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And now the Cisco Kid. In our exciting story. Stagecoach race at Skeleton Bend. Prior to the advent of the railroad in the Southwest, the stagecoach and its four or six horse team carried all passengers and mail. The mail contracts were eagerly sought after as the stage line which carried the mail usually obtained the lion's share of the business. The mail contract from Amarillo to Burnett is up for renewal. And as our story opens, two hard faced men are making preparations to get that contract from the line that now has it.
Martin Sayer
We got the best stagecoach team in the country, sir. We got a good chance to win that race.
Moose Judson
We're going to win that race, Moose. One way or another.
Martin Sayer
I understand Major. Little hot Skids have some pretty fast horses too.
Moose Judson
Yeah, she and her niece are getting a new team especially for the race.
Martin Sayer
They won't like the idea of losing that mail contract, will they?
Moose Judson
She's held onto it long enough. I got a better use to put it to.
Martin Sayer
You ain't thinking of tampering with the United States mail by any chance, are ya?
Moose Judson
That's just what I'm thinking of.
Martin Sayer
Figuring on picking up a little extra cash of the mails, huh?
Moose Judson
That's about it. But we're just talking through our sombreros. Unless we get that mail contract, them
Martin Sayer
new horses Mabel's getting ain't gonna help us.
Moose Judson
Did you find out where she's bringing them in from?
Martin Sayer
Well, I heard tells you got a couple of cowpokes to drive em up El Paso. It's supposed to drive sometime today.
Moose Judson
Only one road leading into town from El Paso. The Southland. We ought to ride out and meet those folks.
Martin Sayer
Yeah, maybe we ought to rain so Maple never gets these horses.
Moose Judson
I sure could put those horses to good use. Maybe even use them to pull my stage in the big race. Think we can get rid of those two cow folks? We sure can.
Cisco Kid
Yeah.
Martin Sayer
Just got enough room on a handle of my six guns for two more notches.
Sheriff Zeke
Horrible, horrible hurdle work.
Pancho
Now walk Disco D four times a day. P You got to chase that boyfriend's room back to the herd.
Cisco Kid
We will soon be rid of this
Pancho
string of horses, Poncho.
Cisco Kid
We're very close to the town of Burnett.
Mabel Hotchkiss
Cisco and finds your good friends of Senor Amabel to drive these horsemen all the way from Elarto to Burnet.
Cisco Kid
See, Pancho and Senora Maple is a
Mabel Hotchkiss
good friend to us. The Senora not the only friend Cisco drive the horses for.
Cisco Kid
What are you talking about, Pancho?
Mabel Hotchkiss
Pancho talk about the Senora's niece. Senorita Alice. Isn't she a very pretty senorita, Cisco?
Cisco Kid
Yes, she is very pretty, Pancho.
Mabel Hotchkiss
Yeah, Pancho know that the reason we make this long trip.
Cisco Kid
That is only part of the reason, Chico.
Mabel Hotchkiss
What are the other part, Chico?
Cisco Kid
What?
Pancho
What, what?
Mabel Hotchkiss
What do you find?
Cisco Kid
You know the Senora stage line has the contract to carry to the United States mail.
Pancho
See, Pancho?
Mabel Hotchkiss
It is.
Cisco Kid
And the male contract is up for renewal. In order for her to keep it, she must win a stagecoach race.
Mabel Hotchkiss
Who the senori got to be?
Cisco Kid
According to Senora Mabel, there are two other hombres from whom she expects trouble.
Mabel Hotchkiss
Who they?
Cisco Kid
Who they? One of them is named Sayer. I think he is the same hombre who got into trouble with the army for selling guns to the Indians.
Mabel Hotchkiss
Now, who are the only ones?
Poncho
He is that big coyote called Moose.
Mabel Hotchkiss
Oh, I remember him.
Pancho
Disco got the troubles with that big moose back in Rio handle, see?
Cisco Kid
And we are about to have trouble with them before we reach the town of Burnett.
Mabel Hotchkiss
Why'd you say this isco?
