Speaker 1: I'm offering you a choice to fight with knives or guns,
but just remember this, whichever way you choose, the loser.
Speaker 2: Will be a long time dead.
Speaker 3: Have gun, will travel, Starring mister John Dayner as Paladin,
San Francisco, eighteen seventy five, the Carlton Hotel headquarters of
a man called Paladin.
Speaker 4: He stopped following.
Speaker 5: He stopped following over here, Hey boy, message, Oh thank you,
hey boy, mister Paladin.
Speaker 6: Yes, oh, how do you do badly in the future
when you send a note to a lady? Kindly instruct
the waiter not to hand the note to the lady's companion.
Speaker 2: I apologize.
Speaker 1: Perhaps I can recompense you in some way.
Speaker 2: We start Webster one as telling my prices one thousand dollars.
Hey boy, madam, I asked.
Speaker 7: Me the most dreadful kind of embarrassment.
Speaker 1: Well, I am indeed sorry, man, if you were already
told him thousand dollars.
Speaker 6: He actually insisted that I was flirting with you across
that entire dining room last night.
Speaker 2: It was ridiculous.
Speaker 1: You were the soul of the comb, Webster said one.
Speaker 2: Hey boy, he told read like a stove. But he says,
pay ah, good.
Speaker 6: It's for bad me to have a communicate with you.
Speaker 2: Again, that's bad. The gentleman is your husband? Certainly not
that's good.
Speaker 1: But we have to show him, you and I that
absolutely nothing occurred to.
Speaker 2: Cause him to act this way. Of course, What time
may I pick you up for dinner? Eight o'clock? Always
a good hour until then? Oh boy, Oh what I
tell her? He's website? Oh tell him.
Speaker 1: I'll find out why three of his riders have been
waylaid on open range land.
Speaker 2: And I'll do what I can.
Speaker 1: Oh, I have gun, will travel exactly.
Speaker 2: The trail to the Brazis River is a.
Speaker 1: Long and lonely one, and it took ten days hard
riding to get there. Once I was there, it was
nothing but brackish muddy water, the product of an unfriendly nature.
Speaker 2: A mile beyond the trail sloped up into the rocks.
It was hard going.
Speaker 8: Holding right there, Man's on your left, Han's on your right.
Mine here and your ry unbuckle like gun belt. Let
her drop, climb down, don't weggle a.
Speaker 9: Hair boy, you stand behind him? Pete, Yes, mister, can
you see that sign?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Then read it?
Speaker 1: Closed range, keep out opinion ranch. You crossed this is
open range according to the map.
Speaker 9: According to me, it's open. When I say it's open,
you boys can have his clothes and horse. I'll just
take a gun day.
Speaker 2: He's got a daring Just get him peep. You don't
talks are tall? Now? Does it one of y'all to
be able to split and fetch water?
Speaker 10: You take other the cyrus?
Speaker 2: Good morning? Is this the Obanion ranch?
Speaker 10: Well, I declared, Look at the.
Speaker 1: Wind blew d I have some business with whoever owns
this wrench?
Speaker 10: Move on fell it next range inch is twenty miles.
No hand out here.
Speaker 2: I want to see the owner. Maybe we ought to.
Speaker 10: Let him to see the owner if he takes a bath.
First owner. Here's kind of presnickety about dirty.
Speaker 4: I want to coffee. I think you're pretty smart man.
Speaker 2: You're dirtier than I.
Speaker 4: I'll throw your foot.
Speaker 6: Well, I declare. If it didn't look like there was
much man under them raggedy clothing off here. You can't
go in there.
Speaker 7: I'm looking for Abanion, I, miss O'Banion, I own this rand.
Speaker 6: I told him not to come in, Miss Margaret.
Speaker 1: Is this one of our men?
Speaker 7: Cookies?
Speaker 6: No, ma'am, just drifted in.
Speaker 1: I see that's quite a collection of guns.
Speaker 7: Miss, collecting guns happens to be my foreman's hobby.
Speaker 2: No, he collected mine. I'd like to meet your foreman.
Speaker 1: Well, then come back in a week.
Speaker 7: Cyrus and his range crew left this morning on a
cattle draw.
Speaker 6: I could use some kitchen help, now, Miss Montgritt. With
Cyrus going, I can't get help out of the hand and.
Speaker 7: Hire this one if you wish. But see that he
takes a bath and put him into some clean clothing.
