Midget of Broken Spur | The Cisco Kid (02-03-55)

Summary

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Old Time Radio Westerns – The Cisco Kid

Episode Title: Midget of Broken Spur | The Cisco Kid (02-03-55)
Release Date: February 17, 2026
Host: Andrew Rynes
Duration: ~32 minutes (excluding ads/intros)

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Overview:

This gripping episode of The Cisco Kid—“Midget of Broken Spur”—showcases a cunning, pint-sized villain, Little Sam, who masterminds an ingenious train heist. Cisco and his faithful companion Pancho are wrongly accused and must clear their names while outsmarting a deceitful gang. The action-packed narrative blends classic Western suspense, sharp dialogue, comic relief, and moral lessons about justice and cleverness in the wild frontier.

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Key Discussion Points & Story Breakdown

1. Setting the Stage: Gold Shipments and Danger

• [03:02] The narrator establishes the scene: in the Old West, gold is routinely shipped by train—prime targets for bandits.
• The episode’s antagonist: Little Sam, a midget whose innocent appearance masks a cold, cunning criminal mind.
  • “His innocent, childlike face and voice belied the vicious cunning and treachery in his brain. His name, appropriately enough, was Little Sam.” (Narrator, 03:02)

2. Dramatic Train Robbery

• [03:49] Gold shipment discussed between two guards, who plan to transfer $8,000 at Broken Spur Junction.
• At the crucial moment, Little Sam reveals himself inside the mail car, having cleverly smuggled himself inside a mail sack.
  • “At the last town this sack was mailed, I was in it.” (Little Sam, 04:48)
• With a Derringer pistol, Little Sam holds up the guards, kills them, and orchestrates the escape with help from his burly partner, Bruno.
  • “This is a Derringer pistol. However, I can assure you the bullets are men sized.” (Little Sam, 04:37)
  • “Now, you know I never leave eyewitnesses, Bruno.” (Little Sam, 06:36)

3. Cisco and Pancho Enter the Scene

• [07:41] Cisco and Pancho arrive near Broken Spur Junction to perform a favor—collecting payroll money for a friend.
• They notice things are not as expected and suspect trouble, especially when the train guard signal protocol doesn’t yield the anticipated response.
  • “If I did give the correct signal, there's only one other thing that could be wrong. Those train robbers are working in this territory. And the guards in the mail car are dead.” (Cisco Kid, 09:33)

4. Mistaken Identities and Imprisonment

• [10:08 – 12:11] Cisco and Pancho are mistaken for the train robbers and jailed by the local sheriff, owing to false witness statements and confusion.
  • “Why are you arresting us? You know why. Giving those two train guards.” (Sheriff, 11:35)
  • “The way we punish murders in this county is by hanging.” (Sheriff, 11:56)
• Notably, the episode doesn’t shy away from the grave peril faced by Cisco and Pancho.

5. Little Sam’s Calculated Next Move

• [12:11 – 13:53] Little Sam decides it’s safer to spring Cisco and Pancho from jail to make them scapegoats for further robberies, instructing Bruno to break them out and then kill them.
  • “If we wish to remain in business, Cisco can do us no good in jail.” (Little Sam, 13:03)
  • “Bruno, since it will make you happy, you can kill them.” (Little Sam, 13:31)

6. Jailbreak and Showdown with Bruno

• [17:15 – 19:44] Bruno demonstrates superhuman strength, bending cell bars to free them. Instead of gratitude, Cisco and Pancho become targets.
  • “I take these bars and pull them apart. Harder. Harder.” (Bruno, 17:41)
• A tense fistfight ensues. Ultimately, Cisco’s quick thinking and wrestling technique gets the better of Bruno.
  • “Now, Emily, this Indian wrestling hold. Drop to the ground with you.” (Cisco Kid, 19:05)

7. Cisco and Pancho Devise a Trap

• [19:44 – 20:11] Realizing the true scheme—to have them blamed for ongoing robberies while the real criminals remain at large—Cisco and Pancho plan to spring a trap for Little Sam and Bruno.
  • “So they could kill us. That would give them a perfect alibi.” (Pancho, 19:54)
  • “We will let them fall into the trap they set up themselves.” (Cisco Kid, 20:16)

