Speaker 1: And now Mystery theater, come in welcome.
Speaker 2: I'm e. G.
Speaker 1: Marshall.
Speaker 3: Now what do you think of when you hear someone
say the spirit of seventy six fifes and drums the
Battle of Bunker Hill Valley Forge most likely. But what
isn't too well known is the fact that there was
a spirit in seventy six, a spirit, a ghost, a demon, indeed,
a fearful, deadly apparition to whom all of us owe
an almost incomprehensible debt. Because had we not been able
to secure the good offices of this frightful phantom and
precisely the right moment, well we might still be subjects
of his m I should say her, Royal Majesty Jabiz fallen'speth.
Speaker 4: This Court martial has found you guilty of spying for
the enemies of your Sovereign King George the Third.
Speaker 5: But General, I've just been trying to fight for freedom.
Speaker 4: He's the sentence of this court that you'll be hanged
by the nick until dead.
Speaker 5: General, I don't think he's going to stand for it. Well,
you don't think who is going to stand for it?
Speaker 4: When Dan Dingo, that's who he's the old Indian spirit
of Justice, and these are his holy and sacred stamping grounds.
He isn't going to let you hang me indeed.
Speaker 5: And how does this alleged.
Speaker 4: Spirit of yours propose to interfere with His Majesty's justice?
Or he'll think of something when he better think quickly,
Shad marched the prisoner to the nearest suitable tree.
Speaker 3: Our mystery drama Wind and Dingo was written especially for
the Mystery Theater by Sam Dan and stars Jack Grimes
and Kurt Benson. Seventeen seventy seven was hardly a vintage
year for the American Revolution.
Speaker 1: We were losing.
Speaker 3: The British appeared to be so strong, so well organized,
so wealthy, where we seemed so weak, so disrupted, so
poverty stricken. What we needed so desperately was a victory.
Of course, in October, that victory would be ours in
a backwood settlement in New York called sarah Toga. British
General John Burgoyne would lose not only a battle, but
an empire. He would lose it because well, historians have
advanced all sorts of strategic reasons, but nowhere among them
will you find mention of an Indian demon called wind
En dingle, and no one speaks of an obscure American
Jabies Fallensby, James Fallensby, who could ever believe he would
become a hero.
Speaker 2: You're mad at me, John, Oh, James, I ain't mad.
Speaker 5: I can tell. I can always tell.
Speaker 2: I said, I ain't mad.
Speaker 6: And now let's be done with it, John, take me
back with you.
Speaker 4: No, why No, it's because you're mad because you just
ain't cut out for soldiering.
Speaker 5: But I just ain't cut out for farming either.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 4: I was practicing with your musket and I hit the
tree every time at fifty yards and that's a smooth boar.
But you just give me a Kentucky rifle or a well,
even a Pennsylvanian.
Speaker 5: I could hit a well, I could be a sharp shoot.
Speaker 6: How come then you hitting a Phraser's prize bulls.
Speaker 5: Well, there was an accident. I swear. I thought he
was locked up in the barn, and so I wasn't watching.
Speaker 7: Now you promised me something, jave, Yes, John, I will.
Speaker 6: I'm taking you to Uncle Dick's tavern up near Saratoga.
Speaker 5: John, that's way north. It's like a foreign country.
Speaker 6: But there'll be someone to take care of you. So
you've got to promise that you'll.
Speaker 5: Behave But I can take care of myself.
Speaker 2: John Jabe, do you want to win the war? Answer
yes or no? I guess so. Well, you have to
help out on the home front.
Speaker 6: And you can't have me coming back from General Gates's
and want me to get you out of scrapes.
Speaker 2: You've got to do your part.
Speaker 5: You've got to. Now what are you saying?
Speaker 2: Oh, oh there, oh there, they're coming after it? Boy,
may as well face it? Who go behind him?
Speaker 5: HiT's he not frasier? And hold in the name of the.
Speaker 4: Law, catcher cat your did the rights?
Speaker 5: Got you in the act? Sheriff face these sons under arrest?
Speaker 2: Sheriff. You know we weren't running away. I know, John,
I know I gotta get Jave.
Speaker 6: To his uncle's tarrant up past Aubany, and I only
have a week's leave.
Speaker 5: My army and my right Sheriff Jabez follows me here
shot my prize bull. I demand compensator.
Speaker 2: I'm willing to make good for him.
Speaker 5: And it gets just that the army ain't been paid.
Am I supposed to wait Sheriff throughly jail?
