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NARRATOR: "Gunsmoke," with Milburn Stone as Doc, Amanda

Blake as Kitty, Ken Curtis as Festus,

Buck Taylor as Newly, and starring

James Arness as Matt Dillon.

DANNY: We made it clean away, ain't we?

You start figuring that way, you'll wind up in a box.

Well, there ain't nobody down there, Bede.

You can see that.

Maybe.

Maybe not.

We got us 30 miles between us and Ashland,

and there ain't no sign of the law.

The way I read it is clean.

The way you read it?

You all that experienced, are you?

Well, I figure being your brother

puts me one up on knowing just about all there is to know.

[snort]

Same time, I'll feel better when we get to the shack.

You got your belly's fill?

BILL: Hey Bede, we just sat down.

BEDE: Sooner we get to the shack,

the sooner we can stop watching our tail end.

Come on, let's go.

Sooner we can start counting the folding money.

Oh, you're full of it, ain't you?

Full of what?

DANNY: Race you, Bede.

[music playing]

[whinnying]

[whinnying]

[whinnying]

[music playing]

Ah!

BEDE: Danny!

[music playing]

Danny.

Agh!

Agh!

Hankins, get me your knife down here.

Come on, move!

It's all right.

Here.

Cut this thing out of you.

Don't talk.

It's all right.

Agh!

Agh!

Link, Curly, we gotta get a doctor.

The nearest one is in Dodge.

Then get yourself to Dodge, now!

Bede, Dodge belongs to Matt Dillon.

Get going!

Agh.

CURLY: Are you going to be here?

We'll ease him onto a horse and get to the shack.

Hold on to him.

To pull it out?

Got to [inaudible]

Agh!

[screaming]

Festus, I'll tell you something.

If Newly had told me that story, I'd

have believed every word of it.

Well, thank you, marshal, but I wouldn't have believed it

even if Miss Kitty had told it.

It's the gospel truth, now.

If I'm lying, I'm dying.

Much obliged, Miss Kitty.

But that there ain't near hard to believe

as something that happened to me a few years back.

I was trapping muskrats down in the Siskahoola swamp.

All of a sudden, there I was, clean up my armpits

in quicky sand, with circled clean around with water

mossacins a-snapping at my vitals.

KITTY: Well, here's Doc, thank goodness.

Come on in. You're just in time.

Time for what?

Howdy, Doc.

So anyhow, I grabbed hold of this first snake

and I pinched his jaws together like that.

And I made him glom on to that next snake's tail.

Oh, I'm too tired for this.

How do you think we feel, Doc?

Wait a minute, Doc.

This here's the interesting part.

Well, I doubt that.

Come on, Doc, sit down.

You look exhausted.

I sure am, Kitty.

I'll tell you, in all of my years of practice,

I have never put in a day like this.

Never.

You look like you've been fighting an epidemic, Doc.

Don't you want to hear how he got out of the swamp?

No, I-- I don't think I do, Kitty, not now.

I tell you what I'd like, though.

I would like a tonic that is strong enough

to persuade my old bones to carry me upstairs to bed.

Can you do that?

I got just the thing.

Well, anyhow, Doc, these here water mossacins

was a-moving in for the kill, but do you think I was scared?

Doc, what was going on 3 o'clock this morning?

Oh, you heard that, did you?

Everybody from here to Hutchinson must've.

Here, Doc.

See if that isn't what the doctor ordered.

Kitty, I can tell that is precisely the prescription

the doctor prescribed.

Well, seeing as I can't get a word in with a knife

blade, why don't you just go on and tell us what

you've been so blamed busy at.

Well, I've been busy plying my profession,

pulling my weight in this world, earning my keep.

That's what I've been doing.

Oh, fiddle.

There you go again with a bunch of blamed old silly words

strang together so they don't mean a blamed thing.

Well, I'll tell you what.

I--

Festus, wait a minute.

Doc, I sure would like to hear about it.

All right.

Well, Abe Hoskison came into town

yelling and screaming that his-- his boy was having convulsions.

Well now, by the time I got out there, that big Hoskison girl

had everything under control.

The boy just swallowed a thimble, that's all.

Thimbles ain't near as interesting as snakes is.

Doc, why don't you go on to bed?

Sleep all day if you feel like it.

Well, I sure would like to, Kitty,

but, you know, I came by Will Bellfield's place on the way

in, and his wife's expecting again.

