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-Starring James Arness as Matt Dillon.

- Yeah.

- Hello, Doc.

- About what I figured. - What's that?

- Well, that you'd be sitting there, just taking it easy.

- [ Chuckles ] Taking it easy, huh?

Been a wife beating and three street fights since noon.

- I don't know what it's gonna take to convince you...

-Get away... - Sounds like the fourth one.

- You're the most unreasonable man I've ever dealt with.

- You ain't got no dealings with me,

and you ain't gonna. Now get out of my way!

- You don't sound like a man with his back to the wall.

You know, a few more weeks of this,

and you and the others around here will be begging me to buy.

- All right. Hold on here. That's enough.

- What's going on? - Ben?

- It was his doing. His people will vouch for that.

- Well, Ben here swung first, Marshal.

But this fellow, he's a layout.

- Ben, what about it?

- Nothing, Matt.

- All right, boys. That's all.

Break it up, now. Let's move along.

What's this all about?

- My name is Trainer, Marshal, Norman Trainer.

I'm from St. Louis.

I'm in Dodge on business.

In fact, I just got off the train.

- Land business?

- Why, yes. How'd you come to know that?

- I've been marshal of this town for 13 years, Mr. Trainer.

I've seen a lot of droughts.

And many times, I've seen land speculators come in

and try to take advantage of the situation.

- Sir, I'm a businessman.

I have letters of reference.

And I've got a letter of credit drawn on a sizable account.

- Uh-huh. You tried to talk Ben Akins here

out of his ranch, I suppose, huh?

- He's one of the handful

I intended to discuss matters with.

- Well, people here are a little touchy

about selling their property

that they've spent years developing.

- That's been made quite clear. - Well,

maybe you better keep it in mind when you talk to the others.

- I'll do that, Marshal.

If for any reason, you want to contact me,

I'll be in the Dodge House.

- Ben, how do you feel?

- I'm all right, Matt. - Look.

Why don't you come on up to the office, have a cup of coffee?

- It might cool you off. - Thanks.

- When's it gonna end, Matt?

- When's it gonna rain?

- There's no denying it, Matt.

I'm just about at the end of the stream.

- Ben, you lived through that dry spell of '68.

You'll live through this one.

- It's a dry spell in Dodge.

It's a drought out there.

- Well, you're not gonna give up your ranch.

- Of course not.

- Ben, your pa would turn over in his grave

if you ever sold that ranch.

- Well, I tell you this much, Doc. I wish to high heaven

he'd have left it to Dave to manage instead of me.

- Well, now I know that he's got to you.

- I mean it. What have I got for the whole 15 years?

Bills, calluses,

an empty bed to sleep in.

- Oh. Well, I know an awful lot

of farmers that have got bills and calluses.

But, as to the last one, that's your own fault.

I happen to know that the preacher's just been itching

to say the words to you and Marcie for a long time.

- I know, Doc.

You know how I feel about Marcie.

But, for me, it's just as important

not to take on that kind of responsibility, not yet.

This just isn't the right time.

- Ben, let me tell you something.

You're a young man.

One of these days, you're gonna wake up

and wonder where in thunder all the time went.

Awful lot of life can be missed

just -- just waiting for the right time.

- Well, I got other things need looking to now.

We all know I'm not gonna walk away from the ranch.

So I'll keep my appointment with Mr. Balkan from the bank.

- Oh. Is he gonna make you a loan?

- We got him talking about it.

Ed O'Connor, Walt Summers, Lathrop.

We're gonna have a meeting with him at his house.

I'll see you later.

Matt, I'm sorry for the ruckus I caused.

- Forget it.

- If you two are gonna be over at the Long Branch later,

I'll buy you a beer.

- Sounds good.

- I think I got the price of one.

- [ Sighs ]

- Uh, can I help you, Mister?

You -- You looking for something?

That sure is a top-notch, Sunday, go-to-meeting mule

you're riding there.

Withers to haunch, he's a pearl button bangled billy.

I'm a mule man, myself.

Name's Festus, Festus Haggen.

- Festus, I'm called Mr. Sam'l.

- Sam'l. Well, that's a good name.

Straight out of the book, ain't it?

Mr. Sam'l what?

- Sam'l's good enough.

- Yes, sir. I reckon it is.

- I'm, uh -- I'm heading for Long Branch.

- Long Branch? It's right down --

I'll tell you. With this here drought we're having,

it just makes a feller thirsty inside and out, don't it?

Here. I can show you where it is.

