Silk Hat Hogans Donkey | Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (12-09-53)

Summary

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Silk Hat Hogan's Donkey | Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

Podcast: Old Time Radio Westerns
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Date: January 24, 2026
Original Air Date: December 9, 1953
Starring: Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok), Andy Devine (Jingles)

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Episode Overview

This episode transports listeners to the Feather Falls Fair, where Wild Bill Hickok and his trusty partner Jingles arrive to tackle a wave of pickpocketing crimes. Amid the festive chaos of cake contests and carnival acts—including the mysterious ventriloquist, Silk Hat Hogan, and his talking donkey—the two lawmen must untangle a dangerous criminal racket. Blending lighthearted humor, suspense, and classic Western drama, "Silk Hat Hogan's Donkey" showcases the golden age of radio storytelling, punctuated by signature antics and memorable character interactions.

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Key Discussion Points & Story Breakdown

1. Calling In the Marshals (04:15–05:02)

• The Mayor of Feather Falls urgently summons Wild Bill and Jingles to address rampant pickpocketing at the county fair.
• The issue is serious: “Our county fair is infested with these sticky-fingered varmints… The sheriff was killed last night. Shot came from nowhere.” (Mayor, 04:44 & 04:53)
• Stakes are high, with the sheriff’s murder raising the specter of organized crime.

2. Jingles’ Cake Ambitions (05:14–06:45)

• Jingles is determined to enter and win the fair’s cake-baking contest for a $50 prize, humorously bargaining for money from Bill.
  • “There’s a $50 prize to the winner, and I can bake the most!” (Jingles, 06:07)
• Wild Bill supports Jingles’ efforts but reminds him that their lawman duties come first.

3. Danger Strikes (06:51–07:59)

• A sudden burst of gunfire unsettles the fair, hinting at the peril lurking beneath the festivities.
• They chase a mysterious dust cloud, but the shooter evades them.
  • “Somebody headed out here toward the fairgrounds in a big hurry.” (Wild Bill, 07:29)

4. Meet the Colorful Cast (11:21–13:03)

• Jingles and Bill encounter various fairgoers, including:
  • Ms. Hetty McGillicuddy, the perennial cake contest winner whose purse (and recipe) is stolen.
    • "I've won every year since it started!" (Ms. McGillicuddy, 12:04)
  • Silk Hat Hogan, a ventriloquist with a talking donkey, Hezekiah, captivating the crowd.
    • “Say howdy, Hezekiah.” (Silk Hat Hogan, 14:08)
    • “It’s a free world, ain’t it?” (Donkey/ Hogan, 13:45)

5. The Pickpocket’s Blunder (14:29–16:20)

• As Jingles is distracted, a pickpocket swipes Bill’s telegram, leading to a comedic chase and eventual capture.
  • “You come back here with that. That’s Bill’s telegram!” (Jingles, 14:32)
• They learn from the telegram: a gang of pickpockets is working the fairs throughout the West—dangerous and organized.

6. Jailhouse Schemes (17:34–18:23)

• Hogan visits Jingles in the jail, taking an interest in the captured pickpocket.
  • Subtly, the key to the cell is taken—allowing the pickpocket to nearly escape.
  • “Nobody but a feather brain idiot would pick a lawman’s pocket.” (Silk Hat Hogan, 17:23)

7. Closing in on the Racket (22:20–23:56)

• Bill suspects Hogan is mastermind of the criminal operation.
  • “Hogan runs a gang of pickpockets, Jingles. They’re not here to help him.” (Wild Bill, 23:30)
• A dramatic showdown ensues as Bill and Jingles arrest Hogan and his gang in the midst of a fairground melee.

