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Dead Man's Hand
Hopalong Cassidy · January 1, 1950 · 28 min · 4,310 words
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It's Hop Along Cassidy! With action and suspense out of the Old West comes the most famous hero of them all. Hop Along Cassidy starring William Boy. The jingle of the Silver Spurs heralds that fabulous figure of the early West.
Hop Along Cassidy, the same hoppy you cheer in motion pictures. With the same California you've laughed at a hundred times in your local theater. These famous partners come right into radio just as you rest for them.
William Boyd has up along Cassidy and Andy Clyde as California. Our story tonight, Dead Man's Hand. With winter coming on and the snow beginning to crawl down the distant mountains, there are a hundred things to be done around the bar twenty ranch.
But Hop Along Cassidy knows that some of those things will have to wait. For he and California are going to have another job to do. Or it might be an easy job, like just giving a friend a help in hand.
Then again, it might mean tangling with a treacherous gang who put gold nuggets about human life. Coffee, how in tarnation am I going to get my work done with you, snaking in open the range like a lame duck dill?
No, I wouldn't have sent that writer out there to you without a pretty good reason, California. Well, here's your job. Let's have her. You remember Kit Kirby? Well, remember Kit, why he was one of the best hands we ever had.
He's in trouble. Listen to this letter I got this morning. morning. Dear Hoppe, I'm writing you because I think you're the only friend I got left. Gold is where you find it, they say. And my partner Joe and I found it after three years in these God-per-saken mountains. Our first samples have saved $500 to return, Chief. Willie, shake
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