eight miles to go before I'd reached the
Crown Ranch. I I hadn't been through this part of
the country in quite a spell. Bye. Was pretty certain
Floyd Prince had remembered me from the old days. He'd
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signed me on for the summer if he had an opening.
Come on, squirt, come on, come on. It's about fifteen
minutes later, and I came to the fork in the trail.
I saw a wagon rolling along from the south. There's
some wagon too, almost twice the size or anything I'd
ever run into for and the way the canvas balls
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hours looked like it was loaded to the brand. Wow,
it stood the reason that this was the traveling Mercantield
and Cindy Leward mansion. Wolfscar oo oo Pee you know Piege,
Hey friend ann ave Nan, you're mister deuet I tag it.
You take it right, churchhip for that, mister punt, just
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call the friendly. Like the rest of the folks, a
friend in need.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Is a friend.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
Indeed, something you need in mister, No, you needs it?
You to backer flowers or kitchen utensils, ammunition yard, he
his own equipment, anything at all, Just you name it.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
I got it here in my wagon.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Sounds like fighting the sartment there.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
Oh that's only a part of it. I didn't even
touch on my medicals flies, old duck Boster's painkillers, that
simple old purpose self Miss Jinny's Bunyon plasters and corn removers.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
You got any corns? That's trouble in you, mister. They're
just a thing.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
No, No, I don't do too much walk Oh some
liniment then, no, thanks, just the sam I'm in pretty
good health.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Well, what about wearing apparel?
Speaker 6 (05:27):
I got a full line of leave My shirts, Bend
Dennis Cutting and wools some.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Fred.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
I'm just not in the market for anything friendly. The
only reason I stopped was to tell you that those
folks down the trail are getting kind of anxious about you.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Folks down the trail.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Uh huh, you know the farmhouse a couple of miles
back there.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
I just can't imagine who you're talking about, mister. I
ain't even hated that way. I'm making a delivery over
the Davis Ranch near Evergreen. Davis girls getting married tomorrow morning.
I'm bringing all the paraphernaga for the window. You sure
somebody in this neighborhood's looking for me?
Speaker 2 (05:58):
They seem to be. I don't oh the family's name exactly.
The girl I bumped into is called Cindy lou Well.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Grand must be sending lou Eames.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
But where would great yellow Pumpkins Pattie Eames that dress
she ordered for her daughter fund? What time you make
it out to be, mister, I ain't unpacked my ship
in the alarm clocks he.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Had all must be seven point thirty.
Speaker 6 (06:19):
And maybe I can get there before they leave. If
I don't hat Eames, we'll skin me alive. Yeah, fiddy,
come on, come on, Frances, come on. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
It's something else. When I was working on that dress.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
Only this morning too, shortening the hell song mister Oki
and George Square dass dance?
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Why do you come on?
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Card?
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Come on dance? What are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Where?
Speaker 3 (06:43):
That's where you're heading?
Speaker 6 (06:44):
Eat it?
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Conrads.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Yeah, as a matter of fact, it is. But I
didn't know about any dance or anything. I was going
to ask Floyd perncon for jobs.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
You mean coming.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
You ain't heard about the celebration, the news, not a
word where there's air Connor Floyd Princey's son.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
He just come home from schooling.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Breck East while you me and Marty Print. Yeah that's
the boy's name, you know, I'm miss law. Used to
he was just a little shaver of then he's all
growing up.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Huh.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
Well he must be twinter so somewhere along in there,
I guess he'll be taking over the crown one of
these days.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Let's see. Well, I reckon better put off my job
hunt until some other time. I wouldn't want to bother
Floyd to give him a party. I'll ride along with
Hill first call frankly, Well, if you're.
Speaker 6 (07:22):
An acquaintances deployd princess, I imagine you'd be more than
welcome in his party. Correct to everybody, neighborhood's been buddied.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
And Ivery saw him. I'll be solved. But the fact is,
I'm not too good at square dancing. I don't know,
but there's something about my legs a little too much
of them.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
All right, Well, I just hope you're the only absentee.
What he means, Well, I had his daughter Fern. She
was planning to wear this. He addressed some more holders
from me tall. Yeah, like it's not she's having a
tenth room right now. She sure takes half to Haddie.
She does, yes, sir, and may not live in her
outfit on time. Well, there'll be real catastrophe, you see.
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Hatty is eeming to marry her Fern off to this
young only prince, and she'll probably manage it too.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
And he usually gets her own way in or look over.