8. Cake Contest Climax (24:46–26:08)

• The cake contest concludes to great fanfare; Jingles emerges as the surprise winner.
  • “The judges decided 2 to 1 to award this year’s prize to Jingle’s coconut masterpiece!” (Mayor, 25:06)
  • Ms. McGillicuddy protests, but the results stand.
• In a final comedic twist, the $50 prize is "donated" back to the contest fund as per annual tradition.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Jingles (05:52): “I need 15 cents for flour and a dime for sugar, two bits for butter…”
• Wild Bill Hickok (04:44): “That’s heavy money.” (Responding to the mayor about losses from pickpockets)
• Ms. Hetty McGillicuddy (12:09): “Oh, why, you can’t [win the cake contest].”
• Silk Hat Hogan’s Donkey (13:45): “It’s a free world, ain’t it?”
• Wild Bill Hickok (23:30): “Hogan runs a gang of pickpockets, Jingles.”
• Jingles (26:08): “Well, now, thank you. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you very much.” (Receiving his prize, only to find out he has to give it back.)

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Important Segment Timestamps

• [04:15] — Mayor’s plea for help: explanation of the crime wave
• [05:14] — Jingles lays out his cake contest plans
• [06:51] — Gunshots disrupt the fair
• [11:21] — Jingles, Bill, and the mayor meet Ms. McGillicuddy
• [13:08] — Introduction to Silk Hat Hogan and his donkey
• [14:29] — Pickpocket steals the telegram and is caught
• [17:34] — Jail cell scene, key goes missing
• [22:20] — Fairground confrontation; suspicion on Hogan
• [23:30] — Showdown with Hogan, arrest of the gang
• [24:46] — Cake contest award announcement
• [26:14] — The comedic reveal of the continually recycled prize money

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Tone & Style

• The episode features a lighthearted, humor-filled atmosphere with occasional bursts of suspense.
• Jingles’ lovable goofiness and Wild Bill’s cool-headed competence create a dynamic old West partnership.
• Dialogue is delivered in archetypal Western dialect, peppered with colorful expressions.

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Summary Takeaway

“Silk Hat Hogan’s Donkey” is a pitch-perfect slice of vintage radio Western, blending comic relief with frontier justice. As Bill and Jingles foil a band of conniving pickpockets led by the cunning ventriloquist Hogan, listeners are treated to hijinks both in the kitchen and at the county jail. Ultimately, the good guys win—though Jingles finds out that victory is sometimes as fleeting as a county fair blue ribbon.

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Transcript

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[Andrew Rines]

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[Jingles]

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[Narrator]

The Feather Falls Fair was in full swing when United States Marshal Wild Bill Hickok and Jingles arrived in town. It was the biggest fair Lawton county had ever seen. But with it had come big trouble. And the Mayor had sent a frantic call to Wild Bill for help. That call led the two saddle partners into a dust raising adventure and a dangerous tangle with Silk Hat Hogan's donkey.

[Mayor]

Pickpockets. Hickok. That's why I sent for you.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Pickpocket?

[Mayor]

That's what I said.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

You mean you had us ride nearly 100 miles of desert just to dig out a couple of pickpockets?

[Mayor]

I did. And I'm not sorry for one darn minute.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

As people with big trouble in this country, Mayor, they wouldn't take much to me wasting time.

[Mayor]

This is bigger trouble than you think. This is pickpockets? Wholesale. Why, a man would think it was incorporated from the amount they've been taking.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

That so?

[Mayor]

John Reese lost seventeen hundred dollars in his watch.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

That's heavy money.

[Mayor]

Our county fair is infested with these sticky finger advancements. Hickok and I want them dug out and locked up.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Well, when Jingles gets back. We'll do the best we can, Mayor.

[Mayor]

Good. But take my word for it, Marshall. These men are dangerous. I reckon I ought to tell you the sheriff was killed last night. Shot came from nowhere.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Never knew what hit him.

[Jingles]

Dog on this telegram from headquarters. I'll bet it's bad news and Bill won't be in no mood to loan me the money. I'll just stick it in my pocket until I get my point over him. Then I'll give it to him. There. Now I'll just bust right in and say, bill, could you lend me a dollar? 6 bits till payday and he'll say no.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Jingle.

[Narrator]

Huh?

[Wild Bill Hickok]

I said no.

[Jingles]

Doggone it. Anyway, I had my speech all set. How'd I get here so fast?

