The Camels Are Coming | The Lone Ranger (11-09-51)

Summary

The Lone Ranger: "The Camels Are Coming" (Original Air Date: 11-09-51)

Podcast: Old Time Radio Westerns | Host: Andrew Rhynes | August 25, 2025

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Episode Overview

This episode transports listeners back to the golden age of radio with the classic western adventure, "The Camels Are Coming," featuring The Lone Ranger. With carefully restored audio, the show follows the masked hero and his companion Tonto as they attempt to thwart an outlaw's scheme that endangers a wagon train and introduces an unusual cast of characters—two camels, recently acquired in a small frontier town.

The story blends action, humor, and suspense—showcasing themes of frontier justice, resourcefulness, and community spirit in the Old West.

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Key Discussion Points and Story Breakdown

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A. Setting the Stage (01:46–06:00)

• Introduction:
  • The legendary Lone Ranger is introduced with his trademark catchphrase as he and Tonto, his steadfast Native American companion, ride into another adventure in the wild West.
  • Uncle Homer Potts, a comical New Yorker-turned-westernite, and his wife Ma Hank are introduced in Modoc City.
  • Uncle Homer pokes fun at western life and wishes for an easier mount, jesting:
    • "Next time I get me a horse, it's going to be a clamor camel, Ma. Right. You know, I've heard that those animals kneel down when you want to climb on board." [04:52 – Homer]

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B. The Camel Auction and Mayhem in Town (06:00–13:00)

• Army Auction:
  • Homer attends an army auction at Fort Belmont, picking up two camels—the last survivors of the US Army's failed Camel Corps—much to the townsfolk’s bewilderment.
    • Auctioneer: “So to Mr. Homer Potts of Modoc City. … Look, Homer, just to keep your goodwill, I'll give you both camels for the price of one.” [08:27–08:33]
  • The camels’ presence creates chaos; horses and mules stampede, and a camel runs amok in Schultz’s store, emerging with red flannel underwear around its neck.
    • "The onlookers in front of the Nugget Cafe dove back through the doors." [12:15]

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C. The Outlaws’ Scheme and the Stranded Wagon Train (08:53–14:57)

• Flint Carson’s Plot:
  • Flint Carson, notorious outlaw, coordinates with Hook Taylor and a gang to ambush a wagon train by poisoning the only available waterhole, Salvation Well.
    • Flint: “I filled two saddlebags with the deadliest stuff I could find, and last night I rode on ahead of the outfit, dumped the poison into the water…” [10:13–10:28]
• Lone Ranger and Tonto Discover the Danger:
  • The Lone Ranger and Tonto find the wagon train, whose livestock have died after drinking the poisoned water.
  • The masked man concludes Flint is responsible, recognizing him by a description:
    • "Cap. When you left California, did you have among your men a six footer with drooping eyelids, gold teeth and a tattooed star on his right hand?" [14:05 – Lone Ranger]
  • A plan is made to help: the travelers must ration the remaining water and dig in to fight back against the gang.

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D. Rescue Plans and the Camels’ Redemption (16:28–22:19)

• Return to Modoc City & Civic Chaos:
  • Homer brings the camels home to Ma Hank. Ma is unexpectedly charmed when the camels kneel obediently.
    • Ma Hank: “Great. See, he’s kneeling. Why, Homer, darling. He’s cute. … We’re keeping them.” [17:07–17:57]
  • Marshal Jim warns they need to hide the camels to prevent a mob from harming them.
    • Marshal: “A mob is forming… all bound and determined to lynch your camels. I can’t stop ‘em.” [21:11–21:12]
• Lone Ranger and Tonto Arrive:
  • The Lone Ranger proposes using the camels to save the stranded wagon train, explaining:
    • Lone Ranger: “Those camels can help the people of the wagon train. … They can travel where no horses can go.” [22:04–22:15]
  • They sneak out with the camels, while Marshal Jim plans to lead a rescue party.

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E. Showdown and Resolution (22:44–28:21)

