Moo Moo Raid | Gunsmoke (01-19-58)

Summary

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Old Time Radio Westerns – Gunsmoke: Moo Moo Raid (01-19-1958)

Host: Andrew Rhynes
Air Date: August 9, 2026 (original episode: January 19, 1958)
Podcast Summary:
This episode of Old Time Radio Westerns features a digitally restored classic Gunsmoke broadcast, “Moo Moo Raid,” originally aired in 1958. Host Andrew Rhynes preserves the nostalgic texture of vintage radio while enhancing the audio for today’s listeners. The episode delves into a missing cow, tension between rival cattlemen, and the consequences of misjudgment on the frontier.

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Episode Overview

• Theme:
  The episode spotlights the crucial role of even the humblest animals in the Old West, illustrating how a single missing cow can escalate tempers and nearly spark violence among rival herd owners. Marshal Matt Dillon must unravel the truth before Dodge City is torn apart by suspicion and pride.

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Key Discussion Points & Plot Breakdown

1. Setting the Stage

• Introduction of the Problem (04:24 - 08:50):

  • Tush Lee, a frustrated cattleman, seeks Marshal Dillon’s help to find Oni Hager and his prized swimming cow, pivotal for leading trail herds across the river.

  • Tension is high: Tush’s ability to command top prices depends on crossing the river before his rival, Bert Collins.

    Notable Quote:

    "I've got 1,400 head of cattle over across the river, ballin' and a-frothin'... if [Burt Collins] gets his cattle across... he'll get the big price and not me."
    — Tush Lee (06:00)

2. Importance of the Cow

• Western Practicality (08:11 - 09:08):

  • Chester explains to Miss Kitty and the audience why Oni’s cow is so valuable: such animals naturally lead herds across water, preventing cattle losses.

    Notable Exchange:

    "Without that cow, Tush is in trouble." — Chester (09:12)
    "That old cow of his takes to water like a duck." — Matt Dillon (09:03)

3. Escalating Tension

• Rumors and Suspicions (09:33 - 13:39):

  • Tush is convinced Collins has resorted to foul play. Chester, Dillon, and Doc Adams debate the growing animosity, complicated by the absence of Oni and a ransacked shack.

• Western Tall Tales (10:55 - 13:39):

  • A humorous Doc Adams interlude provides comic relief, using an exaggerated story about a rainmaker to highlight the era’s oral storytelling traditions.

4. Marshal Dillon Investigates

• On the Trail (13:39 - 17:04):

  • Dillon and Chester check Oni’s shack, finding it destroyed, confirming a struggle.

  • Chester speculates on Oni’s disappearance and the value of his unique cow amidst gathering rival cattlemen.

    Notable Quote:

    "If that old bag of bones doesn't turn up pretty quick, it's going to cause the worst fight this town's ever seen."
    — Matt Dillon (15:37)

5. Conflict Comes to a Head

• Barroom Confrontation (18:28 - 20:34):

  • Tush and Collins nearly come to blows, each accusing the other of wrongdoing.

  • Dillon defuses the fight, holding the line until more facts come out.

    Notable Exchange:

    "Now that's a lie and I'm gonna break you in pieces for it!" — Bert Collins (19:21)
    "All I'm asking, Marshall, is for you to enforce the law and protect the innocent, and bring a guilt into jail." — Tush Lee (07:02)

6. A Surprising Resolution

• Oni Returns (25:10 - 27:58):

  • Just as a gunfight seems inevitable, Oni Hager returns with the missing cow, Idabel, alive and well.

  • Oni reveals he simply took his cow to graze in the Kiowa Meadows for a few days; the destroyed shack was a result of the cow’s resistance to the trip.

  • The would-be combatants sheepishly reconcile, agreeing to join forces to cross the river together.

    Notable Quotes:

    "Yeah, yeah, it's a fine, fine day, Oni. Where have you been?" — Matt Dillon (25:50)
    "She ain’t gonna be fit to go in the water before tomorrow—she ate too much green clover..." — Oni Hager (27:50)
    "Well, stow your herd in with mine. We'll swim 'em across together. We'll hold out for the same price with them cattle buyers." — Matt Dillon (27:58)

7. Comic Coda

• Chester, still hung up on the details, questions Oni about the wrecked shack, learning that Oni keeps his cow inside the house, leading to gentle laughter from Dillon and the others (28:09 - 28:36).