Speaker 4: Well, I was only practicing so I could join the
army and fight for freedom.
Speaker 5: Keith, what army would take a half week? Like you?
I demand you arrest these two desperate riggans and throom
behind bars.
Speaker 4: Now, everybody just shut up. Tomorrow morning, Judge McKenzie is
going to be in town.
Speaker 5: Judge Mackenzie's he not Fraisier's cousin. It can't be helped.
He's the only judge we got. You throw them to
desperadoes in jail, Sheriff. We're all going back.
Speaker 4: I will spend the night at Frankenthal separate deal. Let'scape, John,
Will you give me your word of honor. I don't
want to put you and your brother in jail. All right, Johnny,
but head back, Sheriff, I hold you RESPONSI shut up?
Speaker 5: He knock? Can I ask you something? Knock? Why don't
you like me? What do I do to us? John?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 5: But you're a captain in General Gates's Army. That that
should mean something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess it would mean a lot more if.
Speaker 4: We were winning, John, you mean we ain't gonna win.
We we gotta win. We just gotta way.
Speaker 5: We're fighting for freedom. Tell me we're gonna win?
Speaker 6: Well, Yeah, we're gonna win, I guess, but it's gonna
take a whole lot longer than most folks think. You
know how some folks are they want everything yesterday?
Speaker 5: Well, well, well, here.
Speaker 4: Are two really fine looking boys, and I sat to
the town and a credit to the country might have
a joined your lads, what's all this s hell? I
tell you what, I'll treat you to supper.
Speaker 2: You will?
Speaker 5: Why? Why?
Speaker 4: Because you're fighting for our country, John, And nothing's too
good for you and mister Franklin foul beef and bread
and beer for.
Speaker 5: My two good friends.
Speaker 6: What's on your mind in it?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 4: Know, boys, I got jibe here for a good sixteen
pounds worth of damages.
Speaker 5: Agree, But I said I was so I know.
Speaker 4: I know, Son, I know, And that's why I'm willing
to offer John a proposition, a confidential proposition. Yeah, John,
you and me, we're men of the world. Is that
a fact you're talking?
Speaker 5: Well, now, it ain't our fire, John.
Speaker 4: Them Southerners want to land in the Ohio territory.
Speaker 5: The merchants are looking to get more for their goods.
The rabb arousers around to have a good time. What's
all this to do with law abide in New York.
Speaker 1: Farmers like that.
Speaker 2: I don't want to hear any more.
Speaker 4: I sent it down, mister Frankenthal, and make sure them
places are kept full.
Speaker 2: As I said, I don't want to hear no more.
Speaker 5: Well, that ain't like you, John. He was always a
prudent man. Prudent that is till.
Speaker 4: You get swift up in this rabidigan hip hipparade. Well,
it gave a bunch of high spirited boys a chance
to play soldiers, Dave, don't you read another bite? Well,
there's something wrong with breadatorasan Maybe you did win a
couple of skirmishes against some poorst carried im for the
German farm boys and redcoats ball.
Speaker 5: That evil spirit is called Hall of Enoch.
Speaker 4: But no, the British are sending in trained, in seasoned regulars.
General Burgoyne is marching down from Canada. General Fowl's marching
up from New York City. You'll be cutting half cotton
a practic, that's how you see it. A prudent man
thinks of the future. Therefore he chooses the winning sign.
And you think you have, Oh, I know I have.
And here's my proposal. As a captain in gates his army.
You'd have certain information.
Speaker 2: You want me to become a trader.
Speaker 4: No no, no, no, no, lover of your fellow man.
Speaker 5: The war's lost? Why not into sooner in the waste
of life. I ought to report this to the sheriff. June.
You just see the light.
Speaker 4: I'll forget about the damages to my prize bull Kenny's
worth sixteen but I'll pay it. But meanwhile, Jabe will
have to sit in jail. You wouldn't put poor jam
title to justice. I'm unentitled to my damagess. Jabish won't
go to jail. I'll think of something.
Speaker 2: What all right?
Speaker 5: The soul that can help you? There is two I
know who can help us.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 4: Do you know He's always helped me when I called
on him before. He'll help me again.
Speaker 5: John, I'm gonna call him my oldest friend.
Speaker 2: He let it call on your richest friend.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna call on him for justice. He'll help us.
Speaker 2: You'll see jab Look everybody's looking at it.
Speaker 5: It don't matter. He's my friend. He'll help.
Speaker 4: If you remember walking Beiba, the old Indian we gave food.
