 Now post-toasties the heat good cornflakes is proud to present gun smoke Brown Dodd City and in the territory on West There's just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers And that's with a US Marshal and the smell of gun smoke The story of the violence that moved West with young America the story of a man who moved with it Matt Dillon United States Marshal It's easy to be a whole tribe of big favor mother Just pour every big and little Indian in your camp a breakfast bowl full of post-toasties Post-toasties, you know are the heat good cornflakes They're the best thing that's happened to corn since the Indians discovered it fresh as fresh can be Say post-toasties are crackling crisp Sweet Colonel corn flavor Toasted that's post-toasties Post-toasties are packed with nourishment to a bowl of post-toasties with sugar and milk Helps your big braves and little Indians start the day right get post-toasties soon and now gun smoke Starring William Conrad I and my son got ranch up in the South Fork the Solomon. Oh, what can I do for you, Mr. Brad? Well, I Ain't no ways responsibly understand. It's been kind of put on me. You might say, huh? What has well marshal that well the engine started it They was riding for horses just a couple of days ago and they'd have got them and probably me too But for this kid they had a long a kid Yeah, and he tried to come in ahead the rest of the Indians and he showed herself too soon as what happened My son saw him in time to warn me and we put up a stand-off fight and the Marapa hose didn't get a single horse Well, what's the trouble then? We got the kid. He's still there wilder and a deer He got shot in the leg a little we brought him into the house after I Want to know what to do with him marshal. Oh Well, how old's the boy mr. Brunt? Hard to say. I bet he's you 12 or under that's pretty young to be on a Raiden party. It sure is but he's awful wild He's tried to kill me twice already. Well, then why don't you turn him over to a reservation somewhere? They'll take care of him. I can't do that marshal. It wouldn't have them Why not? Well, he ain't a Indian. He's a white boy. Oh white boy sure acts like the Indian though I think he's been living with him a rapper hose a long time. Well, I think well I don't know what I can do about it. Mr. Bryant one thing is sure marshal I can't keep them no more and you don't seem right, you know for a white boy to go back living among the Marapa hose So you got to come up there with me and do something about him that mr. Bryant you ask marshal. I'm hired to keep the peace not to play nurse made the orphans Yeah You're the only man I've heard of around here. I thought might help that boy If you want you won't I'll just run him off into the prairie. I guess all right. All right, mr. Bryant We'll ride back with you in the morning Don't see nobody around mr. Brandt. Oh, oh my son will be out of the cattle this family day I told my lock that kid in the potato cellar when they have to leave the house. Is that it over there? That's it. He'll be in there Open the door marshal maybe you'll come out. All right Chester grab him if he runs up. Yes, you watch out for him. He'll do anything that kid. Hey kid Come on out Stand back now What well look at him you'd hardly know he was a white boy mr. Dillon. Hello son You've come to kill me, haven't you? Oh my good. Nobody's gonna kill you son. We're here to help you. That's all You look pretty weak to me Is it that hole in your leg or haven't they been feeding you you won't eat marshal at least you wouldn't when I left you've been eating kid No You know what I mean? It's easier to be tortured on an empty stomach. I'm not son. Nobody's gonna torture you Nobody's gonna kill you I just like to have a look at that leg Where you got hit? I'm all right Come on. Let's go in the house. I'll see for sure No Well, he's made it. I got it. Oh the poor little kid Why haven't you done anything about this bullet in his leg Brian? I tried marshal He wouldn't let me near it tried to bite me. Well, he can't fight now Come on. Show me where to put him. I carried the boy into the house Layed him out on a bed and went to work He came to in the middle of it But he didn't move a muscle or utter a sound The bullet wasn't very very deep. I dug it up Cleaned the wound as best I could When it was over I got some strong tea down him and then he went to sleep Couple of hours later. I noticed he'd waked up and I went over to the bed. You fixed my leg Sure, of course I did Why? Well, you might have died if I hadn't wound like that gets infected Rappahors don't care if their prisoners die Well, you're not a prisoner here Yes, I am Look, what's your name anyway? Yorkie Well, is that all? It's all I remember. Is that what the Rappahors told you? Yes They won't give me another name tell I'm a brave Yorkie is a white man's name Where are your parents? Killed in a raid they told me I've been a Rappahore ever since What was your father's name? Do you know I? Was too young Well, then how come you remember English so well an old man of the tribe makes me talk every day Don't know where he learned, but he says it'll come to use later when I'm a brave in our wars against the white man You're a white man Yorkie Yes, but I live with the Rappahors. Well, you're dead, but you're back among your own people now You got to learn to live a different life No Wait, you mean you want to go back with