8. Second Heist – The Final Confrontation

• [20:33 – 24:47] The criminals attempt another mail car robbery, using the same tricks: Little Sam in a mail sack, Bruno stowed in a trunk. This time, Cisco and Pancho, acting as mail guards, are ready for them.
  • “It was clever of you, Cisco, to deduce that I would rob this car.” (Little Sam, 23:32)
  • Cisco and Pancho overpower both villains in a chaotic brawl.
  • Memorable moment: Pancho gives Little Sam a spanking to encourage his confession and compliance.
  • “That spanking you gave him, Pancho, saved us a lot of trouble.” (Cisco Kid, 25:41)

9. Resolution and Restoration of Honor

• [25:29 – 26:48] The sheriff apologizes for the mistake, returns the gold to the rightful owner, and declares Cisco and Pancho innocent.
  • “I’m glad that Poncho and I were able to prove you wrong.” (Cisco Kid, 25:33)
  • “All the money we recovered from Little Sam and his partners was turned back over to the railroad.” (Sheriff, 26:29)
• Comic closing dialogue as Cisco and Pancho prefer the open prairie over bustling trains, ending with a characteristic witty riddle from Pancho.
  • “To make a barrel lighter, Cisco, fill it full of holes!” (Pancho, 28:11)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Little Sam’s chilling candor:

  • “Gentlemen, put your hands up in the air, please.” (Little Sam, 04:23)
  • “I can assure you the bullets are men sized.” (Little Sam, 04:37)
  • “Now, you know I never leave eyewitnesses, Bruno.” (Little Sam, 06:36)

• Comic relief:

  • “You big ape. We sure do make a good pair, you and me.” (Little Sam, 07:04)
  • “To make a barrel lighter, Cisco, fill it full of holes!” (Pancho, 28:11)
  • “Pancho put you over his knee…” (Pancho, 24:56)

• Cisco’s moral clarity:

  • “I am sure that Bruno and whoever sent him had a hand in robbing the mail car.” (Cisco Kid, 19:44)
  • “This is the only chance we have to prove our innocence and capture those Bandidos.” (Pancho, 22:47)

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Key Timestamps

| Timestamp | Segment | |-------------|--------------------------------------------------------------| | 03:02 | Little Sam’s introduction & beginning of train robbery | | 04:48 | Little Sam reveals his mail sack trick | | 10:08 | Cisco and Pancho arrested | | 13:12 | Little Sam sends Bruno to break Cisco/Pancho out of jail | | 17:15 | Bruno breaks the jail bars | | 19:05 | Cisco outwits Bruno using wrestling trick | | 20:16 | Cisco and Pancho formulate their trap | | 23:07 | Confrontation in the mail car: the setup springs | | 24:56 | Pancho humorously disciplines Little Sam | | 25:41 | Sheriff clears Cisco and Pancho’s names | | 28:11 | Closing joke: “To make a barrel lighter…” |

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Tone & Style

Through lively performances and atmospheric sound effects, this digitally restored classic episode captures:

• The thrilling, dangerous tone of shady Western dealings.
• The clever repartee and comedic moments between Cisco and Pancho.
• A sense of adventure rooted in morality and friendship.

Memorable for its inventive villain and the dynamic partnership of Cisco and Pancho, “Midget of Broken Spur” is a quintessential radio Western caper with sharp twists and old-fashioned frontier justice.

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Transcript

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[Andrew Rines (Host of Old Time Radio Westerns)]

Welcome to the Old Time Radio Westerns. I'm your host Andrew Rines and I'm excited to bring you another episode. This is one of over 80 episodes released monthly for your enjoyment. You can find more western shows at our website by going to otrwesterns.com now let's get into this episode.

[Narrator]

Here's adventure, here's romance. Here's the famous robin hood of the old west.

[Cisco Kid]

Cisco the sheriff getting closer.

[Narrator]

The cisco kids.

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Now the Cisco Kid in our exciting story, the Midget of Broken spurs in the early days of our west, great shipments of gold were sent via the railroads. Naturally, there were many bad men with numerous schemes who tried to rob the railroads of their precious cargo. By far the most ingenious of these schemes came from the mind of a tiny, perfectly formed man weighing only 32 pounds. A midget. His innocent, childlike face and voice belied the vicious cunning and treachery in his brain. His name, appropriately enough, was Little Sam. As our story Opens the two guards on the mail car of the train to Broken Spur. Go about their business with no suspicion.

[Narrator/Commentator]

Of the death that is close at hand.