Speaker 2: Now you just come along with me.
Speaker 5: Jabis before walking Beaver died.
Speaker 4: He told me all about the secret of Jibwey's spirit,
a spirit that fights evil. If he taught me how
to call him. His name is Wyn Dan Dingo.
Speaker 5: You hear that. Everybody Win Dan what's eddigant? Whin Dan Dingle?
When Damn Dingo?
Speaker 4: If they ain't the funniest, don't laugh.
Speaker 5: Don't laugh at Win dun Dingo.
Speaker 4: Why not because because you don't like it.
Speaker 8: If you don't like it, I'm.
Speaker 4: Warning you on in all of your win Dan Dingle
don't like all right, all right.
Speaker 5: The joke's over.
Speaker 6: Any man here laughter, My brother has to settle with me.
Speaker 5: Hold on now, hold on, everybody. We don't want no fighting.
Oh John, you just say jab upstairs and put him
to bed. But I don't want anything to happen to Enoch.
Nothing's gonna happen to nobody but Enoch.
Speaker 4: Fraser has got to say he's sorry to win Dan Dingo.
He's got to say, a John, you better.
Speaker 5: Get him upstairs. Hey, by Jimminy, Hey by Jingo. I
know your name.
Speaker 4: It's Wind Dan Dingo thang of a wolf and an
eagles wing.
Speaker 5: I say your name is Win Dan Dingo.
Speaker 4: Hey, who are you talking to James Nobody, John, nobody
does Yes, you wor that's why I woke up.
Speaker 5: I heard you say something.
Speaker 6: Oh, yes, it's that crazy thing that wind Dan Dingo.
Speaker 4: No, it ain't crazy. I've seen them, you have a
hundred times. Most folks are scared of them, but not me.
All you have to do is ask for justice, and
that's all I've done.
Speaker 2: That's all you've done.
Speaker 4: Win Dan Dingo's a good spirit, and I'm asking him
to fight against the evil spirit that's taken hold of
poor Yoch Frazier, because well, it takes a spirit to
fight the spirit. Jabe, go back to sleep, yes, John,
tongue of a copperhead, horns of a moose, claws.
Speaker 5: Of a bear, feathers of a goose. Babe, Hey, by Jiminy, shut.
Speaker 2: Up, I'm really sleepy.
Speaker 4: But John, this is the only time we can call
Win Dan Dingo at midnight. It's the only time he's
able to hear the voice of mortal man.
Speaker 5: And the clock just struck.
Speaker 4: Listen, he's here, that's his voice.
Speaker 2: O Shay, that's just an ego way off.
Speaker 5: Listen. Will you go back to sleep? Who's that sounds like?
Speaker 4: Enough?
Speaker 5: Frasier. He's come to en.
Speaker 2: Must be have a nightmare.
Speaker 5: Let me know.
Speaker 2: O's drinking awful lot.
Speaker 5: It's when Dan Dingo all right and justice is being done.
I don't think Enough's crimes were that's you reals it?
Speaker 2: Well he's quiet now. I guess he woke himself up
from that nightmare.
Speaker 5: Oh he didn't wake up.
Speaker 2: He's dead. That's enough, Jave. I need my sleep, and he.
Speaker 5: Brung it on himself. He got no one to blame.
But I'm sorry. Will you shut up and get to sleep? Oys?
Speaker 4: Get up, wake up, Come up, sir John John.
Speaker 5: Boys, you got to leave?
Speaker 2: Well, what's wrong?
Speaker 5: Don't let no one here?
Speaker 4: Get out of here as fast as your legs will
take it, and as far as.
Speaker 5: Your horse can go.
Speaker 4: Why enough, Fraser is dead, he's dead, dead, murdered.
Speaker 5: But who killed him?
Speaker 2: Who? Why?
Speaker 5: Jabies?
Speaker 2: Who else?
Speaker 1: Who else?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 1: We know who else?
Speaker 3: Or perhaps we think we know it was wind En
Dingo the ancient Indian spirit?
Speaker 5: Or was it?
Speaker 1: The fact is we know.
Speaker 3: Jabes wasn't there while the deed was being done. But
our knowing cannot help Jabies. After all, none of us
will be able to appear as a witness. However, I
shall appear again in just a few moments with Actu.
It is the fall of the year seventeen seventy seven.
We're about a month away from the great victory at
Saratoga that will turn the tide, and one of the
principal characters who will decide the fate of the revolution
is now deep in trouble in a little Hudson River town.