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• Cattle-Swimming Expertise:
  "A lot of herds have a natural leader or two and they'll take to water. You try to force the herd in—the chances are they'll panic and half of them will drown."
  — Matt Dillon (08:59)

• Frontier Wisdom:
  "If all the killing that's talked about in Dodge City was actually done, Boot Hill would be 10 miles wide and 20 miles long."
  — Matt Dillon (24:49)

• Comic Relief:
  "Where do you expect me to keep her? Outdoors?"
  — Oni Hager (28:36)

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Important Timestamps

• Introduction by Host & Restoration Notes: 02:05 – 04:19
• Dramatic Opening (Marshal Dillon & Tush): 04:24 – 08:50
• Cow as Water Leader, Explained: 09:00 – 09:30
• Doc Adams’ Tall Tale: 10:55 – 13:39
• Investigation & Suspicion (Doc, Dillon, Miss Kitty): 13:39 – 17:04
• Barroom Showdown: 18:28 – 20:34
• Marshal Waits for the Right Moment: 23:47 – 25:12
• Oni’s Return & Peace Restored: 25:16 – 28:36

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Tone & Style

• Warm, Nostalgic, and Lightly Humorous:
  The tone remains playful and affectionate toward its quirky characters, balanced with the undercurrent of looming violence that typifies the Gunsmoke series.
• Dialogue-Driven:
  Much of the action happens through banter and barroom bravado, showcasing the wit and warmth underlying Western rivalries.

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Conclusion

This episode is a classic wild-west caper rooted in everyday concerns, laced with humor and wisdom, and capped by a message about the importance of not rushing to judgment. The restored audio and engaging performances refresh the timeless value of a good story, while reminding us that misunderstandings—no matter how dramatic—often have the simplest explanations.

“Moo Moo Raid” delivers vintage Western charm, a lesson in patience, and a reminder that sometimes the most important character is, in fact, a cow named Idabel.

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Transcript

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[Podcast Host Andrew Rines]

Welcome to the Old Time Radio Westerns. I'm your host Andrew Rines and I'm excited to bring you another episode absolutely free. This episode is one of many released every month, totaling over 80 episodes so far. Each one is meticulously digitally restored and stored in the cloud for your convenience, a process that incurs costs. To help cover these expenses, you might hear some advertisements throughout the episode. While we do retain the original commercials for historical authenticity, may also encounter modern ads which help keep the lights on. If you prefer an ad free experience. We offer a couple options. You can listen to the episodes on YouTube where they don't include the audio ads, although YouTube may provide their own ads on their platform. Alternatively, you can also support us by becoming a patron on our Patreon page. For more information, go to otrwesterns.com donate again otrwesterns.com donate I do want to emphasize that we are committed to providing this content to you for free. But also, we have to be transparent about the financial realities to bringing this to you. To those of you who are already supporting us, we extend our heartfelt thanks. Your contributions make it possible for us to continue doing what we love. And as a final note, I did want to mention one last thing. If you are paying for a service, let's say, like audible, and you're listening to this show on that site, they do not provide any financial or monetary means to this podcast. We provide it to them as a way for you to be able to listen, but they don't help us in any way. So again, thank you to everybody who is already supporting and those of you who want to support us in the future. I deeply appreciate it. Now, let's get into this episode. This episode is going to be Gunsmoke Original air dates January 19, 1958 and the title is Moo Moo Raid. Hope you enjoy.

[Matt Dillon]

Around Dodge City and in the territory on west, there's just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers, and that's with a U.S. marshal. And the smell of gun smoke.

[Chester]

Gun smoke.

[Matt Dillon]

Starring William Conrad. The story of the violence that moved west with young America. And the story of a man who moved with it. I'm that man. Matt Dillon, United States Marshal. The first man they look for and the last they want to meet. It's a chance, a job.