Cisco Kid
These two riders coming this way. One of them is Moose.
Mabel Hotchkiss
The other umbre, he that's here.
Pancho
Coyote.
Cisco Kid
I have a suspicion that is exactly who it is, Poncho.
Martin Sayer
Hey, where did you two fuzzer steal those horses?
Pancho
Cisco? The Cisco kin.
Mabel Hotchkiss
Pancho.
Moose Judson
San Francisco Kid. Yo, Moses.
Cisco Kid
What did you say about stolen horses, eh?
Pancho
What'd you say, coyote?
Moose Judson
You Moose didn't mean nothing by that, Cisco. We thought you two were somebody else.
Cisco Kid
You are the hombre they call Sayers.
Moose Judson
That's my name. Cisco Martin Sayers. It's a pleasure to meet up with you.
Cisco Kid
Is it? I think you had in mind to help yourself to these horses we are taking to Senora Hotchkiss.
Mabel Hotchkiss
They're so fine to the Pancho.
Martin Sayer
Well, I ain't glad to meet up with you, Cisco. Only way I want to see you is through the sights of a gun barrel.
Cisco Kid
Out of the way, Pancho. There's nothing stopping you, hombre. Go ahead, shoot it.
Moose Judson
No gunplay now. Look, Cisco, there's no need for anything like this.
Cisco Kid
There is no need for further talk, hombre. Either you and your gunman make your fight or get out of here.
Mabel Hotchkiss
Yes, better for you two bantidos to
Pancho
get out of here.
Moose Judson
All right, Cisco, let's get a moose. Gun him down.
Pancho
Well, that plain pool whip must have broken my wrist. Pancho, use the boat whip again.
Moose Judson
Go ahead, Moose.
Cisco Kid
Reach for your other gun.
Mabel Hotchkiss
He not go for the other gun, Cisco. After you shoot the first one from the town.
Martin Sayer
Oh, you on repul, Moose.
Moose Judson
Let's get back to town. We'll meet again, Cisco. Next time it'll be different.
Mabel Hotchkiss
Next time. Cisco and P. Will fix you again, you coyote.
Martin Sayer
Just remember, dead men don't do no fixing.
Cisco Kid
A few days, Senora Mabel. And the horses we drove up for you will be in top condition.
Senorita Alice
Well, I sure do appreciate that you and Pancho brought them horse to Cisco. Pancho told us of the trouble you had with Martin Stair and Moose Judson.
Cisco Kid
That trouble is the kind we can handle, Senoritary Dallas.
Senorita Alice
Now you be careful, Cisco. Them two polecats would as soon drag out your knoff.
Mabel Hotchkiss
Not you worry, senor.
Senorita Alice
We watch them all lands sakes alive.
Sheriff Zeke
There it goes again.
Senorita Alice
That's the sheriff.
Pancho
Now you can tell Signora there's no
Senorita Alice
mistaking the gentle touch of Sheriff Wilkins.
Sheriff Zeke
Now you looky here, Mabel Hotchkiss. Them new horses of yours have been my alfalfa field. Keep them out, you keep your fences mended. And they wouldn't get in there in the first place. Zeke Wilson. I'll tend to my friendship. I'll tend to the horses and my father. They'll stay there.
Senorita Alice
Now look here, Sheriff. And you also, Aunt Mabel. Couldn't you have gotten the same results by being nice to each other?
Sheriff Zeke
Might as well be nice to a wild bull. Wild bull, am I?
Senorita Alice
Well, let me say you're the Cisco Kid, ain't ye?
Cisco Kid
Say I am the Cisco Kid.
Mabel Hotchkiss
And that's a good scientist of sheriff.
Sheriff Zeke
I ain't forgetting either one of ya. Martin Share and Moose Jensen told me how you picked a fight with them.
Pancho
I am Maverick. Say, you should have Cisco and passing a study fight.
Sheriff Zeke
Well, if either of you make any more trouble, I'll throw you into jail. See here the final words, all of ya.
Senorita Alice
Why that two legged drum. Oh, calm down, Aunt Mabel. It isn't worth it.