His name is Jabies fallensby the same Jabes we met earlier. Impossible,
how could Jabes be the principal character in anything? Well,
don't sell our Jabies short. He has a great many
hidden facets.
Speaker 5: Nah, Sheriff.
Speaker 4: You know, Jaeve couldn't kill anybody, I know, But it
don't look good.
Speaker 2: Jamee Jabe, did you kill Ana?
Speaker 5: No, John, I never killed anybody.
Speaker 2: He don't lie, sir.
Speaker 5: Except maybe that prize ball of Enoch.
Speaker 4: Look, boys, everybody heard Jabe has threatened Enoch with this
to say Win Win didn't dangle when Dan Dingo, well whatever.
Speaker 5: That was the name, Enoch was screaming. You know how
some folks are.
Speaker 4: They'll claim Jabe was guilty of witchcraft. It's no witchcraft,
just Win Dan Dingo bringing justice, griff.
Speaker 6: Enoch ate and drank like a peg. He had a nightmare,
and he died of indigestion.
Speaker 4: Hello, I'm sure that the point of view will be
considered at such time as cooler heads will prevailable, But
that I'm sure ain't gonna be tomorrow morning. Now, you
two better be on your way faster than lightning.
Speaker 5: John, you don't believe I killed Lena?
Speaker 2: How could you? You were with me all the time.
Speaker 5: Well, you could believe I had win Dan Dingo do it.
Speaker 6: I don't believe anything of the kind.
Speaker 5: I didn't ask when Dan Dingo to kill Knock. All
I asked for was just and it was justice win
Dan ding.
Speaker 7: Okay there, Now, before we go inside, you promised me
that you will do as Uncle Dick and a Martha say.
Speaker 2: You'll keep out of scrapes, you will fire guns.
Speaker 5: John, can't you take me with you?
Speaker 2: If you come with me, you'll have to kill people.
Speaker 1: Now, could you do that?
Speaker 5: Jabe? Could you shoot a man?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 5: I still have bad dreams about that bull and Martha.
Speaker 8: It's John and boys.
Speaker 9: Meet my nephews, the taller ones that captain m and.
Speaker 8: The other one he's come to heavily.
Speaker 5: Both of you come right over here.
Speaker 8: Yeah, well, look at the two of you. How you've grown.
Speaker 5: Oh jee, uncle Dick, Well.
Speaker 9: Boys, your your uncle's a prisoner, a prisoner captured the Taekunderoga.
Speaker 8: The Red Coats took it from us. I don't know.
Speaker 9: It don't look good the way General Burgoyne's headed here
from Canada with eight or ten thousand men.
Speaker 2: I better be getting back right here.
Speaker 8: Oh, you win't go nowhere till you had your dinner first.
You both sit on.
Speaker 1: I'll be right back.
Speaker 4: You're going back, John, I have to You have to go,
and I have to stay. You'll be fighting for freedom,
and I'll I'll be doing nothing.
Speaker 2: You'll be doing your part helping out here.
Speaker 5: John.
Speaker 4: This war it's the biggest thing that will ever happened
while I'm alive, and I'll have done nothing.
Speaker 5: I don't say that. Who knows you could wind up
being a hero.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: But by sweeping out of tab I be ready, being
ready for what for whatever fate has in store. While
I look at myself and you know what I say,
I say, Jabez follows b.
Speaker 5: Fate has got absolutely nothing in store for you.
Speaker 4: Yankee doodle, keep it up, yanky, doodle dandy, mind the
music and the step.
Speaker 5: And with oh yeah you're there, Yes, sir, you're you're
a captain, aren't you.
Speaker 2: Hey, I have a captain.
Speaker 5: I could tell my uniform. My brother is a captain.
He's a general.
Speaker 4: Date.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well we're in an Irish American troops.
Speaker 5: Well I guess they're an Albany captain.
Speaker 2: How far is that?
Speaker 5: Oh? Maybe thirty miles? Should I get a fresh heart?
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, I shot.
Speaker 5: Listen.
Speaker 6: The British are broken food general forgins headed this way. O.
Speaker 5: They're coming. They have Martha. We're growing to Zomie. They're coming.
Speaker 8: I see him, I hear him.
Speaker 5: Have mother. I found a rifle on the headlong you
just leave it there, leave it yep. Up, we just
can't let we're going zombie go to Albany.
Speaker 8: Yes, we can say.
Speaker 9: The British uppeap just like we are, yes ma'am. And
they go to church, yes, ma'am. And we're tavern keepers.
