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Brush at Elkader

Gunsmoke · November 16, 1958 · 20 min · 2,072 words

The transcript of “Brush at Elkader”, an episode of Gunsmoke first broadcast November 16, 1958. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Gunsmoke plays Gunsmoke free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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In the territory on West, there is just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers, and that's where the U.S. Marshal and the smell of gun smoke bring William Conrad, the story of the violent that moved West from the United States Marshal, the first man they looked for and the last they want to meet.

It's a chancey job, and it makes a man watchful. No new herds had come twisted enough to prayer strains that arrived back from the planet thing. The town just sat there like a plain girl with a prydie you eaten to dance.

But there was no dancing for Dutch. Not till prydie night there wasn't. I'd gone out to see a rancher friend that afternoon, and it was near midnight when I got back, and I rode up the front street.

So the small crowd that had gathered up as a warm branch. And it's mounted and walked over. The son of the crowd, I found Doc and Chester crouched over a man's scroll to the dust.

A man somebody had put a bullet in. It's Ben William, Mr. Jones. Good good, Chester. Nobody do? No. You rode off too fast. Anybody see it? Miss Kitty did. She's standing over there with a long branch now.

Oh, lovely. She was dead. I wasn't much like a big one. much I could be for nice feeling like Ben millions never hurt nobody he's bled to death somewhere inside I was he conscious at all that it was a few minutes ago I've been working on for half an hour now I had to leave him here in

the street I didn't dare move him did he say anything about about who's shot him or why do you know somebody called elkator elkator that's the town I'm not a person. Oh, and I just wanted to say something about it.

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