The Grass Asp
Gunsmoke · December 7, 1958 · 19 min · 2,571 words
The transcript of “The Grass Asp”, an episode of Gunsmoke first broadcast December 7, 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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Dodge City and in the territory on West, there's just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers, and that's with the U.S. Marshal and the smell of gun smoke. Ouring William Conrad, the story of the violence that moved West with young America, and the story of a man who moved with it.
I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshal, the first man they look for and the last they want to meet. It's a chancey job, but it makes a man watchful. And a little lonely. I'm kindly nippy tonight, ain't it, Mr. John?
Ah, it's getting toward the season, Cora, Chester. I always hate to see winter come on. Still don't come here. You know, I remember you saying last spring that you hated to see summer come on because she doesn't like the heat.
Well, yeah, but at least it ain't lonesome. There's always something going on in summertime. Now, Dustin flies mostly. Well, come on, let's go over to the jail. Anyhow, don't snow and freeze up everything in the summertime.
You got me there, Chester. I sure can't recall every her and of any snow in the summer. Thanks, isn't it? Another bunch of cowboy coming to eat up the town. Sounds like they feeling pretty good, too.
Looks like the ladies of tea out there. That is, that was Carl Willett Trail Boy. up in the panhandle is waiting to see them. Well, I heard they were going to try to make a second drive this year.
They're talking about it. Well, they're going to have a mighty hard time finding the virus. The cattle agent has gone back. Well, they probably contracted their herd when they were here in the spring. Come on, Jesse.
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