Dave's Lesson
Gunsmoke · April 10, 1960 · 24 min · 3,087 words
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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. During 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 Marshall, 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. Something the matter?
You look like you've lost your last friend. And I could use a drink. Come on in. Bring that a whiskey, will you? You're kidding? What's the trouble? Yeah, I just got weird. A couple of old friends.
Something happened? I'm sorry, Matt. Hey, you wish to march, but now thanks. Yeah, it's tough when the kitty, they... The girls are the same. Boys, parents, both dying suddenly like that.
It's kind of funny in a way. I'd have been killed a lot of times, uncle, one time. They've been living on a ranch in a patchy country. It was fever that finally killed him. Were you close, friends man?
Joe and I rode together on the border, but yeah, we were close. I hope there'll be somebody to watch out after the boy. I don't know about the rest of the time, but I know somebody will be right and heard only in the summer.
You know me you yeah, we'll figure the boy ought to get clear away for a while So you're gonna take me and he asked me to in this letter Doesn't seem like a lot to do how old boy. Oh 15 16 somewhere along there. He won't be in any trouble You're certainly changing your tone
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