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And I wasn't never meant to nurse-mate a lady over here. Huh? Oh, I hope. Yeah. It's a gift over wagon. Holy. Look at all this stuff. Some guys, old belongings. Carpets, bags, hammersack, coffee, sugar, beans, corn meal, and jerky. Oh, thank you God. I have made a decent meal, and... Huh? Who's that? Who's that? Hello? Hey, Mr. Bet you got a few things ought to be left out here, huh? Where's your wallet? You got a nice, fancy ring, or be worth something. And watch through the pistern. All righty birdie-looking lady, I'll just keep that. What's that? Now, it's a book. I've got gold leaf edges, though. Worth taking, boo. What's that supposed to do about ya, huh? I'll stick ya in the back of your wagon and jump ya in the nearest town. Yeah, there is one. Maybe at least I can finally call it up with a paddle out so it's straight from ya. And I can collect some reward for returning it. Oh, that. I'll just tie ya all up and go inside. Oh. Howdy. Oh, hello, Mr. Jack. Where the heck you get that, dear? I found him. Jack, where's your buddy? He's wandering the riverbed, sir. He's just a stray. Yes, much longer the herd has been moving this way. I can't figure they'd be pulled up here waiting for this wind storm to pass. Sir? Your horse. Army animal? Yes, sir. Yes, sir, he's that, sir. What are you doing with it? Oh, I meant to say he was an army animal, sir. He was. He's seven-year-old retired. They give him. He retired him just like it did me. He doesn't look seven years old to me. He's almost seven, is what I meant to say. I got a paper that says... Where are you from? Fort Federalman, 7th Cavalry Company B. Fort Federalman? Yes, sir. Fort Federalman, sir. All right. Oh, yes, sir. What brings you here? Why, is this steered? Understand they're paying $15 for stray steers. Is that right? Yes, they were strayed. Oh, you were strayed? I didn't see them. And this blackboard in the horse is pulling it. They are, too? Yes, sir. 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Puff those skin in the back of that buck-borne. Hey, sir, do you mind if I have a look? Why? Because it's got two feet sticking out. Oh, you see? This man's been shot. Yeah. Why'd you shoot him? I didn't shoot him. Who did? I don't know. I picked him up on the trail. What'd he say to you? Nothing. He couldn't talk. He might want to found him. You're alive. What are you going to do with him? If you do you, I reckon. I got him. For God, I guess. Let me see your discharge paper. Oh, yeah. Yeah, here. It's honorable. And that bears the paper of ownership for the whole of it. What are you doing with my paper? Keeping them. Why? That's my policy. Well, sure if I kind of... I'll help him and help me take this man inside. I'll grab his top. Well, I'll be looking. A white collar. This guy's a preacher. Now, what's that gospel shop doing around here? Ain't no church anywhere, is it? So this is his ring of... Well... Yeah, I reckon. All right. Pick him up. I'll take him another clue. I think I... I'd better tell you about that rig in that marriage, Sheriff. I just want you to know that I had no intention of keeping them for myself. I was going to turn them over to you. All right, now get out of the way. Get out of the way. Oh, come on. Move it. Move it. Oh, I'm tired, Sheriff. Oh, well, we got a soldier. Can you play the piano? No, ma'am. What do you mean? I never seen no soldier boy who couldn't play the piano, ma'am. Well, I can't. What about the failure carry? Can he play? I don't know. Well, let's get him sobered up and find out. Get away, now. This man's been shocked. Well, we got to get some music around here. The piano player just passed out. Okay, soldier. We'll put him here on the roulette. All right. Hey! Now, get rid of these chips. You hear? Make room. Okay, soldier. Okay, start on the dress. Do you know, Sheriff, Mr. Dope, they ain't gonna like this. Pull off his boots, soldier. Yes, sir. You're interrupting business here. I don't give a hoot what I'm doing. Well, I'm just gonna have to go get Mr. Dope. Go ahead. Soldier, give me his coat. Yeah. Right here. Mark, it's empty. Oh, oh, yeah? Well, I guess the color must have been robbed, huh? Where? Well, I'm... Where do you think you're going? Well, I done what you asked. I gotta find that trail boss now and get the money for that steer. So, soldier, what you're gonna do is stay right here. He ain't no caused a mind. You found