[Pancho]

We carrying much gold in the mail car on this run, Will? Yeah, Jake, about 18,000. We'll get rid of 8,000 at Broken Spur junction. Yeah, the train don't stop there. I know. It's pay for Clem Raleigh's miners. He sent somebody to the junction and I tossed the money out through the window to him. Ain't that kind of risky throwing money around like that?

[Cisco Kid]

No, no.

[Pancho]

Clem and the railway company's got signals Jambree sends. Wears a red neckerchief and he shoots his gun four times too fast, too slow. All these mail car robberies that's been going on. I'll sure be glad to get rid of that much anyhow. Oh, stop worrying, will ya? There ain't been no robberies on this line yet.

[Little Sam]

But there is a glance to be one. Gentleman, put your hands up in the air, please.

[Pancho]

Where'd that voice come from? I don't see nothing.

[Little Sam]

Gentlemen, your hands.

[Pancho]

There he is. It's a little man.

[Narrator/Commentator]

A midget.

[Pancho]

And look at the gun he's holding. It's a midget gun.

[Little Sam]

This is a Derringer pistol. However, I can assure you the bullets are men sized.

[Pancho]

Well, what do you want?

[Little Sam]

The gold shipment. The $18,000 in gold shipment.

[Pancho]

How'd you get in this mail car anyhow?

[Little Sam]

It makes no difference whether you know or not since neither of you is going to live to tell about it. At the last town this sack was mailed, I was in it. Give me that gun.

[Bruno]

You killed him. Will's dead.

[Little Sam]

I suggest that you do as I say or.

[Cisco Kid]

Sure, sure, whatever you want.

[Little Sam]

Here, catch this mail sack. Put the gold in it.

[Narrator/Commentator]

Sure, sure.

[Little Sam]

There.

[Pancho]

I guess that's all of it.

[Little Sam]

Now place the bag on that ledge beneath the window.

[Pancho]

Yes, sir.

[Little Sam]

Excellent. Now move that stool over to the window.

[Cisco Kid]

How's that?

[Pancho]

Reckon you're going to climb out the window?

[Little Sam]

Your deductions are correct. Stand away from the window.

[Pancho]

This far enough.

[Little Sam]

That will do. I am capable of climbing up on this stool. Now, you step over there, and from here I can carry on without your help. Thank you. All right, Bruno, ride up alongside the train.

[Bruno]

Here I am, Little Sam.

[Little Sam]

Here, catch the mail tank.

[Bruno]

Ah, I got it, Little Sam.

[Little Sam]

All right, Bruno. When I get through the bars on this window, lift me down to the horse. But be more gentle this time. Now.

[Bruno]

Was that easy enough, Little Sam?

[Little Sam]

Yes, Bruno. Is he for waiting with the Medicine show where I told him to.

[Bruno]

Sure, Little Sam. That's where we're headed right now. Over to that clump of trees.

[Little Sam]

I can see the wagon and the team.

[Cisco Kid]

Hey, Sam. Here I am.

[Little Sam]

Yes, I can see.

[Bruno]

Whoa.

[Cisco Kid]

How big a loop did you get?

[Bruno]

It's here in the mail, sir.

[Narrator/Commentator]

How much, Sam?

[Little Sam]

I overheard the guards say 18,000.

[Bruno]

Did you. Did you kill the guards, Little Sam?

[Little Sam]

Now, you know I never leave eyewitnesses, Bruno.

[Bruno]

You sure have all the fun, Little Sam.

[Little Sam]

Lift me down from this horse, Bruno.

[Bruno]

Sure. Sure, I'll lift you down, Little Sam. Anything you say.

[Little Sam]

Now, careful.

[Bruno]

Hey, Little Sam. I'd do anything you tell me.

[Pancho]

Cause I like you.

[Bruno]

You're a little man with lots of brains. And I'm a big man what ain't too smart. We make a good pair, huh, Little Sam?

[Little Sam]

You big ape. We sure do make a good pair, you and me.

[Narrator/Commentator]

You two gonna stand there gabbing all day or are we gonna get going?

[Bruno]

Don't you mix in when me and Little Sam is talk?

[Little Sam]

Heaver's right, Bruno. Let's get going. We won't even have time to set up the medicine show at Broken Spur. There's another gold shipment going through you.

[Bruno]

You going to kill some more gods, Little Sam?

[Little Sam]

Of course, Bruno. Or anyone else who gets in my way.

[Cisco Kid]

Jisco, eh? How much farther to Broken Sport Junction?

[Pancho]

According to Senor Clem's directions, it should be just the around these bend in the trail. Pancho.