Speaker 6 (08:06):
There, Amiston Bucky coming up the trail, and we had
in Purne on the way to the Crown.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Yeah, I wouldn't be a bit Surprime's too.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
They do anything about the press now if they're started off,
and the best thing for me to do is to
stay out of sight, I'll get my wagon over here
under these trees. Hand you easy pants is easy enough.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
But oh, barios, they're bound to see you sitting there.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
You don't know how he aims like I do a minute?
Why she's his nears heded as a buffalo. Can't see
your hand in front of a face unless she's wearing
her bicocals.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Oh man, she won't be wearing them either, not if
she's heading for Sindy.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Well, what about the daughter?
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Will?
Speaker 6 (08:37):
I told you Fern takes after a mother Jesus, blind
as a bat without her respectacule you.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Hear the call?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
What did tell y'all I've gone? They never even glanced
over to us.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
Well, I guess I might as well mosy over the
Davis Ranch.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Nice meeting you, miss, mister. Oh I'm sorry, friendly, I'm
meant to introduce myself. My name's Poncer Brick Ponson.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Oh Oh, why mister Ponson, I didn't recognize you.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Oh, no reason why you should, friendly, No reason you should?
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Well?
Speaker 6 (09:17):
I heard so much about you and that gun here,
Miss ponson here, I got me some samples of a
new hair. Tony smells really looking too. Maybe let me
try it. They say it grow fuzzer, not that there's
anything met with your hair. You understand, well, my supply
is kind of decreasing.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Little Tommy might be very handy just to.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Say, you know, I can't race take here?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Yeah it is thanks friendly, my my pressure will I say,
uh I, I just happened to think, Uh what happened
to the other daughter?
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Mmmm?
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Well that buggy that just went by and there were
only two women and now the girl I'm at the
back at the farm.
Speaker 6 (09:58):
She wasn't Oh you mean cydey Loo. She wouldn't be
going to Prince's dance, so she wouldn't. In all, see,
Hattie ain't got much use for her. Cindy ain't had
his real kids.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
She just steppeddaugher.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
Oh yeah, Haddie in Firn where they just seem to
go out of their way to make things miserable for her,
a lot like these here dance, for instance. Everybody knows
that Monty Prince and Cindy Lou used to be real
friendly when it was kids. Well, she'd probably give her
eye tooths to go to that part tonight see him again.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
But well it's too bad she can't.
Speaker 6 (10:27):
Yeah, yeah, but there's nothing anybody can do about it.
Why she don't even have a dressed to her name?
You know, I've got a hunt. She'd be real pretty
if Hattie ever allowed her to fix herself up.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
But she seemed a mighty nice looking girl.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Yeah, sure is.
Speaker 6 (10:42):
Yeah, what's the matter. Why shouldn't Cindy Lou go to
that dance tonight? With all the stuff in this wagon,
I could fix her up so she'd be the prettiest
girl there.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Oh, maybe a cod friendly, maybe a cord.
Speaker 6 (10:55):
It sure be a good trick to play on Hattie
infer Why if they couldn't tell my wagon and at
fifty feet that never knows Cindy Loo when I got
done with her, Come on, mister Ponsit fine. Well, girl
can't go to Square Dance Hall by herself.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
She's gonna have this course.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Oh I suppose so, But oh my hold on front
of what you don't mean me?
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Well you're a friend of the princess. You said so yourself.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Why I'm old enough to be here If we.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
Don't her, Miss Ponson, Square dancers. Be all then step
five to there Francis. Come on that piggy, this dorg Trevelen,
Come on.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Mister Post.
Speaker 7 (11:36):
I just don't understand, mister de Witt, you mean you
want to loan me address.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
And all the criminals sindelu before I get done with you.
You'll be so dooted up that your own stepmother will
recognize you.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
And you want to take me to the dance mister.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Ponson, Yeah, sure that is if you want to go all.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
That's right kindly of you both.
Speaker 7 (11:58):
But the fact is I I don't have no interest
in attending the doings at the Crown.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Oh oh you don't. Uh well, in that case, I.
Speaker 7 (12:07):
Don't know where you ever got such a notion, mister
de Witt, as if I cared anything about seeing money.
Prince againmar Well, I haven't even thought of him since
he went away to school.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Not once.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
Mm well, awaken your step sister Fern's done something thinking
about him.