- No need to do that.

Uh, I'm looking for somebody.

- Oh.

- Evening to you, Festus.

- Mr. Sam'l.

[ Both laugh ]

- Oh, now, you are too big for holding hands.

- How's about a kiss?

- I am gonna tell Ben on you. - Go ahead.

I always share with my brother Ben.

- I want to talk to a girl named Marcie.

- I'll tell her.

- Well, you ask me again, and I'm gonna tell you.

- Marcie? - Huh?

- Old-timer over there asked for you.

- Marcie? - I'll -- I'll be right back.

- Hello, Marcie.

I've been looking for you.

- Have you?

All these years?

- Gal, don't look at me like I was trash.

- That's as good a word as any.

- I've done a heap of thinking on you, I have.

- Now, you listen to me.

Don't you think you can ride in here and sweet-talk me,

'cause I won't have none of it.

And I won't have folks here knowing about Sam Bassett.

- Marcie. - No.

Now, it took a lot of years, and I took a lot of shame.

I ain't gonna take no more of it.

Now, you get yourself out of my life.

- Marcie, please. - No.

Now I got a life here, and I've got a man, a good man

who cares for me, a man this whole town looks up to.

I ain't gonna lose him by having folks find out who you are.

- Now, t'ain't fair, Marcie.

15 years, I've lived with it.

- So have I,

and I ain't gonna have no more of it.

You get yourself out of this town.

I don't want you here.

- Marcie, you're just too darn popular.

- Yeah. Well, some of 'em are never too old.

- Well, I can't say as I blame them.

You know, I was working up a bit of jealousy there.

- Well, it's not hard to choose between a young one who's broke

and an old one who's broke.

- Well, this young one might come up with a pot

full of pesos someday.

- David, you're safe from that.

Your brother Ben, now, that's another story.

- Yeah.

- I'm late for a meeting. - Uh-huh.

Well, you tell her hello for me.

- Well, I've got to have a consolation,

what with you turning the cold shoulder to me.

- Ms. Kitty? - Hello, Ben.

- Marcie.

- Ben, what happened to you?

- Oh, I talked to a man about selling the place.

- Selling the place?

You didn't get the loan.

- No, I didn't get the loan.

I'm sorry, Marcie.

I'll be back in a minute.

- Hey, Kitty. - Kitty.

- All right, Festus.

- Whew. She sure is a hot one, ain't she?

- Yeah. Complaining about it don't make it any cooler either.

- Me and old Doc's bring you some business.

- Well, good. What's it gonna be?

- I'll have a beer. Thanks, Festus.

- What are you thanking me for?

- Well, I usually thank anybody who buys me a beer.

- I ain't bought you no beer!

- Well, you said you would. - I never said no such a thing.

- In the street, you said,

"Let's go over to Long Branch and have a beer!"

- And what did you say?

- Well, I said that's a good idea.

- There, you see?

- Listen, you mangy flea-bitten bum!

If you think you're gonna pull one in --

- All right! All right! - In this heat, you're gonna --

- All right. Hush, you old skinflint.

I'll buy you a beer.

- You bet you will.

- Where in tarnation could I have put that damn thing?

Have to find it, here.

Just --

Huh.

Appears like I've been robbed.

- Oh, he's been robbed, he says.

- I didn't say I was.

I said appears like I was.

Just gonna stand there, let a feller die of thirst?

- I could've told you before it was all a waste of time.

- Sure is something

when a bank won't trust honest and decent men.

- Ed, that's not so.

Mr. Balkan extended himself as far as he can.

That's all. - If I don't get another loan,

I'm going under. And that's that.

- Ed, if it doesn't rain,

every farm in this county's going under.

- Oh, rain. I've forgotten what that is.

- Well, it looks like there ain't gonna be any rain.

And there sure ain't gonna be any bank loans.

That leaves me with only one out.

- You mean sell?

By toffee, no, sir.

Besides, who'd want to buy?

- I had an offer today.

- I heard about that.

- There have been times these hands were raw and bleeding

from holding a plow 16 hours straight.

Up all night in the winter to keep the stock from freezing

and watching the summer sun burn them down to bone.

I've worked. I've sweated.

What I've got, I'm not about to let it go for nothing.

- I never said nothing.

I made you a fair offer.

- A dollar an acre for land and a dollar a head for stock?

- It costs a lot less for your place,

and yours, at a tack sale.

- He's right.

- And he's got money. - Enough to buy out you three.