[Cisco Kid]

Cisco. Think we be there in time to meet the train?

[Pancho]

Oh, see, Chico, we have plenty of time.

[Cisco Kid]

Why Seneca not send one of the hombres who had worked for him to pick up the money? Cisco.

[Pancho]

Senor Clem told me about the train robberies that have been going on, Pancho. He's afraid something might happen to his payroll.

[Cisco Kid]

Bound to hear about the same. Robbie. Stu, Cisco. But they're not happened in this part of the country.

[Pancho]

Senor Clem has heard more recent news than we have. And last robbery was on a railroad 160 miles from here, Chisco.

[Cisco Kid]

P300 monies be robbed and the guards be killed in the mail train still be locked. How the 10 was, Chisco?

[Pancho]

Well, I intend to find out, Chico, after we do this favor for Senor Clem. Here are the tracks now, Pancho.

[Cisco Kid]

Well.

[Pancho]

Stop here. Hold on.

[Cisco Kid]

Already punching. And remember the signal Senor Clem tells you to give the railway guard.

[Pancho]

Well, this red neckerchief I am wearing is part of the identification.

[Cisco Kid]

That part. Remember what part of the galley is with the gun?

[Pancho]

Senor Clem said for me to fire four shots.

[Cisco Kid]

Four shots?

[Pancho]

The first two rapidly, the second two farther apart.

[Cisco Kid]

You hope you're right, Cisco. Cause Panjo see the bars of the mail car now.

[Pancho]

I will signal the guards.

[Cisco Kid]

Well, the meal car getting close.

[Pancho]

You ready to catch the money sack when the cars throw it? We're right alongside the train. Up double.

[Cisco Kid]

Come on, pull over. Long shiny train. Hear the car now. But the guards not throw nothing, Cisco.

[Pancho]

No, and I do not see the cars either. Hold them.

[Cisco Kid]

Why don't you know what the trouble, Cisco? Do not shoot the gun. Right for the signal.

[Pancho]

I hope you are right, Pancho. Because if I did give the correct signal, there's only one other thing that could be wrong. Those train robbers are working in this territory. And the guards in the mail car are dead.

[Cisco Kid]

No, no, no, no.

[Pancho]

Come, Pancho. Let us ride to Perkinspur. Find out which it is.

[Cisco Kid]

Abdel, come on. Here comes the sheriff now. All right, stand back. Stand back.

[Pancho]

What's all the commotion, Hodges?

[Cisco Kid]

There's been a hold up of the mail car, Sheriff.

[Pancho]

Well, let's talk to the guards. Hodges, you're the deputy. Bring the guards here.

[Cisco Kid]

They're dead, Sheriff.

[Pancho]

Let's get in the mail car and have a look.

[Cisco Kid]

Can't get in, Sheriff. Door's locked from the inside.

[Pancho]

How do you know the guards are dead? I looked in through the bars on the window. Whoever killed them must still be in there.

[Narrator]

No, they ain't.

[Narrator/Commentator]

Sheriff.

[Pancho]

Yeah, what? How do you know?

[Narrator]

I was a passenger on the train.

[Cisco Kid]

I seen the two that didn't shoot. Don't seem likely to me, Sheriff, but.

[Pancho]

Them two guards could have been killed.

[Cisco Kid]

From the outside of the train.

[Narrator]

I saw them riding right alongside the mail car.

[Pancho]

Listen, Hodges. This man here said he saw the ombre who did it. All these others agree. That's the way it must have happened.

[Cisco Kid]

You go get the mail car open. All right, Sheriff, but it don't seem likely to me.

[Pancho]

And now tell me just what happened.

[Narrator]

Well, just as we come to Broken Spur Junction, I seen these two waiting.

[Pancho]

By the side of the tracks.

[Narrator]

And one of them started shooting.

[Narrator/Commentator]

Can you describe them?

[Pancho]

Yep.

[Narrator]

One of them was fat. The other hombre was big, dressed in black and wearing a red neckerchief.

[Pancho]

Did you identify him if you saw him again?

[Bruno]

I sure could, Sheriff.

[Cisco Kid]

May have cars open, Sheriff.

[Pancho]

Then I'll go.

[Narrator]

Here come those killers now, Sheriff.

[Pancho]

Are those the hombre you saw to the shoot?

[Narrator]

Catch them.

[Pancho]

The fat one.

[Bruno]

The big one in black.

[Pancho]

Libya Gyna Star Hotel Come on now.