It's an old and honored profession and our duty is
to dispense hospitality to all that cross our threshold. Look
at look at the mad Martha, look at.
Speaker 5: Look at the big they are.
Speaker 9: How they march all the guns and cannon and wagons
and everything.
Speaker 5: I yes, you really call.
Speaker 8: Them an army, not.
Speaker 5: Like not like I want to have, Martha nothing.
Speaker 2: I don't care.
Speaker 5: I just bet our voice can fight better. Hey, look
that man with all the gold and the waist. Oh
I ain't that some horse he's riding.
Speaker 8: Must be General Bergoyin himself is riding toward us.
Speaker 5: Thank you better get on your peak price.
Speaker 2: All right? But there you med him.
Speaker 4: This site presume is Fensbi's taver. Yes, and you would
be missus Martha forens Bay, and he would be your nephew.
Speaker 5: Jabe. How how did you know? Ah, we have our information?
Speaker 2: Madam?
Speaker 5: You mean you're spies jap. Well, now, Jabez, do look
down your nose. It's fine.
Speaker 4: You may decide to try it yourself one day, Missus
Hoorn's Bay, I am told you prepare the best table
in the province. Oh well, yes, says I understand you
just as soon not feed a morsel or bestow drop
upon the red coated tydr.
Speaker 5: Oh no, I never said it.
Speaker 8: Why I was telling JP here.
Speaker 4: Just before the yes, well we shall pay, I might
add it your usual pre rebellion rates none of your
yankee hanky pancake, Captain stirring the army, will halt here,
park Hurst, have our baggage brought in?
Speaker 5: Well, Jamie's no need to look frightened. I'm not frightened.
Speaker 4: I haven't come here to hang you from that sycamore treem.
Although if I did, would it be such a significant
loss to anyone?
Speaker 5: Would it? While, sir, it would be a significant loss
to me. Come in.
Speaker 4: Uh, you told a aunt Martha you wanted this wine, General,
and here it is, I say, uh, Aunt Martha wants
me to clean up the Yes, a man Qui jabs.
That's a rather large knife you.
Speaker 5: Carry in your belt. Yes, Sirtain, you look like a
peaceable enough fellow. Why are you so well armed?
Speaker 4: Well, I'm I'm in the woods a lot, and you
need a knife, I must say, Javis, I'm considerably relieved.
I'd overheard you and your aunt talking in the kitchen. Oh, General, Oh,
I wasn't eavesdropping. Well, the truth is I was who
can resist the temptation? And I heard you talking about
fighting for freedom. I had assumed, perhaps that you might
strike a blow for freedom with that knife.
Speaker 5: With the knife, how how.
Speaker 4: By letting out the heart's blood of Sir John Burgoyne.
Please don't say that the idea stabing somebody it makes.
Speaker 5: Well, well, what's this? You're actually trembling? Have some right? No, no, no, no,
s that that'll make me sucker. I'm truly sorry.
Speaker 4: I didn't mean to upset you, but you must admit
that the assassination of the Tyrant Commander, as I believe
i'm called, would.
Speaker 5: Be a mighty blow for freedom. Now, sir, I ain't
gonna admit that. Why not.
Speaker 4: Well, I've been thinking and thinking, and well, I think
I'm willing to die for freedom. I'm just not welling
to kill for it.
Speaker 1: Ay, sir, the dispatters have arrived.
Speaker 4: You have a communication from General Howe. Do I have
a letter from mister David Garrick in London nursa.
Speaker 5: But are you sure, Parkhurst?
Speaker 4: Yes, sir, but this letter from General Howe. But he
make as good as promised he would produce my play
this season, Sir, This letter from General Howe the devil
Take General Howe, dammit, Parkhurst, My Maid of the Oaks
is as good at work as anything Garrett could put
on the boards better. This letter from General Howe and
new York City is most urgent. The devil take will
you how Fanny Kemball herself wants to play the part.
And did you say a letter from General Howe in
New York City? Yes, sir, Just what in the seven
unholy names of Satan is we Willie Howe still doing
in the city of New York. He should be halfway
Walbenny Balau, Well, sir the letter. The letter was sent
from New York. But General Howe is marching on.
Speaker 5: Philadelphia, Philidelphia. May I have that letter?
Speaker 4: Hmm hm oh, Solio Volgin.
Speaker 5: The greatest assistant I can.
Speaker 4: Give you is to capture Philadelphia and does prevent Washington
from moving northward? You're obedient, Servant Washington. He wants to
save me from General Washington. They Fred Barber junior Aristocrat
and his pathetic rebel that Master Rates is an army
with these Gates and.