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Just ran right in through the door. Pardon.

[Jingles]

Now, Bill, I just gotta have a dollar six bits.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

What for, jingle?

[Jingles]

Well, I need 15 cents for flour and a dime for sugar. Two bits for butter and two bits for a pan and a buck to enter. That comes to a buck six bits, don't it?

[Wild Bill Hickok]

A buck ten or what?

[Jingles]

The cake baking contest at the fair. There's a $50 prize to the winner, and I can bake the most.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Larry. Hold it, partner. Hold it, huh? We've got a wildcat on our backs. The sheriff was killed last night and there's a pack of pickpockets loose at the fair.

[Jingles]

Now, wouldn't you know it right when I got a chance.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Now, wait a minute, Jingles. I got an idea. Yeah? Here's your $6 Bits. Go ahead. And good luck with that cake. I'm gonna take a look around the fairground.

[Jingles]

You mean it, Bill? Hot diggity dog. Them 50 smackers are as good as mine. Now, let's see. I'll get me a new pair of boots and a red and yellow pure silk shirt.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

And I wouldn't spend it before you get it, partner. I'll be back in a bill down.

[Jingles]

Jeso, where'd those shots come from?

[Wild Bill Hickok]

I don't know, partner, but they came too close for comfort. Come on, we'll take a look on the street.

[Jingles]

How am I ever gonna bake a cake, Bill? There's some dust around the corner of that cafe. Hit the saddle.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Steady there, Buckshot. You ready, Jingles?

[Jingles]

I'm with Snap Joker, after that Jasper buck shot. Yeah. Get. Bill. We ain't getting no place chasing the dust cloud. We ain't seen no riders yet.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Well, somebody headed out here toward the fairgrounds in a big hurry.

[Jingles]

Well, that don't prove that they were shooting at us back there.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

All the same, we'll ride into the fair and have a look around and.

[Jingles]

This ain't getting my cake in the oven. Dog gone it.

[Mayor]

Hey. Here.

[Jingles]

Well, Bill, who's that?

[Wild Bill Hickok]

The mayor.

[Jingles]

What?

[Mayor]

You're all fired. Right, Marshall, Looks like you had a hot trail.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

More like a cold trail, Mayor. Somebody took some pot shots that us back in town.

[Mayor]

See who it was.

[Jingles]

No, we didn't. They just come out of nowhere.

[Mayor]

Yep, that's what I figured. That's the way the sheriff was killed. Shots just came out of nowhere. Hit him right between the eyes.

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[Silk Hat Hogan]

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[Jingles]

Hey, Sal. Hank, what's going on? We haven't worked a case in years. I just bought my car at Carvana and it was so easy. Too easy.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Think something's up?

[Jingles]

You tell me. They got thousands of options, found a great car at a great price, and it got delivered the next day.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

It sounds like Carvana just makes it.

[Jingles]

Easy to buy your car, Hank. Yeah, you're right. Case closed.

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[Silk Hat Hogan]

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[Narrator]

While Bill and Jingles followed the dust cloud to the fairgrounds where they ran into the mayor, that gentleman reminded them that the sheriff had been killed by shots that came out of nowhere.

[Jingles]

Now, Mayor, I don't like the way you talk about them shots. It makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

We'll just have to keep our eyes open, partner.

[Mayor]

Why not leave your horses here and walk around the fair tents?

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Good idea, Mayor. Come on, Jingles. You can come back right soon, partner.

[Ms. Hetty McGillicuddy]

I just want to take right there.

[Jingles]

Now. Who's that waiting like a banshee?

[Mayor]

Ms. Hetty McGillicuddy. And she's a terror.

[Ms. Hetty McGillicuddy]

Mayor. Oh, Mayor, I've been robbed. And you've just got to put us to these pickpockets. Why, they got my purse. And I had my prize winning cake recipe in it. Oh, what would that contest be without my prize winning cake?

[Jingles]

Now, don't you worry about that, ma'. Am. I'm gonna bake the best cake this time.

[Ms. Hetty McGillicuddy]

What? Oh, why, that's impossible. I've won every year since it started.

