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Now what in the world was that fella who just came in the door there with Tyler and Short? Oh, him. That's Weed Pindle. He rode in on a mule a couple days ago. Which has the bigger ears, him or the mule? Oh, he is funny looking all right. And he acts peculiar too. That's a mighty scrawny mule, Pendle. I seen you on him this morning. Pendle here is kind of scrawny yourself. Short. Maybe some beer to fat him up a little. I'd like some beer all right, but I got no money. Why'd you sell that guitar of yours? Sell my guitar? No, I'd never do that. You must have a nickel at least. Last money I had got stolen. Now who dare steal money off a tiger like you, Findle? I was asleep. I started to wake up, but they kicked me in the head. You call that a head? Looks to me more like your neck just growed out and haired over. I ain't very handsome. You sure ain't. Hey, what'd your old lady think of you when she saw you, Pindle? I don't know. She died. Yeah. Laughing. I'll bet. Aw, now that's enough, Tally. That's too mean. Pindle's a harmless little fella. Ain't nobody talking to you, Chester. Bartender, three beers. You buying, Tyler? I'm proud too. Fine old soldier like Weed, Pendle. How'd you know I was a soldier? I didn't. Where was you a soldier, Pendle? Third Illinois's Cavalry. Illinois? You was with the Yankees? Well, I never done much. We had hard luck. Never got seen no real Confederates Toll. Just a bunch of ragged tailed bushwhackers in South Missouri. They was led by old chicken thief named Klein. Yeah, so there was. Tell me something. Did you ever kill any Klein's men? A few before I got shot myself. They caught some of them after and hung them. But I never did see a hanging. You never saw a hang nowhere? I never did. That's so. Well Bindle, you're in luck. Since we was kinda in the war together, so to speak, I'm gonna show you a hangin. You're about ready. Ain't you short? My rope's on my saddle. I'll get it and meet you out back. There gonna be a hangin' Real hangin' There sure is. You're lucky, Findle. You run into us just in time. What are you talking about, Tyler? Who you gonna hang? It's a kind of surprise, Chester. You can watch too. I hear you know it's against the law to hang people around here. I saw Marshall Dillon ride out down this morning. When he gets back, it'll be all over. And don't you try to buck me in, Shortchester. You'll die if you do. Come on, Pindle, you don't want to miss it. Sure. What do you suppose they're up to, Doc? And. I don't know, Chesterman. I'd like to find out. Yeah, I guess we'd better. I sure do wish Mr. Dillon was here. I never did think much of Tyler and Short. They play no good. I'm worried, Doc. There they are. Why, it's Pindle. They got a rope around his neck. Of course, you won't see all the hanging, Pindle. Just the start of it. What are you hanging me for? I ain't done nothing. You was in the 3rd Illinois Cavalry. Well, sure. We was. Fighting under that old chicken thief Klein in South Missouri. It's a real pleasure to hang a Yankee like you. But I only done what they told me to. I didn't kill nobody on purpose. All right, now, wait a minute, you two. You've gone far enough. Shoot him, Tyler. You go shooting anybody, and you'll be the ones to end up on a rope. Doc ain't armed. He never is. Go on, Tyler. All right, you can try it. But you're sure gonna have to kill me before you hang anybody. I'll kill you. You'll have to kill Me too, Tyler. Mr. Dillon. Now, where'd he come from? Take your rope off that man's neck, Short, and do it quick. Sure, Marshall. Sure. I told you you shouldn't hang me. Oh, we was just fun in the marshal. We wasn't gonna hang you. What's this all about, Short? Well, he's a Yankee marshal. Killed a lot of us in Missouri during the war. We was gonna scare him and then run him off. Well, you forget about that and forget about the war too. It's over. The next time I catch you up to anything like this, you're gonna go to jail. Go to jail over dumb Yankee who don't own nothing but a skinny mule and a guitar? Get out of here, Short. Now. You too, Tyler. Okay, marshal, with this Yankee. Better get out of here too. Out of dog. Shut up, Tyler. I got moving. Sure. See you later, Finv. Pendle. Marshall Dillon's here. He wants to see you. I sure do thank you for letting me sleep in your jail last night, Marshall. Well, you've been sleeping before, Pendle. With my mule. I always do. I hear you're broke. What do you do for a living? I never did nothing much, Marshall. Just ride around on my mule. What about your guitar? Don't you ever play and take up a collection or something? Oh, no, Marshall. I wouldn't do that. Why not? Can't you play well enough? I don't know, Marshall. I never played it for nobody to hear except me. All right, Chester. Take him over to the Texas