Speaker 5: Morgan who threatened me here. But sir, what's to be done?
Speaker 4: Well, we'll move back very quickly toward Fort Tykwonderoga before
the rebels can close in and cut us off. Jabis,
bring me more wine quickly, Yes, sir, General, I want
the army ready to march in two hours.
Speaker 9: Jabe, I was listening at the door to every word, General,
howe in common, we're going has to scadattle back to Canada.
Speaker 5: Well, that's a blow for freedom, as it will.
Speaker 9: Be a bigger blow for Going was captured, taken with
his whole army, the entire kit and kaboodle hold him
guns and horses and ammunition and supplies. But how had Martha,
How you're gonna do it? Jabe me, Yes, sir, you
you're gonna be responsible for the capture of gentlemen Johnny
Bergoing and eight thousand of the best troops in the
whole British army. You Jabis fallins me.
Speaker 3: Well, the only thing that can be said at this
point in time is that she knows something we don't know.
And she's right, because as students of history, we know the.
Speaker 1: End of this story. We know that Burgoyne and his
army were captured.
Speaker 3: Now we shall expand that knowledge and discover how when
I returned shortly with Act three, Each must answer the
call of fate. For some it comes early, for others late.
And fate is now calling to Jabis. Follensby a young
man of New York State in the year of seventeen
seventy seven. Proof again, if proof wherever needed, that some
of the most remarkable and earth shaking events occur not
simply because of the actions of the rich and the powerful,
but also through the unconscious intervention of the powerless and
the lowly.
Speaker 9: General Burregoing can be captured by our General Gates. If
if if one had Martha, if they can get here
quick enough, Javis, if Gates can only send some cavalry
real fast, they could the labor going long enough for
the rest of the army.
Speaker 8: To come up and capture them.
Speaker 5: But what can I do?
Speaker 9: You can mount Mayflower, she's the fastest horse we got
in the stable, and ride like the wind to where
General Gates is camped and tell him, Jame Jap are
you listening to me?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, Martha, I'm listening.
Speaker 8: Do you understand what I'm saying?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: But I can hardly believe it, believe what well what
John said.
Speaker 5: And And yet it's come true.
Speaker 4: John said, he said, if I was ready, fate would
make me a hero.
Speaker 8: Will it has come true.
Speaker 5: And I can fight for freedom without shedding blood. You
ain't got a minute to lose.
Speaker 8: Saddle up Mayflower.
Speaker 5: Oh, I have to bring General Burgunda a bottle wine.
Speaker 9: I'll do it, but he has me on your way, Jabe,
every minute as precious as gold.
Speaker 5: Goodbyahr, goodbye, Jabe, and the good Lord bless you.
Speaker 4: Captain Sterling has ordered all unit commanders to be ready
to move into ours. I want a screen of light
cavalry on both flanks. May I say, sir that it's
a brilliant maneuver.
Speaker 5: No doubt.
Speaker 4: But back in London it will be construed as an
inglorious retreat, but our most necessary one to my political enemies.
And I have a vintage crop this year. A retreat
is always a disgrace.
Speaker 5: A general to move.
Speaker 4: An army so many miles through hostile territory is surely
a feet well.
Speaker 5: I shall be.
Speaker 4: Burgoyne, the bugler, while how will be the hero now
with his cheap victory at Philadelphia? Did I say cheap?
It will cost us these thirteen colonies? Where's my wine? Jbes?
Speaker 5: General you you ordered this Battleston about time too?
Speaker 8: Oh I'm sorry, sir.
Speaker 5: I tell you Parker's this William Howe.
Speaker 4: He hasn't the sent the brains, the intellect of this
young servant, this Jbes fallensby.
Speaker 5: Where is James, Missus follinsby? Where's Jabizir? Yes, madam, oh, yes.
Speaker 8: Well I sent him. I send him to the.
Speaker 5: Barn to as well. I wish to see him.
Speaker 8: Oh, but but he's got to chop some wood.
Speaker 5: I wish to talk to him.
Speaker 9: But, begging your pardon, sir, unless he does his chores,
you aren't gonna have wood for your fire tonight or
for me to cook your supper.
Speaker 4: May I suggest a solution to the problem. I shall
assign in orderly to the wood chopping us freeing Jbs
for his more important you, which is to speak with me.
Fetch him if you please, Madam? Is there a difficulty
I am unaware of. Why are you so nervous?