She's about due, as a matter of fact.

And I'm kind of worried about her.

She lost the first one, you know.

I think I oughta go right back out there.

Doc, you're not going to be much good to anybody

unless you get some sleep.

It's a long ride up there.

Well, I guess that makes sense, Matt.

You may be right.

I tell you what.

I'm going to go upstairs and I'll get a little rest,

and I'll start out about 4 o'clock.

Good idea.

I'll see you all tomorrow sometime.

NEWLY: See you later, Doc.

So long, Doc.

DOC: Good night.

Well, I think it's a shame that he has to work like that.

Festus, why don't you to hitch up his buggy for him

in the morning and drive him out there?

You betcha, Matthew.

You know that old scudder's a-working like a coal

mine mule, ain't he?

Well, let me see, where was I at now?

You were just getting ready to tie the snakes together

to make a rope out of them to pull yourself out of the swamp.

Oh, you've heard it before.

Well, I'll tell you something, now.

It wasn't easy as all that, you know.

With them water mossacins a-being so slipperty that way,

every time I was to go to work a tie a knot in him,

it'd slip loose, don't you see?

So I'll tell you what I done.

I retched in there and I got me a handful of that quicky sand,

squozed the water out of it, and then I sanded them snakes down.

That way I could pull myself out with them, don't you see?

[music playing]

That old pill pusher keeps hours like a owl, don't he?

Only thing I can see is go up there easy,

talk him into going with us.

FESTUS: Whoa.

[yawn]

Morning, Doc.

Where you think you're going?

Well, I'm going with you out to the Bellfields's place.

Matthew's orders.

Well, I'm giving the orders now, not Matt.

And you're going to do no such a thing.

Just get on out of there and go on back to bed

where you belong.

Now Doc, it ain't gonna do you no good to get

all humped up like a mad ant.

Matthew told me to go and I'm a-fixing to go.

I don't care what Matt said.

I wish he'd mind his own business,

let me pick my own traveling companions.

Well, you ain't [inaudible] this one.

All right.

Let's go.

I don't want to hear one peep out of you--

not one all the way out there.

You be quiet.

Get up, [inaudible].

Well, they're heading the right direction.

Just fine.

We'll lay back a while, then let them head out of town.

[music playing]

[geese honking]

[SINGING]: I'm a-fixing to fly with the wild, wild goose.

I'm a-fixing to fly all free and loose.

Will you cut-- stop that yowling, will you.

Hush up!

I didn't mean to wake you up, Doc, but I

just couldn't help myself.

Look how pretty it is and everything.

Well, pretty is as pretty sounds.

Hush up.

Doc, whilst you was asleep a while ago,

there was the biggest old flock of geese come over,

and they was just a-honking just prettier--

Well, just let the-- let the geese do the honking, will you?

Be quiet.

[geese honking]

There's more.

There they are. -Where?

See 'em?

[geese honking]

You know, Doc, it's a blamed pity we didn't

bring our shotguns with us.

We could've shot ourselves a goose.

You know, I just don't think I could

trust myself with a shotgun.

Go on back to sleep, you grumpy old grump.

Marshal?

Barney just got a telegram from Mead.

Bede Stalcup and his boy hit the bank, wounded the sheriff

and deputy, and got away.

Does he have any idea where they were headed?

South.

Citizens posse cut sight, then lost

it again near Crooked Creek.

Crooked Creek?

That's where Doc and Festus were headed this morning.

[music playing]

FESTUS: Morning

Morning.

[gunshot]

I'll take that gun of yours, Whiskers.

We ain't got no money.

Give it right here, now.

Just a minute.

I'm a doctor and I've got to deliver a baby.

Well, a doctor is what we want, and babies can wait.

Now you move that buggy on out of here right now

and follow close.

[music playing]

Danny?

Don't let me go, Bede.

How you talk.

You're gonna be fine.

I'm a little scared.

I always took care of you, didn't I?

I'm taking care of you now.

They're here.

FESTUS: Whoa.

There's your doc.

BEDE: Get inside.

Who are you?

Festus Haggin, if it's any of your lookout.

Well, get inside, both of you.

Move it.

He's the only brother I got, Doc.

Well, I'm gonna need some hot water.

Better build a fire.

No, smoke's too easy to spot.

You fix that kid or you're all done fixing.

Why don't you hush, big mouth?

He'd doctor the devil hisself if he found him ailing.

