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[theme music]

"Gunsmoke," with Milburn Stone as Doc, Ken Curtis as Festus,

Buck Taylor as Newly, and starring

James Arness as Matt Dillon.

A marryin', that's what we're gonna have, a marryin'.

I want you boys saddled in with them women proper.

Work around this place has been falling off terrible

since you boys took them womens up here from Dodge,

wasn't what I had in mind at all.

We've been working, Pa.

You know that we've been working.

Yeah, Pa.

And I know what you've been working on,

and it ain't been farming, except in your spare time.

With them womens living up to the house

and you boys down here to the barn,

a marryin' is the only thing I can figure

will halt the traffic twixt here and there from dusk till dawn.

I can't get no sleep.

You've been sneaking around, peeking.

Ain't you, old buzzard?

Sneakin'?

I don't have to sneak when the whole congregation is out there

tripping over dogs and stepping on cats

and kicking milk buckets and--

Sounds plumb envious to me.

Sound like that to you, Ike?

Yeah, I believe you are right, Shep.

I think the old man's covetous.

Boy, don't you start nothing you can't handle,

or it's gonna be you and me head on.

Grandkids-- I want grandkids, and I don't want to have

to call them by seven letters.

Oh, Ike-- Ike, the stove up in the kitchen won't draw right.

Would you mind coming up and giving me a hand?

Why, sure, honey, I'll be right out.

Boy, don't you put down that pitchfork.

Now, Pa, if you don't want a cold dinner,

I'm gonna go up there and fire up that stove.

Anyway, I won't be gone very long.

Ike!

Just long enough, Pa.

What are you grinning at, boy?

Oh, Pa, I reckon Ike will get something cooking right away.

Your mother is gonna bring you to grief

one of these days, boy.

Pa, Emily sort of had her heart set on a fall wedding.

Luke, ain't you tired of sleeping in this here barn yet?

Well, yeah.

Well, then you change her mind.

Uh, well, that ain't so easy, Pa.

You're letting that woman dictate to you,

and any man that'll start like that will end the same.

She'll dictate when you can lay down and die

and everything in between.

Good morning, Pa.

How's the work coming?

I know you don't mind me calling you Pa since look

and me is almost married.

That's the truth, if I ever heard it.

Well, I saw how you fancied the berry pie I baked on Sunday,

even though I did have to go to so much extra trouble to do it.

What are you after, girl?

Well, seeing as how you fancied my berry pie,

I was wondering if you would let me

and Luke go out and pick some more

blackberries this afternoon.

Blackberries?

I know what you're after, girl, and I never heard it called

picking blackberries before.

What are you suggested, Jed Hockett?

Why, I do believe you're casting aspersions towards my virtue.

Why, I believe you are as filthy-minded as Sam Sanger

was when I was married before.

You come on, Luke, and I ain't calling you Pa

anymore, at least for a while.

Luke, come back here!

You here me?

Come back here!

What are you grinning at, boy?

Well, Pa, look at it this way.

You're gonna get yourself a berry pie out of it, maybe.

You keep your trap shut, and you keep on working.

And stop that grinning.

You're always grinning.

You and them brothers of yours don't seem to understand.

This here is a working farm.

Winter, you boys think about winter coming on.

You want to be outside, rump deep in snow,

pulling stump and splitting wood?

Well, that's how it'll be-- I promise you-- 'cause

the work's gotta be done now.

All right, that clinches her.

Come Sunday week, there's gonna be a marryin', all

three at the same time.

I'm tired of this night crawling and day loafing.

We're gonna take one day out for it.

Do you hear me?

Just one day!

[music playing]

Well, they've set the date.

They're gonna get married next Sunday,

and they want me to come to the weddings.

You mean all of them are gonna get married at the same time?

That's what Fran's letter says.

They want me to be maid of honor for all three of them.

Well, have you ever been one of them there ornery maids before,

Ms. Hannah?

Festus, I have been an ornery maid so many times

I have memorized the ceremony.

To tell you the truth, it's a little depressing.

I don't know, Hannah.

From what I hear, that old man up there is

trying to get you to the altar.

I'll never get that desperate.

Jed Hockett has already buried three wives,

and I imagine they were glad to get away from him.

You've got to give the old coot credit, though.

He can still work up a full head of steam.