• Camels in Action:
  • The camels’ stamina across desert terrain allows Lone Ranger and Tonto to reach the besieged wagons quickly, dispatching some of the outlaw gang and dispersing their horses.
    • "The outlaws’ badly frightened horses screamed, pitched and kicked… the milling horses broke the picket line." [23:14–23:32]
• Ambush and Capture:
  • Flint Carson and Hook Taylor attempt to ambush the Lone Ranger but are outsmarted and subdued.
    • Lone Ranger: "Let's see that hand, fella. Yes, there's a tattooed star on the back that my bullet didn't touch." [25:09–25:14]
• The Travelers Saved:
  • Tonto brings water, earning cheers for the camels. The townspeople, now grateful, must decide the camels’ future.
    • "Hurrah for the Max man and Tunnels." "Don’t forget Sohrab and Rustem!" [25:56–26:01]
• Aftermath and Farewell:
  • The camels are entrusted to Hard Pan Pete, the prospector. The Lone Ranger and Tonto depart, with gratitude from the rescued:
    • Lone Ranger: “You did enough, Cap, when you prayed for us. Adioso to.” [27:18–27:23]
    • Ma Hank’s tribute: “Nobody ever really knows a man like him, Cap. But he’s a grand man, you see. He’s the Lone Ranger.”* [27:26–27:28]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On the Camels in Town
  • Ma Hank: “We’re keeping them. Now see here. Tomorrow’s payday at most ranches and mines. When the cow folks and miners come to town, they’ll find out it isn’t safe to leave their horses on the street. It’d be just like them to come here and plug the camels.” [17:57]
• On Heroism and Faith
  • Cap Morris: "All right, drop down your knees, everybody. We're gonna pray for the masked man and engine." [15:02]
• Villainy Exposed
  • Lone Ranger: "You're Flint Carson. A man, a dozen sheriffs want to hang." [25:15]
• On Western Justice
  • Ma Hank: “Nobody ever really knows a man like him, Cap. But he’s a grand man, you see. He’s the Lone Ranger.” [27:26–27:28]

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• [04:52] – Camel joke foreshadows their importance
• [08:27 – 08:33] – Homer buys both camels at the auction
• [12:15] – Camels wreak havoc in Modoc City
• [14:05 – 14:15] – Lone Ranger identifies Flint Carson
• [22:04 – 22:19] – Plan to use camels for rescue
• [23:14 – 23:32] – Camels scatter the outlaws’ horses
• [25:09 – 25:14] – Lone Ranger confronts Carson
• [27:26 – 27:28] – Ma Hank sums up the Lone Ranger’s legacy

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Episode Tone and Style

The tone is classic and adventurous, mixing signature Lone Ranger gravitas with light, comedic touches brought by Uncle Homer and the chaos resulting from his camel purchase. The dialogue reflects frontier slang and humor while honoring the righteousness and hope embodied by The Lone Ranger.

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Final Thoughts

This episode brilliantly revives a unique, entertaining intersection of Old West history (the Camel Corps) with a thrilling rescue led by The Lone Ranger. It’s both whimsical and suspenseful—a testament to why old-time radio westerns continue to captivate listeners. The camels, initially objects of ridicule and chaos, become unlikely heroes, embodying the spirit of ingenuity and resilience that characterizes the best of Western tales.

Transcript

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[B]

Welcome to the Old Time Radio Westerns. I'm your host, Andrew Ryans, and I'm excited to bring you another episode absolutely free. This is one of over 80 episodes released monthly for your enjoyment. Now, let's get into this episode.

[C]

A fiery horse with the speed of light, a cloud of dust and a hearty hio. Silver the Lone Ranger.

[D]

It's Sam.

[C]

With his faithful Indian companion, Toto, the daring and resourceful masked rider of the plains led the fight for law and order in the early western United States. Nowhere in the pages of history can one find a greater champion of justice. Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear. From out of the past come the thundering hoof beats of the great horse.

[E]

Silver.

[C]

The Lone Ranger rides again.

[F]

Come on, Silver.

[E]

Let go, big fo.

[D]

I am Silver. Hurray.

[C]

Uncle Homer Potts came out of the stable behind the Henry House in Modoc City. The little New Yorker who had gone western by marrying Ma Hank, the huge landlady of the hotel, was leading a saddle draft horse. With mock dignity, he called out, my.

[D]

Lady, your steed awaits you.

[C]

Ma was on the back porch, the elevation of which made it easier for her to mount. She pretended anger.

[D]

Homer, you promised to stay. Stop that high falutin talk.

[F]

Oh, I. I reckon a backslid. Well, woman, here's your horse.

[D]

Ah, that's better. Well, steady, Pudding foot. Easy now.

[F]

Pudding Foot said. Oh, my bad.

[D]

The ornery critter. Next time I get me a horse, it's going to be a clamor camel, Ma. Right. You know, I've heard that those animals Kneel down when you want to climb on board.

[F]

Say, are you going to be gone long?

[D]

Yeah, most of the day. I aim to look after some sick and needy folks while you're gone.

[F]

I'll ride over to Fort Belmont.

[D]

What on earth for?

[F]

The Army's having an auction on some stuff it doesn't want.

[D]

Thunderation at auction sale and I'll miss it.