[Doc Adams]

And it makes a man watchful and a little lonely.

[Chester]

Marshall. Marshall. I've been looking for you.

[Matt Dillon]

Ah, hello, Tush.

[Chester]

I just want to ask you one question.

[Matt Dillon]

All right, go ahead, ask.

[Chester]

Are you. Are you not sworn as a matter of bound and duty to uphold law and ordering Dodge City?

[Matt Dillon]

Well, I guess you could put it that way.

[Chester]

Then why don't you get up from that there table and go out and find that cow. Goodness. You think all Mr. Jones got to do is go around hunting some scrawny old. You keep your mouth shut. Chester. Get the doggone minute here. Ain't nobody.

[Matt Dillon]

Sit down, Chester. Sit down. You too, Tush. You keep waving your arms like that, you're going to get apoplexy.

[Chester]

I ain't got no time to sit down, Marshall. I got 1400 head of cattle over across the river, Ballin and a frothy. I got buyers up at the Dodge House willing to pay pretty near anything I ask because I'm bringing in the first trail herd of the season, providing I can. Marshard, you got to find out what happened to Onea Hager and that gol dang cow here.

[Matt Dillon]

Well, how do you know anything has happened to him?

[Chester]

They eat at that shack of his. Neither one of them. If he was just going visiting, he wouldn't take the cow, would he? He might. Ownie Hager's pretty crazy about that cow. You shut up, Chester. I. I didn't ask you. I didn't ask if you asked. I just said moon says I.

[Matt Dillon]

All right, all right, Chester. Look, Tosh, why don't you just sit down, have a beer, huh? Oni'll be back in his own good time.

[Chester]

Well, his good time ain't mine. Bert Collins is bringing a herd up for the Circle C. He ain't more than two days behind me. And if he gets his cattle across that river and into them shipping pens first, he'll get the big price and not me.

[Matt Dillon]

Well, I'll check around town in the morning to see if anybody knows where

[Chester]

Oni went, or to ask his neighbor's age. Seen him for for four or five days. Or the cow, either. And, Marshall, I'm reminding you of your sworn duty.

[Matt Dillon]

My sworn duty doesn't include going out and scouring the countryside for a missing cow. Touch?

[Chester]

Not even if there's been foul play done.

[Matt Dillon]

What are you talking about?

[Chester]

That shack of his has tore up something awful like there was a big fighting ruckus in it.

[Matt Dillon]

Is that the only reason you think something's happened to Ownie? The way the place looks, Marshal, Burt

[Chester]

Collins wouldn't stop at nothing to get that herd of his in ahead of me. He's just low down, mean enough.

[Matt Dillon]

Well, it's too late to start tonight, but I'll see what I can find out first thing in the morning.

[Chester]

All I'm asking, Marshall, for you to enforce the law and protect the innocent. And bring a guilt into jail.

[Matt Dillon]

Yeah. Yeah, I'll try to do all of that tush the first thing in the morning, huh? Now, why don't you check in at the Dodge house and try to get some sleep.

[Chester]

Doubt I'll close my eyes. All them cattle on the far side of the river, all that money on this side. I won't sleep a wink, Marshall, but I hope you pass away thanks, Dutch. My goodness, Mr. Dylan. All that fuming and fretting over a 16 year old cow. That's a dang skinnier hip. Won't stick out like a hubs on wagon wheel.

[Matt Dillon]

Yeah, but she comes in handy though for a job like this. Hello, Kitty.

[Chester]

Kitty.

[Matt Dillon]

Sit down. You like to have some beer?

[Chester]

Yeah, thanks.

[Doc Adams]

All right.

[Miss Kitty]

What has Lee all worked up about now?

[Matt Dillon]

He's got a trail herd that he wants to bring across the river. He's pretty upset because he can't find Oni Hager and that cow.

[Chester]

What's one Hager's cow got to do with it? For land's sake, Miss Kitty, everybody knows you gotta have a cow or a steer that's a good swimmer and that'll take the lead if you want to drive a herd across water. Well, I didn't know it. Is that true, Matt? Yeah.