Why don't you shut up?

Move!

[music playing]

Wait a minute!

You pull that trigger and your brother's a dead man.

All right.

Tie him to the post.

Get outside.

This doctor is going to work.

[music playing]

Billy?

With this horse, you better ride down over to Bellfield's

and check on Doc and Festus.

Where do you want me to meet you?

Well, we'll work our way down to Live Oak Ford.

You shouldn't have any trouble finding us.

You bet.

Bring Festus if Doc doesn't need him.

Yes sir.

You've been at him long enough to know how he is.

Well, he's badly hurt.

I know how bad he is.

I just want to fix him up.

Now do it!

[WHISPERING]: Doc.

Cut me loose.

You all right?

[WHISPERING]: All right.

Listen, you've got to get out of here as fast as you can

and find Matt.

I can't leave you hear by yourself, Doc.

Never mind that.

If you don't, neither one of us is gonna get out of here alive.

Now get up.

[WHISPERING]: What about the boy?

He hasn't got a chance in 100 anyway.

Now go.

But Doc, they're liable to kill you.

Festus, they won't touch me as long

as they think they need me. Now go.

Go on.

You take care of yourself, Doc.

Festus, I will.

Now, this is gonna hurt, son.

He's as pale as a sheet.

[WHISPERING]: Danny.

Dumb kid.

[music playing]

--[inaudible], Link-- Whiskers is loose and running.

-Where'd he head, Bede? -I don't know.

Well, he had to go that way or we'd have seen him.

Well, get mounted. Come on.

If he ever gets to Dodge--

He don't get to Dodge.

You find him, you don't bring him back.

[music playing]

[mooing]

[music playing]

So, Bossy.

So, Bossy.

It's all now.

Just easy, Bossy.

So, Bossy.

You've gonna help me get out of here.

Do easy, now.

That's the way.

Get up, Bossy.

Get up.

[mooing]

[mooing]

They'll see my tracks going in, but they

ain't gonna see them going out.

[mooing] -Get up, Bossy.

Haw!

Come on.

[mooing]

[music playing]

Hold it.

He went in right here.

[mooing]

There's nothing here but cow tracks.

I'll go downstream, you go up.

If I see him, I'll squeeze off a couple of shots.

Never mind about that.

You drop him where he's at.

Bede don't want him causing no trouble.

Now get moving.

[music playing]

Haw!

Get up, Bossy.

Haw!

Come on.

[mooing]

[music playing]

Much obliged, Bossy.

Will!

Mr. Bellfield!

Will!

Will!

Newly, what are you doing here?

Delivering a baby.

Where have you been, and where's Doc?

He's been took prisoner by Bede Stalcup and his outfit.

Stalcup?

The one that shot them fellers over in Mead yesterday?

I don't know what all they did, but old Doc's in an awful fix.

We got to get Matthew.

You know where he's at?

NEWLY: He's out with a posse right now looking for Stalcup.

I just left him a couple hours ago.

We got to find him, Newly.

Come on.

Well, I can't leave here, Festus.

Miss Bellfield, she's in hard labor.

You take my horse and ride to the marshal.

He ought to be near Live Oak Ford by now.

FESTUS: All right. Loan me your pistol.

You bet.

[gasp]

[music playing]

Haw!

Looks like they went through here not too long ago.

Is that Festus?

FESTUS: Matthew?

Matthew, it's old Doc.

Bede Stalcup took us for prisoners on our way

out to Bellfield's place.

Where's Doc?

They got him at Cimmaron Bend.

He's a-doctoring old Bede's pup brother.

Let's go.

FESTUS: Well, Bede says if the boy cashes in,

he's fixing to kill old Doc.

Well?

Well, if by some miracle he's alive in two hours,

he may make it.

Another two hours, we got to be riding.

Well, mister, I didn't get him into this, you did.

But I'll tell you something.

If you drag him around the country,

you're going to kill him.

I got every lawman from here to Abilene on the lookout for me,

and you're telling me to settle down?

No.

I'm just telling you that I have to have medicine.

I have to have antiseptic-- laudanum to kill the pain,

unless you want to hear him scream.

Now, you'll have to get me the things I need.

I don't care how you do it.

[moaning]

All right.

If Link and Curly stop that sod-buster friend of yours

from drawing attention, we'll settle

down here for a day or two.

You get him fixed up, and we'll get you the things you need.