Oh, well, fiddle, that ain't so uncommon, Ms. Hannah.

Now you take my Uncle Lazarus Dinglefoot.

He was 73 years old when he took hisself a youngin for a bride.

Her name was Annie Croupers, I recollect, and she couldn't

have been over 22 or 23.

And she wasn't the purdiest gal in the county neither,

but she is healthy, if you know what I mean.

Of course, Uncle Lazarus, he passed on

after a couple of months.

Folks said that his get up and go just kind of got up

and went.

You mean he lost his stamina.

Well--

Yeah, well, don't worry about it.

I promise you that Jed Hockett will never

lose his stamina because of me.

Uh, Festus, did you say Lazarus Dinglefoot?

I kind of figured he died happy.

JED: A marryin', that's what we're gonna have.

By the sound of things, there's one person

around here who hasn't changed.

Oh, Hannah.

Hi.

Oh, oh, Hanna, I'm so glad you could make it.

And I'm so glad to see you, Emily,

and I am so pleased about the wedding.

Well, I was all set to hold off till fall,

till Jed got a bee in his bonnet, but-- but I'm so happy.

And I am so glad.

Well, now, I want to personally welcome you back

to the Hockett farm, woman.

These here girls has missed you something terrible,

and I can testify to that.

But you come back 'cause you missed me.

Now tell me if that ain't the truth.

Will you keep your hands to yourself, you old reprobate?

And you listen to one thing first off.

I don't want to have to put up with any foolishness from you.

Spirit, I remember how you had spirit.

That's what I like in a woman-- temperament

and a strong pair of legs.

From what I've seen, you got 'em both.

Mm-hmm, well, you just stop looking if you

want to keep your health.

Where is Sarah and Fran?

I want to see the wedding dresses.

Oh, inside, here, I'll show you.

Fine.

Spirit?

The problem was the preacher only gets

through once a month or so.

Then he has services and does the baptizing

and marrying all in one day.

So all the families come, and there's a great

big picnic and a box-lunch auction and games and--

And a couple of fist fights?

I've been to these things before.

There better not be.

We've talked to every one of the boys,

and they've given us their solemn promise not to fight.

They have?

Oh, yes, ma'am, even Luke, not on our wedding day.

Of course, it isn't a church wedding.

But I've had one of those before,

and it didn't seem to work out a whole lot better.

You do remember me and Sam Sanger.

Anyway, I figured, well, why not try doing it outside this time

and see if it happens to change my luck?

Oh, honey, outside or inside, any wedding is

better than no wedding at all.

Ask one who knows.

Uh, do I, uh, smell anything on the stove?

The stew, oh, I better see to it.

Oh, Sarah, please set the table.

The boys are gonna be coming up for supper any minute.

If I was to judge by looking at you, Fran,

I wouldn't be able to tell if you were going to your wedding

or your funeral tomorrow.

I'm sorry, Hannah.

I guess I've just got the jitters again.

And did they start up just about the time I got here?

Oh, Hannah, please don't take it that way.

You're the only person in the world I even care about coming

to my wedding, but the last few weeks have been

the happiest time in my life.

It-- it's like nothing ever happened before,

and Ike is the only man I ever loved.

And then I come along, reminding you of how it was,

huh?

Hannah, the Long Branch is the finest

saloon I have ever worked in.

You respected me.

You never let anyone get out of line,

but there were other saloons before

the Long Branch when things weren't-- well, you know.

Oh, honey, I do.

I do.

I know, but I've told you before.

You have nothing to be ashamed of.

We all do what we must do in order to survive,

and, you know, I think the day will come when you will

accept what happened to you.

Maybe you won't be proud of it, but you'll

learn to live with it.

I-- I hope someday I can be like you.

Well, don't get carried away, hmm?

Will you come inside and help me pick the ribbons for my--

I would be delighted.

Well, it turned out to be a lovely day for a wedding.

Now if you're lucky, you may be able to get

acquainted with a widow woman you can bring home.

Widow woman?

Ha!

What's wrong with that?

I thought you had the itch.

I don't want no woman whose husband

has went and died on her.

It'd set me to wondering if it was gonna happen again.

Hockett, you're beyond help.

I just hope nothing happens to spoil this day for those girls.

Quit worrying, woman.

They'll will be wedded, bedded, and wearing

silly grins by sun-up tomorrow.