[F]

If you went, you'd likely get stuck with a busted cannon. Mind that iron deer you bought one time.

[D]

Hey. Well, the thing helped the Lone Ranger catch two killers. But like the feller says, arguments never get you anywhere. And I've got places to go. So get up, puddin foot.

[F]

Goodbye, Ma.

[D]

Adios.

[C]

As Mohank and Homer went their separate ways, the Lone Ranger and Tonto rode slowly through the burning sands of Furnace Flats. The desert trail which they were following eastward toward the mountains and Modoc city. More the tracks of wagons, oxen and horses. Totto looked at the signs and observed.

[E]

Maybe we catch up with wagon train today. Kimasabe. Our hunt for Flint Carson may not end when we overtake the wagons. Huh?

[C]

Why you say that?

[E]

All we know is that a man answering Carson's description left California with a wagon train bound for the East. We may be following the wrong man or the wrong outfit. Carson has contacts with many different gangs, so he keeps moving. After planning a crime, he gets local outlaws to help him carry it out. Then he travels on.

[C]

Later that day, Uncle Homer stood in the front rank of a crowd gathered outside the stables at Fort Belmont. So far, the auctioneer had sold only Civil war muskets, old McClellan saddles, lame horses and mules grown gray with age. Bids had been few and low. As some of the people began to move away, the sale crier shouted, don't go away, gents.

[F]

I'm about to offer you the opportunity of your lives. Sergeant, bring out Sirab and Rustem. Come on, you vomit. Here they are, gents. Two camels. The sole survivors of the famous camel corps that once patrolled the Southwest, making it safe for immigrants. All that camel herd ever did was make trouble, fella. Are you trying to knock this sail? I'm telling the truth. When that camel outfit hits the trail, horses, mules and cattle stampeded. You've heard from Johnny? Know it all, gents. Now I'm putting Saurabh on the block. Who'll give me a bid? What, no bidders? Look, I'll throw in the saddle. Now what do I hear? Gents, this beautiful beast is well broken. He answers to army commands. He's as sturdy as an elephant, gentle as a lamb. The misbegotten varmint bit me. Homer Potts, you're a friend of mine. Give me a bid of $20 to start it off.

[D]

Well, $20.

[F]

So to Mr. Homer Potts of Modoc City. Oh.

[D]

Hey, that one fair.

[F]

Look, Homer, just to keep your goodwill, I'll give you both camels for the price of one. Now pay the clerk and get the consigned critters out of you.

[C]

At that moment, a score of heavily armed men were camped in the foothills south of Furnace Flats. They were the dregs of the desert country, some Americans, some Mexicans, the others renegade Apaches. As they cleaned their guns and honed bowie knives on their bootlegs, a solitary rider approached. Hook Taylor, the gang leader, exclaimed, hey, that's Flint.

[F]

He's coming in. Well, much time we have waited for him. Ho, ho, ho. Well, Hook, I see you got the gang together. Yeah, Rounded up the boys as soon.

[E]

As I read your letter about the wagon train.

[F]

I traveled with it long enough to size up the situation. Where is it now, Flint? Halfway across the desert. On the Modoc City trail. Uh huh.

[E]

How many are in the party?

[F]

47 all told. 30 of them are women and kits. That still leaves almost as many men as Afghani. How much money you reckon they're carrying?

[E]

Plenty.

[F]

That's why they're leaving the West. Those fellas own good property and sold for cash before they started east. How are they fixed for guns? Oh, they're well supplied and they're being cautious. If plenty. There's a place down the flats where we can ambush them. We attack them in the open, they might beat us off. Yeah, I thought of that.

[E]

So?

[F]

So you do what, Senor Flynn? Half poison the only water hole between them and the foothills this side of Modoc. I know that water hole. It's called Salvation. Well, I filled two saddlebags with the deadliest stuff I could find, and last.

[C]

Night I rode on ahead of the.

[F]

Outfit, dumped the poison into the water and headed for this place.

[E]

You're local if you think all those.

[F]

People will drink out of the hole and die. Look, I don't figure on that at all. But they're short on water now, and their horses and oxen are mighty thirsty. The animals are sure to stampede to the hole. The poison will kill them. That'll leave the people stranded? Sure. Now get ready to ride. Take along plenty of water and grub. We may not be able to shoot those people without getting hit ourselves. In that case, we'll simply Wait for them to die of thirst or surrender.

[C]

It was several hours later when Uncle Homer appeared at the end of Modoc City's main street with the two camels. An idler outside the Nugget Cafe was the first person to see them. He stuck his head through the batwing doors and yelled, outside, everybody come around.