I'd like your place first, Mr. Akins.

I'd even raise the price, say, 50 cents more an acre.

Certainly worth no more unless there were water on the place,

and there is no water.

- Well, it's only 'cause you ain't looked for it.

You want water?

I can find it for you.

Been my calling for years, finding water has.

- Come on. Come on. Light the lamp.

- Well?

- 10 minutes after you left, I had us that land.

And a minute after that, I lost it.

- What are you talking about?

- Some old coot claims he's a water witch,

and he's offered to find water for your brother

and those other farmers.

- A water witch? - That's right.

So now we just have to wait

till that old fake does all his mumbo-jumbo.

- Why didn't you get Ben to sell?

You had enough money behind you.

- Now, you hold on, now.

- I've waited too many years for this chance.

I'm not gonna lose it on account of your bungling.

If they find water, I am whipped.

- You believe in that hocus pocus?

- I've seen it done.

- If you've seen it done, it's a fluke.

There's water on some land, and it's found by a lucky guess.

- It ain't no fluke, and there is water on the ranch.

- What do you mean by that?

- Last year, when Ben was in Denver,

I brought an engineer in.

- And he told you there was water on your land?

- He even told me where to dig,

in the hollow not too far from the barn.

- Well, why didn't you tell me?

You not only want to stick a knife in your brother,

you figure to swindle me, too?

- It wasn't no swindle!

Our deal was the ranch is mine,

and those other lands are gonna be yours.

- But nobody will sell until your brother does,

so we'll try it my way.

- No.

If I had wanted Ben dead, I wouldn't have dealt you in.

- You just want to strip him clean, huh?

- I'll give him a job, $30 a month in keep.

Let him live like I have.

Let him see what it feels like.

I just wish the old man was still living

so's he could watch it all.

- Well, if we can't do it my way,

and that old man is all you think he is,

there's only one thing to do.

- You really believe you can find water?

- Only 'cause He put it there, everywhere,

the very first thing before He even made Man.

"And his spirit moved across the face of waters."

Genesis 1:2.

- We're drying to dust, and you're quoting scriptures.

- On account, that's where it all starts,

right there in the book,

in trusting and believing and --

and knowing that the good Lord sent me here on purpose

to ease you out of your thirst.

- For a slight consideration, of course.

- Yes, sir.

$200 for my services.

$5 for every wet hole I find.

Only fair you'll want to think on it a while.

I'll be at the boarding house across the street,

first room at the top of the stairs.

If you mind,

I'll be waiting to talk.

[ Muffled groaning ]

Aah!

- You've been warned, old-timer.

Now get yourself out of town.

- She told me.

No need for her to do me like this.

[ Knock on door ]

Yeah?

[ Door shuts ]

I thought it was one of them farmers.

- Yeah, I'll bet you did.

- I was aiming to stay here, to make me a stake,

what with the drought.

Folks need me here and all.

- The man you were talking to is my man.

I love him.

And I won't have you hurt him.

Now, you stay away from him.

- I was just aiming to help him.

- Ain't you done enough to me, Pa?

- Maybe I never knew just how much

till this night.

- I don't know what that means.

I just know I want you to get out of this town

before it starts all over again.

- That's years past.

I was innocent.

Judge said so. Everybody knew.

- But you ran off,

and those same everybodies started talking.

You remember that rhyme, Pa?

I used to go to sleep hearing it,

and I woke up hearing it.

- I know. I-I heard it

from gold camps to cow towns and weigh stations in-between.

Why do you suppose I don't use my last name?

- But you ran away, Pa!

Ma and me, we had no place to run!

- Marcie, I am sorry.

- "Old Sam Bassett took a hatchet."

- Oh, not from you! -"But not for what he should."

- "Chopped up a friend is what he did

instead of chopping wood."

- Marcie, please! - You, please!

Please get out of this town!

- I just want to stay here to get me a stake is all.

- Here. That's every penny I've saved.

Now, you take it and go.

- You'd pay me to go?

- Yes, if it will do any good.

I can't think of any other way.

- No, I-I can't go now, and I won't take your money.

I've got to stay and do what I come here to do.

Man's got to feel for the Word.

It's got to be heeded.

Whether it's a curse or a blessing,

it's got to be heeded.

Don't you see, Marcie?

These people need me here.

- Well, I've saw a water witch

a many and a many a time, Matthew.

I recollect when I was just knee-high to a beetle bug,

my Aunt Tora Heaves

went out and cut herself an applewood fork.