You've been awful quiet this morning.

I've never been this close to getting married before.

I guess maybe I'm just scared.

Of me?

Not that, I know you.

I know there's nothing in you for me to be scared of.

Maybe it's just that something is gonna happen

to spoil how happy I am today.

Nothing's gonna happen.

I won't let nothing happen.

Where are Shep and Sarah?

Don't they know we're ready to go?

They're off in the bushes, Pa.

Again?

Uh, Sarah, what's the matter?

When I was a little girl, I had ideas and dreams

about what I was gonna be.

I was gonna be a success, an actress or-- or a dancer maybe.

I was gonna have all the things that fine ladies have.

Well, maybe if I did go to San Francisco,

I wouldn't be able to do all that.

Maybe I'd wind up in a saloon, hustling drinks forever,

but I'd rather be doing that than be stuck anywhere

with a man who didn't want me.

Sarah, I don't remember ever telling you I didn't want you.

Now did I say that?

I want you.

I really want you.

Now you come on.

A girl sure has to go to a lot of trouble to make you say it.

JED: Shep, are you coming or ain't ya?

We're waiting.

Wouldn't think it would be asking too much of them

young 'uns to wait till evening, seeing

as how we're so close now.

Hockett, shut up.

Well, you look awful blue, Luke.

I thought you'd be happy.

Well, I'm happy all right.

It's just I got a funny feeling.

I ain't never had a feeling like this before.

Do you think you still want to do it?

Huh?

I mean, are you scared that I may not be the right one?

No, I guess it's just that I ain't never done it before.

It's sort of like the time Pa throwed me in the water

and told me to swim.

Well, you swam all right.

[music playing]

I guess I did.

CROWD: [SINGING] Yes, we'll gather around the river,

the beautiful, beautiful river.

Dance with the saints at the river that

flows by the throne of God.

Hallelujah, you're about to be clasped

to the bosom of the true faith, boy, about

ready to become a young soldier in the army

of Jesus Christ our lord.

Sing out his name, hallelujah.

CROWD: Hallelujah.

Down you go by, underneath you go, way, way down.

CROWD: Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.

It appears things already got started.

Can you feel-- do you feel the current of the good faith

flowing all around you and over you,

cleansing you and purifying you and washing

away the original sin?

Look, son.

Can't you see the gates of heaven opening?

And the angels are singing your name.

Yes, sir, hallelujah, hallelujah, boy.

Sister Slade, send on down another young man.

Hey, come back here.

You'd better watch where you're running, boy.

I've bit bigger fish than you in half in one snap.

Jinx Tobin is the name, folks, and these ugly looking critters

here, they're my cousins.

I just stepped up here to tell you that we done rode up

in here from Texas on a tornado and had rattlesnake heads

for breakfast.

Hey, Jinx sure do lay it on thick.

The Tobin boys is here to say that we'll

take on any man among you, or any six together,

and I've got $5 in this pouch that says we're the ones

that are gonna do the whooping.

Now do we got any takers?

What if them folks want to see that $5?

If they want to see the money, Jinx will have to hit 'em,

I reckon, to take their minds off of it.

I'll-- I'll wrestle you, Texan, if you show

me the color of your money.

Well, uh, let me see you're in first.

See that?

What did I tell you?

MAN: That's fighting dirty.

You wanted to see my $5?

There's my $5.

MAN: Give him a hand.

Give him a hand.

Help him out of there.

Come on.

Whoa.

I said it once, and I'll say it again.

Violence, I tell you, is the work of the devil.

Excuse me, ma'am.

There's no place here for fist fighting,

rough housing, or gambling.

You-- you there, you that preacher we heared about?

I am.

What stripe?

No particular stripe, I minister to all and equally.

I heard the call, and I answered.

Well, that's fine.

I ain't choosy.

We got some marrying needs to be done.

Think you can handle her?

Go forth and multiply, the good book does instruct us.

Pleased to make your acquaintance.

Reverend Sims is my name, sir.

Jed Hockett, these here is my boys, and that's their womens.

And, uh, that I take it is Mrs. Hockett?

Well, that ain't quite how it is.

Well, at least you got that part straight finally.

Come on, girls.

Let's find a place to clean up.

Well, the more of the family, the better

on an auspicious occasion like this.

Now which one of your sons will I be marrying?

All three.