Speaker 11: Say, let me put a question to you, how much
do you appreciate the things that make life. It's a
little easier like to live in any place you've a
mind too. Now, according to our constitution, if we don't
like where we live, we can move to any other
state we want to. All we have to do is
hop in our car and take a train or a plane,
and off we go. And when we get to where
we're going, there's plenty of stores and shops and tradesmen
to help us in our even Let's go back a
spell to seventeen ninety and see what happened then when
folks got the urge to move. If you were living
back then, you'd maybe pick up a copy of the
Providence Gazette and you read an article called Advice to
American Farmers. It tells all about moving out west, which
is western Pennsylvania and Ohio in seventeen ninety. It says,
if you're moving, you'd better take along some apple, peach
and garden seeds, a kettle for boiling maple sap, and
of course a gun and plenty ammunition.
Speaker 2: You should also have a bible.
Speaker 11: Other folks moving west in seventeen ninety took along maple
saplings to plant, or homemade tools they could use to
build boats when they got there.
Speaker 4: Both were about as important as horses.
Speaker 2: In seventeen ninety.
Speaker 11: Most of the towns were built inside a fort since
the Indians didn't specially like all this pioneering that was
going on, and guns and ammunition were worked over time,
and Indian's weren't the old only ones who gave folks trouble.
There's plenty of bear and wolves and other wild animals
to keep folks on their toes. But somehow, in spite
of all the fuss and bother of moving into a
new community, folks in seventeen ninety didn't complain.
Speaker 2: They just kept working and.
Speaker 11: Fighting, so living it'd be easier in the future, the
future you're now protecting.
Speaker 1: When a man is stripped of his horse, his saddle,
and his guns, his problem has become simple.
Speaker 2: He must have food and a place to rest.
Speaker 1: Once those things are attained, he can go about the
job of retrieving has lost property, even if the job
of washing dishes and serving meals comes first. Here you
stay out of that.
Speaker 7: Too, well.
Speaker 1: Man can get mighty hungry around this place, working in
the kitchen.
Speaker 6: I've been watching you.
Speaker 7: You ain't no saddle bum just too, are you?
Speaker 2: Mister?
Speaker 1: Would you believe me if I told you I was
the oldest son of an English nobleman.
Speaker 6: Not hardly a little callous on your thumb. There wouldn't
be for a gun hammer, would it?
Speaker 2: It might cook it.
Speaker 6: You're here after someone or something.
Speaker 2: Tell me about the foreman.
Speaker 7: Cyrus me that other part there.
Speaker 6: Cyrus runs the whole ranch for Miss Margaret has ever
since the boat died.
Speaker 2: Why doesn't she run it?
Speaker 6: She's a lady, you could see that drinks tea and
read poultry.
Speaker 11: Books all day.
Speaker 2: There's still an obanion.
Speaker 6: Pulling them petal potato, you know.
Speaker 2: Cookie puzzles me this kind of rain.
Speaker 1: You should support thousands of head of cattle on my
way here.
Speaker 2: I didn't see twenty steers.
Speaker 6: Maybe you didn't look good. Cyrus does a good job
for miss Margaret. She don't have to turn a finger.
Speaker 1: Pretty hard thing not to turn the ranch to size,
even if you are the owner and the lady.
Speaker 6: You want somebody like her out there mixing with this
ranching crowd like Jacob and mothers sitting up side now
waiting to pay you back for dumpling them in the drop?
Speaker 7: Or is somebody like her better off inside.
Speaker 6: With her tea in poetry.
Speaker 1: Nothing wrong with tea and poetry, cookie, but it's not
a substitute for a living.
Speaker 6: You carry a tray into her now.
Speaker 1: All right, you'll be polite to here, all right?
Speaker 2: Tea? Thank you? Will you? Poor? Please? One? Number two.
Speaker 7: One please? I probably should say, I think that you've
done very well so far.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 7: But breakfast was served quite expertly. You'll show considerable household ability.
Would you kindly stop staring at me like that?
Speaker 2: Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 7: A good servant tries to be as in conspicuous as possible, yes, ma'am.
The books on the Mantold please bring them.
Speaker 2: Of course.
Speaker 1: Tennyson or Shelley Man, it doesn't matter, but it does.
I recommend this one Shakespeare.
Speaker 7: I think he's very common.
Speaker 2: I mean certain passages.
Speaker 1: Maybe he deals with common ideas, but in words of
uncommon beauty.