[Jingles]

Well, I hate to see a record like that busted, ma'. Am. Even when it's me that has to do it.

[Ms. Hetty McGillicuddy]

Oh, why, you can't.

[Mayor]

You.

[Ms. Hetty McGillicuddy]

You hear me, Mayor? Mayor. Who is this overstuffed pin cushion?

[Mayor]

Permit me, Ms. McGillicuddy, to make you acquainted with Jingles. Deputy to this other gent who is the great Wild Bill Hickok himself.

[Jingles]

Howdy, ma'. Am.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

It's our pleasure, ma'. Am.

[Ms. Hetty McGillicuddy]

Wild Bill Hickok. My.

[Jingles]

And Jingle's begging your pardon, ma'.

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Am.

[Ms. Hetty McGillicuddy]

Well, Wild Bill, you just better put this deputy to work looking for these pickpockets instead of baking cakes. Why, liver hurt.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

You better quit while you're ahead, Jingle.

[Jingles]

Oh, I can bake cake.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

We'll do the best we can, ma'.

[Jingles]

Am.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

What color was your purse?

[Ms. Hetty McGillicuddy]

Well, black, of course. No lady would carry anything but a black purse, now, would she?

[Mayor]

Certainly not, Ms. McGillicuddy. And the Marsha will look high and low for it. I'm sure you'll have it back in short order.

[Ms. Hetty McGillicuddy]

Well, I bet her. That's all I've got to say.

[Jingles]

I'll bet she bakes a devil's food.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Easy, Jingle. Wait on Mayor. Let's see this fair.

[Mayor]

Sure thing, Bill. Say, here's an Attraction you should see.

[Jingles]

Oh, what's that?

[Mayor]

A silk head. Hogan's donkey. He makes it talk.

[Jingles]

Now that just ain't so. Any fool knows a jackass can't talk. What's that you said, big Boy? I said any fool knows you can't talk. Oh, I can't, can't I? Huh? The Bill, that jackass was moving his lip.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Easy, Jingle.

[Jingles]

Can you talk without moving your lips, big boy? No, but. Now cut that out. You ain't got no business talking, you're a jackass.

[Silk Hat Hogan]

So what? It's free world, ain't it?

[Jingles]

Doggone it. Anyway.

[Mayor]

Don't worry, Jingles, you're not the only one. Hogan. Fools. Gents, meet Silk Hat Hogan. One of the best acts to follow the page.

[Jingles]

Well, howdy, Mr. Hogan.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Glad to meet you, Hogan.

[Silk Hat Hogan]

I'm proud to meet you, Mr. Hickok. And your deputy too. I'd like to introduce Hezekiah the Wonder Donkey. Say howdy, Hezekiah.

[Jingles]

No, you don't neither. Don't you say another word. No. Don't get snooty, big boy. How you know? Why ain't one of your long lost cousins from East Sedalia? Oh, you ain't neither. Doggone it, Bill, I'm getting out of here. I got a cake to bake. Talking to a mule headed jackass. Come on. Hey, watch where you're.

[Mayor]

Watch where you're going yourself, you big grizzly.

[Jingles]

What the pickpocket. You come back here with that. That's Bill's Pelagram.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Jingles. Don't shoot in this crowd.

[Jingles]

I gotta catch a little varmint.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

We'll get him, partner.

[Jingles]

There he goes, Bill. Under that pin. Damn there, just like he was a rock. You little squirt. One move out of you and I'm like to forget your size.

[Mayor]

What are you gonna do with me?

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Let's take him to jail, Jingles. Looks like we got one of them.

[Mayor]

Now.

[Jingles]

Get in there till you decide to talk, you little varmint.

[Mayor]

You got your telegram back. You ain't got nothing on me.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

That's where you're wrong, buster. We found this person that tent.

[Mayor]

Hey, you're digging your graves, both of you. Guess you ain't heard what happened to sheriff, eh?

[Wild Bill Hickok]

So you know something about that.

[Mayor]

I ain't saying, Bill.