[groan]

DOC: I'm going out for a breath of fresh air.

[music playing]

BILL: Hold it, Doc.

Don't do any fast shuffles.

[music playing]

You got any whiskey?

Yeah, a little.

Do you want a drink?

I sure-- I sure could use one.

BEDE: All right.

[coughing]

Hey, take it easy.

You never could take it straight down like a man.

I don't feel much like a man, Bede.

You're going to be riding tomorrow,

and that's a true fact.

Where you been all this time?

Did you kill him?

Never even seen him.

Lost his tracks down at the river.

Went in, never came out.

You saying he got away?

I'm saying me and Link followed that far

river bank 5 or 6 miles.

There wasn't never a track.

I don't know how he done it.

Bede'll be kinked up over this.

Well, we ain't gonna tell Bede.

What are you going to tell him?

Tell him we killed him in the river.

Well, that kid'll be dead by tonight anyway.

We'll be long gone before anybody gets here.

[moaning]

[screaming]

I thought it would ease his pain.

You idiot.

You don't give whiskey to a man with a stomach wound.

Did he kill him?

Down by the river.

Seen him sinking.

[music playing]

-The posse out there. -How many?

About four or five.

You lie to me about killing Whiskers?

No lie, Bede.

We seen him sinking.

No matter.

They're out there.

Four or five ain't many, Bede.

We scatter, they can't find us.

You gonna call him out, marshal?

No, we can't take a chance with Doc in there.

Don, circle around that clump of trees there.

Larry, go to the left.

Festus, why don't you stay here.

I'll see how close I can get.

Matthew?

I've done eyeballed that whole shebang down yonder.

Could be that I can get in there real tight.

And then if they get to shooting,

I can snatch old Doc out.

All right.

It's worth a try.

We'll give you a couple minutes.

All right.

[music playing]

BEDE: Marshal?

This is Bede Stalcup.

I got your old doctor in here.

I guess this makes me boss.

You and the others step out in the clear

and let me get a look at you.

You all right, Doc?

I'm all right.

You better move, marshal, or there

ain't going to be nothing left of this old pill

roller worth picking up.

Pitch them guns away.

Get up. Let me see you.

We're leaving.

You're running out on your brother?

BEDE: Not quite, Doc.

You and me is going to get Danny on his horse.

No, not me.

Not on your life.

It's your life we're talking about, old man.

[thud]

[music playing]

[gunshot]

[gunfire]

Let's get up.

Don't leave me here, Bede.

Let them take you to Dodge.

I'll come back to get you.

Bede!

Bede!

[gunfire]

Doc?

Well, he's breathing, Matt.

That's about all.

BEDE: All right, hold it.

I'm going into Dodge for the kid.

What, are you crazy?

With Dillon following, that means there ain't

no real lawmen left in Dodge.

I'll have Danny and be out of there before they know it.

You don't even know if they took the kid into Dodge.

I ain't asked you.

You just ride for the line and lay a wide trail.

Come on.

DOC: Now here, I want him handled awful easy.

KITTY: Doc, what happened?

DOC: Easy now.

Easy as you can.

BURKE: Hey Doc?

Should we bring the boy up?

No, Burke.

I lost him on the way in.

Better get Percy Crump.

Right here on the table.

That's fine.

No, right on the edge here.

Get that left arm.

There, that's fine.

That fine.

That's fine, Rudy, thanks.

I'll need hot water, Kitty.

KITTY: Oh.

Doc?

I gotta-- I gotta take that out of there.

But I-- he's so doggone weak.

He's lost so much blood.

Do you suppose it would be better if, uh, if you waited?

I don't know.

It might be worse.

Festus, old boy, I'm gonna take that bullet out of you.

I know as well as I know anything, if you could,

you'd say to me, "Doc, you old scudder,

don't just stand there, do something."

That's what he'd say, ain't it?

Looks like they split up here.

There's a set of tracks headed back toward Dodge.

If that's Stalcup, I-- I'm gonna follow these tracks.

You boys take this set here.

How's Festus?

Is there anything I can do, Doc?

Yes.

You can, uh, take Kitty to the Long Branch.

Kitty, I want you to get some rest,

and I'll call you if I need you.

[music playing]

Why'd you have to pull such a dang fool stunt?

You could've just-- you didn't have to-- if you

wasn't so dang mule-headed.

Don?

Thanks, Sam.