the Indians first. I have to make a big coup like a big coup What for? I'll be killed if I don't What are you talking about I? Allowed myself to be seen and exposed the raiding party So I'll be killed if I don't make a coup and return with a scalp or some horses you Kid like you Unless you kill me first. Oh Yorkie if I was gonna kill you. Why did I take that bullet out of your leg? I? Don't know well nobody's gonna kill you now You just got that out of your head and you're not gonna kill anybody either or steal any horses So forget about it if I make a big coup my mistake on the raid will be forgiven And I'll be the youngest brave in the whole tribe. Well, we'll argue about that later But what were you doing on this raid in the first place? A white boy must prove himself many times. It's harder than for an Indian. That's why they let me come See now you've got quite a problem. Have me okay But right now, why don't you go back to sleep for a while, huh? I'll have some soup for you when you wake up Good morning, mr. Brand. Good morning Chester Marshall good morning your son left a few minutes ago. He said he wouldn't be back to leave me And I ought to be out with him We're all through but I'll cook you some eggs. Oh just coffee for me. All right Well, what are you gonna do about that kid Marshall? Now there's not much I can do brant. You can't leave him here Well, I didn't bring him here here. You're a Marshall. I'm serious Even if it was ordinary kid I got no way to raise him and this one is bad I told you he'd been after me twice already. He needs a scalp to take back It's a matter of life or death with him. He ain't taking mine. You really think he might kill somebody mr. Dylan left alone. Yes, but he's so young. Well, I heard Billy the kid killed a man when he was 12 Age doesn't seem to matter much Well, can't you talk him out of it? Show me it's wrong. I've tried but Yorkie thinks like an Indian He doesn't know anything about the white man's world How's he Feeling this morning. Well, I'd hoped his fever be down but it isn't he needs a doctor. That's what yeah By the way, Brian is this one of your guns? Where'd you get it Yorkie had it when I went in there this morning, but he was too weak to use it I told you he's a bad one Marshall. He'll kill someone yet. All Yorkie understands right now is kill or be killed Brent If you got a wagon, we'll take him in a dodge Say what goes on at your house at breakfast? Well, you can take it from me the best thing that can go on your breakfast table is post toasties Yes, sir post toasties the heat good corn flakes Those golden crisp corn flakes are the best thing that's happened to corn since the Indians discovered it You know how to prove it Well, just pour out breakfast bowlfuls of post toasties for your whole tribe then watch how they enjoy him Post toasties are crisp and tasty from the first bite down to the last spoonful that sweet kernel corn flavor Makes your breakfast so always ask for post toasties the heat good corn flakes Post toasties heat good corn flakes the best thing that's happened to corn since the Indians discovered it Eat good corn flakes post toasties heat good corn flakes Remember post toasties is one of the famous triple wrap post cereals Guaranteed fresh or triple your money back Now back to gun smoke On the drive into dodge Yorkie never moved or never said a word Look back at him from time to time and tried to put myself in his place Here was a boy whose only experience of life had been with a war-like tribe of Indians a Tribe which he couldn't even go back to without a white man's scalp or some stolen horses Now this in itself would be a problem for a grown man But little Yorkie also called himself a prisoner Sooner or later to be killed There was no wonder that you're on the next few days as he lay on the couch in Doc's office. He watched us with wild restless eyes In spite of his obvious courage, I think he was a little frightened And when Doc was suddenly called out on a case in the country for several days. I had an idea And I sent Chester to find kitty You want me to nurse him is that it Matt? Well partly but also I thought maybe you could talk to him a little it's No, it's hard for him to trust a man. I know just to tell me about him. Yeah, he'll be well enough pretty soon to get into trouble bad trouble I'll do what I can Where is he in the front room? Yeah on Doc's couch and the kitty Try to get him to eat something. I Haven't had much luck. All right, but you stay here. Yeah, sure Hello Yorkie Who are you my name's kitty. I'm gonna take care of you Why? Because you're sick Wouldn't you take care of somebody is sick? Not an enemy We're not enemies Yorkie Even if we were I'd take care of you Prisoners get will by themselves or they die. No, I'm either don't Anyway, you're not a prisoner. You can leave anytime you want to Is that the truth? Of course it is Unless you do something wrong like killing or stealing But let's not talk about all that I Want to know about you all sorts of things what it was like with the arapahoes or What you remember about when you were younger? I won't tell any secrets. I don't want to know any secrets Yorkie But maybe you can tell me well Did you have a mother in the tribe? Tell me about that I'm a white boy They've never let me have a mother Anyway, I was big enough. I didn't need one. Do you ever want one Yorkie? I don't know. I guess so sometimes Better to