Mabel Hotchkiss
Santo. The sheriff got a bad temper.
Cisco Kid
What is the matter with him, Senor Mabel?
Senorita Alice
Oh, he just don't like like no one, including his self. Well, I'm gonna go fix some food.
Mabel Hotchkiss
In fact, you better go help you, Senora Mabel.
Senorita Alice
Come along, Pancho.
Pancho
You look like you ought to be
Senorita Alice
able to eat about 20 flapjacks and
Pancho
a half dozen eggs.
Mabel Hotchkiss
Did you ought to be able to read Fajo's mind.
Pancho
This is the best way to get
Poncho
rid of the trouble.
Cisco Kid
Senorita Alice, why does the sheriff act that way to your aunt?
Senorita Alice
Oh, he's been after Aunt Mabel to marry him for five years. Every time she turns him down it makes him madder.
Cisco Kid
And why does he keep asking her
Senorita Alice
they really like each other. But just when they get to a point where Aunt Mabel will say yes to him, something like this happens. And then they get mad again.
Cisco Kid
In other words, the sheriff does not know the right time to park the question.
Senorita Alice
That's it exactly, Cisco. The sheriff thinks the only way to make up after they've had a fight is to ask her to marry him. And of course she won't when she's angry at him this way.
Cisco Kid
And I can see the sheriff is an hombre who will not listen to explanations when he is angry.
Senorita Alice
Just look at the way he refused to listen to your explanation about Sarah and Moose.
Cisco Kid
Say, Senorita Alice, they must have lied convincingly.
Senorita Alice
I wonder why they did it.
Cisco Kid
Because Pancho and I have helped Senora Mabel. Anything that helps her keeps them from winning that race.
Senorita Alice
Aunt Mabel said they'd try to dry gulch ya.
Cisco Kid
What they have already told the sheriff. They can say we attacked them.
Senorita Alice
Don't take any chances, Cisco. Sarah and Moose will do anything to win that stagecoach race. And now they know they've got to get rid of you before they can.
Martin Sayer
Too bad, mate. Who caught those new horses of herd before they filled up on that alfalfa?
Moose Judson
When we pulled down that section of the sheriff's fence. I was hoping them horses that eat enough of that green alfalfa to make them well.
Martin Sayer
They didn't. You ain't going to win that mail contract unless we put them onto the running.
Moose Judson
Yeah, they meant the Cisco Kid.
Martin Sayer
How do you figure to get rid of them?
Moose Judson
I'll show you when we get to the barn. Mabel's keeping them new horses in.
Martin Sayer
You can't run them out of there without the sheriff, Cisco and the whole town knowing about it.
Moose Judson
I got no intention of running them out of the barn. That's why I bought this can of cool oil.
Martin Sayer
You going to set the barn afire?
Moose Judson
Correct. And we're going to drag Gulp. Cisco and Pancho at the same time.
Martin Sayer
Same time. I know they'll come out of the house to save the horses. But how are we going to gun them down without being seen?
Moose Judson
We'll be in the barn.
Martin Sayer
You loco will be burned same as those horses.
Moose Judson
Not if we start the fire at the front of the barn and hide ourselves at the back in the halo.
Pancho
It might work at that.
Martin Sayer
We could get Cisco and Pancho and be out of the bond before the fire reached us.
Moose Judson
It will work. With Cisco out of the way and those blasted horses burned, that mail contract is as good as mine.
Mabel Hotchkiss
We not can see too much out here in the dark, Cisco.
Cisco Kid
The moon will come out from behind the clouds, Ponzo. And we'll be able to see a lot better.
Mabel Hotchkiss
Those banditos by the Senora Mabel's horses is the night before the stage was raised. Then I'd want to tango with Cisco.
Cisco Kid
Yeah. I hope you're right, Chico.
Mabel Hotchkiss
All right, all right.
Cisco Kid
Well, we'll ride once more on the corrals and the stables and then turn in for the night. Look.
Pancho
The barn.
Cisco Kid
Thought I saw a flicker of fire.
