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Still Waters

Fort Laramie · October 14, 1956 · 24 min · 3,149 words

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Starring Raymond Burr as Captain Lee Quince, specially transcribed tales of the dark and tragic ground of the wild frontier, the saga of fighting men who rode the Rim of Empire,

and the dramatic story of Lee Quince, Captain of Cavalry. Captain? Mr. Saibot. The men looked fine, I thought. Well, yes, sir, they looked all right. Good drill.

Good parade. Yes, sir, but actually I was more concerned with... Well, weren't you listening, sir? I was watching, Lieutenant. I almost never listened to a dress parade. I mean the band. The band seemed to march real good.

Captain, the music. Frankly, I thought it was terrible. Ah, usually it just sounds bad. Today was awful. What didn't it sound strange to you, Timmy, off-key? I was watching beak up named Mr. Zabert's March Just Fine.

I don't know, maybe it's my ears. More likely my ears. I don't pay much mind to the music. When I was a boy, my mother thought I had a promising voice. So I'd sing for him.

Men, the hogs had come running. Then the neighbors got so they'd come running too. I got a lot of encouragement to quit singing. But just because you couldn't sing well, Captain, doesn't mean you don't have an appreciation for music.

I think it does, Mr. Savage. You see, I wasn't just a blodge and my mother. I thought I sounded fine too. Well, you were considerably younger, sir. I'm sure you've outgrown all that by now.

After all, with your mother to encourage you, you couldn't be blamed for thinking. Around her neck she wore a yellow ribbon. Captain. She wore it in the winter and the merry month of May. And when they ask her why she.

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