trail. Maybe Sam can give him a job of some kind. Well, it wouldn't be steady, would it? Well, I don't know. But why shouldn't it be? Cause I'll be leaving in a day or two. Oh. Where you headed? Nowhere. Nowhere. Just ride around on my mule. I always do. And where are you from, anyway? I was born San Benito. Oh, on the Rio Grande. Yes. I left soon after. Took my guitar with me, though. Never did go back. Well, if you're from Texas, how come you fought in the Union Army? I don't know. One army's just like another, I guess. Well, maybe you're right at that. Chester, take him over to Sam's. All right, sir. I left my guitar back. I'll go get him. He sure is a peculiar little fellow, Mr. Dillon. Yeah. Pretty helpless, too. You think Short and Tyler will bother him anymore? Well, knowing them, I believe they'd have hung him yesterday if they could have. You tell Sam to let me know if they even start talking to him again. Yes, sir, I will. They're about the meanest pair of men I ever knew. Yeah, they are. And they'll think of something. 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Sam gave Weed Pendle a job sweeping up the saloon and let him live in a tiny shack out back. He tried to get him to play his guitar, but Pendle wouldn't do it. And we all began to think that he probably didn't even know how. It's hard to believe that anyone as simple as he was could learn to do anything. I looked up Short and Tyler and warned him again to leave him alone. And they did. Until one morning a couple of days later. Chester and I had just come out of Delmonico's and we're walking up Front street. Look at there, Mr. Dillon. Across the plaza. Yeah, I saw them. Let's go over there, Chester. Here's Pendle and his mule, all right. Yeah, and Tyler in short, too. I told him to keep away from him. What are they laughing at? They're laughing, but he isn't. What do you suppose they've done to him? Now look at his mule, Chester. That's what they've done. Oh, my goodness, Mr. Dillon, he's lost the ear. I thought Yankees like mule was that way. Short Nistal was her. I guess there's just no pleasing to some men. Tyler, you shouldn't have done that to my mule. Well, it's the marshal again. Did you men do this? Now, Marshall, we ain't done nothing to Pendle. Did they do it? Pendle? I tried to stop him, but Tyler held me. Then they gave me my mule's ear. Marshall. Right here, see? Yeah. Turn around, both of you. Turn around, I said. Now take their guns, Justin. Yes. Can't do nothing to us, Marshall. We didn't hurt Sandal. I don't like what you did to his mule. I got him, Mr. Dillon. Now that you can turn around again. I ought to cut an ear off of each of you, but I can't do that. So I'm gonna do the next best. Now look here, Marsha. Now leave him there, Chester. Wendell, I'm sorry about your mule. He ain't much of a mule anymore. Well, you better go take care of him. And maybe these two will leave you alone now. Poor mule. You know what Weed Pendle told me yesterday, Matt? Well, it could have been almost anything, knowing him. Kitty. No, this kind of makes sense. I asked him if he was ever lonely and he said no. He never stayed anywhere long enough to get to know anybody that well. He's a little strange, all right. Now, what are they up to? Who? Tyler in short. They just came in with Kendall. Oh, look, Matt. He's got his guitar with him. Yeah. Hey, listen, everybody. Hey, listen, everybody. Little Yankee is going to play his guitar for us. At least he's going to try, ain't you, Yankees? Don't shoot my mule. We ain't going to shoot your mule. Not if you play good enough. Go on, get started if you know how. They've threatened to kill his mule. Matt, you got to stop. No, wait a minute, Kitty. Go on, Pendle. What place? All right. Oh, Max, that was beautiful. Yeah. He kind of surprised everybody, didn't he? Tyler and Short don't look so happy about it. No, the crowds with Pindle now. Good. They'll leave him. Yeah, they better. Hello, Yankee. Hello. You've been playing that guitar a long time in there, ain't you, Bindle? They wanted me to. They liked it. Well, me and Short been waiting to tell you how we liked it, too. Yeah. Let me see that guitar, Pendle. No. You hurt my mule. Give it to me. I got a gun in your belly, Pindle. Don't move. I want my guitar. You can have it. I just want to sort of tune it for you first. Please. Please don't do that. Another thing that's wrong with this guitar. It's a little bit too big for a man like you, but I can make it smaller. There you are, Yankees. Soldier. Maybe this will learn them. Let's go, Short. Are they both dead, Duck? Oh, my, yes. Real dead. For several hours at least. Why, he must have been asleep when it happened, Doc. It looks like Short there struggled a little, I guess Tyler got his first and woke Short up for a minute. He wasn't awake very long, man. Just