Mabel Hotchkiss
Where's this Goncho? That barn and fire the horses.
Poncho
We must try to save the horses. Pancho.
Pancho
We are going in after them.
Sheriff Zeke
But we be blind too. She's go.
Poncho
Not if we work fast.
Mabel Hotchkiss
Pancho, hurry up.
Poncho
Ho ho ho.
Pancho
Ho, ho ho. Grab some of these grain sacks and
Poncho
dip them in the water trough.
Mabel Hotchkiss
Fancho do with his coat.
Pancho
What's Foncho do with his sacks?
Sheriff Zeke
After they wet?
Poncho
Use the sacks to blindfold the horses
Pancho
in the burning farm.
Poncho
Horses are afraid of fire. They will not leave the barn.
Pancho
Hurry, Foncho.
Poncho
Fine. You hurry.
Senorita Alice
Please go.
Poncho
Remember, the most important thing is not to remove the wet sack after the horse is out of the barn.
Senorita Alice
Why just away?
Poncho
If you do, the horse will run
Pancho
back into his stalls and it's home to him.
Poncho
It's the only place he feels safe.
Pancho
If the store is burning, the horse
Sheriff Zeke
needs to be burned to death.
Poncho
Monster Amia, that fire is running fast.
Sheriff Zeke
Let's go. Them horses. I'm going in after him.
Pancho
Bancho and I will get them.
Poncho
So you are unable. You are thinking here.
Sheriff Zeke
We get him, Senor Cisco. Bancho, you'll be burned. Don't go into that barn. You'll be burned to death.
Narrator
And little do Cisco and Pancho know that inside that barn lies not only death by fire, but death from the guns of moose and Sayer. 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 Stagecoach race at Skeleton Bend. When Cisco and Poncho delivered a string of horses to their friend Mabel Hotchkiss and her niece Alice, they knew the horses were to be used in a stagecoach race to decide who would get the contract for carrying the mail. But Martin Sayer and Moose Judson are determined to win the mail contract at any cost. Setting fire to the barn where the horses are kept, they lie in wait with their rifles ready as Cisco and Poncho rush in to rescue the horses.
Pancho
Now someone else in the box.
Mabel Hotchkiss
They shoot us.
Pancho
That bullet comes closer with the spider's head.
Poncho
Fire is spreading so fast that whoever is shooting at us will have to get out of here also.
Pancho
Quickly.
Poncho
Let us get those horses.
Pancho
Fajo. Cover the eyes of these two horses.
Mabel Hotchkiss
Go.
Poncho
I will get the other four.
Pancho
Oh, come on. Oh, I didn't hurt you.
Poncho
Here, you eat those three horses.
Pancho
Pancho.
Poncho
I will take these three.
Pancho
Banjo. Hope we get out of here.
Poncho
We are going out the same way we came in.
Pancho
Let me go.
Senorita Alice
Hurry.
Sheriff Zeke
I Please. Oh, the sage. Hop onto your safe. You did it. Jump and jump.
Senorita Alice
I gave you two up for 10. Here, let me take them horses from you.
Narrator
I'll help you with them.
Pancho
Mabel.
Cisco Kid
Did anyone come out of that barn besides us, Senorita Alice?
Senorita Alice
No, Cisco. I didn't see anyone. What were those gunshots I heard?
Cisco Kid
Those gunshots are what I am talking about. I think I know who set the fire and tried to dry Gulfjack there and move. That is who I think, senorita. And when I prove it, those two will answer to me.
Martin Sayer
I can fix these space coats breaks so they won't work when pressure's put on us there.
Moose Judson
Yes, like for instance, hairpin turn at Skeleton Bend.
Martin Sayer
Yeah, that'll put them out of business for sure.
Moose Judson
We're overlooking something, Moose. If Mabel's driver, old Luke suddenly died of lead poisoning, someone else would have to drive. Yeah.
Martin Sayer
Now in Cisco, you can be sure he'll be the one to take Luke's place.
Moose Judson
When that stagecoach hits Skeleton Bend at full tilt without any brakes, it'll bounce off the road and drop 150ft to the bottom of the canyon.
