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Speaker 3: There were over four hundred heading the McAdams curd four
hundred white faced Texas cattle along the three of us
to shove them along the trail of the abbey. Bu
the mccadams boys and Thomas may have tant or whatever
they heard brought.
Speaker 4: So I signed on to the drive and.
Speaker 5: It looked like I was going to run the money soon.
Speaker 3: There's been a cloud burst the second night out sounded
like we might be heading into more bad weather.
Speaker 4: The sky was all.
Speaker 3: Black and purple in the wind against blowing up little
balloons of dust. Thunder made the steers restless, and they
still remember that first storm that didn't like the idea
of going through another one them.
Speaker 5: Hi, Fama, I'm on up.
Speaker 4: I can see the rain now. Hadn't hit that yet.
Speaker 3: It's still a couple of miles ahead, but I could
see it, real plane streaking down across the sky like
little silver lines on a great blackboard. And the canyon
where we were, the sun was still shining.
Speaker 4: And give me a sort of funny feeling, rain and.
Speaker 3: Sunshine all one, sort of like being in two plays
at the same time, wife McAdams. He came pounding up
from behind and rained up alongside of me, A sharp
What do you think, rich, That wind don't change. We'll
be getting wet inside of fifteen minutes.
Speaker 5: Don't look like it'll change. No play not And I
guess you might as well keep on going. It'll be
easier to handle it for out of this canyon when
the storm hits hair. He all right up until north. Okay, hey,
get to let out, keep moving.
Speaker 3: Weaken up with it, dude, I tell you, stuff even up.
Speaker 5: Up almost feed him up bridge.
Speaker 2: I'm going back and.
Speaker 5: See his drink. Those stragglers want me to give Norman
hand and.
Speaker 2: I can handle hisself.
Speaker 5: It's about time he learned how all right, you're the boss.
Speaker 1: Just to keep a eye on him, brisk sure.
Speaker 5: Sure that lightning had hit up pine tree about fifty
yards up the side of the canyon, and when it.
Speaker 4: Toppled over, it started a couple of boulders rolling.
Speaker 3: Down the side of the ravine Fargus with all the
cattle needed to set him off. One of the longhorns
took a look at the rock and let out a
ball and told the other animals to get out of
his way.
Speaker 5: Hey, nothing, nor.
Speaker 3: I circled around and galloped over toward his brother.
Speaker 4: But Norm wasn't waiting for him.
Speaker 5: I saw him head up the slope of the canyon,
and it looked to me like he couldn't intend to
stop anything. All he cared about was jumping out of
the way. So I duck he was gonna as.
Speaker 4: Far as class.
Speaker 5: Rode right up to the middle of the herd like
a squad of a half. Only part of him, the
terre loose even on.
Speaker 4: A stampede life, was in front of the herd.
Speaker 3: Now I'm the lead stair turned off a couple more
shots following.
Speaker 1: There we are.
Speaker 5: I knew there wasn't gonna be any stampede, not now anyway, right,
could stopped him just in time.
Speaker 2: It's nice a right, somebody had to do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what happened to you?
Speaker 5: Almost filled me? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I guess you're scared the horse, that's what I said.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, here comes the rain A look like this's
the tail land on the door.
Speaker 4: Probably would we worn a shower.
Speaker 5: We better keep moving anyhow. You take over up here,
brit normal running back with me. Sure your horse all right? Now?
Speaker 1: I guess so okay, let's go.
Speaker 4: I half rain let up.
Speaker 5: There's nearly sundown, A green yellow rainbow.
Speaker 4: Urg stuff over the hills the east.
Speaker 3: And Rife decided to make camp, I said. Neither of
the Mcat brothers said much gone supper and afterwards Norm
sort of moved off a couple of yards from the
campfire and started playing my hard.
Speaker 4: But just stare at right.
Speaker 2: Huh you heard me? I don't know what you mean.
Speaker 5: You've been watching me ever since this afternoon my horse bolted.
You've been looking at me the way you used to
look when I was a kid and done something.
Speaker 2: You thought was wrong.
Speaker 5: We almost had a stampede today, now him almost. It
was rid in front man, it was the one to
step it. I suppose you've never been on a horse
that ran away with you.
Speaker 2: It was always able to handle that fellow menum before.