have a mother Mine was killed in a raid when they found me. I know Do you remember her at all? No Sometimes I think I do Sometimes when I'm asleep then What do you remember about it then? I don't know Just a feeling I guess Sort of like being warm Is that what it's like? Yeah, I think that's what it's like Yorkie Very much like that. I'm hungry kitty Do you let me have something to eat? Of course I will Yorkie. Of course I will Kitty spent as much time with Yorkie as she could manage And whenever she'd been with him he always seemed calmer and less frightened And we began to have hopes that maybe the boy would take to his new life after all Chester and I were busy and except for taking some food up now And then we turned Yorkie's care over to kitty completely What'll that be back mr. Dillon I forgot to tell you Chester He sent word he'd have to be out there another day. I guess miss Taylor's been mighty sick Do you think maybe Yorkie could just live with doc? Ah, I don't know what to do with him Chester. We sure got to do something Where's Yorkie? What? Oh, he's upstairs kitty. Have you been up there today? Have you seen him? No, I I thought you were with him. I couldn't get here till now York is gone Matt. What I'll go take a look I've already searched the place. He isn't there. Well, let's look in the street Chester Maybe somebody's seen you better find him. That's all I can say. Yeah, we'll find him kitty. Don't worry Maybe he's got hold of the gun. I hope not Anyway, if he's as smart as I think he is he'll locate a horse to get away on first Maybe a couple of them dog gone Just an hour to begin to think he was gonna settle down a little You never know But I still got faith in that kid somehow Chester Now here let's cross over to moss grimmick stable there, huh? All right, there's moss now. It's in the side there. Yeah Moss. Oh marshal Chester. Oh moss. Yeah, I was going to come see you marshal Oh that kid you brought in the other day. I caught him trying to steal one of my horses. You got Yorkie That is name. Where is he moss back here? You put up quite a fight for a sick boy marshal a little wildcat I had to tie him up finally I throwed him in the saddle room there Sure mean one There he is Little devil you'll hang yet Give me your knife Chester. Oh don't untie him. I'll handle him moss Here you are. What's she doing? Yorkie I'm sorry this happened I'd have given you a horse if you'd have asked me I Wasn't going to steal him and what was you doing riding him out of that stall young fellow wait a minute moss Yorkie you say you weren't gonna steal him No What what were you doing then? Kitty didn't come and I got lonely I don't know I think I do Yorkie You just wanted to be around something familiar something you know It isn't that right I guess so and you've lived with horses all your life. You know, I'm pretty well So you came over here I wasn't gonna steal him. I just wanted to get on him You know, I have to believe the boy moss is telling the truth moss Yorkie. I'm sorry. I treated you rough Why don't you tell me You are going to kill me me Kill anybody the kid Guess you don't know me very well What are you gonna do with me now? I'll uh Doc will be back tomorrow Yorkie If he says it's okay for you to stay up when you can I mean time kitty will be there All right Tell you what Yorkie you get well you come over here. I'll give you a horse to ride You will sure I got lots of horses. You can take your pick What if I steal them I've had horses stole before I don't understand you He trusts you Yorkie We all do You shouldn't You shouldn't trust anybody. Oh, maybe not, but we do anyway Uh moss and I got an idea. No, I um I don't suppose you could use a stable boy around here Some kid who really knows horses and who's used to hard work. Well, I don't have much money marshal I could feed him a little and maybe fix him in bed in the saddle room here Of course a good boy's like a good horse. There's bound to be some hot blood Try to lift my hair. I'll wop him good That clear young fella You're talking about me. Of course they're talking about you Yorkie one thing Can't hire nobody less than he has a whole name. Well Yorkie don't know his last name. Well call him anything Uh Kelly Kelly that's a good name Yorkie Kelly grimmick Kelly Yeah, sounds all right me You people get out of here now. I got work to do when doc says you're fitting Yorkie you come back I'll be back moss In just a moment we'll tell you about next week's adventure on gun smoke Say exciting things happen to breakfast when there's sugar crinkles at every place Sure new sugar crinkles make breakfast more fun than a circus. 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That's just right sweet So better get several packages Gun smoke under the direction of norman mcdonald stars william conrad as matt dillon us marshall Tonight's story was especially written for gun smoke by john meston with music composed and conducted by rex quarry Featured in the cast were richard beals larry dobkin and john daner parley bearer is chester and georgia ellis is kitty ken peter speaking Join us again next week as matt dillon us marshall Spend some time on a road branch during his fight to bring law and order out of the wild violence of the west in gun smoke Listen next week at this time when gun smoke will be brought to you by sugar crinkles The sugar rice treat. 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