[Jingles]

He does. I'm sure of it. He just let it slip.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Yeah, and he'll slip again. By the way, partner, what was that he lifted from your pocket?

[Jingles]

No, nothing much, Bill. Just a little old telegram.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

One you forgot to give me.

[Jingles]

Well, I Didn't exactly forget, Bill. I just stuck it in my pocket this morning.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Let's have a jingle.

[Jingles]

I don't reckon it was anything important, was it, Bill? I got so jumped up about that cake contest, I overlook giving it to you. What's it say, Bill? Huh?

[Wild Bill Hickok]

It says be on the watch for a new racket. A gang of pickpockets is working the affairs through the West. Also says they're killers and well organized.

[Jingles]

Well, I'll be doggone. Does it say who the bosses of the gang are?

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Nope.

[Jingles]

I'll bet this dried up shrimp could tell us.

[Mayor]

I ain't telling you nothing. You can fry first.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

You'll cool off, buster. We bad about your cake, jingles, but this comes first.

[Jingles]

Oh, I got it figured out, Bill. I'll bake my cake in the jail stove.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

All right. I'll be back after I deliver this purse, Jingles.

[Mayor]

You'll be lucky if you ever get back. Hickok.

[Jingles]

Hey.

[Silk Hat Hogan]

Yeah?

[Mayor]

You ain't really gonna bake a cake, are you?

[Jingles]

You just wait and smell.

[Mayor]

Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle.

[Jingles]

Well, you might have had an uncle for a monkey or a monkey for an uncle, but you ain't gonna be nobody's uncle.

[Silk Hat Hogan]

Anybody home?

[Jingles]

Well, it's you, Mr. Hogan. I thought that jackass was coming in.

[Silk Hat Hogan]

Afternoon, Jingles. You folks came down to visit me in Hezekiah, so I thought I'd return the favor.

[Jingles]

Well, glad you come. Drop a chair? I'm just fixing to start my cake.

[Silk Hat Hogan]

Yeah, I see you got somebody in your who's go.

[Jingles]

Yeah. Caught the little varmint picking pockets at the fair.

[Silk Hat Hogan]

Whose pocket did he pick?

[Jingles]

Mine, dad. Blame it yours.

[Silk Hat Hogan]

Nobody but a feather brain idiot would pick a lawman's pocket. Guess he got too big for his britches.

[Jingles]

He sure did. He's locked up. And I got the key right here in my buckskin.

[Silk Hat Hogan]

What kind of cake you making? Oh, sorry I hit one of your pans.

[Jingles]

That's all right. I'll get it.

[Silk Hat Hogan]

No, no, let me.

[Jingles]

Excuse me for bumping into you.

[Silk Hat Hogan]

Oh, it's my fault, I guess. Mind if I see what this pickpocket looks like?

[Jingles]

No, go right ahead. But don't get too close to him. Steal the gold right out of your teeth.

[Silk Hat Hogan]

I'll be careful. What kind of cake did you say you was gonna bake, Jingles?

[Jingles]

Well, Bill likes chocolate fudge with the nuts on top, but I've been favoring my coconut masterpiece.

[Silk Hat Hogan]

Well, that sounds right good to me too. Well, I'll be seeing you at the fair. Good luck with your cake.

[Jingles]

Thanks, Mr. Hogan. Now he seems like a right fine gentleman. Hey, how'd you get out? Now get away from my gun belt.

[Mayor]

You picked on the wrong guy this time, mister. You're on your way to Boot Hill.

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[Ms. Hetty McGillicuddy]

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[Jingles]

They're sugar coated Tastes sweet, just pour on some milk Boy, they're neat. Kellogg Sugar Corn Pops. Sugar Pops are tops. Now Sugar Pops you know are sweet. Cowboys know there's an extra treat right out of the box. Take a handful out, pop em into your mouth as you run about. Kellogg's Sugar Corn Pops. Sugar Pops are tops.