long enough to see who was cutting his throat, probably. Well, he can't talk now. No, I guess I'm all through here. What do you want to do with him? We'll let the hotel worry about him, I guess. It's Weed Pendle I want now. My, and him such a mild little fellow. Any man can take just so much, Chester. I sure hate to see Poor Pindle hang for killing these two buzzards, man. Chester, wait for me at the jail, huh? I'll bring him over as soon as I can find him. Sam. Yeah. What'll it be, Marshall? Where's Weed, Pendle, Sam? Oh, I just sent him out back for a bucket of sawdust. What do you want him for? Short and Tyler got their throats cut early this morning. Good. I guess their smashing his guitar was too much for Pendle. That's so. Oh, there he is now. Pendle, come over here. Morning, Marshall. Good morning, Bindle. Where was you last night? I don't know. Here, I guess. You don't know. Now, wait a minute, Marshall. Bindle, where was you after they wrecked your guitar? Well, I sat in the alley awhile, then I come back here. Yeah, that's right. He was so broke up about his guitar, I didn't want to leave him alone, so I took him up and let him sleep on the floor of my room. That right, Bindle? Well, go on, tell him now. Sure, Sam. That's right. Are you trying to alibi for him, Sam? I know Marshall Dillon, but I care about him. Some people care about me. Who, Pendle? He's just talking, Marshall. Who cares about you, Pendle? Tell me. Those men. What men? He means some of the boys that was here when he come back with his busted guitar, Marshal. They just told him how sorry he was, that's all. I see. They liked his music, didn't they? Yes, they did. They liked to hear me play. Who was in here then, Sam? Well, now, Marshal Dillon, you know how it is. I'm busy pouring drinks, and I don't pay no mind to who's here and who ain't. I? I couldn't rightly say it all. Okay, Sam. I guess I can't beat the truth out of you. Oh, now, Marshal Dillon, who cares about Tyler and Short? Dodger is better off without him. There's a law against murder, Sam, and it's the same for everybody. I'll be back later. What are you going to do now, Mr. Dillon? Well, I've done all I can, Chester. The whole town's just plain Quit talking. Nobody knows anything. Well, I guess they're all trying to protect Pendle. Yeah, they are. But he didn't do it. Well, who did then? Well, if I could prove who did it, Chester, I'd have him in jail. Say, come over here. Well, I declare, Mr. Dillon, it looks to me like he's leaving town. I told him he could go. He looks funnier than ever on that one eared. Mule. Yeah, Dodge treated Pendle pretty rough. He sure did. Poor little fellow. Looks kind of empty like that. He's guitar, don't he? Well, maybe you'll find another one somewhere. Anyway, they sure like to hear him play in this town. A couple of the boys in particular, I guess. Yeah, they liked it just fine. Say, Mother, want to see your small fry eat a better breakfast than ever? Well, may I suggest that you dish him up some sugar crinkles to start with? Sugar crinkles, you know, make breakfast more fun than a circus. Sugar Crinkles is the Sugar Rice treat that's just right Sweet. It's high time to forget the sugar coated cereals that seem too sweet. You and those others that don't seem sweet enough to the kids. Just pour out crisp, golden sugar crinkles and see how just right sweet a sugar coated cereal can be. Just right sweet. Be sure to get several packages of sugar crinkles because they're great for snacks. Kids love them that way. Kids love them anyway. Try Sugar Crinkles and you'll love them too. Remember, new Sugar Crinkles is the Sugar Rice treat that's just right sweet. Gunsmoke under the direction of Norman Macdonald stars William Conrad as Matt Dillon. Uh, tonight's story was specially written for Gunsmoke by John Meston with music composed and conducted by Rex Corey. Featured in the cast were Vic Perrin, John Dainor, Lawrence Dobkin and Harry Bartel. Parley Bear As Chester, Howard McNear as Doc and Georgia Ellis as Kitty. Special guitar effects by Al Hendrickson. Ken Peters speaking. Join us again next week as Matt Dillon, U.S. marshall fights to bring law and order out of the wild violence of the west in Gun Smoke. Gun Smoke was brought to you tonight by Post Toasties and Sugar Crinkles. You just realized your business needed to hire someone yesterday. How can you find amazing candidates fast? Easy. Just use Indeed. Stop struggling to get your job posts seen on other job sites with Indeed sponsored jobs. Your post jumps to the top of the page for your relevant candidates so you can reach the people you want faster. According to Indeed data, Sponsored jobs posted directly on indeed have 45% more applications than non sponsored jobs. Don't wait any longer. 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