She went a-walking out on a piece of ground

that didn't show no more sign of water

than the back of my hand.

Well, sir, she started to sashaying around,

directly started to dipping and a-darting

and a-pulling gee and a-pulling haw.

And pretty soon, the -- the fork of that thing

just dipped right down at the ground.

And she --

- Marshal Dillon,

I got to talk to you. - What about?

- Huh? - What about, Louie?

What did you want to see me about?

- Oh.

I come to say I seen an old man get beat up.

- You did? Where was this?

- Where?

Uh, uh, uh...

It was in the alley near the Long Branch.

- Uh-huh. Is he still there?

- No, he's gone.

- He's gone? Well, where did he go?

- Went to Ma Smalley's.

- Ma Smalley's?

Well, that's where Mr. Sam'l's staying, Matthew.

- Maybe you better go and check it out.

- You betcha.

Louie, if this here's

another one of them visions out of a bottle --

- Wasn't that, Festus.

- All right.

- Now, Louie, did you see who it was that did this?

Did you recognize any of 'em?

- I didn't, Marshal.

- Well, thanks, Louie.

- All I can say, it's like putting everything on one cart

to me.

Well, I ain't got it to put, not $200.

- What if you split it up between you?

- Well, I guess I can raise most of my share.

Of course, I would have to pay Mr. Jonah something

of what I owe him.

Oh, and then there's Hank at the stable.

- How about me staking you?

- You?

- You're good customers.

I don't want to lose your business.

- I couldn't do that.

- Well, me neither, Miss Kitty. I'm obliged, but --

- No buts about it.

You'll sign out, just like at the bank.

And I'll charge the same rate of interest.

I'll take the gamble that we have lots of rain

and you have good crops.

- Ben? Miss Kitty?

- I'll get you a beer, Dave.

- Where you been? - Well, I was here earlier.

Went out to Liz Foley's place.

- [ Chuckling ] Ah, Dave. You know, I wish I were you,

I truly do. Look.

You've got youth, you've got good looks,

and you live like you haven't got a care in the whole world.

You always have, and you always will.

- Can't see living no other way, Mr. O'Connor.

One of Liz's hands told me you had some trouble, Ben.

- Some.

- Well, there sure ain't much you share with me, is there?

- Who was it? - It's all done and past, David.

Miss Kitty, the, uh, loan?

- It's yours, Ben.

- Loan?

- We're gonna hire ourselves a water witcher,

see if maybe he can find some on the farm.

- A water witcher?

- Miss Kitty, that's just good money after bad.

Ben, you don't really think he can do it, do you?

- Honey, I don't know whether he can or not.

But it's worth a gamble for both of us.

- Won't it just be another disappointment?

- At this stage, I'm willing to try anything.

- Afraid it was a waste of your time, Festus.

- Aw, fudge. It wasn't no waste of time, Mr. Sam'l.

I'm just glad old Louie was mistooken.

I ought to have known better.

Say, has them fellers from the Long Branch been up yet?

- Not yet, no.

- Well, they're fixing to directly.

Now, you mark me on that.

[ Knock on door ]

- Mr. Sam'l?

- Howdy, Ben.

What did I tell you? Mark me on it.

- Mr. Sam'l, I come to talk business with you.

I'm putting my last bit of hope on you.

- Festus hasn't even come back

from talking to that old man yet.

- You know, I just been thinking.

If it's true, now, who would have done it and why?

- Well, you said the old man was gonna go over

and try to find water on Ben's land, didn't you?

- Yes. For $200, he was.

- Well, the most logical person

would be somebody who was superstitious enough

to believe in all this water witching business

and didn't want Ben to be able to hold out.

- Well, I'll tell you.

My opinion, that fella from St. Louis,

that, uh, that Trainer, he fits that pretty good.

- Uh-huh.

Doc, let me ask you something.

Do you, uh, you go along with this water witching business?

- Well...

I don't know whether I do or not.

But it doesn't make much difference what I think.

I've seen an awful lot of things happen in my life, Matt,

just because somebody believed they would.

No explanation for it, either.

I remember, and so do you,

Maggie and Codge Collier's fifth child, or was it their sixth?

Anyway, that young'un was awful sick.

And I did everything I could to save his life,

yet everything in medical science

said that boy was gonna die.

That is, everything except Maggie and Codge's belief

that he wouldn't.

And he didn't.

- Yeah. I see what you mean.

[ Gunshots ]

- Matthew? - Did anybody get hit?