[Panhandle]

Yes sir, Wranglers. Kellogg's Sugar Corn Pops are tops. Why, just talking about them is enough to make your mouth water big. Pre sweetened golden popsicorn. That's Kellogg's Sugar Corn Pops. That's mighty fine munching anytime right out of the box or out of a bowl with a little milk or cream.

[Jingles]

Good.

[Panhandle]

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[Narrator]

It was a sudden surprise to Jingles when he turned and saw Fingers the pickpocket outside the jail cell and jumping for the deputy's own guns.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Jingles. Jingles. You all right, partner?

[Jingles]

Yeah. For one that's just tried on a pair of wings, I reckon I'll do.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Glad I made it, partner. How'd this Jasper get out?

[Jingles]

Beats me. I just turned around and there he was jumping from a gun belt.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Where was the key to his cell?

[Jingles]

Why, right here in my. Well, maybe I Put it in the Bill.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

That's it. Jingles.

[Jingles]

Yeah. Where'd you find it?

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Right there in the lock of that cell door.

[Jingles]

Now, how in the places did it get in there?

[Wild Bill Hickok]

You tell me. Fingers was a pickpocket. Did you get near his cell after I left?

[Jingles]

No siree Bob. I wasn't taking no chances on that. Why, I went right on building my cake. Why, I even warned Mr. Hogan not to get near that varmint cell, neither.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Hogan? Was he here?

[Jingles]

Yeah, real nice fellow, Bill. Come to pay back that visit we made to him and his talking donkey.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Take off that apron, partner, and fasten on your gun belt, huh?

[Jingles]

Now, Bill, you know I can't leave my cake when it's in the making. It'll turn out a fizzle for sure.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Can't help it, Jingles. You've got to get the doctor to take care of Fingers while I see the mayor.

[Jingles]

Doggone. And I'll bet Mrs. McGillicuddy's got hers in the oven by now.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Hurry it up, partner. After you get the doctor, meet me down at the fairground.

[Jingles]

Oh, where are you going to be?

[Wild Bill Hickok]

You'll find me having a talk with Silk Cat, Hogan's talking donkey.

[Jingles]

Well, I got things taken care of, Bill.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

What took you so long?

[Jingles]

Well, while I was at the jail, I just put my cake in the. The oven.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

I thought so. You're taking a mighty big chance on burning that cake, Jingles.

[Jingles]

No, I ain't. I'm keeping a close watch on the time.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Well, then, we'd better hurry this up.

[Silk Hat Hogan]

Step right up, folks, and meet Hezekiah the Wonder Donkey. Ask him your questions and he'll tell you your fortune. Well, howdy, Marshall Hickok. Jingles.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Afternoon Organ.

[Silk Hat Hogan]

Say howdy to Jingles, Hezekiah.

[Jingles]

Howdy, big boy. Well, howdy. Got your cake finished, big boy? I sure did. Got it in bacon in the oven right this minute. Had a little interruption.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Never mind, Jingles.

[Jingles]

Huh? Oh.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Mind if I ask that donkey a question, Hogan?

[Silk Hat Hogan]

Help yourself, Marshall. What's the question?

[Wild Bill Hickok]

I'd like to know if he was friends with a weasel named Fingers.

[Silk Hat Hogan]

Fingers? Afraid he don't know what you're talking about, Marshall.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

I think he does. Or maybe he could tell me who slipped the key out of Jingle's pocket.

[Silk Hat Hogan]

Now, how would he know that, Marshall?

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Then maybe you do, Hogan. This is a fine racket you've got here, Bill.

[Jingles]

What are you getting at?

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Hogan runs a gang of pickpockets, Jingles. They're not here to help him.

[Silk Hat Hogan]

Now, that's where you're wrong, Haycock.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Be ready, Jingles.

[Jingles]

Gotcha. Get him, Hezekiah. Get in close, boy. Bill, they're coming from all sides.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

All right, Hogan, I'll take you.

[Jingles]

Pull first.

[Silk Hat Hogan]

Not so fas.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

You took that key and gave it to Fingers.

[Jingles]

Sure I did.

[Silk Hat Hogan]

Now I got something to give you.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

I haven't got time to waste on you, Hogan.