[Matt Dillon]

Yeah, that's true. See, a lot of herds have a natural leader or two and they'll take to water. The rest of the cattle will follow them across. But you try to force the herd in, the chances are they'll panic and half of them will drown.

[Miss Kitty]

I never heard of it.

[Matt Dillon]

Oh, honey. Hager makes a lot of money every season just leading the herds across the Arkansas. That old cow of his takes to water like a duck.

[Chester]

Well then it's not a joke. Without that cow, Tash is in trouble.

[Matt Dillon]

Sure he's in trouble. When Burt Collins hits here in a couple of days with his herd, there's gonna be more trouble.

[Chester]

But he's already here.

[Matt Dillon]

Matt Collins?

[Chester]

Yeah, I seen him on the street this afternoon. Ain't he due in yet?

[Matt Dillon]

No. He must have had a gun ahead.

[Chester]

Mr. Dillon Tuff said that Shacka Onis was all tore up like there'd been a fight.

[Matt Dillon]

Yeah, he's not one to go off on sudden trips. You know something, Kitty? I think you're right. It's not a joke.

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[Doc Adams]

Now just listen a minute if you will. I've got a little story to tell you. Well, it's not so little. It's sort of a tall tale. It's about a drought busting weather conjurer named Feebold Feebleson. Why they say Kansas never had a drought that he couldn't bust in 24 hours. They say he had at least a hundred different ways of doing it too. Once when it got so hot that folks had to spend half their time in some lake to keep from drying up and blowing away, old Thebold figured it was time for a little rain. Well, he thought on the problem for a while. Then he went out and built huge fires all around the lakes and kept them a going until the lake started boiling and the water got to vaporizing. These vapor clouds rose up from the lake so fast they slammed into one another and started raining all over the place. Well sir, once primed, the rains came again and were soon back on schedule. Ebol saved the country that time. That wasn't the only time that people saved the country either. There were others too. Like the time he used the noise method to make rain. Oh, he didn't use cannons and rockets and the like. He was original. He used frogs. Now Feebold realized that frogs wouldn't croak unless they were good and wet. So he hypnotized a couple of them and told him it was raining. Well sir, it would have done your heart good to hear them frogs croaking with joy and spreading the news around. Soon every frog in the country was croaking as loud as he could. Which was loud enough to give an Indian rain God a skull splitting headache. Well, the amount of noise turned out to be just right and the rains just poured down. Course old Feeble could only use that method once a year because so much rain would come down that the frogs would get washed clear down to the Gulf of Mexico and and it take him near a year to get back home. Rain, fog, sleet, snow, heat or what have you. Old Feeble had a way to handle the situation. Why I remember the time they know I. I hadn't better tell you that one. Why it's almost Unbelievable. And I don't want to take a chance on making you think that I might stretch the truth just a little bit. Say, isn't it nice being citizens of a country where you can laugh and talk about things free as a breeze. And write and read and worship too? Yes, sir. Maybe you don't think about it much, but you should.

[Chester]

It sure is good to get back, Mr. Dillon. I'm terrible hungry, Mac. All right, wait a minute.

[Matt Dillon]

Oh, hello, Doc.

[Chester]

Hello, Doc. Want to talk to you.

[Matt Dillon]

All right, Chester. You go on ahead if you want. I'll meet you at the restaurant, huh?

[Chester]

Well, I am feeling Pretty empty, Mr. Dillon. Yeah, I'll go on in. See you later, Doc. Yep. Right, Chester.

[Matt Dillon]

What's on your mind, Doc?

[Chester]

Well, I met. What are you planning to do today?

[Doc Adams]

Work.

[Matt Dillon]

Same as the other six days every week.

[Chester]

Work? You mean sitting down there in that jail office with your feet on the desk?

[Matt Dillon]

No, not today, Doc. I gotta track down a cow.

[Chester]

A cow?

[Miss Kitty]

See, Matt.

[Chester]

So you come along with me, huh?

[Matt Dillon]

Where?

[Chester]

But I gotta look in on a couple of patients out toward Kiowa Meadows.

[Matt Dillon]

Now.