Speaker 5: Me so frightened? And where is Jabies?
Speaker 8: Side by the barn chopping woods?
Speaker 4: I can see the barn very clearly from this window,
but I neither see nor hear Jabies in general? The
boy was in here and I handed you the dispatch
from New York City. Could he be off for General
Gates's encampment. Who will Missus follins be could he?
Speaker 8: Oh? I? Oh, how no.
Speaker 5: No, Parkhurst have a party of scouts go after.
Speaker 4: Him, will Jabies, General, I guess you were wrong, wrong.
Why you said you didn't come here to hang me
to their sycamore tree outside, But those men who captured
me said that's.
Speaker 2: What your ime.
Speaker 5: Sorry, jab Is, but we have rules. Don't hang him.
Why should you hang him? Because he was conveying information
to the enemy. Who says so? Now, Madam, who says so?
Speaker 8: But maybe maybe he just felt like taking a little
ride on horseback? I mean, is that something to hang
a man for?
Speaker 5: I see him? Well, that would of course place the case.
Speaker 4: In an entirely new perspective. Is that what Jabez was doing?
Speaker 5: Yes, sir?
Speaker 4: Is it Jabez? Were you merely out for a little ride?
Or were you conveying information to General Gates?
Speaker 8: Tell him you were just out for a little ride, japis.
Speaker 5: I was bringing information to General Gates?
Speaker 4: Should I ask that question again, Javis, No, Sir, I
heard it the first time.
Speaker 5: DEMI Chabers, Do you want me to hang you? No, sir,
But but I don't want to line either.
Speaker 4: General the army is ready to mark I know that, Parkers.
May I suggest we hang the prisoner and be on
our way, Javis, I don't want to hang you.
Speaker 5: I know that, Sir, I appreciate ate that, but I
can't lie. Even if you have to die, I won't die.
Oh indeed, why not, because that wouldn't be justice. And
that's why Win dan Dingo wouldn't let it happen. I
don't believe I caught that name.
Speaker 4: Win dan Dingo is Win dan Dingo. He's the older
Jibwe Indian spirit of justice and all through here, all
through this country, it's his holy ground.
Speaker 5: And if you ask him.
Speaker 4: For justice in the right way, he'll see you get it.
Speaker 5: Well, my boy, I suggest you ask him.
Speaker 2: I will.
Speaker 5: Well, what are you waiting for? Midnight? Midnight? But yes,
you can't raise him till midnight, but I intend to
hang you now. Well, you wouldn't do that. General, you're
a fair man. You'd give a man a chance. I
am giving you a chance.
Speaker 4: Just tell me you were out riding for pleasure or
to visit your girl?
Speaker 5: And where quits. I don't get any pleasure riding a
horse and I don't have a girl here.
Speaker 4: In general, every minute we delayed, James, do you expect
me to wait till midnight? I expect you to do
the right thing. Well, what is supposed to happen at midnight.
I'll call on windan Dingo is and he'll appear where
right here and only here? Why because this is where
the injustice was first made.
Speaker 5: And then and then he'll see that you give me justice.
Speaker 4: Oh, I don't know, General, That'll have to be between
you and wind and Dingo.
Speaker 5: He'll convince you somehow.
Speaker 4: You mean, a spirit will materialize and convince me that
it would be unjust to hang you. Yes, sir, sir,
shall the light cavalry be persted on the flanks. Now
he will actually appear, Yes, sir, General, we need every minute, Parkhurst.
A Yes, sir, do you know what this lad is saying? Yes, Sir,
I mean no, sir, A spirit, an Indian spirit will
appear here at midnight to.
Speaker 5: Plead for his life, Er, Sir, any honor.
Speaker 4: The rebels will know about General, how we have just
about run out of time, No, Parkhurst, we run out
of life. But time, ah, there's enough and to spare.
Look at that boy's face, Parkast, I must remind the
General he is the only completely honest human being you
and I have ever met.
Speaker 5: Let us salute him, sir.
Speaker 4: Now jbez this Winden dingo of yours.
Speaker 5: He will appear promptly at midnight.
Speaker 4: General, is it possible you don't realize, Parkhurst, I will
deserve disgrace if I run from this continental rabble. I've
decided to stay, to fight, to break the back of
this impertinent rebellion. Is that clear? Yes, sir, Jabez. Will
your wind En dingle a pair promptly at midnight?
Speaker 5: Yes, sir, he will. You'll see them.