[Narrator]

Hey.

[Cisco Kid]

In the name of the law, you two are under arrest.

[Pancho]

What did you say, senor sheriff?

[Cisco Kid]

Dr. Barnes, like the Senor Sheriff say we under arrest.

[Pancho]

That's right.

[Narrator/Commentator]

You're under arrest.

[Pancho]

What? Senor Sheriff. Shut up your guns.

[Cisco Kid]

But we'll not do nothing wrong.

[Pancho]

Why are you arresting us? You know why. Giving those two train guards.

[Cisco Kid]

Giving a train guard. Are you going to drop those guns or will I have to shoot you?

[Pancho]

Now, listen to me, Sheriff. I am sure that these killings were done by the train robbers.

[Cisco Kid]

The sheriff says you're guilty and.

[Pancho]

Yeah. Now don't worry, Cisco. You and your partner ain't going to be in jail long.

[Cisco Kid]

Well, b. Like to stay in the jail.

[Bruno]

Yep.

[Pancho]

The way we punish murders in this county is by hanging.

[Bruno]

Here comes Sheba. Now, Little Sam.

[Little Sam]

We'll find out what was happening at the train. Bruno.

[Cisco Kid]

Oh, boy.

[Narrator/Commentator]

Boy.

[Narrator]

Whoa.

[Bruno]

Did they find the dead gods, huh, Seba?

[Narrator/Commentator]

Yeah, but that ain't all they found.

[Little Sam]

What else could they find? I left no clues.

[Narrator/Commentator]

They sure didn't. They're putting two other hombres in jail.

[Bruno]

But Little Sam's the one that done it.

[Narrator/Commentator]

That ain't what the passengers on the train say. They claim they saw these two hombres shooting at the mail car at the junction.

[Little Sam]

Of course, that would be the two messengers from Clem Raleigh's mine the guards were talking about.

[Narrator/Commentator]

They ain't no ordinary messengers with the Sisko kid and his partner.

[Bruno]

I heard about Sisco. He thinks he's strong, but he ain't never met Bruno. Why, I take him when I tell him.

[Little Sam]

Bruno, you have just given me an idea.

[Bruno]

I did, Little Sam.

[Narrator/Commentator]

What kind of an idea?

[Little Sam]

Sam, we're not going to let Cisco and his partner stay in jail. We are safe from the robberies we've already committed. But if we wish to remain in business, Cisco can do us no good in jail.

[Narrator/Commentator]

You mean we're gonna use him, Sam?

[Little Sam]

How?

[Bruno]

How we gonna do that, Little Sam?

[Little Sam]

Tonight, Bruno, you will go to the jail and help Cisco and his partner escape.

[Bruno]

I'll rip the foss right out of the window. And then I'll.

[Little Sam]

You will bring them back here to the show wagon.

[Narrator/Commentator]

I get it, Sam. If the sheriff's hunting for them two, he won't be looking for us.

[Little Sam]

That's right, Diva.

[Bruno]

Well, I thought maybe you was gonna let me kill em, Little Sam. I take my hands and I.

[Little Sam]

We must dispose of Cisco and his partner so the sheriff will never find them. And Bruno, since it will make you happy, you can kill them.

[Pancho]

We must Try to get out of here, Pancho.

[Cisco Kid]

With houses for how no one can see.

[Pancho]

Now that it is dark, I will.

[Cisco Kid]

Try to bend these wires. Aren't you helping?

[Bruno]

Go see Chico.

[Cisco Kid]

Perhaps we both try.

[Bruno]

Looks like you two are having trouble with them bars. You better let Bruno do it.

[Cisco Kid]

Santosisco. Who's that big giant hombre?

[Pancho]

Who are you, senora? Why should you want to help us?

[Bruno]

First I'll get you out of this tin can, calaboose. Then you'll find out why I want to help you. Yep, you sure will find out.

[Narrator]

And if Cisco and Pancho do go with Bruno, they will find out that his offer of help means death. In just a moment, we'll return to the Cisco Kid.

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[Narrator]

And now back to the Cisco Kid. In our gripping story, the Midget of broken spurs. In a daring robbery of a male car, Little Sam the midget killed two guards. He escaped from the car with $18,000 in payroll money. Through the aid of his giant henchman, Bruno, Cisco and Pancho were mistaken for.

[Narrator/Commentator]

The killers of the two guards.

[Narrator]

And the sheriff immediately Put them into jail. Plotting their death. Little Sam sent the giant Bruno to help Cisco and Pancho escape from jail.