[Chester]

Won't take long and we'll have the rest of the day to shoot up

[Matt Dillon]

some prairie H. Prairie hens this time of year, Dock, the only prairie hen around here right now are hold up in the plum thickets so deep but a weasel couldn't keep it. Get.

[Chester]

Ah, now that's just where you're wrong. You know how Kiowa Meadows is protected by that bend in the river, Those high bluffs on the north side there?

[Matt Dillon]

Oh yeah.

[Chester]

And these last few weeks it's been mighty warm for this time of year. Yeah, well, it's made a kind of a false spring out there in the meadow. Now the way I hear it is just as green as May with a stand of young clover coming up there and wild tin of hay and buffalo grass and the prairie hens are just swarming.

[Matt Dillon]

You know something that's possible, Doc? I remember something like that happening a few years back.

[Chester]

Well, come on then. Let's get out there and get at it.

[Matt Dillon]

Doc, I already told you, I gotta find a cow.

[Chester]

What? Are you serious?

[Doc Adams]

Yes.

[Chester]

I thought that was a joke.

[Matt Dillon]

I wish it was. Say, you haven't seen anything of Oni Hager, have you?

[Chester]

You mean On's cow?

[Matt Dillon]

Uhuh.

[Chester]

Oh my. That old bag of bones.

[Matt Dillon]

If that old bag of bones doesn't turn up pretty quick, it's going to cause the worst fight that this town's ever seen.

[Chester]

Now who understand? Who'd have bothered to fight over that Scrawny old walking carcass, huh? Except Oney, of course.

[Matt Dillon]

Yeah, not only. Couple of pretty tough boys named Burke Collins and Tom Oni's disappeared. And that's the trouble. Tush thinks that Collins has had something to do with it. I'm not too sure, but what? He may be right.

[Chester]

What do you mean?

[Matt Dillon]

Well, Chester and I just got back from a look at Oney's shack this morning. Gonna fight in it all right. The cook stove's knocked over, table smashed. No sign of Oni or the cow anywhere.

[Chester]

Oh, well, jig Matt.

[Matt Dillon]

Maybe he went on a trip, took his cowl on.

[Miss Kitty]

Oh.

[Chester]

Oh, well, no. Hey, Matt, if any done something to poor oh, they ought to be hung.

[Matt Dillon]

I feel the same way, Doc.

[Chester]

He's got his faults, but he's a harmless old coot. And he never did any hurt to anybody in his whole life.

[Matt Dillon]

Yeah, it kind of looks like somebody did some hurt to him.

[Chester]

I just don't seem to have no appetite at all lately, Mr. John.

[Matt Dillon]

Yeah, I. I noticed that. Chester, you only had six eggs.

[Chester]

Well, I don't mean I don't eat exactly, but I just don't seem to relish it so much anymore.

[Matt Dillon]

Ah, I see. Or maybe if you cut down on the quantity a little, maybe.

[Chester]

No, no, it ain't that I don't think. Oh, see, it's just more like I've been feeling poorly lately. Nothing particular got me just kindly sore all over.

[Matt Dillon]

Tell me something, Chester.

[Ryan Seacrest]

You.

[Matt Dillon]

You didn't start getting these feelings just a few minutes ago, did you? When? When I told you about Doc going hunting today.

[Chester]

Oh My goodness, no, Mr. John. I. No, I. I've been having these pains for a long time.

[Matt Dillon]

Oh, I see.

[Chester]

Of course, now that you mention it. I declare, I bet it sure wouldn't do me no harm to get out

[Matt Dillon]

in the open for a while. Like around Kiowameta for instance. Huh?

[Chester]

Prayer hen makes mighty good eating. I heard you say that yourself many a time.

[Matt Dillon]

Doc's already promised us something, Justin.

[Chester]

Oh, Doc's already. Look, seeing is believing. Doc can't hit the side of a barn with both hands and a board in the middle. You know that, Matt.

[Matt Dillon]

Hello, Kitty.

[Chester]

Matt, you better get over the long branch right away.

[Matt Dillon]

Why, what's wrong?