[F]

Hey, look. Coming down the street. You see those animals? I see them, but I still don't believe there are any such critters. Who's that little fella on chopper? Uncle Homer Potts.

[C]

Just then, a stray dog sighted the alien beasts and ran into the street, barking furiously. Both camels lowered their head, bared their big yellow teeth and charged them on girl. As the dog turned tail and fled in terror, Uncle Homer sawed on Sohrab's reins.

[F]

Whoa, Sohrab Hawk, whoa.

[C]

The other camel had broken loose. It was hotly pursuing the dog. The onlookers in front of the Nugget Cafe dove back through the doors. A dozen horses hitched to nearby posts and rails broke their tie straps and galloped off. A mule train, which was being loaded in front of a miner supply store joined in the stampede, scattering boxes the length of the street. At the same time, the riderless camel chased the dog into Schultz's variety store, creating more havoc than the proverbial bull in a china shop. As it emerged with a suit of red flannel underwear draped around its neck, Uncle Homer grabbed the dangling rain and.

[F]

Shouted, now, come on, Rustum.

[D]

Forward. So loud.

[C]

Meanwhile, about 12 hours travel from Modoc City, the Lone Ranger and Tonto came to the top of a rise in the desert trail. The Indian pointed.

[E]

Look, Kimosabe. Wagon crane just ahead. Yes, it stopped at Salvation. Well, there's something wrong. All their oxen and horses are lying down around the water hole. They see us. Fellas point guns this way. Hold your fire, my friend.

[F]

Come in with your hand.

[E]

All right, Bozo. Fenny.

[C]

Why you wearing a mask?

[F]

He's an AHU Cap. Let's take your horses and send for hell.

[E]

Ready, men? We're not outlaws. We're here to help you.

[C]

What happened to animals?

[E]

They're all dead.

[F]

Poisoned head water killed them.

[E]

You're in a desperate situation.

[C]

As he spoke, the masked man studied the stranded travelers. None of the men fitted the description of Flint Carson. The wagons appeared to hold only women and children.

[E]

He continued, you'll never get out of this desert on foot with your families. We know it. I take it that you're the wagon master. That's right. I'm Cap Morris.

[F]

Dave Brewster here is second in charge.

[E]

Did any of you people drink from Salvation well?

[F]

I took a mouthful but spit it right out. Tasted like alkali to me. That didn't keep the animals from filling up. They'd been without water so long, they ran to the hole as soon as we unhitched.

[E]

There are deposits of a deadly alkaloid in the mountains. It sometimes washes into water holes.

[F]

Salvation well is on the map.

[E]

As being pure, it became poisoned during the last day or so. Otherwise, you'd see the carcasses of wild animals lying around it. Why, thunder.

[F]

That's so. Maybe somebody put poison in his hand.

[E]

Cap. When you left California, did you have among your men a six footer with drooping eyelids, gold teeth and a tattooed star on his right hand? Yeah.

[F]

He disappeared from camp last night.

[E]

Him must be Flint Carson.

[C]

He said his name was Miller.

[F]

Who's Carson?

[E]

Most vicious robber and murderer in the West. My friend and I have been hunting him. So that's how it is.

[F]

The tracks of his horse showed he went on ahead of us.

[C]

He must have been here this morning.

[E]

And that explains the poison.

[F]

Why would he do such a thing, Mister?

[E]

He knew or suspected that you men are going back east with fortunes. Probably he has a gang waiting to attack you.

[F]

What do we do?

[E]

Pull your wagons into a circle by hand. Dig trenches, make a stand.

[F]

We haven't a drop of water.

[E]

The young one, Otto, and I each have two canteens. We'll leave them with you. Ration the water to the children.

[F]

Mister, you're sure generous.

[E]

Where are you going? Modoc City.

[F]

It's a long way off.

[E]

The wind's rising. Maybe it'll rain. That's a sandstorm coming. Well.

[F]

And you and your partner are headed for sure death.

[E]

With the help of Providence, we'll get through. Adios, friends.

[F]

Adios. All right, drop down your knees, everybody.

[C]

We're gonna pray for the masked man and engine. The curtain falls on the first act of our Lone Ranger adventure. Before the next exciting scenes. Please permit us to pause for just a few moments.

[D]

Satan, as the Lone Ranger and Tottle.

[C]

Headed for Modoc City. Bent on saving the travelers stranded at the poisoned water hole, Uncle Homer managed to get control of the two camels he had bought at an army auction. The little Easterner had recovered some of his aplomb as he brought the awkward beast to a stop at the hotel stable. Mohank barged out of the kitchen.