[Bruno]

There. Just a little more and I'll have these bars bit.

[Cisco Kid]

Mata mia. Cisco. That hombre strong. That the strongest hombre Pancho ever seen.

[Pancho]

I ask you again, hombre. Why are you helping Pancho and me to escape from jail?

[Bruno]

I ain't supposed to tell you, and I ain't gonna either. You come with Bruno and no questions. Bruno leaves you here to hang.

[Cisco Kid]

Parson, I'd like to hang. Pardon? Go with you, Senor Bruno.

[Pancho]

Very well, Senor Bruno. I will go with you also.

[Bruno]

All right. And I'll let you out. I take these bars and pull them apart. Harder. Harder.

[Pancho]

Cisco.

[Cisco Kid]

That hombre bend the bars far enough for Cisco and Bonnie to get out.

[Pancho]

Gracias, senor.

[Bruno]

Are you coming out?

[Pancho]

Si, senhor Bruno. Come, Pancho. Let us get out of this jail.

[Cisco Kid]

There now, Pancho. Try Cisco.

[Bruno]

Get you out of there. Pancho. I grab you like this and.

[Cisco Kid]

You knock all the bleed out of Poncho.

[Pancho]

Here, Pancho, let me help you out.

[Cisco Kid]

Where we go, senor Bruno?

[Bruno]

This way. You two walk in front of me.

[Pancho]

What do you carry? No guns, senor. What makes you think we will do as you say?

[Bruno]

You do like I say or I'll bash your face in.

[Pancho]

I do not think so, hombre.

[Bruno]

I'll show you.

[Pancho]

You are strong ombre and you throw a good punch. But I do not think you will land a blow like that again.

[Bruno]

Stand still a minute.

[Cisco Kid]

Keep on his feet. Don't let him hit you with those big fists.

[Pancho]

I'm staying out of his way, poncho. Except when I find an opening like this.

[Bruno]

You shouldn't have done that. I'm going to kill you when I get you first.

[Pancho]

You'll have to get me. And this the kind of word no.

[Bruno]

Fingers around your throat are gonna choke the life out of you.

[Narrator]

Not what.

[Cisco Kid]

I still have to grab the little.

[Pancho]

Finger of your hand and twist it. Now, Emily, this Indian wrestling hold. Drop to the ground with you.

[Cisco Kid]

Flip you over my head like this. Go. You all right?

[Pancho]

Will be in just a moment, Pancho. As soon as I catch my breath.

[Cisco Kid]

Have such a hard fight that big Bruno got the train at 10.

[Pancho]

Hombres seemed more like 20 while I was fighting him.

[Cisco Kid]

But Cisco always be the bad hombre. What fight with him?

[Pancho]

Come, Pancho. Let us get out of here.

[Cisco Kid]

Pancho understand why that big Bruno fight with Cisco?

[Pancho]

That fight was not all his doing, Pancho. No, I had no intention of letting that Bruno, Hombre take us where he wanted to where he wanted.

[Cisco Kid]

Taego, Sisco, Pancho.

[Pancho]

I am sure that Bruno and whoever sent him had a hand in robbing the mail car that train.

[Cisco Kid]

But if that the true, why does Hombre, Cisco and Pancho out of the jail?

[Pancho]

So they could kill us. That would give them a perfect alibi.

[Little Sam]

But how?

[Pancho]

How?

[Cisco Kid]

That would be, Cisco.

[Pancho]

They want the sheriff to continue to think that we are the train robbers.

[Cisco Kid]

Oh, now, Pancho.

[Narrator]

See?

[Cisco Kid]

And every time they rob another train, the blame be put on Chico and Pancho.

[Narrator]

See?

[Pancho]

That is right, Chico. Only they are not going to get away with it.

[Cisco Kid]

How we can stop them, Cisco? When we not know them and the sheriff not help us, we will let.

[Pancho]

Them fall into the trap they set up themselves. How?

[Narrator]

How?

[Pancho]

You will see, Pancho, when we get to the railroad station. Those killers have committed their last murder.

[Narrator/Commentator]

You ain't as big as I thought you were, Bruno. Cisco can beat you up the way he did.

[Bruno]

I'm still big enough to bust you in half, Siba.

[Little Sam]

Shut up, both of you. What happened to Bruno couldn't be helped. It's too bad the Cisco Kidneys partner escaped. But what's done is done.