Speaker 5: Why do you have to keep nagging. I'm no cattle man.
I didn't want to come on this drive in the
first place.
Speaker 2: It's it's your herd.
Speaker 5: It's up to me would have sold the range years ago.
You're right, maybe we ought to say that. We will
talk about it.
Speaker 2: If we get back.
Speaker 6: Hold up a minute.
Speaker 5: I thought it was my turn to look after cattle Knight.
It's been a pretty hard day. You're probably tired.
Speaker 4: I'll wait, I'm no.
Speaker 5: More tired than you are.
Speaker 2: Okay, now I'll go on that hill over young.
Speaker 5: Well, you're not serious right about selling out.
Speaker 2: There's something in what norm says he's no cattleman.
Speaker 4: Well maybe not, but you are.
Speaker 2: I can always get work somewhere. Carrie would probably be
happier in town anyway.
Speaker 5: Carrie, my wife, Oh, I didn't know you were married.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Last winter she's staying with her folks in Bradley where
we take.
Speaker 2: The cattle Knight is that? So? Carrie is a fine girl,
breath younger than I am about Norm's age, young and pretty.
Speaker 4: He'll like her.
Speaker 2: Everybody does, Yeah, even Norm. First time in my life
him and me have ever agreed on anything or anybody.
She told me not to take him with us on
his dress, that he'd never make it. I should have
listened to her.
Speaker 5: Now, he's pretty young, right, this is his first cattle drive.
Speaker 4: For all we know, his horse maybe dead. Run away
with him.
Speaker 2: You know, Norm did the running out his horse. He's
no good, britt. I guess it's my fool. I guess
that bring him up wrong. But he's No.
Speaker 5: You're not his father. You're not to blame how he
turned out. I'm the only father you ever had. Old
man died when Norm was just a baby in mom.
Speaker 2: Just lasted a couple of years after that.
Speaker 4: Oh I'm sorry.
Speaker 5: I was thirteen, practically full broad when.
Speaker 2: She passed on, but Norm was only four. She made
me promise i'd look at him. See he got his
school and the chance to mount to something. Yeah, fire's
almost done, oh, hair officer. I sent him to school,
but in books, but he wouldn't stick it up. It
was too much like work. That's his real trouble, Britt.
Speaker 5: He's lazy, he's selfish, expects everything to be handed to him,
all side up in a fancy ribbon like this afternoon.
Speaker 2: He wasn't afraid of the cattle. He just couldn't be
bothered stopping him. He didn't care that much.
Speaker 5: Oh, maybe he's had it too easy, right, Maybe if
the chips are down, he'd surprised you.
Speaker 2: I mean, well, I'm not making the same mistake again,
not with my own kid, with your own.
Speaker 5: Yeah, carry's expected he might be here, but now for
all I know. Wow, Well, congratulations day.
Speaker 2: I'll buy your cigar and.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, oh well that's fine. I like. I
guess maybe it's time turning.
Speaker 2: I think I ain't very sleepy. I think i'll go
up in the well.
Speaker 5: I'll see if no, I'm all right, Oh dog gone it, Brett.
He is my kid brother, Sure, I know, right, sure?
Speaker 4: And I.
Speaker 5: I banked the fire for the night and spread up
a bed roll. The moon came up, full moon, kind
of a moon. A lot I have after rain, and
I'll stretch out flat. O except for a couple of
rocks right in the smallmer back.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 3: I thought about as comfortable as the man has right, Phil.
Speaker 2: Right, No, it's me.
Speaker 5: Oh, I thought you were looking out for the herd
or I have come nosing around because you don't trust me.
Speaker 2: So if he wants to stay up all night, that's
his this.
Speaker 5: Uh oh, I'm sorry, And we've got nothing but heroes
on this drive.
Speaker 4: H How do you figure that?
Speaker 5: Well, you're the six shooting angel, supposed to be the
fastest man with a gun west of Kansas City, east
of there too, the way folks tell it.
Speaker 4: No, you shouldn't believe everything you hear.
Speaker 5: No, I don't. I don't believe you any faster with
a gun on the next man. Probably, I don't believe
you any faster than me. See that white rock over there? Well, hm,
go ahead, judge. Well, I'm afraid I'm sort out of
practice of shooting at rocks.