Speaker 7: Really and are you a poet?
Speaker 2: No, but I've read some.
Speaker 7: I see you may go as you say.
Speaker 1: Oh, I've drawn up a list of odd jobs for
the men. Hard work always improves ranch discipline.
Speaker 7: You've drawn up a list. Yes, I understand you're in
some difficulty with the men.
Speaker 2: Nothing that can't be straightened on.
Speaker 6: Well, in that case, please feel free to to oversee things.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Saladin.
Speaker 7: Yes, ma'am, I hope they thrash you within an inch
of your life.
Speaker 12: We'll be back to our show in just a minute,
but first this message. You know, our servicemen overseas have
a wonderful opportunity to observe new customs and traditions. They
find too, that these ideas aren't so strange after all.
For instance, take this business of tattooing on some of
the islands of the Pacific, and the thieves adorn themselves
with tattoo marks indicating the group.
Speaker 2: They belong to. Or the gods they worship.
Speaker 12: Among the Brahmins and Mohammedans, a tattoo is used as
a mark of caste, although the caste system is rapidly disappearing.
In Japan, skilled artists create truly beautiful designs using the
human body instead of a canvas. Well all this might
sound strange, but tattooing is not unknown in our culture. However,
as some of our servicemen have observed, it's while it's
a little embarrassing when the fellow with a tattoo that
reads John loves Mary takes as a wife a girl
with the name of Josephine, or the young man with
a beautiful anchor on his chest finds himself in.
Speaker 2: The army or the air force.
Speaker 12: From another standpoint, the beauty marks worn by some women
of Western civilization are nothing more than a form of tattoo,
and the same thing is true about other customs and
traditions of all countries. A way of doing things may
be different, but the ideals are the same. These customs
are important to.
Speaker 2: The people who follow them.
Speaker 12: Our service men are helping to maintain goodwill by observing
the customs of other people in other lands.
Speaker 1: An if you others want to take it up, and
oh you can get to work for a change.
Speaker 4: You cookie needs water? Hop to it.
Speaker 1: Yes, you firewood on the double half court, by sundown
you in the barn, curry those animals the rest of you.
There's enough work for all hands around here.
Speaker 2: You can't find any Let me know.
Speaker 4: I'll find it for you, now, hop.
Speaker 2: What about me?
Speaker 1: You and I are going to check the feed and
water conditions, Jake, any objections.
Speaker 10: So long as I can't wop you?
Speaker 2: All right with you?
Speaker 10: Well, that's about the size of it.
Speaker 2: What do he think?
Speaker 1: Lots of grass, plenty of water, everything but the cattle.
Does mister O'Banion know there's not even breathing stock left
out here?
Speaker 10: He knows what Cyrus tells you no more?
Speaker 2: Uh go on?
Speaker 10: He even make sure we don't get visitors through here,
poking around asking the kind of questions you're asking.
Speaker 2: I'm sure that does he keep any sort of records.
Speaker 10: Spead bills led your book in the barn if you
can abuct Cyrus and his rangecrew don't count on much help.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm gonna count on you for one thing, to
take cause books. I want to look him over and
wait a ms Margaret. What she doing out here?
Speaker 10: Ain't seen her on the heart since you went away
that fancy school.
Speaker 2: And go on back to Jake. I'll be right along.
Sure you know, Oh.
Speaker 7: Mister Palladin, I'm glad you happened along.
Speaker 2: I said, See, I didn't happen along. What you knew?
Speaker 1: I was riding out here? You cirtainly had to this point.
Then you dismounted and loosened the sinch here.
Speaker 7: Dare you speak to me that way?
Speaker 1: Well, it's time somebody spoke to you some way.
Speaker 2: What are you talking about you?
Speaker 1: This is the first time you've ridden your own ranch.
I've never seen you look prettier. Even the bridges are becoming.
Speaker 7: A gentleman would never know?
Speaker 1: You ride very well. I used to stake when your
parents' backs were turned. You used to slide out the
window and pick out a horse and ride bare backs.
Speaker 2: What if I did, and between.
Speaker 1: Embroidery practice and elocution lessons, even dream about running your
own ranch out here? That'll be normal for a boy
or a girl.
Speaker 2: And why about you.
Speaker 11: Anyway?
Speaker 7: I wouldn't know where to start now.
Speaker 2: And start by being honest with yourself first? For example,
why did you ride out here? What did you want? Honest?
Speaker 7: Yes, I wanted to come right up and say.