Pancho
There.
Cisco Kid
That fixes a break.
Moose Judson
Yeah, Good.
Mabel Hotchkiss
Let's get going.
Moose Judson
We gotta take care of Luke. I know just where to find him.
Martin Sayer
You're a hard man to beat there.
Mabel Hotchkiss
You don't play fair.
Martin Sayer
First Luke, then the Cisco Kid.
Moose Judson
And anyone else who gets in. My.
Senorita Alice
Howdy, Mabel. Alex. Got bad news, Luke. Your driver's been killed.
Moose Judson
Shot in the back.
Sheriff Zeke
Oh no.
Senorita Alice
Poor Luke. Who done it, Sheriff?
Sheriff Zeke
Who's the bomber that got him? Come in.
Cisco Kid
Oh dear, Sheriff, you already know about old Luke. The driver, Senor Maple.
Senorita Alice
Yeah. Ridiculous of old men, aren't you?
Mabel Hotchkiss
Like the finest. Nick and Coyote would do such a thing.
Cisco Kid
As a matter of fact, Senior Sheriff, I think Luke was murdered by Martin Thayer and Moose Judson.
Senorita Alice
Can you prove it?
Cisco Kid
Not yet, Senior Sheriff. But I guarantee you they will be safely behind the bars of your jail before this day is over.
Mabel Hotchkiss
Got to drive the horses for the stagecoach race this afternoon.
Senorita Alice
Unfortunately, no one. Oh, Luke's the only one in these parts that was able to handle a good team around a hairpin turn like the one at Skeleton Bend.
Mabel Hotchkiss
And you. Luke's not the only one saying you read it out.
Cisco Kid
That is right, senorita. Pancho can handle the ribbons of a six horse team better than anyone I
Mabel Hotchkiss
know, Pancho better than anyone Pancho know too well.
Senorita Alice
I didn't know that, Poncho.
Sheriff Zeke
By thunder.
Senorita Alice
Then we still got a chance to keep the mail contract.
Cisco Kid
I will go along with Pancho.
Senorita Alice
Senora Mabel, this race is the last chance those coyotes have to get at the mail contract. They're sure to try another underhanded trick.
Pancho
If what you say is true, Cisco, they won't stop another.
Cisco Kid
Neither will I, until those dealers pay for their crimes.
Sheriff Zeke
Reminded me of Cisco these days. Coach horses on fire. Those coyotes and clear Moose far behind us all. Got him beat already.
Pancho
No, Chico.
Poncho
They have not even let out their horses. I expect them to give us a fight.
Sheriff Zeke
Is that the reason Cisco brings Diablo along?
Poncho
Say, Poncho, I may need Diablo yet.
Sheriff Zeke
We come into Skeleton Day Northern naval cannon to look for.
Poncho
They're going downhill in Kenny Speed Poncho. You better start using the brake to slow the stage coach.
Sheriff Zeke
Yeah, P. Do this. Got to break that work.
Poncho
What do you mean, Pancho?
Sheriff Zeke
If I had to push the brake with the seat and nothing happens.
Pancho
Santos.
Poncho
Now I know why those coyotes stay so far behind us. They must have put the brake out of working order.
Sheriff Zeke
It's going big deal when it takes course for an hey.
Poncho
We welfare on that.
Sheriff Zeke
And that's why it goes. I think I can use the arrow
Pancho
to help us, Bancho.
Sheriff Zeke
Why are you doing this, sir?
Pancho
Gabo.
Poncho
I am getting the rope for Gabo's saddle, sir.
Sheriff Zeke
What?
Pancho
I have it.
Poncho
I will tie one end of this rope to the back of the safe course. I will tie the other end of the rope around the saddle horn. After I jump on the elbow's back. Perhaps the elbow can hold back the coach when you go around scouting van.
Sheriff Zeke
It's quite a tricky coat.
Poncho
Have the rope aside, Puncher.
Pancho
Half yellow.
Poncho
Come on.