him. I found him the same way I found that smelly steer out there. Only he ain't worth fifteen dollars. The aim of the man's life is like putting a brand on him. He's your doggy, like it or not. I done the same as last. He's far gone now. He couldn't lick his upper lip. You brought him in. I think you owe him a little cleaning out. I owe him nothing. Here's a neck of chip and some whiskey. Now, start cleaning that wound. I'll be back. What? Hey, where you going? Hey! I don't know what granny nurse made for anybody. At least of all for sending no good Bible converter. I'm just out of here. Hey, where you going? Give me a pair of overalls. Excuse me, will you? He couldn't show us sitting here in the other club. Hey, soldier, you're forgetting something. What? You're branding on the roulette table. He's nothing but a Bible fountain preacher. A preacher. Hey, boy! Boy! I want you all to start blaming yourself, because that's where what's just moving with the tumbleweeds is a real bona fide sin to us. Hey, he's a little lumpy job for a preacher, ain't he? Yeah, somebody sure crawled his upper lip. No way to act. Right now, he's as welcome as a poker chipper. And I think we ought to make him well. All of you. Well, soldier, the next thing you know, you'll be singing us a hymn. I've done my duty, and I'm going. It ain't no business of mine. It's not me. It's this. It's not mine. And I never got my money for that damn door tap steer. I gotta go back. When the sheriff returned to the cellar room from the back room, he found the wounded preacher lying unattended on the roulette table. The sheriff shrugged. Then, as he was about to attend the dying night, the soldier walked back into the cellar. You're back. Where'd you go? Ain't no reason. Ain't no reason at all for me to wear and tear myself and not get some comfort. That preacher ain't no reason. Tomorrow, he'll just be a bad itch I can scratch to forget. I'll come back here and see that trail boss and get what's coming to me for that steer. Yeah. Yeah. And after I get my money, I'm going to rattle my hucks for a real red, white and blue poli barber shop. Then I'm going to take me a civilized soaking in hot water with plenty of sweet melon soap and a big woolly towel. And after that, I'm going to buy me a bottle of good brown bumblebee whiskey and a taste that's thick. But before I do any of them things, I want my paper sheriff and I want them right now. I want hot water, a pan and some towels. Make sure they're clean and don't take too much time. And follow me back there to that cellar. Well, hello there. You come back. Hey, tell me, how long that sheriff's been around here? Well, long enough to know all the lizards by their first name. Well, I don't stay where I don't want to stay and I don't do what I don't want to do. Yeah? Well, I'm going to ask you something. Why don't you tell the sheriff that? That doke's his owner, Sloane. He looks mighty well, he'll. Yep. And he ain't going to be none too happy to sheriff's fixing to use his roulette table for an operating class. This is radio theater. We'll return after this message from your local station. Savings. We want you to compare the yield on your savings certificate because there is a difference. Public service offers the highest rate and highest yield on insured savings in the fabulous area. 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I'm not running a hospital either. My stove is busted. This is the only warm place in town and he's had all the moving he can stand for one day. May I ask how long you intend to keep him here? As long as it takes to treat him. Well, that shouldn't be too long. Have any word, Lars, until sundown. Oh, I expect he might. How's that? I'd say this year, fellas, that's much more bleeding to get done before he bucks out. We have for sundown. Would you care to bet on that, my friend? Bet? You just made a statement. I just made a statement. The two statements are converged. So would you care to back up what you said with money? Oh, look at him. He's in bad way. I asked you a question, my friend. I heard you. It's already twenty-half to three. And this is winter. Sun sets quite early. So by my calculation, I'd say it will set tonight at five after five. Well? Oh, they are drew with you. You can have them. Huh? The odd. Three to two that he won't last until the sun goes down. Well, what do you say? All right. I say it will be dark for you, belly-dumped. $100? $100. Is