Speaker 4: I had better because if I do not, if you
are playing me folts, then I shall hang you, hang
you from the bow that second moltree. I shall hang
you by the neck until you are dead and leave
your dangling for the kites and crows to feast on
your carcass. You understand, yes, sir, Yes, sir. I wish
to report that it's midnight.
Speaker 5: I'm aware of that.
Speaker 4: Parkers also word from the outposts enemy signs on the
left flank.
Speaker 5: I thank you, parkerst There may still be time to
break out. That will be all, yes, sir, Well, it's midnight.
Jabis jbi is.
Speaker 4: Hey by jiminy hey by Jingo. I know your name.
It's wind and dingo thang of a wolf and an
Eagle's wing. I know your name his Wind and Dingo?
Speaker 5: Is here a wolf an egle? What jb is?
Speaker 4: Tongue of a copperhead, horns of a moose, claws of
a bear, feathers.
Speaker 5: Of a goose. Where is he? I know your name.
Speaker 4: It's wind and Dingo, will Wind and Dingo.
Speaker 5: I don't know, general, I don't know. He's always showed
up before. Were you lying to me? No, sir, that
those words always fetched him. Admit to a lie, but
I was telling the truth. Say you were frightened. No,
it's the truth.
Speaker 4: You made it up to, say your life. I tell
you it's true. Admitted to lie, and I'll spare your life.
But I've seen him. I know him for that, Jabez,
I shall hang you.
Speaker 5: Win Dan Dingo, windan Dingo.
Speaker 4: There is no wind Dan Dingo, but there is a
major pakast and I shall order him to as symbol
an execution.
Speaker 5: Wind Dan Dingo, Win Dan Dingo. I know your name.
It's wind and Dingle. There is no wind and Dingo.
Speaker 4: Listen, Let you quiet night. I can hear an eagle
screaming in the distance. Listen, Can it be a bear
prowling about?
Speaker 5: The Listen of a snake the call of a moose,
the corowl of a bear, the tackle of a goose.
It's wind and dingo. There is no wind Dan dingo.
Speaker 4: If you hear him and you see him, I think
I see something, the shape of a man, a sneak,
his feathers, the hair clause things.
Speaker 5: You say him, you see him? What is it? It's
wind Dan Dingo?
Speaker 4: No, no, it is impossibly doesn't exist these things, don't
it says it's wind and Dingo.
Speaker 5: I'd dreaming. You're awake. I had too much to drink.
It's wind Dan Dingo. What does he want with me?
Listen to him? I'm listening. I can't hear a word.
He talks without words. He's in your mind.
Speaker 4: Listen to what he's saying. He gets angry. If you
don't listen. What is wind and Dingo saying?
Speaker 5: Spare his life? You will give him justice, give all
people justice without justice? Sedaarily fifth tith tith.
Speaker 2: Jb is.
Speaker 5: I don't want to do general, General brigand you have help.
What have you done in the general?
Speaker 1: Well, I didn't do nothing, General General.
Speaker 5: Are you all right? Sir? Where where did it go?
Where did what go? But it was just standing there
what was just standing here, oh Jabers.
Speaker 4: Yes, General you're a young scoundrel, But Sir, I really
should hang you when Dan Dingo was here, but I won't.
On one condition, give me your solemn oath, go join
Gates's army. Sir, I really am not much for fighting, Jabez.
There's nothing so destructive to the smooth operation of an army,
indeed a government. As a completely honest man, you've done
enough damage here. Now take your talent for disruption over
to your own people. It's perhaps the best chance sweet
British have to win this war.
Speaker 3: Well, Jabies did manage somehow to join General Gates's army,
and he fought side by side with.
Speaker 1: His brother John.
Speaker 5: However, Burgogne's cynical.
Speaker 1: Hope was not to come true.
Speaker 3: After all, we did win the war, so you see,
Jabe's honesty, sincerity and idealism didn't do us too much
damage at that time.
Speaker 1: I'll be back shortly.
Speaker 3: In case you're wondering what happened to gentlemen, Johnny Burgoyne.
He went home to become richer and more powerful than ever.
He spent the rest of his life writing plays, and
they say one of them was about a powerful Indian spirit. Unfortunately,
many of his papers have been lost, A pity, however,
if they ever find that play, we'll present it here
for you on Mystery Theater. Our cast included Jack Grimes,
Court Benson, Mason Adams, Earl Hammond and Briana Raeburn. The
entire production was under the direction of Hymon Brown.
Speaker 5: This is E. G.
Speaker 3: Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, pleasant dreams. B.