Pancho
Lost any right.
Poncho
The road ahead to the finish line is clear.
Sheriff Zeke
We're going to win the race in the mail contract. And.
Poncho
Those coyotes are shooting at us. B Take the stakes coaster towards the finish line.
Sheriff Zeke
Faster. Command.
Moose Judson
Faster.
Sheriff Zeke
Faster.
Poncho
Now you bantidos for a taste of your own medicine for their Ho ho.
Cisco Kid
Easy, Diablo. Let them get closer.
Pancho
Get fist there.
Sheriff Zeke
Cal them down.
Pancho
The rage is over for you two coyotes. This shotgun in my hand says it any. Climb down off that horse, Cisco.
Cisco Kid
All right, hombre. Since you have a gun on me.
Moose Judson
You crossed me for the last time, Cisco.
Cisco Kid
You set fire to Senora Mabel's barn right there.
Moose Judson
That's right. And if the fire hadn't spread so fast that I got you then.
Cisco Kid
And you kill Luke the driver.
Moose Judson
Yeah. I thought I'd get rid of you and your partner when you coach at Skeleton Ben. But getting you this way is even better.
Cisco Kid
So you think you are going to kill me?
Moose Judson
I don't think it. I know it.
Cisco Kid
And right now you miss somebody. You will not get another chance to use that gun.
Sheriff Zeke
Yeah, this gun over your head.
Pancho
Dismissive of mine. Your face something to say about that. And another punch.
Senorita Alice
Oh, put an end to your stomach.
Pancho
That's your last fight. This gun.
Sheriff Zeke
I'm coming down enough to.
Poncho
You waited a long time to get
Sheriff Zeke
my hands on you.
Poncho
I do not intend to waste any
Pancho
time in finishing you off. We'll see about that, Cisco.
Sheriff Zeke
Here we will. And these punch will do it.
Pancho
Up on your feet both. You coyotes.
Cisco Kid
You will pay in full. For every crime you have committed, that
Pancho
I can promise you.
Senorita Alice
Hey, I. I sure had a lot of things wrong. Cisco, I'm very grateful to you for exposing them two bandits, Moose.
Cisco Kid
And sir, anyone is privileged to make a mistake. Say you, Sheriff?
Senorita Alice
Yeah, but he's been abusing the privilege. Now, Aunt Mabel, don't you start anything. Deacon's been holding his temper down like a gentleman.
Mabel Hotchkiss
And the sheriff even smiled at Tancho when he tell Pancho that the signora win the race in the mail contract.
Senorita Alice
You've changed with you. And I'm mighty proud of it. Well, thank you kindly, Mabel.
Pancho
After I prove to you that I
Senorita Alice
can keep my temper, I'm going to ask you again to marry me.
Cisco Kid
Why did he wait?
Mabel Hotchkiss
Why did he have not asked us who you are? Right now, Pancho?
Senorita Alice
Oh, go on with your poncho. I think Pancho's right. How about it, Zeke? Well, fact is, I'd like to, but.
Mabel Hotchkiss
But, but what's the matter, Senor Sherry?
Sheriff Zeke
I don't know any fancy words. Don't gone.
Senorita Alice
It's.
Sheriff Zeke
She always turns me down when I
Senorita Alice
ask her straight out.
Mabel Hotchkiss
I don't you know what you say?
Senorita Alice
What in your Mabel.
Pancho
Into an hombre's life, there come a
Mabel Hotchkiss
time when his heart feel empty. And this the time when the hombre need the wire. And in all the world and from all the signores, this hombre find the one what he want to marry.
Senorita Alice
Oh, Zeke, that's the most beautiful thing you ever said.
Mabel Hotchkiss
And the senor know that this senor the only hombre in the whole world for her. Because when he serenade her, he feel her heart go.
Pancho
Pity Patty.
Mabel Hotchkiss
Pity, pity, pity, pity, pity, pity. And she know this the hombre that make her happy.
Senorita Alice
I do, Mabel. I didn't know I made you feel
Mabel Hotchkiss
that way, Sheriff Zeke, you want to ask the Senor Mabel to marry you?