it agreeable to you that my dealer heard the statement? Sure. Solid. Sure thing, Mr. Dope. How about the rest of you people? Would you care to bet? You'd be twenty at the eye. You have a bet, my friend? He's so puny he couldn't pull his hat off. I'd say this fellow grumbler will hang up his boots before the sun goes down. You gonna cover me? Sure will. Oh, look at him. What's happening? Help me hold him down, sir. All right. What's the matter? What's got into him? It looks like he's going into convulsions. This ought to be it. Looks like I just made me some easy money. Hey, look at his hand. It's clutching at the air. Like he wants something. What's that soldier doing? He can jump out of his pocket. Looks like a book. It's a Bible. He's putting it in that preacher's hand. He's dazed. Look at that. He just calmed right down. Well, it don't look like he's going to finish his right portion down here after all. That's one tough preacher, Mr. Dokes. So he feels. Sure. That's a lot of store for that book. Well, this is going to take a while. I need me a drink. How is he, sir? The fever's down. That book you just put in his hand, soldier. Is it yours? No. It is, I guess. Hey, Nelly. Give me the same watch as Mr. Dokes. I'll give you enough. A thousand dollars. A thousand dollars, gentlemen, that he doesn't last until sundown. I'll take the bean dog. I'll take the bean dog. I'll take the bean dog. Nelly. Charlie, here is one thousand dollars. Cover every bet against his last until sundown. Here you go. I've got a bit of business of my own to attend to now, Charlie. I'll be back before it's dark. You've got a chance to just put your money where you're miles. There's a year yet now. A hundred dollars. Come on over here. A man that just placed that bet, that big fella. He's the trail boss you're looking for. Good. Yeah, but if you get any money out of him, soldier, he'll be the first one to do it. What do you mean? A bung in his tray. And the nearest thing we got to a barbershop or hot water in this town is the cow dip and back of the livery stable. Look at him. Still clutching that Bible for dear life. Well, let's get on with it. What's them things? First, we'll slug into the encephalic cartilage as soon as we die, friend. How's that? How much are you betting there? It's a twenty-five dollars. Five more bucks. If the guest is rich, we'll have to use the instrument to get it out. We? What do you think I am? You're a thief and a liar. What else did you steal from him? Nothing. Five dollars. Soldier, I hope I'm not going to have a misunderstanding. He was bushwacked. I just found him, that's all. Two reasons a man gets bushwacked. Laws or money. Now, you didn't have any money to speak of, did you? Oh, no, he didn't. Nothing else, huh? Let's have it. All right. There's his wallet. It was only a couple of greenbacks anyway. Is that it? That's it. All of it. Oh. Must have been love. Preacher, you'll break your five dollars if he finishes his circle of four. Now, you put some of these acid salts in that hot water and stir it up for these instruments. Never. Thank God. Thank you, sir. I got it. Thank you, sir. I haven't got any chloroform. The best I can do is lovin' them. Now, yeah. Try and swallow this. Just sip it, Reverend. That's right. I think there's one way to make it. Look, the germs get ready to operate. All right, now. Now we can get on it. There's time in the butter now, ain't it? Now you, people, get back. I need the light. I want to know exactly what you're going to do. I'm going to wind the openers so I can probe the bullet out. We don't like that. You can make it work for him, you know. We got money bet on him not passing in his chips to sundown. Oh, you just leave him be the way he is, Sheriff. We don't want him cut or poked inside. Get back. All right. You'll have to keep holding that gun, Sheriff. We ain't going to let you cut him. We got an investment here. Soldier, take my gun. You're my deputy. Kill the first man to try to stop me. What? I ain't been formed. You are appointed. All right. Now you get back now, you hear? And let him do what he has to do. Pull back the hammer, son. All right. Now everybody get back. Now it's time to put their guns in that table while I go after this bullet. You heard him. Let's have them all. That looks like the locks, Sheriff. Fandango. Yes, sir? Empty all those guns. Get peace from behind the bar to help you. Give another sip of water. It's kind of hard when I'm holding the gun at the same time. All right. Now found the bullet, mister. We'll have it out of you in no time. I think I got it. Guns are all empty, Sheriff. All right, you men. You can go back to your bedding now. Now, we'll just get you sewed up. 