- No, but it sure wasn't for lack of trying.

- Where did the shots come from?

- Over yonder, next to Long Branch.

- Festus, is that old fella all right?

- He says he wasn't beat up none,

but I'm fixing to have another talk with him right now.

- Matt?

- Sorry, Kitty.

Trainer, where were you just a minute ago?

- Hold on there, Marshal. I'm not gonna stand --

- I asked you a question.

- I've been inside this establishment for the past hour.

- He's right, Matt.

He's been in here.

- Good night, ma'am.

Night, Marshal.

- I still don't like his looks.

- Trainer.

- Well? - I missed him.

- You don't say. - Look, don't snap at me.

- Listen, I'm gonna tell you what I'll do.

I will walk.

Now, either we do this thing my way, or I will walk.

- No.

- You got a better way of getting what you want?

- Look, what I want is for him to --

- You told me.

Now, when I see him, I will fill him in on it.

- I don't want to hear about it.

It's your idea. It'll be your doing, your way.

It's none of mine.

- Matthew?

Mr. Sam'l, he just as calm as cotton.

He swears that he wasn't beat up,

owing there ain't a mark on him.

But he don't know who'd be a-shooting at him.

- Is Ben Akins with him?

- Well, he left right before the shooting.

He went over to freight office,

then he's going to stable and then back out to ranch.

- All right. Check the freight office for me.

- Yeah. But --

[ Gun cocks ]

- Hold it.

- Trainer.

- That leaves one more.

- I don't understand.

- Marshal.

- Willie, get over to the telegraph office.

Tell Vern I'll be there in a couple minutes.

- Yes, sir. - Burke,

tell your boys to get him over to Percy Crump.

- Matthew?

- Ben, is Dave still out at the farm?

His life may be in danger.

- He was at Liz Foley's earlier, but I --

- Festus, see if you can find him quick.

- I'm gone.

Get out. Get out of the way. Get out of the way.

- Who is it?

- The only one I seen wearing fancy clothes

is Trainer, the one who tried to buy Ben's land.

- I didn't figure on this.

Shootings, killings, beatings.

- Pa, get out, please.

- I can't.

I can help them.

I can find water for them.

- Can you, Pa?

- You know I can.

You seen me when you was a little girl.

- You seen me. - Yeah,

I seen you when I was a little girl.

But I heard about an old water witch up north

who got run out of half a dozen towns

because he claimed he could find water, but he never did.

- That ain't true.

Well, sure, I missed some times.

But nobody can do it every time, nobody.

You got to have the spirit moving in you.

You know that, girl.

- Is the spirit moving in you, Pa?

Is it?

Or are you just stealing from good and decent men

who are looking to you as a last hope

of saving something that's taken them their whole lives to build?

- Good morning, Doc. - Hey.

- Marcie's on her way out. - Well, good.

I'm anxious to get out there and see if old Sam'l

can pull this thing off.

- The whole town is. - Hello, Marcie.

- Morning, Doc. Miss Kitty,

I want to thank you again for giving me the time off.

- That's all right. You just get on out there

and root that water in for Ben.

- All right. - Let's go.

- Matthew, you just don't know what it is

to find that young Dave

once he gets it in his head to go folly foxing around.

- Where all did you look for him?

- Well, shoot, I looked every place

there was that I could find to.

I even went out to Ben's place an hour ago.

Ben said that Dave didn't even come home last night at all.

- Well, that's not unusual.

Guess we better get started.

Mr. Sam'l, you ready?

- It's an awesome thing, Marshal.

- What's that?

- Witchin' at times like these

when so much depends on succeeding.

- Ah, fiddle, you'll do plum good.

I'll guarantee you you will.

- Appreciate that, Festus.

Wished I felt as sure.

[ Chickens clucking ]

- How'd you like a nice mess of oats?

Figure we can afford it.

- Price of oats being what they are,

you better not be too generous, Dave.

- Ben? - Who were you expecting?

- W-well, I thought you'd be out at the hollow,

waiting for Moses to smite the rock.

- You missed a little excitement last night.

Matt was looking for you.

- Me? - Yeah.

That fella Trainer tried to kill me.

Matt was worried you might be in danger, too.

He figures there might have been somebody else in with Trainer.

- There's no reason I can think of anybody'd want to harm me.

Ben, you know all this is pure crazy,

getting all these folks out here and boosting their hopes.

You know we ain't gonna find no water.

- Well, there's no harm in letting the old man try.