Speaker 4: I used to do it, but I haven't tried it recently.
Do you mean by that?
Speaker 2: I'm still a kid.
Speaker 5: I didn't mean anything.
Speaker 4: You're a good shot, not a good night.
Speaker 2: Maybe you think it was an accident.
Speaker 5: I hit it, I hit it. I can do it again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, see that all? I oh.
Speaker 4: Noun kind of damned cool?
Speaker 3: Long I didn't keep me from sleeping, And when I
finally woke up, the sun was just starting to shove.
Speaker 4: The sky away from over my head.
Speaker 5: You know, a couple of seconds I couldn't quite decide
whether open eyes or not, but the smell of coffee made.
Speaker 4: Me make up my mind.
Speaker 2: Oh what when on and seven?
Speaker 5: A fish high?
Speaker 2: Where Norm taking a bath?
Speaker 3: Taking a bath?
Speaker 5: Yeah, found a water hole on the side of the hill. Oh,
he'll be back any minute. Just Norm to keep himself
due to that. Wouldn't surprise me if he showed up
wearing a clean shirt. Yeah, why, you can't blame the fall.
M Yeah, what's the uh it looks like a letter?
Oh oh, here's George Man. Well says love Carrie is
not your wife? Fai.
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh here read it to me, Brett.
Speaker 2: That's why read me what it says?
Speaker 3: Well, I uh, I'm not interested in somebody else's mail life,
I especially love letter.
Speaker 2: Is that's what it is?
Speaker 4: You are to know it's yours?
Speaker 2: Is that?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 5: But it ain't carry ain't never written me. She knows
I can't read. It's Norm that had the school. And remember, Brett,
I told you last night?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I remember reading me what.
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two of the six Shooter, starring James Stewart as Britt Ponseen.
Speaker 3: The sun was warm in the back of my neck
as I stood there facing Rye holding that piece, allowing
the paper in my hand.
Speaker 5: I looked down at the letter and then knock it
ripe again. If you just standing there waiting, not moving,
but any part of him moving except the vein in
his throat that jumped down a little throbs, I am waiting,
brit Now it's not my letter, right, and I guess
it isn't yours.
Speaker 2: He concerns me doing it. It's from Carry, It's from
my wife.
Speaker 4: Well, that's between you and her.
Speaker 2: I want to know what it says, what she's been
writing to Normal about.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, Britt read it to him.
Speaker 5: Oh maybe you'd rather I told you what it says. Right,
It says Carry loves me and she'll always love me.
And it goes into detail. You well in me all right,
you think that gun will stop me, I'll quit your
n right into it. Right, I put it away an arm.
Speaker 4: You wanted the sample?
Speaker 5: Am I shooting last night?
Speaker 4: You put that gun away and you.
Speaker 5: Get up where am I supposed to take your both on?
This isn't my argument. It will take three of us
to get that hrd Abel. I just want to be
sure there'll be three of us to do it.
Speaker 2: There ain't gonna be three britiverything for me. Oh you're
like you're thinking everything, but there's nothinking.
Speaker 5: My men want to say about punis shall not drive?
Two men may not make it, And I'm gonna be sure.
I'm not gonna lose bout money.
Speaker 4: You promise me.
Speaker 5: Now, come on straighten up here.
Speaker 4: It's the matter with you.
Speaker 5: H m hmm.
Speaker 4: You're both able to ride?
Speaker 5: Now? Yeah?
Speaker 4: I mean.
Speaker 5: What about you?
Speaker 2: Sure? Ah?
Speaker 5: Now, come on, let's get started.
Speaker 4: I dumped out the coffee and covered up the fire
while Norm got the horses. We sat up and got
the herd on the way. Norman moved out to the
front and.
Speaker 5: I stayed in the middle.
Speaker 4: Right got off the rear.
Speaker 5: I figured it'd be just as well as I stayed between.
Speaker 4: I looked back a couple of times.
Speaker 5: Whenever I did, I saw Rife staring at Norm, watching
him watching every movie made, but he didn't say a word.
Speaker 4: All day long.
Speaker 2: He didn't say a word.
Speaker 3: Then at supper time, wife, he sat off one side,
just pecking out his food. I know there's nothing wrong
with Norm's appetite, though it looks like you furnished him up.