[Narrator/Commentator]

You're going ahead with your plan to rob the train leaving Broken Spur tonight, Sam?

[Little Sam]

Of course I am. You and Bruno will pack me in the mail sack as usual and see that I get aboard the mail car.

[Bruno]

I'll do it, Little Sam. Someday I'll bump into that Cisco again and I'll kill him. I ain't never hated nobody like I hate him.

[Little Sam]

You're going to bump into Cisco sooner than you think, Bruno.

[Bruno]

You. You know where he is, Little Sam?

[Little Sam]

Yes. He's looking for us. He doesn't know who we are, but he wants to find out.

[Narrator/Commentator]

That's obvious, Sam. Even I can see that.

[Bruno]

Yeah, Little Sam. Me too. I know that.

[Little Sam]

What neither of you have figured out is what Cisco will do about it.

[Bruno]

What did you figure out, Little Sam?

[Little Sam]

That Cisco and his partner will be on the next mail car that leaves Broken Spur.

[Narrator/Commentator]

Oh, that don't make sense. Seen as how they're wanted by the law.

[Little Sam]

Cisco is smart enough to know we'll try our stunt again. Since he's under suspicion, he'll try to catch us to clear himself.

[Bruno]

Only you'll fool him. You won't be there, will you, Little Sam?

[Little Sam]

I'll be there, right in the mail sack. And Bruno, you will be with me, hidden in the big trunk we're shipping on the mail and express car.

[Narrator/Commentator]

That's Risky, but I think it'll work. Yep, we've got a perfect setup. From now on, if you can do away with the Cisco Kid and his partner.

[Cisco Kid]

Punch your face in bad troubles. Now, Cisco, we ought to Poncho.

[Pancho]

Unless my hunch proves to be right.

[Cisco Kid]

You find you think it better if Cisco not knock out both those mail car guards?

[Pancho]

I had to, Poncho, so that we could take their place here on the train.

[Cisco Kid]

But that sheriff from Broken Sport and his deputy must have fled him by now. And they be on our trail too.

[Little Sam]

She's go.

[Pancho]

I know they will. And I am counting on my hunch that the male car bandidos will make an attempt to rob the gold the train carries on this run.

[Cisco Kid]

But if that big Bruno and the other bandidos not show up, then Cisco and Pancho go to the jail for a long, long time.

[Pancho]

This is the only chance we have to prove our innocence and capture those Bandidos.

[Cisco Kid]

Pancho, wish you know how those bandidos get inside a locked mail car.

[Pancho]

Perhaps we will find out before this day is over.

[Little Sam]

You never spoke a truer word, Cisco.

[Cisco Kid]

You never speak, Cisco. Where'd that voice come from?

[Little Sam]

Right here, Pancho. By the big trunk.

[Cisco Kid]

Cisco, he's a little boy. He got a gun.

[Pancho]

He is not a little boy, Pancho. He's a midget.

[Cisco Kid]

A midget?

[Little Sam]

Midget? No, Pancho, a midget.

[Pancho]

So you are the one who's been robbing these mail cars and killing the guards.

[Cisco Kid]

Now, can't you understand how those bandidos robbed the locked mail car? The little midjamite climbed to the bars of the window.

[Little Sam]

I'm glad you figured it out for yourselves. It was clever of you, Cisco, to deduce that I would rob this car.

[Cisco Kid]

Now, Cisco, we capture this hombre, we prove we're not the guilty one.

[Little Sam]

You are forgetting about this gun in my hand.

[Cisco Kid]

Yes, Cisco, Shoot the gun from the midjuman. Cisco, where'd you get the gun?

[Pancho]

I took it from one of the guards when I tied him up. Now, Senor Midget, step out of the mail sack and come over here.

[Little Sam]

Yes, I'll have to, Cisco, but I'll need some help here.

[Pancho]

Pancho, hold this gun.

[Cisco Kid]

I should hold it, Cisco.

[Pancho]

I see the big hombre who is your partner packed cotton around you in this sack before he mailed it.

[Little Sam]

Now, Bruno, come out of the trunk.

[Bruno]

It's Bruno again, Cisco, and this time.

[Pancho]

Oh, you still want more fight, hombre?

[Cisco Kid]

Yes, Cisco.

[Bruno]

I've done his legs my hands on you. Cisco.

[Little Sam]

I'm here.

[Cisco Kid]

You little umbly punch, of course.

[Bruno]

Said I'd get my hands on you sumly, but not blanc.