More coffee, Miss Kitty?

I sure wish somebody would let us

know what's going on up there.

Well?

Doc, how is he?

Well, he's still alive, but it's a miracle.

It's-- it's touch and go.

Well, I hate to give you more problems,

but I got an idea that Bede Stalcup's doubled back.

He's coming back to get his brother.

Well, his brother's dead.

He died on the way in.

Well, Stalcup doesn't know that.

He thinks he's still alive, and he'll

be coming back here to get him.

Now Doc, I'd feel a whole lot better if I get you

and Festus down at the jail.

Oh, no, I can't do that, Matt.

I can't move him.

Well, all right.

I'll just have to get some guards around this place.

I'll be back later.

[music playing]

MATT: I need some men to help control the streets.

NEWLY: Sure thing, marshal.

What's up?

MATT: Looking for Bede Stalcup.

He's headed for Dodge.

May already be here.

Help these men get down the alley.

Newly, you and Al go that way.

I'll be patrolling the street here if you see anything.

[music playing]

[footsteps]

[music playing]

Sit tight, Doc.

I come for Danny.

I appreciate your sitting up with him.

Well, how do you figure to get him out of Dodge?

You and me working together.

First thing, we got to even the odds a bit.

Get the marshal up here.

Matt?

Can you come up here?

Stalcup's brother just took a bad turn.

I may need some help.

So much as twitch a hair and you're both gone.

Sure is a hot night, isn't it?

FESTUS: Doc.

Festus?

Festus?

It's Doc.

I can't see you, Doc.

I'm here, Festus.

I'm-- I'm right here.

Right here.

I'm all swimmy-headed.

Now I can see you, Doc.

[inaudible] You just get uglier every day, don't you?

He just came to, just for a minute.

Did he-- did he recognize you?

Sure did.

He described me to a T.

You hadn't ought to be drinking, you know.

You're on a [inaudible], you know it?

FESTUS: Well that don't make no never mind.

DOC: Well, listen, now you do what I tell you.

You're not gonna go running in--

Oh, much obliged, Miss Kitty.

Now that there is medicine that can cure a feller, right there.

Festus, I want to hear how the cow crossed the river.

How'd you ever think of that?

Oh, fiddle, Miss Kitty.

That there wasn't my idea.

That there was my grandpa Hog Haggin's idea.

Now, wait a minute, Festus.

How'd you grandpa Haggin get in this?

Well, you see, Matthew, the way it was is,

grandpa Hog Haggin was the onliest one of us Haggins

that could read reading.

And I recollect when I wasn't no bigger than a tater bug,

grandpa used to read us young 'uns these here

stories out of the Bible.

And they was this here one story about this year

feller in Egypt that was escaping from the fairies--

DOC: Wait a minute, hold on.

Oh, you mean the pharoah.

One of them fellers.

And directly they come running up to this here

great old big wide crick.

It wasn't a crick.

It was a sea-- the Red Sea.

Well, when, when this here Mose--

His name was Moses.

When he seen the sea, see, well, he went to work

and scrutched up his eyeballs, and he commenced

to get to bearing down on that, and directly,

why, he balled up his fists like that,

and then he flay 'em out sideways and he said,

"open yourself up, waters."

And the waters parted, right?

Oh, course they did.

Just like they wasn't even there at all in the first place.

Just a minute, now.

Just a minute.

Are you going to sit there and tell me

that you went into some kind of a rooster dance

and parted of the waters of the Cimmaron River?

Golly bell no, Doc.

Of course I done a few little jee-jaws at the very beginning.

Well, what in thunder is all this silly story

you're telling about, then?

Well, when I seen that them there waters wasn't to open up

for me and, and them fellers are nipping at my boot heels

about to catch up with me, I seen this old heifer

and I just collared her and rode her right on through,

don't you see?

This is the most ridiculous and inane story that I think that I

have ever heard in my life.

And Festus, why in thunder don't you

learn to read so that when you want to tell something

you will have read it, and then you can get the facts

and you could tell them straight?

Doc, I've told you 100 dozen times.

When you start to read reading, how

do you know that the feller that wrote the reading

wrote the reading right?

Just because some feller writes some reading,

it don't mean that the feller that's

a-settin' down to write the reading

wrote the reading right.

And then if he'd wrote--

[music playing]

NARRATOR: Stay tuned for exciting scenes

from our next "Gunsmoke."

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