All three?

Well, that is multiplication.

Now I usually get, uh, $10 for a wedding.

$10?

That's a token of appreciation and to defray expenses,

but since you're herding 'em up three at a time,

I'd say that, uh, oh, $5 a coupling would be fair.

Sounds to me like you've come forth to do some

multiplying yourself, preacher.

I guess if that's what it takes to get it done,

I ain't got no choice.

That's about the poorest excuse for a horse

I've seen in a while, boy.

Well, he suits me.

Yeah, I imagine it does.

It don't take much to suit a fellow that's

still got plow dirt on his boots and smells

of chicken scratchings.

You know, mister, you ain't an easy man to warm up to.

I got $5 that says I can whip you, boy.

Gee, I sure hope Jinx don't lose that $5.

Shush up.

Jinx knows what he's doing, and that one

ain't no big one, a midget.

Now, look, mister, I didn't come here to fight.

What you're really saying, boy, is you're scared to fight me.

Since you put it that way--

Howdy, fellers.

These boys being friendly, Shep?

Not much, no, you keep them other two off me.

You let me go, Luke.

Hey, Jinx, who is that?

Uh, kin, I guess.

Oh, well, I-- I'd just assume we'd be moving on, Jinx.

Now, Shep, we promised we wouldn't get in no fights.

Well, that was this morning.

How am I gonna explain it to Emily?

She gets awful upset, and Sarah will be real mad, too.

Now you fellas move along.

There ain't gonna be no fighting today.

Oh, now, come on, Jinx.

He probably don't have $5 to be no how.

You're lucky, boy, lucky.

All right.

Well, I'll be.

Boys, I don't think we're gonna be leaving right off.

I just run across an old friend.

Hello, Franny.

Remember me?

Abilene, you remember the Texas Saloon and Gambling

Emporium in Abilene, don't you?

Well, I remember more than your name, little girl,

and I'm here and ready to make a few more of them

blessed moments.

Look, you, I'm here to get married.

Married?

Well, if that don't beat all.

Fran, would you come and help me with my fasteners?

Will you get out of here, please?

I'll be back.

Was that fella bothering you, Fran?

Oh, he just thought he saw a chance.

You know how it goes.

Well, honey, it looks like nothing can stop it now.

I saw the old coot pay the preacher.

Evening?

I didn't figure on having to wait till evening

to get them young 'uns married.

Just line 'em up and collect the I do's.

It won't take more than 10 minutes.

Christening in the morning, box social in the afternoon,

and weddings in the evening, that's my style, Hockett.

No, I used to marry them in the morning.

I'd lose the whole congregation before noon.

Bride and grooms, they'd scatter up the creek.

Everybody would get so drunk, there

would be no uplifting for me.

I tell ya, I'm gonna wed the young 'uns at dusk,

then I'm gonna head my way.

Time, you're a-costing me time, preacher.

Preachers, I never did have much use for preachers,

and that one looks like he ought to have

gone into another line of work.

This fella comes over to me.

He's about as ugly as they come, and he's got

these two other guys with him.

They got the dumb part taken care of,

and the first guy wants to fight for money.

And he's getting about half mean when Luke comes over--

Well, what did you tell him?

About what?

About the fight?

Oh, I told him I wasn't in the mood.

Well, that's a relief.

I wouldn't have let you do it anyway.

What was that you said?

I'm not about to let you run off

and fight some fool on our wedding day.

That's what I thought you said.

Excuse me.

Shep.

And when the preacher holds up this basket,

that is the one I want you to call out your money on.

Oh, how much money did you bring with you?

Uh, oh, let me see here.

I've got, uh--

$0.87?

That ain't hardly enough to be safe.

Here's $2, Luke.

I want you to bid at least $2 so's that people

think how much it means to you.

Luke, there's something I gotta take care of.

Will you come along with me for a minute?

Sure, uh, I'll be back in just a minute.

Now you know this ain't gonna cause

nothing but trouble, Shep.

Well, you ain't gotta fight nobody

anyway, so stop worrying about.

Anyway, it come to a question of principle, so that's that.

I sure wish I knowed what you was talking about, Shep.

Hey, cowboy, you still think you can whoop me?

I know I can whip you, farmer.

I just thought I might give you a chance to prove it.

Well, this whipping's gonna cost you $5, boy.