[Pancho]

You know what happened the other time we bought.

[Bruno]

I can punch, too.

[Cisco Kid]

Cisco. Cisco, get up. Get up before that Bruno hombre plump.

[Bruno]

On you heal a murder in your facial finish.

[Pancho]

Not while I can sweat your leg, you coyote. Now get up, you coy. I'm going to finish you once abroad.

[Bruno]

That's what you think.

[Pancho]

There's only one thing left for me to do.

[Cisco Kid]

This and this. And yeah. Santo Pancho never see his foot so mad.

[Pancho]

It takes care of this coyote. Hold that little Pantero, Pancho, while I tie this one up.

[Cisco Kid]

Pancha do more than hold this little hombre.

[Pancho]

Cisco.

[Little Sam]

Put me down. Put me down on the floor.

[Pancho]

I say the law will take care of both these hombres, Pancho.

[Cisco Kid]

But first, Pancho take care of this little midjamite. You're bad, little hombre. Pancho put you over his knee. And. I never seen the likes of it before. Cisco, when my deputy and me found.

[Pancho]

The two guards tied up, we pegged.

[Cisco Kid]

You and Poncho for the killers.

[Pancho]

Certain.

[Bruno]

Sure.

[Pancho]

Well, I'm glad that Poncho and I were able to prove you wrong.

[Cisco Kid]

Said your thing one little midjumit could make so much trouble. That spanking you gave him, Pancho, saved.

[Pancho]

Us a lot of trouble.

[Cisco Kid]

He told us where to find that siva hombre right quick when I said you'd spank him again if he didn't. I want to hurt that little hombre, Senor. Deputy, that spanking Lonum, he nuts at your big bandido.

[Pancho]

You know, Sheriff, Poncho and I still have a mission to accomplish.

[Cisco Kid]

What's that, Cisco?

[Pancho]

Well, we got mixed up in this affair because we were after the payroll money of our friend, Senor Clem Raleigh. Oh, our Plum family. I forgot to tell him. Sheriff.

[Cisco Kid]

Clem came a looking for you after.

[Pancho]

You broke out of jail.

[Cisco Kid]

And he told me and the sheriff we was as loco as a ring tail raccoon singing in a willa walla tree for thinking you two was bandits.

[Pancho]

Cisco knows who made a mistake. Hodges say that is right. So let us forget about it. Well, Sheriff, as soon as we collect that payroll money, Poncho and I will be on our way.

[Cisco Kid]

Oh, didn't I tell you, Cisco? All the money we recovered from Little.

[Pancho]

Sam and his partners was turned back.

[Narrator/Commentator]

Over to the railroad.

[Pancho]

Clem said he wanted you and Pancho.

[Cisco Kid]

To pick up his share of it at Broken Spur Junction like he was supposed to do before.

[Pancho]

You mean he Wants us to use that same signal on the red neckerchief. On the gunshots. Yeah, I guess that's what he meant.

[Cisco Kid]

Cisco. Oh, no, Cisco please find you gotta go through that same business with midgetments and giants who end up singing in a woolly woolly tree. You know, Pancho, glad to get away from that train. I like trains too much.

[Pancho]

To tell you the truth, Pancho, neither do I. I much prefer to be riding Diablo out on the open prairie, Poncho.

[Cisco Kid]

Rather be riding Loco out on the open prairie too.

[Narrator]

Same.

[Pancho]

Tell me, Pancho, why were you examining those barrels so carefully at the station back in Broken Spur?

[Cisco Kid]

Pancho look at those barrels. Was Pancho look for the answer.

[Pancho]

Well, did you find the answer, Chico?

[Little Sam]

Did Pancho find the answer?

[Pancho]

The answer to what, Pancho?

[Cisco Kid]

Pancho asked Cisco the question. See if Cisco know the answer.

[Pancho]

Very well. Very well, amigo. Not done me.

[Cisco Kid]

What is the question, Cisco? Tell Pancho what you fill a barrel full of to make it lighter.

[Pancho]

I am not sure I do. No, I don't know, Pancho. Tell me, what do you fill a.

[Cisco Kid]

Barrel full of to make it lighter? To make a barrel lighter, Cisco. Fill it full of holes.

[Bruno]

Oh, Pancho.

[Cisco Kid]

Oh, she's gone.

[Narrator]

And so ends another exciting adventure with O. Henry's famous Robin Hood of the west, the Cisco Kid.

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[Little Sam]

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