Speaker 7 (12:21):
A lot of good it'll do her money wouldn't look
to I mean, it's none of my business one way
or the others.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Mm no, no, I guess there's uh. I'm sorry, we
bother god, huh, let's go friendly wool.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
Game as bunching night and Lou.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Mister de Witt, mm, was there something you wanted, Cindy Y?
Speaker 7 (12:50):
I guess maybe I'm acting kind of ungrateful. I mean, well,
you both did put yourself out for me, and sh
it was real generous of you to do it. I
don't suppose it would do me no harm to go
to that square dance for a little while anyway, if
you really.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
Want me to, Well, now there's more legged and they
see now the uh, first thing we gotta do is
find a dressy, you come on out to my wagon.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Uh see you.
Speaker 6 (13:15):
We we'll pick something that will make you look like
a princess, Yes, sir, a real princes.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Well, I wanna tell you friendly wasn't very far wrong.
That's just exactly how Cindya alut looked when she came
out of the bedroom about half an hour later, and
for a minute we just stood there, just not saying
a word, just staring at us.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Something wrong? Don't I look good enough to go to
the dance?
Speaker 2 (13:49):
M good enough?
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Well, I seemed, Lou. You you're a British picture, ain't
you pretty?
Speaker 2 (13:57):
She sure is? Well, if uh you're already so I do.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Uh, there's just one thing we forgot, the shoes.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Shoes.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
I don't have any party slippers of my own.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Oh well, we seem to do that.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
That that's about the only item I don't stalk in
my wagon. I well, I guess you can make do
with the shoes you wear.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Can't you.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Oh? Oh, I don't see how I mean roll Look
at 'em yourself.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
M yeah, and no, no we we.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
I am carrying one pair of fancy slippers.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
They're part of the Davis Girls. Wou not fit well?
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (14:41):
Oh no, no, I I couldn't roll 'em to Cindy though.
I I got to leave for the Davis Ranch as
soon as you two start off of the dance. I
I promise i'd be there first thing in the morning.
And it's a good eight hours driving that wagging a morning.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Oh, I say, uh, well it it.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
Was real nice of you both. Anyhow, I'll never forget
what she tried to do for me, how I felt
what I put on this dress, how wonderful.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Now hold on seem to hold on? Hold on? Sorry,
I just let me do something figure in here. See
you ain't fine. I was leave here by midnight.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
I could be the deepest place long about eight a m.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
That don't be well enough.
Speaker 6 (15:21):
We ain't no reason why you both couldn't be back
here before at twelve o'clock.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
No, no, no reason.
Speaker 7 (15:26):
No.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
Well, then I guess the next thing to do is
to find out whether them slippers will.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Fit or not.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
I'll bring right in.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
I just don't know what to say, mister Pont. Nothing
like this has ever happened to me before. It all
seems like something out of a story book.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
You know, Sindy, I was just thinking the same thing.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Yes, he did try him on.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
See they sure do look small, don't they.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Hmm?
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Yeah, you think you can make it?
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Oh? I don't. Oh there, Oh she's kind of tight.
Speaker 6 (15:59):
But I well, i'll try the other one. You can
get one on the other one to go to.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Good.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Good.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Now you're gonna be able to walk on.
Speaker 7 (16:11):
I'll be able to walk all right into do it
the way I feel I can almost flo Really.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
You better get story. You won't have too long of
the dance.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
You know.
Speaker 6 (16:18):
He don't forget brit You gotta have her back here
by midnight.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Don't worry, Friday, I won't forget.
Speaker 6 (16:33):
You.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Are listening to James Stewart as the six Shooter. The
story of Britt Ponsett, the Texas plainsman whose name has
become legend throughout the Great Southwest. Now Act two of
the story, called When the Shoe Doesn't Fit.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
I hoisted Cindy Lou up on scars. She managed to
see hers home in front of the saddle. I kind
of held on to her keeper from fall off. We
started off with the Crown Ranch. Took us about forty
five minutes to get there, and that party was in
full swing. We walked into the parlor, broke your kind, brand,
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your cat, bring your honeyhead, and ahead. Floyd Prince came
over to the door when he saw it and told
me we're more than welcome. He's real nice. Considering I
had invited myself, I started managed to avoid mentioned Cindy
Lu's name, and what with all the hubdub, Floyd didn't
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seem to notice that I hadn't introduced her propertly. But
Floyd's son, Manti Will, he didn't wait any introduction. He
just took one look at Cindy and as the last
I saw of her. As far as I can tell,
the other girls the party were just completely out of
the picture. From then on, I wait until there was
an animation and the dancing, and I mosied over the
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punch bowl.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
Can I help you?