Speaker 4: Norm. Oh, they're kind of hungry night.
Speaker 5: Huh?
Speaker 2: Why not just the kids still doing my growing? At
least that's what some people think.
Speaker 4: Uh huh.
Speaker 3: Wow, as long as you're so full of energy, you
wouldn't mind looking after the cattle.
Speaker 2: Huh.
Speaker 5: Well, you missed your turn last night.
Speaker 2: Didn't you say you're taking over this app fit constant?
Speaker 4: No? No, no, no, no, just a suggestion.
Speaker 5: I guess somebody's got to run things. Don't look like
my brother's holding a very tight rein seeing them all.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I'm on the ride.
Speaker 5: How about some shut eye?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 5: And I all right? I waited, the right dropped off
and I closed my eyes. I didn't sleep very long,
but now or later something woke me up. At first
I thought it was a coyote, and then I saw
right edging off through the brush.
Speaker 3: Going somewhere right.
Speaker 4: Huh, Kyle woke you up too? Huh? Yeah, not gone.
Ain't gonna do much good.
Speaker 5: If you're figuring on killing on drive.
Speaker 2: What do you mean it's empty drive? You ain't got
no right to kind affair.
Speaker 4: Oh uh, I'm just thinking about that ten percent of
the herd.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna kill him. You can't stop me.
Speaker 1: Nobody can't.
Speaker 4: He's your brother.
Speaker 2: No, No, he ain't, not anymore would a brother do
what he did to make me? I ain't never had
anything I could really call my own. If he wanted something,
he took it. I never stopped him, but carried is
my wife. She belongs to me. And this time I'm
gonna stop him.
Speaker 4: If you'd better wait and talk it over with her.
Speaker 2: I waited too long already. Why do you think she
didn't want him to go with us in his drive.
It wasn't because she was afraid.
Speaker 1: He'd never make it.
Speaker 2: She wanted him there with her, and at the time
like this is oh easy.
Speaker 5: Now, I probably wanted to take over the baby too
when that comes along, knowing I'll come on. You've got
to get some sleep now. You'll feel better in the morning, Mamma.
Speaker 2: I won't feel better in the morning, Brick. I won't
feel no better until until I'm easier with him.
Speaker 3: I got out away of it got much sfe that night,
and by noon time the next day I had the saddle.
Speaker 4: Of the mine was a little harder than usual. I
decided to keep my right.
Speaker 5: He's still ridding behind me, but the sun was getting
hot and I was kind of drowsy, so I just
jogged along for a few miles, not paying much attention
to anything or anybody. The scar hadn't given me a job,
easy boy eat, you know, I wouldn't have looked around,
and I wouldn't have seen the We were coming into
a gorge. It was right now, barely wide enough for
the herd, and the rock walls jutted up at a
sharp ang or two seat for a horse to climbing.
By the time I got my bearings, it was too late.
Speaker 4: This was just the kind of a.
Speaker 2: Place wife was looking for.
Speaker 5: I couldn't see him now, but I knew he was
doing the firing. I knew why he was trying to
stampede the cattle, and there in the gorge, Norm wouldn't
be able to get out.
Speaker 4: Of the way. There was no chance to get him
back to stop the wife.
Speaker 5: All I could do was stick a jam right into
the middle of the herd. Come I come on.
Speaker 3: Scar put his way past a couple of steers. I
tried to keep him under control, but the ones from
the rear started pressing forward with earnest and there just
want no holding the rest of us, and we was
right in and now real.
Speaker 5: Stampede this wife's way of killing his brother.
Speaker 4: And I wasn't for sure I was going to pair
and a butter Norm.
Speaker 2: Coup of the cow shot against us almost top.
Speaker 4: Of the curb.
Speaker 5: The scar was pretty sure to lose his footing before
we could get much further, and I jerked out my gun.
I cleared this a little task, but the cattle.
Speaker 4: Plugged up the hole to get through.
Speaker 5: All of my shoes were just making things worse.
Speaker 4: There was nothing to do now but just give squires.
He had let them let him run with.
Speaker 3: I didn't have time to worry about Norm. I didn't
know what had happened to him. I didn't even think
about him until.
Speaker 4: Hey, that wasn't right.