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Glow and green with the concluding act of Powder River Policy. Getting pretty low, Sheriff. Yep. What time is it now? 4.30. Less than an hour to go before sunset. That's $50, sir. The green paid off makes you fund down. That's $50, sir. Take the man's money. Who's that? Listen up. I got me a feeling about this year, Senator. He can stand for all that cutting and poking around inside of him and still ain't whistling through his belly button. He must be a pretty tough preacher. I'll land down for a buck. You got yourself a buck. I'm saying it, I'll make him. Me too. Soldier, come on with that with me. Work for it now. Hey, you. Trail boss? Yeah. I'm minding my own business. Oh, my. Come here. Look, I ain't one of the guys who tried to stop you from operating. My bet goes the other way. Now, both of you, come with me. We'll give this soldier here $15. For what? For bringing him in. I found him, sir. I found him strange. Now, how do I know that? He was out there and I brung him in. You take my word. But I can't do that. Then you can take my word. All right. Found it, soldier. Yep. Yep. Take your steer. Hey, look, kind of getting his rail to me. What are you trying to do? Running to death? Thank you, sir. Here are your papers. So long. So long. Wait. Ain't I a deputy no more? Nope. I didn't even feel it when I got undefined. All right. Help me look through that preacher's things in the back of his wagon. You look through these letters. Don't seem right to be reading a man's private letters, particularly a preacher. Can you read? Of course I can read. I'm just a little rough. Sheriff. Looky here. Money. Let me see. I didn't know that was there, honest. I believe you. That's a lot of dinero for a preacher to be carrying. Just about enough. For what? To build a church. Where was he going to do that? Right here. Build a church and get married. Married? How do you know that? All right. Where is it? Well, what? It looked to me like there used to be a picture in that preacher's watch. Yeah. And here it is. Now, I know what you think, but that's the last of what I took. I swear. And I only took it because she's the closest I've been to a pretty gal since I was dutying at Fort Federal. That's the fact, Sheriff. That's the truth. I didn't think it made much difference taking that little picture. I mean, him being the way he was. Ah, Jesus. Huh? They won't be needed. How do you know? I know. You knowed all along? Yep. Then what the heck were we doing? I thought we did something in there. I thought we did something. Well, that's not God of him. He might last long enough to tell me who shot him. That's it? That's it. But he's going to die anyhow? That's right. He's going to die. That's wrong. Huh? Damn you. You can't say if a man's going to live or die anymore than you can say he's going to get born. I know I ain't nothing but a worn-out horse trooper. And I can't read. And I can't play the pie-hanner. But I've seen a lot of men dying enough to know a lot can be saved if they've got some reason to. More reason than a book in his hand. You know that woman, don't you? Don't you? I know her. He was coming to Bill a church and married her. That means she's waiting here for him right now, ain't she? That's right. She came from Sacramento six months ago. Well, why ain't you faster? I want to see her. You tell me where she is, Sheriff. Why? That's my policy. She's in the hotel over there. Second floor, Roman the Front. I come to see you. It's important. Yes? I've seen your picture. What? Don't ask me how. But I know you've been waiting for the preacher to come to get you. Who are you? You don't know me, no way you could or ever would. But I come to see you and tell you that you... You. What's the matter? What's he doing here? Hello? What seems to be the problem? Well, you're... You're Mr. Doke, ain't you? The fellow that runs that... That's a little, yes. What do you want? Oh, maybe that sheriff ain't so dumb after all. Will you please tell me what this is all about? Nothing to worry about, my dear. I come over here to talk to her, not to you. I don't have any secrets. Who is this man? That's a stray who brought in