[Miss Kitty]

Tush and Burt Cullen's over there sidling

[Chester]

around each other like a pair of tomcats. It's gonna bust loose any minute, Matt.

[Matt Dillon]

Come on, Chester.

[Chester]

I got some flapjacks here.

[Matt Dillon]

Well, bring em with you.

[Chester]

Everybody knows what kind of people some people are. And with them kind Proven ain't needed.

[Matt Dillon]

Well, now, man had never had no

[Chester]

friend his whole born day. Should not expect nobody here to agree with Matt.

[Miss Kitty]

If we get another mirror broke this

[Chester]

month, we might as well close up now.

[Matt Dillon]

We'll see what we can do. Kitty, you stay here.

[Chester]

Chester, you made off with on the hager and that cow of his and more than likely you done him in.

[Matt Dillon]

Now that's a lie and I'm gonna break you in pieces for us.

[Chester]

Well, you start whenever you're.

[Matt Dillon]

All right. Hold it, both of you.

[Chester]

Well, there's your murderer, Marshall. Do your duty now.

[Matt Dillon]

Marshall.

[Chester]

Marshall.

[Matt Dillon]

That man shouldn't ought to go telling lies about. Somebody had him. What are you doing in town, Collins? I thought your herd was still a day or so south of the river. Well, I rode in ahead. Wanted to talk to them cattle buyers.

[Chester]

Come in to steal that cow and murder on a hager, that's what he done.

[Matt Dillon]

Have you seen Ony coming? Why'd I want to see him? I got two, three good swimmers in my herd.

[Chester]

You gonna arrest him or ain't you? Marshall?

[Matt Dillon]

I'm afraid I haven't got much reason to touch.

[Chester]

All right. I'm gonna take the law into my own hands.

[Matt Dillon]

I wouldn't advise that, Tush.

[Chester]

I give you your chance, Marshall. If you ain't gonna do your job, I'm gonna bring my boys into town. We'll do it for you.

[Matt Dillon]

Tush, come back. Well, now, crazy fool. A man is gonna be attacked, he shouldn't ought to just stand around and do nothing to protect himself, should he? Now wait a minute.

[Chester]

Wait nothing.

[Matt Dillon]

I'm going to camp and get some of my boys a marshal.

[Chester]

Doggone old cow. Sure is causing a lot of trouble, ain't you, Mr. Young?

[Matt Dillon]

Yeah, and it's going to get worse. This land is your land. This land is my land. This land was paid for you and me.

[Miss Kitty]

For all that, we tend to group Nebraska with one or another of the states. The Cornhusker State has many characteristics which are strictly its own. Since 1875, for example, Nebraska has been a debt free state which preferred to spend 10 years building the capitol at Lincoln rather than spend money it didn't have. Further, as its name may indicate, corn is its most important crop and Omaha's stockyards are among the largest in the world. Then there's historic Chimney Rock near Bayard and the town of alliance, which was once almost sold by the Burlington Lines Railroad. Many years of tears and Indian wars and hardships such as the Grasshopper plague contributed to the words which are engraved upon the Capitol. Honor to pioneers who broke the sods that men to come might live. Nebraskans live by these words, and they live for them.

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[Chester]

Like this. Just keeps my nerve tore to pieces.

[Doc Adams]

Just.

[Chester]

Mr. Dillon. Mr. Dillon.

[Matt Dillon]

Shut the door, Chester.

[Chester]

Oh, Chester. Mr. Dillon, what are you aiming to do?

[Matt Dillon]

Sit here and digest my breakfast wine?

[Chester]

But they're gonna be at it any minute now.

[Matt Dillon]

Who is?

[Chester]

Tush Lee and Burt Collins. You ain't forgot about them, have you?

[Matt Dillon]

No, but I wish I couldn't.

[Chester]

Well, they're in town right now. Both of them. And they got their men with them.

[Matt Dillon]

Yeah, I know.

[Chester]

Well, if you already know, why don't you do something?

[Matt Dillon]

Like what, Chester?

[Chester]

Well, my land, you Good. At least you could go. Well, maybe if you couldn't do that, you. Well, you can't just sit here and let them kill each other.

