The Medium Was Rare

Most Saturdays at this time we spend an exciting half hour of adventure and action with America's public hero number one, Hop Along Cassidy. Well, even two fisted cowboys take summer vacations when they can, and Hop is no exception.

But Hop Along and Topper will be back with us riding the CBS air trails again two weeks and tonight, September 22nd. Get this and get it straight. Crime is a sucker's road. And those who travel and wind up in the gut of the prism of the grave.

There's no other end, but they never learn. From the pan of Raymond Chandler, outstanding author of Cry and Fiction, comes his most famous character in... The Adventures of Philip Marlow. Now, with Gerald Moore, starred as Philip Marlow, we bring you tonight's transcribed story.

The Medium was Rare. Let me out of here. I've got to get away. This is the time. The time when all I can think of is trout streams, trails through tall mountains, where every man is hop along Cassidy.

I was sitting in my favorite restaurant telling Mary my favorite hashling are all about it. Oh, it all sounds so wonderful Phil. Yeah, but that's not the half of it. There are waterfalls so high it seems the cascade comes from heaven itself.

Going alone Phil? You bet your sweet life I'm going alone. In the words of the poet I'm going to commune with nature. I'm the most natural thing you ever saw. Darling, you're beautiful. You're chums and many, but you want me to be honest?

Yeah. You don't compare to a truck. Why you worm! Well, get mad, baby. It's the season. You don't season her out. I don't like being compared to a fish. Not a fish, baby. The queen of them all. A mountain truck.