You got $5?

I got it.

You ready?

You mean right now?

Well, I figured on giving some of these pilgrims

a chance to lay money on it.

I'll tell you what I'll do.

I'll meet you down by the river in about 20 minutes.

All right, that suits me fine. Come on, Luke.

Hey, boy, you got a woman by the name of Fran

Carter along with your bunch?

Uh, no, no, name don't ring a bell to me.

Strange, I saw a woman over by your wagon

who was mindful of one I spent some time with down in Abilene.

She sure did know which end was up, I'll tell you.

Yeah, well, I reckon that's just

another one of your mistakes.

Come on, Luke.

Ike ain't gonna like hearing that feller

talk about Fran, Shep.

I know.

That yahoo ain't one to keep it to himself either.

If Ike shows up at that fight, the whole thing

is gonna blow up.

Well, whatcha gonna do?

Oh, it beats me.

Come on.

Luke, you've got to stay here and keep

Ike away from the fight.

Now what, boy?

Looks like there's gonna be a fight.

Who? Where?

Shep and that feller over there.

Well, he's a might heftier than Shep,

but he don't look too bright.

Wagering-- let's get a little wagering going on around here.

I've been bored half to crying up to now anyway.

Pa, I kind of wished you wouldn't do that.

Wished what?

You ain't afeared that jackass is gonna whoop you, are you?

It ain't exactly that.

That's more like it.

You can whoop that yahoo with one hand tied behind you,

and I'm gonna lay some money on you,

boy, get us some life in this party.

You come away from here, Luke Hockett.

You are not getting mixed up in a fight on my wedding day.

But if I'm up here stopping Ike, what if them

other fellas jump Shep?

That is his affair.

He shouldn't have gotten into it.

I would have expected as much from Sam Sanger,

but I thought you were a more considerate person.

I am extremely disappointed in you, Luke.

That's what I am.

I'd like to have a word with you, Shep, in private, please.

I gotta--

I've never been so embarrassed in my life.

This is our wedding day.

You promised me you wouldn't fight him.

No, that ain't exactly how it was.

You promised me I wouldn't fight him.

So that's what it's all about.

Well, you better understand right now that I'm

not a girl you can walk on.

And if you fight him, you might as well marry

him 'cause I won't be around.

Well, Sarah, what started it this time?

That fight, I told him he couldn't, so he

went ahead and did it anyway.

Oh, Sarah, honey, honey, look.

I never lasted very long with a man I could give orders to.

But it's--

Well, honey, it doesn't seem right somehow.

Now the way it looks to me, you backed him in a corner.

Now he feels he has to fight.

He doesn't have to do anything he doesn't want to.

Would you love him if he didn't have a mind of his own?

I guess not.

I don't see anything wrong with your

going over there and showing him whose side you're on.

Mm-hmm.

Go on.

He's gonna think he won again, you know.

Well, honey, let him.

What's going on down there, Luke?

Oh, uh, nothing you'd be interested in, Ike.

Can you believe it?

Shep went off and got himself mixed up in a fight,

and on his and Sarah's wedding day.

I can imagine how that poor girl feels.

Fight, huh?

Well, how come you're not down there with him?

Well--

Come on, Fran.

Let's get down there before it starts.

Uh, no, you can't go down there, Ike.

Now what are you talking about?

No, I don't want us to get involved in it, Ike, please.

You don't want us to-- what's going on around here?

Nothing at all, Ike.

What's the matter with you, Luke?

Here, let me help you with that.

Well-- well, what happened to you, change your mind?

Mm-hmm, now you watch him for kicking,

and his knees if he gets you down.

I'll bet he bites, too.

Hold on a minute.

How come you done know so much about fighting?

I had to fight my brothers once or twice a month till I was 15.

I mostly won, too.

What's going on, Shep?

Ike.

Yeah, now what's going on?

What are you doing here?

I've come to back you up.

Well, where's Luke?

We don't need Luke for this.

We can handle this ourselves.

Well, Ike, this ain't nothing.

This is just a little tussle, you know.

I-- I can handle this myself.

Why don't you go on back and-- and take care of Fran,

and I'll be with you in a minute.

No, no, no, no, I ain't leaving if you're fighting.

Now you ready, boy?

Ain't gonna be no fight, mister.

Fight him.

No, I figure that you're just too much for me.