[Matt Dillon]

But I can sit here until I'm sure that that's what they're gonna do.

[Chester]

But they are. They are. That's what I'm telling you. Tush is up there at the long branch saying how he's gonna hang Bert. And Bert's down the other end of the street making his brag about how he's gonna shoot Tush so full of holes a bird can fly through.

[Matt Dillon]

Chester, if all the killing that's talked about in Dodge City was actually done, Boot hill would be 10 miles wide and 20 miles long.

[Chester]

But these two are really going to.

[Matt Dillon]

Then I'll deal with it when it starts.

[Chester]

And that'll be any minute now. Everybody else in town thinks so too. Dad, take a look out this window. There ain't a soul in the street except for some crazy fool leading a. Leading a. Mr. Dillon.

[Matt Dillon]

Yeah. What's the matter?

[Chester]

Tony Hager.

[Matt Dillon]

What? He's got his cow.

[Chester]

He ain't dead at all.

[Matt Dillon]

Come on. Hey, Arnie, wait up a minute, will ya?

[Chester]

And look, there's hush the door of the long branch there.

[Matt Dillon]

Yeah, there comes Collins and his men.

[Miss Kitty]

It's him.

[Chester]

Morning, Marshall Chester. Hello, Oni. Looking up to be another mighty pleasant day now, wouldn't you say so?

[Matt Dillon]

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's a fine, fine day. Oni. Where have you been?

[Chester]

No, me and Ida Bell here has been up Kiowa Meadows for a few days. Kiowa Meadows? Oh, my goodness. It's just like spraying up there. All new grass and fresh clover. And Ida Bell ain't at nothing but dry feed all winter. He's just done her a world of good. Ain't that right? Now, dearie? Hush.

[Matt Dillon]

Come on out of here. You too, Collins. I'm bother you come alone.

[Chester]

You had any excitement around town while I been gone, Marshall?

[Matt Dillon]

Excitement? Oh, no, nothing to speak of, Ony. Things have been pretty quiet.

[Chester]

Oni, did you see any prayer hand up in Kiowa Meadows? Oh, my, yes. There was just schedule. Mighty glad you got away from him, Oni. Did he hurt you bad?

[Matt Dillon]

Oh, now shut up and listen to me, both of you. Before you start taking the law into your hands again, Tus, you better stop and think for a minute. Oni's only been away on a little trip. Collins here had nothing to do with it.

[Chester]

What?

[Matt Dillon]

It's true. Tell him, honey.

[Chester]

Well, I don't know what you're talking about, but me and Idabel's been up to Kiowa medicine. Well, there you are, Tush.

[Matt Dillon]

Look, I told you.

[Chester]

How was I to know?

[Matt Dillon]

Well, you didn't know. And it's like I said. A man hadn't all to say what

[Chester]

he ain't sure of. I reckon I was kind of in the wrong, all right.

[Matt Dillon]

Well, that's for dang sure. And you made me look real bad, Tush.

[Chester]

Yeah, I guess I did, Bird. I might set up drinks if you as a mind. All right.

[Matt Dillon]

You ain't got to say that but one time. Let's go.

[Chester]

Honey, will you have that cow down the river in a couple hours? I got a job for her. I'm mighty sorry, but Idabel can't do no swimming today. She can't? Well, why not? Well, she ate too much green clover and she ain't gonna be fit to go in the water before tomorrow. Tomorrow may be too late. Oh, forget it.

[Matt Dillon]

Stow your herd in with mine. We'll swim them across together. We'll hold out for the same price with them cattle buyers.

[Chester]

Fair enough.

[Matt Dillon]

All right, come on, let's get that drink.

[Chester]

Okay. Say, uni. Yeah? If you went off on a trip on your own choice now, how come your house was all tore up so bad that way? Yeah, well, there was, on account of Idabel. She didn't know where we was going. And she put up an awful ruckus before I convinced her. But it wasn't the barn that was tore up, it was the house. Well, of course it was. Where do you expect me to keep her? Outdoors.

[Matt Dillon]

And no, no. Only nobody would expect you to keep that cow anyplace except right in the house.

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