Speaker 2: Stop calling me ma'am.
Speaker 7: I know you're not really hired to help you.
Speaker 1: You have a way.
Speaker 7: Of upsetting me every time that you walk into the room.
Speaker 2: That might be dangerous for a lady.
Speaker 7: You said, to be honest, Well, I'm a woman too.
Speaker 1: In a week, I intend to be a thousand miles
from here, Oh, ballad, I think we'd better ride back,
Miss Banian.
Speaker 2: We wouldn't want to get caught out here after dark,
would we.
Speaker 13: On July thirtieth, sixteen nineteen, the first Representative Assembly in
America met in a log church in Jamestown, Virginia. The
small group of men who comprised the House of Burgesses
were America's first lawmakers. Initially, the Assembly had only one chamber.
Then around sixteen eighty, an upper chamber was added, and
Virginia's legislature had two houses. A century later, the concept
of a two chamber legislature was carried over to the
United States Congress and resulted in the formation of the
Senate and the House of Representatives.
Speaker 2: For almost three hundred.
Speaker 13: Years, this type of legislation has been an important characteristic
of American democracy from the contributions of past come the
principles of the prince.
Speaker 2: Ranch is pretty quiet. I wonder where everyone is. Isn't
it supposed to be this way? Just you and I.
Speaker 7: We're the only ones left on him.
Speaker 2: Well, Jake, Cyrus is back? Where inside? What can I do?
Speaker 1: That depends on Miss Abanion. She is the boss here.
Oh but are those of the ranch books?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Give them to me, Maggie.
Speaker 1: You're broke, broke, your range is stripped clean. Cyrus has
the power to sign loans and he's used it.
Speaker 12: No, what'll I do?
Speaker 2: You'll help yourself or you'll lose the place.
Speaker 9: Oh well, Cyrus, I wondered where everybody was.
Speaker 2: You see, you've been going to a lot of trouble
my bucks. Huh, that's right.
Speaker 9: I wouldn't worry too much about them.
Speaker 2: See what's to worry about?
Speaker 9: These notes I hold right here notes.
Speaker 2: That's what I was gonna tell you.
Speaker 1: Cyrus obligated this ranch of several loans, sold your cattle,
pocketed the money. I've used the money to buy the
loan papers back.
Speaker 10: All I have to do is demand payment.
Speaker 9: Oh and speaking of debts, mister, don't you owe me
something from our first meeting.
Speaker 2: I was coming to that.
Speaker 9: Now wait a minute, I just collect guns. I don't
use them.
Speaker 3: Now it's your movie.
Speaker 9: Fine, it's just what I wanted you to do.
Speaker 4: Watch his knife, mister Palladin.
Speaker 2: Now it ain't murderers, just self defense. I'm gonna cut
you like a punk.
Speaker 5: Hold it.
Speaker 7: The next bullet won't be wasted on the air. Puts
that knife down.
Speaker 1: Or I'll kill you. Cyrus, right, you sad, I'd do
it if I were you.
Speaker 2: Cyrus.
Speaker 1: Maggie O'Banion's taking over the knife.
Speaker 4: Cyrus dropped.
Speaker 1: Now those notes?
Speaker 2: Please, you can't. Yes, I can.
Speaker 1: Now get off my property.
Speaker 2: She means what she says.
Speaker 7: How they do Peladin?
Speaker 2: Fine, Maggie, Fine, what.
Speaker 6: Are you doing back in San.
Speaker 2: Francisco waiting to see you? I think that's horrid.
Speaker 6: I just managed to get registrat and around where he's
decent to me again.
Speaker 7: Now you show up?
Speaker 2: Would you rather are left again? It's terribly difficult. What
did we do the last time he became difficult?
Speaker 6: We went out to dinner and had a perfectly charming
isn't it?
Speaker 2: And may I suggest that we do the same thing again?
Speaker 6: Tonight eight o'clock is always a good hour.
Speaker 2: Until then, dear lady, until there.
Speaker 3: Have done, Will Travel. Created by her Meadow and Sam Row,
is produced and directed by Norman McDonald and stars John
Dayner as Paladin, with Ben Wright as hey Boy. Tonight's
story was written by Gene Roddenberry and adapted for radio
by John Dawson. Featured in the cast were Lynn Allen,
Harry Bartel, Barney Phillips, and Virginia Gray Hugh Douglas speaking.
Speaker 2: Avgun.
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