Pancho
I do.
Mabel Hotchkiss
Your Senor Mabel, you want to ask the saint of Sheriff Zeke? I do. And Puncher now pronounce you to be engaged to be married. Come, we go look up to padre
Pancho
and make the arrangement.
Senorita Alice
Oh, me for Ezekiel.
Cisco Kid
I never knew Pancho was such a good arranger.
Senorita Alice
He sure is. He even arranged things the right way for me.
Cisco Kid
What things, senorita?
Senorita Alice
Honest things. Like getting everyone out of the room so I could could see.
Mabel Hotchkiss
That's a fine wedding. Senora Mabel and the Sheriff Zikal.
Cisco Kid
It was Chico and I noticed that after the wedding you had three helpings
Pancho
of each kind of food they had at the banquet.
Mabel Hotchkiss
Why don't you only do that to be polite to be polite. Monsignor Signora Mabel Selpancho to healthy self. And secondly, the Alice Lady Hilpancho in Syria.
Pancho
Zeke Gazpacho to eat with him could
Mabel Hotchkiss
turn down the tree help him.
Cisco Kid
I suppose you are right, amigo.
Pancho
Panchograd Panzer is still a single hombre
Mabel Hotchkiss
though you are, Chico. Why Panzer Grad?
Pancho
Because of the big difference between the
Sheriff Zeke
single hombres and the married hombre.
Cisco Kid
Oh, and is there a big difference
Pancho
between a single hombre and a married hombre?
Mabel Hotchkiss
Yes, it's a big difference.
Sheriff Zeke
Big difference.
Cisco Kid
Well then tell me, amigo, what is the difference between a single hombre and a married hombre?
Pancho
I actually told you. A single hombre got no buttons and he should have it. And a Mary don't marry and I got no shirt. Oh, Poncho.
Narrator
And so ends another exciting adventure with O. Henry's famous Robin Hood of the west, the Cisco Kids.
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Host: Andrew Rhynes
Date: May 19, 2026
Show: The Cisco Kid
Episode Theme: When a crucial stagecoach race will decide who wins a vital mail contract, Cisco Kid and Pancho uncover sabotage, arson, and murder in a classic tale of frontier justice.
This episode transports listeners to the drama-filled Old West, as Cisco Kid and his loyal companion Pancho assist their friend Mabel Hotchkiss in winning a high-stakes stagecoach race. The mail contract between Amarillo and Burnett is on the line, and underhanded rivals Moose Judson and Martin Sayer will stop at nothing—sabotage, arson, and even murder—to claim victory. With restored, vivid sound and classic Western banter, the story weaves action, humor, and a touch of romance as law and order rides with the daring duo.
[12:24] Sayer and Judson plot to destroy Mabel’s horses by burning down the barn, hoping to eliminate their rival team and the heroes at once.
[13:39] In a suspenseful night sequence, Cisco and Pancho spot flames and rush into the burning barn to save the horses, using wet sacks as blindfolds to lead the terrified animals to safety.
While inside, shots ring out—the villains attempt to ambush them in the chaos.
[17:34] After their arson attempt fails, Judson and Sayer sabotage the race directly, damaging the coach’s brakes at the most dangerous turn—Skeleton Bend.
They also murder the trusted driver, Old Luke, leaving Mabel’s team in desperate need of a skilled replacement.
[20:39] Cisco volunteers Pancho for the job.
Sheriff Zeke is convinced and the plan is set—the heroes will drive.
[21:19] The climactic stagecoach race begins. As Cisco predicted, the brakes fail approaching Skeleton Bend, threatening disaster.
Cisco’s quick thinking: He ties his horse Diablo by rope to the back of the speeding coach, using its strength to help slow and guide the runaway vehicle.
Under gunfire, Cisco and Pancho press on and reach the finish line, winning the race and the mail contract.
For classic western fans and newcomers alike, “Stagecoach Race at Skeleton Bend” is an exemplary tale of good triumphing over evil, peppered with timeless humor and warmth.