- You're throwing good money away, money we ain't even got.

- Well, if there was something else we can do --

- There is. We could sell.

Save what there is left

and get out of this lousy, dried-up country.

- Sell to who? - Well, you had an offer,

that fella from St. Louis.

Now, if he wanted it, there's got to be others.

- This doesn't work, we'll see maybe

we can find somebody else. Now come on, we better go.

Oh, all I've got to do is feed the mare.

If you'll wait, we can go down together.

- Yeah, sure.

[ Indistinct conversations ]

- Matter?

- It -- It just don't feel right

for balance, Festus.

- Well, fudge. There ain't no pull on it yet.

Directly, that's water's

gonna be a-pulling on that so blame hard

that you ain't gonna have time to worry about no balancing.

- You sure there ain't no elm around?

Or peach?

I could do a whole lot better with peach.

- No, I don't know about no peach.

Just ain't no orchards in this part of the country.

- I -- I -- I'd feel a sight better

with -- with elm.

Uh, can we look, maybe?

I-I can spot an elm 5 miles away.

- Mr. Sam'l, will you listen to me?

It's just like my Aunt Tora Heaves used to say,

"If you got the feel for it,

and the spirit's in you, it's a-gonna happen."

- If the spirit's in you.

- Now, it don't make a lick of difference

what kind of wood you're using, not a lick.

- Ben, hey. - Morning, Mr. Sam'l.

- I've been waiting for you.

- Anytime.

- Make it a good show, old-timer.

What do you think of all this, Marshal?

- Well, Dave, I've learned not to be surprised

at anything that happens.

- Mr. Sam'l, you want me to kind of shoo everybody back?

- Just so long as I have wandering room,

it don't make no never mind, Festus.

- All right, sir. Just go ahead on.

Show 'em how the cow eat the cabbage.

- I can't do it.

I got no feel.

It's gone. I --

I got no feeling at all.

- Well, you can try.

- I can't.

Feeling's gone.

- Ah, you never had it!

- He did, too, have it, and he's still got it.

Go on, show 'em, Mr. Sam'l.

- No.

- That's a lot of money lost.

- It ain't lost.

I'm giving you the money back.

- Ah, well, it's not just the money.

You promised us.

You promised us you'd find water.

- O'Connor, leave him be.

- Black blazes, I will, not after he suckered us like this.

- I said leave him be!

Mr. Sam'l, it's all right.

I didn't really think it would happen.

- There.

You all wanted me to find it,

but you don't believe.

You don't have faith.

- That's why. - No, you don't lay it onto us.

- You can do it, Mr. Sam'l.

I know you can.

- Pa...

- He's your father?

- Yes, he's my father.

He can do it.

I seen him.

He can do it now,

just like the times when I was a little girl, Pa,

when Sam Bassett was the most famous water witcher

east of the Mississippi.

- Sam Bassett, the Hatchet Killer?

- Yes, Sam Bassett.

And he's no killer!

- I've heard that rhyme too many times.

- You remember that rhyme,

but you forget a judge and jury said he was innocent!

Pa, you show them you can do it.

I know you can.

- You thought my knowing who he was would make a difference?

Nothing's changed between us.

- Dig right here, and you'll find your water.

Dig right here.

- Bully for you, Mr. Sam'l!

Get them shovels! Get them on over here! Let's go to work!

Clean her up, and get 'em on down here now!

Come on! Hurry up! Hurry it up now!

Get everything right over here where...

Come on, Louie.

[ Continues shouting indistinctly ]

[ Chickens clucking ]

- Where you headed?

- Going to town to celebrate.

Brother Ben's done it again.

- Well, let me give you a piece of advice.

Why don't you ride on out of town and just keep going?

- What's the matter with you? - I just got an answer

to a telegram that I sent to St. Louis.

That letter of credit that Trainer had was drawn

on a bank account that you opened there three years ago,

right after Ben Sr. died.

- I'm losing all the way around.

But then, I always did to my big brother.

- Now, I can't prove

that it was you that took those shots at Mr. Sam'l.

But I'd sure hate for Ben to find out the truth.

Why don't you ride out of Dodge and don't ever come back?

- Water! Water! There's water!

[ Men cheering in distance ]

[ All laughing, cheering ]

- Mr. Sam'l, I know'd that anybody with the gumption

to ride a mule could find water.

And you done her.

- Thank you, Festus.

- I'm proud,

real proud.

- Stay tuned for scenes from next week's "Gunsmoke."