Busted-Up Guns
Gunsmoke · July 17, 1960 · 23 min · 3,035 words
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in the territory on West, there's just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers, and that's where the U.S. Marshal and the smell of guns smoke, starring 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. a meet. It's a chance job and it makes a man watchful and a little lonely.
I just don't understand, Chester. Mr. Nail. Well, sometimes, can't even people get excited. The caddies and trustees might be excited. We all know that. Don't worry about him. He's not missing any meals. He ate supper early and I'm pledged to bring him a half a pie when I come back.
Should you expect Chester to react the way most people do? Of course, He eats more when he's excited. Well, what's he doing? He couldn't have supper with the rest of us. Pack him. He packed all day yesterday.
Yeah, and he'll pack right up to leaving time in the morning. You taking the wagon up the line? I was just here, horses. And a pack, huh? No. Well, then he can't possibly take all this stuff with him.
He'll figure that out last thing tomorrow morning. And he'll pick up his rifle and his bet roll and we'll start off. It happens this way every long trip we make. Can't seem to break him out.
How long since you were up on the agency? a couple years we are just a member to you and what shot enough data for this old women just to stay on the score and they didn't have a party book such as not much interested in the well i mean that's good you turn a while a man like Chester loose on the agencies
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