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Misters? I, oh, yes, ma'am, thank.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
You, I'm missus Eames. Oh, Fern, fir over here, dear,
I want you to meet somebody.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
This is my daughter, Fern.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Mister Pons, I'm pleased. Make your Fern well.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Speak up, Speak up, Fern sort of shy.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
Oh, by the way, that young lady that you brought
to the party, she doesn't seem to be spending.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Much time with you, does she. Oh, that's the trouble.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
When a man brings a pretty girl to a dance,
he's apt to find himself all alone.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Furnu.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
Of course, Now some girls have character as well as Look,
I say, my goodness, it's got in another dance now,
mister PONTI don't think that you have to ask my
permission to dance with Thurn.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
You just go ride in.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Yes, as Fern, my guy said, I'm not much of
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a square dancer. But there just didn't seem to be
any way of turning Furn down. Well, I guess I
should say there wasn't any way of turning her mother down,
so we did our best. Sorry, as evening wore on,
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it didn't look like she had any other part lined up. Well,
I figured it was up to me to sort of
fall in woo. Oh well, I sure didn't mean to
kick you. Heern there's one thing about her, though, She
sure didn't talk a man to death. And somehow the
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time passed, and the next thing I knew, it was
after eleven o'clock. Now that meant Cindy and I had
to be starting home. So I looked around for her,
but she wasn't in sight. I excused myself to Berne
and headed out the front porch. Uh, Cindy was there alright.
But thing that surprised me was she was all alone.
(20:38):
Looked like she'd been crying. Uh, Cindy, Oh what are
you all right?
Speaker 6 (20:48):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (20:49):
I'm fine, just fine.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Where's Marty?
Speaker 4 (20:52):
I don't know?
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Uh, well, maybe you'd better find him and say good night.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
I never want to see him again, not as long as.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Oh well, what happened? I thought you two were hitting
off real good?
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Eh?
Speaker 7 (21:05):
I I thought so too at first while we were
inside dance and everything was just wonderful, And then all
of a sudden he started acting like he didn't care
about me at all.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Said he couldn't be spending all his time with one girl,
he had to dance with some of the others.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
M Well, after all, the party is in his honor,
and that ain't all.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Mister pons, he didn't even.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Know who I was.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Well, didn't you tell him?
Speaker 4 (21:37):
I thought?
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Sure?
Speaker 8 (21:38):
He No.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
I never figured he'd forget me, not in just a
few years.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Mm. Well you've changed, sent me in the way you're
all fixed up.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Why that wouldn't matter.
Speaker 7 (21:49):
Not if Monny really liked me, I'd never forget him.
I'd know him, no matter how much he changed or
how he dressed.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Well, all he had to do was just tell him
who you were. You know.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
I just couldn't. And you mustn't tell him either. You
got to promise me you won't, now, please, mister promises.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
That's what you want. Well, I I think maybe you'd
better leave.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Yeah, Well, I I'm ready, Uh.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Y you Uh you got everything?
Speaker 4 (22:19):
Hm? I guess so why?
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Uh? I don't know. I I I just thought maybe
you'd lost one of your slippers or.
Speaker 7 (22:27):
Slippers whatever gave you that I I I don't know,
I don't I just sort of crossed my mind.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
I'm uh, never mind, I I'll I'll get scarfed. Well,
it just goes to show you that stories in real
life don't work out the same way. And instead of
falling in love, Cindy and Monty Prince were as far
away as ever and even farther, and they didn't seem
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be anywhere getting 'em together either. In leastways. He will
isn't going to be able to do it by finding
one of her slippers at the dance, that's for sure.
As a matter of fact, she couldn't have lost the
shoe at the dance if she'd wanted to. When we
got her home, we found out she couldn't even get
them off.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Gone it, Cindy, you must not be trying. You didn't
have as much trouble getting them on.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
Oh I'm sorry, mister, do it. I'm doing my best.
My keep must have swelled up from the dancing or something.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Here, Let me do it.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
I'm sure.
Speaker 6 (23:33):
They just clean stuff pairs.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
I know, maybe in the morning, might feel go back
to normal.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Yes, hey, look.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Out the window there, friendly, There isn't not a buggy
out there. Holy smooth, burning heady, So long, sin't it
vibrate friendly. I don't want them catching me here either.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
But what about the slippers in the wedding tomorrow?