Here, take your $5.

Shep, fight him.

This ain't gonna stand, Shep.

I ain't gonna let you do this, Shep.

Now I'll fight him myself.

Now, Ike--

Hey, you, are you the dumb farmer that's gonna

be marrying up with--

Ike, this here is my fight!

And if I want to stop it, I will.

I want you to fight him, Shep.

You stay out of this.

Now you back off, Shep.

It ain't gonna stand, one of us backing down.

-Ike-- -Now you back off, Shep.

Ike!

I told you, if I don't want to fight him, I don't have to.

Shep.

Say, now we got us $10.

This here ain't what I had in mind at all.

Now, uh, let me explain how this here social works.

Young ladies, they tote their baskets up here,

and you young fellas, you shout out as much as you're

willing to pay for 'em.

Oh, incidentally, the, um, proceeds of this event

will, um, go to the preacher as sort of a token of appreciation

and to defray any necessary expenses.

I think that's fair enough.

Now which, uh, is the first young lady

we're gonna have up here?

Which one?

I'll go first, preacher.

All right, young lady, that's a pretty, young thing.

Now which one is yours?

Oh, now-- now what am I bid for this pretty

young lady's basket, huh?

What am I bid?

$0.35-- $2.87.

$2.87, gone, gone for $2.87.

You come up here, young fella.

Claim your basket and your young lady.

And mind you, no hanky-panky in the woods.

Can't you get anything straight, Luke?

I swear.

Thank you, young fella.

Now for our last basket.

Ike--

Now gone on up there.

I got over $6.

Go on.

Go on.

Now, uh, uh, this little girl looks

like she has a pretty basket.

What-- what am I offered?

$0.50

$0.50, I have a bid.

$0.75

$0.75, any other bids?

$0.75, any other bids?

$1.

$3.

$3, any other bids?

$6.48.

$7.

Well, that's all I got.

Hockett, bid $8.

Bid?

I can eat supper with that girl every day of the week.

What should I pay money for?

Sold, sold for $7 to that gentleman over there.

Come and collect your basket and this pretty girl

that goes with it.

Congratulations, cowboy, and enjoy your lunch.

You come on with me, Ms. Carter.

We're gonna go have ourselves a real good time.

Mighty satisfactory social, Hockett.

Bids ran uncommon high.

I heared, preacher.

You know, uh, the throat gets raspy

when you're working that hard.

Come along.

I've got most of a jug left.

Uh, yeah, all right.

Tell me, preacher, what do you know about womens?

Well, that ain't half bad.

I didn't know that you could cook, too.

Of course, you was younger then, but I

like a woman that's growed up some, learned all the tricks.

You just keep your hands off me.

I wouldn't be here if I could have

told Ike without hurting him.

You eat your lunch, but you keep your hands off.

Why, sure, I will, Franny.

Sure, I will.

Ike, Fran ain't back yet.

Nope, what got into you, Shep, fighting me like that?

I'm sorry about that, Ike.

It's got to do with something that I probably

ought to have told you about before,

but I thought it would cause trouble.

And then I got to thinking, and I got worried.

Will you stop your mumbling, Shep, and just speak it out?

Well, the thing is that Jinx, well, he knew Fran.

What's that?

He knew her.

He-- he called her by name, even before that

fighting business started, and, well,

that-- that's the reason I--

So where'd they go?

Up that way, I'll go with you.

No, no, I'll take care of this myself.

I knowed some saloon girls before that tried

to shake it, get married, get respectable,

but it don't work, Franny.

You stay away from me.

Oh I will, just as soon as I get what I paid that $7 for.

And if you ain't real nice to me,

I'm gonna stop by on my way out of here

and have a talk with your boyfriend.

How do you think he'd like knowing about Abilene?

I only went with you because I had to.

It seems to me that you're in the same situation right now.

Fran.

Ike.

Afternoon, farmer, I was just recalling an old acquaintance

with your intended.

Don't hang on me.

If dirt like him is what you want, then you go to him

and stay with him.

I'm leaving.

Will you please tell everyone goodbye for me?

I can't face him.

Fran, girl, what's wrong?

Oh, it's no good, Hannah, this getting

married and settling down.

I'm too far along.

I've left too many tracks.

Oh, that's nonsense.

Now tell me exactly what happened.

