Reward for Matt
Gunsmoke · April 30, 1955 · 29 min · 3,352 words
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Gunsmoke brought to you by L&M filters. This is it. L&M is best. Stands out from all the rest. Around Dodge City and in the territory on West, there's just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers, and that's where the U.S. Marshall and the smell of gun smoke, starring William Conrad, a trans-grud 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.
At a little lonely. Hey, Doc! Oh, hello, Chester.
Come on over and sit down. Well, I guess it won't hurt for a minute to kill Mr. City. Oh, my job is stepping out here on the street and just loafing around your office. Oh, now is that's a lot.
Oh, I didn't mean nothing, Doc. I wasn't even thinking. Oh, I don't even believe that. What's bothering you, Chester? Mr. Donut. What? I'm kind of worried about him, Doc. You are? Why? Well, look, you're just near dark and you ain't showed up, and I don't even know where he is.
Well, I think Matt can take care of the cell chest. Sure, but usually he leaves a note or something, Doc. Well, a man doesn't have to do things the same way all the time. I know.
Now, for instance, like Mrs. Hull the other day, she came to ask me how to get her baby to sleep at night. Now, for example, what would you have told him? Oh, no. Now, you think, you just think now, just after all you were a baby once, how'd your mother get you to sleep?
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