[Jingles]

The elot has got a sneak down.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

All right, cover the rest of them, Jingle. Shoot the first one that moves.

[Jingles]

All right, you pocket pickers. Now drop them pop guns and crowd in here by your pinheaded leader.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

On your feet, Hogan, and count the noses. We're taking you and this pack of coyotes to jail.

[Jingles]

Oh, shut up. You've done all the talking you're gonna do, you long eared fake.

[Silk Hat Hogan]

I should have shot you in the middle of your cake, you big ape.

[Jingles]

Cake Bill, come on, me. We gotta lock these jaspers up quick. In five minutes my cake's due to come out of the O.

[Mayor]

Gather round, folks. The judges have given me their decision and it's time to award this here prize of 50 simoleons to the winner.

[Ms. Hetty McGillicuddy]

Well, don't take so long about it, Mayor. You know very well it comes to me, so just get on with it.

[Jingles]

Goes to her, Bill. My cake's twice as good as hers.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Easy, Jingles.

[Mayor]

All right, now. All right, here it is. The judges decided 2 to 1 to award this year's prize to Jingle's coconut masterpiece. Step up, Jingles.

[Ms. Hetty McGillicuddy]

What? Oh, my. Will, there's been a mistake. I demand a recall.

[Mayor]

Oh, settle down, Ms. McGillicuddy. Jingles One that's fair and square, even.

[Jingles]

If my cake is round, rile or Jingles. Okay, do I make a speech?

[Mayor]

I make the speeches.

[Jingles]

Then what do I do?

[Mayor]

Just stand still. You're rocking the platform.

[Jingles]

Oh, sorry, Mayor.

[Mayor]

And so, Jingles, on this great occasion, in honor of your skill in the pots and pans department, to say nothing of your skill with Wild Bill Hickok and catching Silk Hat Hogan and his gang of pickpockets, it gives me great pleasure to present you with this brief blue ribbon and a $50 prize money.

[Jingles]

Well, now, thank you. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you very much.

[Mayor]

Now, I shall be happy to accept the $50 back from you as a donation to the perpetuation of the cake baking contest to the Feather Falls Annual Fair.

[Jingles]

Why, you just gave it to me.

[Mayor]

Oh, we do this every year. It's the same $50 that's been won for seven years.

[Ms. Hetty McGillicuddy]

Make him give it. I did every year.

[Jingles]

Oh, yes, here you are, Mr. Mayor. It gives me great pleasure to give it back, I reckon. But Bill ain't gonna like it. He loaned me the money to make that cake and now he's out a dollar six bits.

[Narrator]

And now here are the stars of Wild Bill Hickok, Guy Matherson and Andy Devine.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

That's our Wild Bill Hickok story for today folks. But Andy and I'll be back again on Friday. Join us, will you?

[Jingles]

Yes sir kids. Cause our story's about a lost gold mine, some real two fisted action, and a little guy who chases butterflies. We call it the red sands of danger.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

So long kids.

[Jingles]

See you Friday.

[Mayor]

Choo Choo choose your favorite Kellogg's variety Pack.

[Jingles]

So mom and dad and kitties too choose the Kellogg's cereal is good for you.

[Narrator]

In Kellogg's Variety Pack you'll find many favorites like corn flakes, Rice Krispies and the new ready sweetened treats all in generous individual serving size boxes.

[Mayor]

So Choo Choo, choose your favorite Kellogg's variety pack.

[Narrator]

Kellogg's the Greatest Name and Cereals has brought you another exciting story of Wild Bill Hickok starring Guy Madison and Andy Devine in person. Today's cast included Gigi Pearson, Paul Freeze, Bob Bruce and Jack Moyles. Our director is Paul Pierce. Story by Larry Hayes. Music by Dick Orant. This is a David Hire production transcribed in Hollywood. Now this is Charlie Lyon speaking for Kellogg's the Greatest Name in Cereals reminding you to listen again Friday, same time, same station for another adventure of, well, Bill Hickok.

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[Jingles]

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