a stray. Ma'am, I got something I want to show you. What? This picture. Where did you get that? I got it from the Reverend. He's here. Here, in town? That's right. He's here and he's hurt. Somebody shot him. Why didn't you tell her he was all shot up, Mr. Doke, if you don't have any secrets? I think you'd better leave, my friend. It was my own idea coming here, lady. And maybe it wasn't any kind of an idea to have it all. No, wait, please. Wait. Don't go, please. Let him go. We both know why you've been here all this time. What do you care what happened to him? You don't mean nothing to you? You have no right to say a thing like that. I've been with him all day watching him bleeding and moaning. Bleeding? What happened? Oh, please, please, tell me. Tell you what? That Reverend's got a lot of gravel in his gizzard and enough hell in his neck to drive that book board all the way from Omaha to Marriott. That's a thousand miles with the wind tearing and pulling at you night and day. He's worth a hundred like that, Mr. Doke. How would it go to him? He needs me. Where is he? If you cared where he is or what happened to him, you wouldn't have been with that gambler. I was hoping that you'd be able to say something to him, something that would make him open his eyes. Oh, man, he's got to be wanted. Where is he? Please tell me where he is. He's in there, in the saloon, dying. Dying? Yes, dying. Oh, God. No, you can't mean that. I mean it. Ask the sheriff there. Oh, let me go. And you want to know why he's dying? It ain't that bullet that the sheriff took out of his belly. It's because he ain't got no reason. No reason to talk. You haven't got her. She don't deserve to see him. Six months is a long time for a woman like that to be waiting up a place like this. No, he's not busy. He still has a gun down. You got a bat whose neck is on his neck. Oh, it is. Well, it makes no difference. He'll turn on his bat. All right, come on. Come on. Gun's almost down. Well, I'll be a curly-built spin. Look what the wind just blowed in. The fancy lady. He's right, sheriff. Coming in here crying. And she was with that dope cell all the time. She's well in need, soldier. You said so yourself. John. John, John. Oh, is he dying? He's not. He's breathing a lot easier now. He's a lot better. A whole lot better. Is he? Don't pay no attention to what I said out there. He's coming right along. Hey, boys, it's three minutes to five. And look, the sun's starting to disappear. Who did this terrible thing? Someone who knew he was on his way here. Oh, John. John, do you recognize me? He's going to be fine. Honest. What's the matter, soldier? I thought you didn't figure she had any right here. Here comes Mr. Joke. Charlie, are we all covered? Yeah, every last dollar, Mr. Joke. Well, you're sweating, Charlie. Well, you're sweating. Well, we sweat around money. That's where I am. Hey, lookie there. Sun's on its way down. That creature's still breathing. Oh, sheriff, can't you do something for him? Couldn't you get him to hold on for another two minutes, sheriff? He must have blagged. Just breathe naturally around here. You speak to him, miss. Oh, John. It's me, John. I'm here. I'm with you, John. Yeah, pretty calico like that can't bring him up talking. Nothing's in. Oh, heck. He's been dead ever since he got in here. Just ain't stopped breathing yet. His eyes. They've opened. Reverend, I'm the sheriff. Can you tell me who shot you? Reverend? Is he sheriff? Oh, no. Dang. Oh, that's me. I said he'd never make it. Is he dead, sheriff? Yes, but the dogs... I want to see your gun. I don't carry one, sheriff. Ever. Two minutes have gone down. I win. I'm buying drinks for everybody. Everybody. Soldier, let me get this body out of here. See, Mr. Dokes is getting on his horse. Before he goes, I need a word with him. Dokes, hold on. Look at this. Don't run a gun, huh? What's this car being in your saddle? I said I didn't get it. That's an English-made Hensley. The bullet I took out of the Reverend was from a gun like that. Dokes, you're under arrest. Get off that horse. No. I can say something. Say he was hungry. I was hoping... That's what you work at every day. Hope. Look. I might as well tell you. I was lying about going to Cheyenne to be a crook spotter. I know. I saw the way you handled a gun. I don't like guns. Neither do I. I noticed. Sheriff, I was thinking. I figure I'm entitled to a warm corner around here. There's a room back in my office. There's three meals a day to go with it. Twenty bucks a month. For what? For whatever I think up. For you to do. God Almighty. He wants me. 