Speaker 6 (23:52):
The brides wearing a long grass reaches clear down to
the floor.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
She can get married in the bare feet if chanced
to what thanks for everything?
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Then sudden I'm I'm sorry things didn't work out better
for you, but you're not.
Speaker 7 (24:10):
Well.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Long about noontime the next day, I was in my
hotel room washing up front to dinner. They were uh
planning to serve fried chicken and corn footers and apple pote.
The Castle Hotel always put the food on family style,
so I figured I'd better be real prompt or they
wouldn't be anything. Yeah, yeah, I come in. Oh oh Marty,
(24:36):
Oh what are you doing in town? I?
Speaker 6 (24:38):
Uh, I came to see you.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Mister sponset as I saw.
Speaker 8 (24:42):
It's about about that girl you brought out to the
Crown last night.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Well, I sort of had the impression you weren't too
interested in her.
Speaker 8 (24:52):
Oh I'm interested, alright. I wish I wasn't, but I am.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
How was then?
Speaker 8 (24:57):
Well, you see, mister Puncy before I went back east,
I it was well, well, I was real fond of
another girl.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Cindy Lou aims.
Speaker 8 (25:04):
Her name is Oh, and we sort of uh promised
that we'd wait for each other. But last night that
girl with you, well, she sort of made me forget Cindy.
She did, huh for a while anyway, and then I remembered,
and I I felt real bad because it it didn't
seem like I was being fair to Cindy. So I
(25:25):
went inside and I left the other girl to herself.
But don't go the All night long, I kept thinking
about both girls and they they sort of got mixed.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Up in my mind.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
I couldn't even keep 'em straight.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Uh huh uh. You've got quite a problem there, haven't you.
Speaker 7 (25:40):
Yeah, excuse me, good morning, mister Positive.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
I finally managed to.
Speaker 8 (25:47):
Get Oh, Cindy Lou, Well, Monty Gully, it's good to
see you. I was hoping you'd be at the dance last.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
Night, were you?
Speaker 3 (26:00):
You know you haven't changed a bit?
Speaker 7 (26:04):
No, now, I guess I haven't. They're in this paper bag,
mister Pontcett. Those things I borrowed last night.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Oh, I thought.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
Maybe you could return them to mister de Witt form.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Well, I'm not sure I'll be running into him again.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
Senny here, mister pont Now be careful, don't.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Oh, mister p gone on, Sindy, I just just sort
of slipped out of my fingers. I'm well, pire, I'll
put these party shoes back on the.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
Side there, goodbye and sayings goodbye money.
Speaker 8 (26:34):
Cindy, Wait a minute, what where'd you get those shoes?
Speaker 4 (26:39):
I I don't know what you mean.
Speaker 8 (26:41):
Why they're the same ones? That they're exactly the same. Cindy,
Who you weren't the square dance last night? You and
that other girl? Why there wasn't any other girl?
Speaker 3 (26:53):
It was you? No wonder I couldn't get you.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
Straightened down in my group? What are you talking?
Speaker 8 (26:58):
Tell her, mister Ponts what I told you just before
she came in.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Well, I think maybe you'd better tell her yourself, Monty.
As a matter of fact, I'm kind of anxious to
get downstairs while there's still some fried chicken left.
Speaker 8 (27:10):
So now, I've been in love with you ever since
I can remember.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
I don't believe.
Speaker 8 (27:14):
Well it's true, and it doesn't matter what kind of address.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
You wear or how your hair is fixed.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Well, there wasn't much point in my hanging around. See
if Cindy and Monny would finally get together. There's only
one way a story like this canand I get you
know as well as I do. They were just bound
to live halfly ever after.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
The Six Shooter is a transcribed NBC Radio Network production
and association with Review Productions. It is written by Frank
Burt and is based on a character created by him.
Mister Stewart, may currently be seen in the Universal International
Picture of the Glenn Miller Story. Others in the cast
were Barbara Eiler, Cindy lew And, Eleanor Audley, Sandra Gould,
(28:22):
Bill Johnstone, and Sam Edwards. Special music for this program
was by Basil Adlam, and the entire production is under
the direction of Jack Johnstone. All characters and incidents were fictitious,
and any resemblance to actual characters or incidents is purely coincidental.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
This is John Wall speaking
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Here MacDonald Carey in Jason and the Golden Fleece tonight
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