The man who bought my basket, I knew

him from when I was in Texas.

He tried to force me.

He said he'd tell Ike about the time we spent together,

and then Ike came along.

And it was-- it was like some horrible nightmare.

I've just got to get out of here.

All right, first you get over there to Ike,

and you tell him exactly what you just told me.

I can't do that.

There is no such word as can't, girl.

You owe him that much.

I have something to say to you.

Well, say it .

I'm going away for good.

What you saw between that man and me wasn't what

it looked like.

I knew him.

I knew him when I was down in Texas.

I guess I knew him as well as I know you in some ways.

But I didn't want to go with him then,

and I didn't want to go with him this afternoon,

only I didn't know how to talk to you about it.

And he wasn't the only one, and maybe if we got married,

I'd open the front door one morning

and there would be another one on the front porch.

And I don't want that to happen any more than you do,

but it was fun for a while, pretending with you, Ike.

Maybe I'll see you sometime.

Fran, you can't go.

I don't know what I'd do if you-- if you did.

You just gotta-- you just gotta talk to me.

How am I gonna know unless you talk to me?

Now as-- as far as that-- that other, well,

I-- I thought about that a long time ago.

It don't matter.

Now I, uh, I got something I gotta tend to.

Ike, you don't have to.

I have to this time, Fran.

This time-- this time, I have to.

Wait here, and tie down the furniture.

Here comes the old plow boy.

He must be coming up here to thank me for letting

him know what kind of wo--

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[howling]

That's Shep and Ike.

It don't matter who it is.

I don't want you brawling on our wedding day.

That's exactly what Sam Sanger would have done,

jumped right into the middle of the first fight he come across.

Emily, I gotta make this quick.

I want you to shut your mouth about Sam Sanger

and everything else till I come back and say

you can open it up again.

I ain't Sam Sanger.

I'm Luke Hockett, and I ain't gonna

sit here and watch my brothers take a whooping 'cause

a woman said I had to.

Do you understand?

Put me down.

Hit him, Luke.

Oh, my goodness.

Hockett, Hockett.

[burping]

Oh, there you are.

Hockett, your boys are in a brawl,

and I want you to come up here and straighten it out.

Honeysuckle, that's what you are,

woman, sweeter than honeysuckle, blooming in the spring,

mountain daisies, prettier-- prettier than mountain daisies,

too.

Oh, my lord.

Now why don't you and me take us a little walk,

and I'll tell you that your eyes are

sparkling brighter than any star in the-- in the sky.

I'll tell you what, Jed.

I have been feeling a little that way lately.

I mean, with the marrying and all,

it does set a girl to thinking.

You can't fight it, woman.

It's in the air.

You can't fight it.

No, well, why don't we just take

a little walk down this way, you first, so you

can guide me by the hand?

Smooth, a feller wants to be smooth to catch a lady.

And you stay there, you old coot, until you sober up.

Something must have changed her mind there at the last minute.

I can't figure out what it might have been, though.

Hold on.

Hold on.

Hold it, there.

Violence is not the answer.

Violence solves no problems.

Hold it.

I don't want to.

Well, I guess you can open her up now.

You were wonderful.

You, go get your wedding dress on.

Hannah, how do we look?

Well, if I was a man, I'd-- I'd say you're worth waiting for.

I'll go get the preacher.

Ah, there you are, preacher.

We're all ready for the ceremo--

All right, all right, I didn't ask for this job.

Oh.

I didn't ask for any fight.

I didn't have any idea it was gonna

turn into anything like this.

They're just savages, I tell you,

and I wouldn't marry those savages if they

were the last souls on Earth.

Do you have any idea how much this [inaudible] cost?

Here I am, all dressed up.

Where is he going?

Well, why is he leaving?

I swear I have never been so embarrassed.

Here I am, all decked out in my wedding dress

and not even a bride.

It's not like you're alone.

Even Sam Sanger wouldn't have let this happen to me.

Emily.

I'm sorry, Luke.

There is no sense in crying about it.

We'll just have to try again.

Next time that preacher comes through.

Yeah, if he's got himself a new upper plate.

Darn, that water was cold.

You sure you don't want to slide under this blanket with me?

It'd be a sight warmer for both of us.

Hockett, just shut up.

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NARRATOR: Stay tuned for exciting scenes

from our next "Gunsmoke."

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