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Take only as directed The Commerce Department reports retail sales rose a modest six tenths of a percent in February and other hands that consumers may be slowing down their spending after the boom of late last year A prediction tonight that last year's housing boom will not continue this year the Dodge Division of McGraw Hill says housing starts should flow down 15 percent from 1978 levels. Tom Allen McGraw Hill spokesman says don't look for any break in housing prices housing prices should continue to rise there'll be a slowdown in building probably after the next decade when housing prices begin to fall off because the man will first rank and it's the demand that keeps the prices high for the time being. Allen says despite the predicted slump for this year in the 1980s should be boom times for housing. The nation's trucking industry today rejected the initial wage demands in contract talks in Washington with the Painters Union the Federal Mediation Service says it will join the bargaining tomorrow. The current three-year contract covering some 300,000 truck drivers expires March 31st U.S. space officials report the first discovery of active volcanoes in outer space. They say at least six active volcanoes are spewing up solid material and gas from EO one of the moons of the planet Jupiter. The volcanoes were discovered in photographs taken by Voyager 1 which passed by Jupiter earlier this month. Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell has been admitted to Bethesda Naval Hospital near Washington for surgery later in the week. The 71-year-old Powell will have a benign tumor in the colon removed. Senator Lowell Weicker of Connecticut today declared his candidacy for the 1980 Republican presidential nomination. Weicker conceded his liberalism could cause problems in some GOP circles. 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Compose is available at all drug counters. The head of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization says more than a billion people live in absolute poverty and destitution. He also says the problem is getting worse. In Rome and Rome, Director General of the FAO calls for a worldwide directed assault on poverty. He said a comprehensive world strategy to stimulate economic growth is needed. This is Doug Polling, CBS News. Good evening, I'm Jackson Shane, KMOX News. St. Louis Public School teachers are voting tonight on a tentative agreement hammered out over the weekend. If it gets accepted, the eight-week old strike could be over by tomorrow. If the vote is yes, teachers would presumably go to work tomorrow in order to get ready for Wednesday classes. They are also under a court order to report to work Wednesday. No terms of the tentative agreement have been released, but an agreement is believed to call for a larger increase in wages than were contained in what the school board called its best and final offer two weeks ago. Labor problems meanwhile still plague General Electric of St. Louis. 105 members of the Electricians Union struck last Friday in a dispute over work being said at this time and the plant has been closed down by the walk-out. Pickets are up. The Missouri National Education Association said it still doesn't fully support the concept of statewide competency tests. The group's president said, however, it will work with other public school officials to implement the program anyway. The basic essential skills test, known as best, will be given to each eighth grade public school pupil for the first time this spring. That test is intended to determine how practical everyday problems based on what they have learned in school. President Carter has declared Northwestern Missouri a disaster area. The state of emergency was declared because of the impact of ice jams and flooding in Andrew County early in March. Mr. Carter's action permits the donation of federally owned mobile homes to the state to provide temporary housing for those families who lost their homes as a result of the ice jams and flooding. The weather for the St. Louis metropolitan area clear tonight, low around 40. The sunny skies warmer tomorrow with a high in the 60s. Then we have considerable cloudiness, colder weather to the night, low near 30, partly cloudy.