Speaker 3: Firing.
Speaker 5: That wasn't right, firing that was from up ahead.
Speaker 3: Well the bird was half crazy, how then shot out
from all directions.
Speaker 5: I didn't know where to turn out.
Speaker 3: I rose up in my stirrups, looked forward Norm Norm
was holding the ground the mouth of the gorge. He
could have gotten away all right, but he was holding
it round. I hadn't lifted myself up, maybe I would
have been able to hang on on the cattle twisted
around and start changing direction.
Speaker 5: As it was, I, oh, squire, held the ground, nottting
out behind a rock.
Speaker 4: I was the only say my Next I rolled under him.
Speaker 5: The cat went around him and started hitting back.
Speaker 7: Then a couple of minutes I was in the clear.
Speaker 4: Caddle passed me by.
Speaker 2: I bowed myself up, look at my feet, and I
looked around.
Speaker 5: The herd was still out of control of Chargian out
the other end of the garage.
Speaker 4: And then I.
Speaker 5: Then I got a flash of rice. Norman Normanship must
have heard.
Speaker 4: Of true f.
Speaker 5: normOn came pounded past me, firing and all.
Speaker 2: My brother.
Speaker 5: I heard it move on almost out of sight. Now
before I saw rife again.
Speaker 3: He was lying on the ground in a smear of
sticky red dust, and Norm was there, and the noble.
When I got up to him, you.
Speaker 2: He all right right, I started him Norman.
Speaker 5: I figured to try to get out of the way,
but he didn't run.
Speaker 6: You stopped him.
Speaker 5: He stopped him to me, b Yeah, yeah, I didn't
mean for him to turn on you rifle.
Speaker 2: I swear I didn't.
Speaker 1: I know that.
Speaker 2: I know that. I saw you trying to get through
to me.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Why did you want to help me? Norman?
Speaker 2: I started them so they kill you.
Speaker 7: Why did you want to help me?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 5: My brother, he all I've got, all I've ever had.
You hear that brid You don't hate hate. Listen about Carrie,
about that letter.
Speaker 6: It's all right, all that. I don't blame you what,
I don't blame carrying.
Speaker 2: But she loves you.
Speaker 5: That letter was read a long time ago, before you
and her were married, before she even knew he had
a long A long time ago. Yeah, I've catted with
ever since I was in love with her, But she
wasn't in love with me, not ever. And when you
come along, she realized that she she's never had anything
to do with me since. I only kept the letter
so that I could show it to you, and you
got there riding me the way you did yesterday.
Speaker 6: You're telling the truth, you know I am, don't you? Yeah? Yeah,
I guess I do. I guess I've known it all along,
would carry too mean about us having a big yard.
I was so happy and proud of it, almost spilled
over her. I guess man couldn't feel that way if
he wasn't sure of this way.
Speaker 5: Make it easy right now, don't try parving too much.
Speaker 2: What's the matter with your birth?
Speaker 6: You thinke them cattle finish?
Speaker 5: No, No, of course no, he said, to take all
feel us to get the abba him. That's the way
it's going to be, all three. Sure, No, Norman, me
maybe a while before I can get on my legs.
But you just give me a couple of hours rest
while you're running up the hood. A couple of hours
number around.
Speaker 2: Uh life.
Speaker 5: Life.
Speaker 4: He's dead, Norm, but he can't be.
Speaker 5: He was feeling better. Yeah, Man, don't always no one
who's dying.
Speaker 4: Norm.
Speaker 5: Sometimes man's lucky, all.
Speaker 4: Right, Britt, Britt out here?
Speaker 2: It's only only kids, cry, ain't.
Speaker 4: I guess? I guess this makes me the kid.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't say that, Norm, I'd say you got a
lot of growing up today. We buried right the mouth
of the gorge and went off to round up the
cattle again. Managed to find most of them, and about
a week later we hit abeen. All during that week,
I kept wanting to ask Normal about.
Speaker 5: That letter from Carrie if it was true what he
told run that it really had been ridden.
Speaker 4: A couple of years ago.
Speaker 5: But somehow I don't know.
Speaker 4: The subject never came up.
Speaker 3: At leastwise, I never found a good time for bringing enough.
Decided really it wasn't any my buildings.
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