[D]

What on earth have you there, Homer Potts? Camels laying sinks. Honest to goodness, camel, I. I heard you wish for one you what? Get down off of that long legged critter. Get down, I say.

[F]

Down, Sohrab.

[E]

Down.

[D]

Great. See, he's kneeling. Why, Homer, darling. He's cute. Denny.

[F]

Well, he's yours, my dear. I'll take the other one. I bought them at the army auction. Look, here comes Marshal Jim. Oh, there the varmints are, huh? Marshal Jim, I'm right sorry about the ruckus. The camel's caught. Ruckus? It was the next thing to an earthquake.

[D]

What happened?

[F]

Those cantankerous could have stampeded every living thing in town. The mayor wanted me to arrest you. Uncle Homer, there's no law against having camels. That's what I told the mayor. But just the same, you're in for trouble unless you get rid of the beast. Frato. We're keeping them. Now see here. Tomorrow's payday at most ranches and mines. When the cow folks and miners come to town, they'll find out it isn't safe to leave their horses on the street. It'd be just like them to come here and plug the camels.

[D]

Let them come. Homer, you put the critters in the stable with the horses. No, no, he can't do that. Put them in the big storeroom behind the kitch.

[C]

When night fell a few hours later, the Lone Ranger and Tottle were far out on the desert. The windstorm had broken in full fury, blotting out the moon and stars with clouds of sand. Tottle was shouting.

[F]

Better we wait till storms stop.

[E]

No, keep going.

[F]

Horses soon give out.

[E]

We'll discard everything but our guns.

[C]

Their loads lightened, the gallant Silver and Scout struggled on. But soon the Lone Ranger swung from his saddle.

[E]

From now on, we walk. Hold on deer and walk in the ruts.

[F]

Toto.

[C]

Several miles farther on, the deep wagon track stopped, buried by drifting sand into which the horses sank to their hawks. Lone Ranger called a halt.

[E]

We'll rest the horses for a few minutes. Wind change plenty.

[F]

Now we're blowing paces again. Maybe we going around in circles.

[E]

Then we're lost.

[C]

After a short rest, the Lone Ranger and Tonto attempt to find the trail with her hands while their faithful horses stood at ground hitch. Crawling back and forth, but keeping within sound of each other's voice. They clawed holes in the sand drifts.

[E]

Me not find trail. Kimasabi eat digitaro.

[C]

The men dug, scraped and probed.

[F]

It's not here again. Me try.

[C]

At last, the Indian's fingers came into contact with firmly packed sand under a loose drift. He cleared the hole and felt around.

[F]

Keep Us happy here? Rats.

[E]

Good. They'll give us our bearings.

[F]

Remember, trail runs straight east from here to Modar City.

[E]

And let's go. T. Come on. Come on.

[C]

At the approach of dawn, the storm abated. But the masked man and dragging their heavy feet along beside their horses were weak from thirst and almost exhausted. The temptation to give up and lie down was strong. With each step, it seemed impossible to take another. Then the light in the eastern sky grew stronger. Tahoe said, look.

[E]

Kimasabe foothills close ahead. There may be a stream flowing down through them from the mountains. Oh, to smell water. Wanna run, Muscat?

[F]

Hopefully.

[E]

Steady, Shady. Easy. Steady, big fella. Get into the saddle, Toto. We'll give the horses a head.

[F]

Be savvy.

[E]

After we find water, we'll go on to Modoc City, where we go for help in town to the Henry house. Our old friends Ma Hank, Uncle Homer and Marshal Jim will help us. Come on, Silver.

[C]

It was near noon when Marshall Jim returned to the Henry house. He found Ma Hank and Uncle Homer in the kitchen, armed to the teeth. Behind them, in the high ceiling storeroom stood Sohrab and Rustem, placidly chewing their cuds. All other guests had departed in haste and indignation. The marshal was saying, it's just as.

[F]

I told you it'd be.

[D]

A mob is forming.

[F]

Huh? There are a hundred fellas in the Nugget Cafe all bound and determined to lynch your camels. I can't stop em.

[D]

By thunder, Homer and I'll stop em.

[F]

Oh, that means shootin' the critters aren't worth it.

[D]

But the principle is as the feller says, this hotel is my castle. Oh, mercy. Who's at the door?

[F]

Sure thing, Mark.

[D]

Why, it's the Lone Ranger.

[F]

And Thumb.

[D]

For sake's a lie, mister. Come on in.

[E]

Come in. Howdy, Mr. Hank. It's good to see you.

[D]

How that goes? Doubles.

[E]

And you, Marshall.

[F]

Glad to see you in Tonneau again. Where'd you leave your horses?

[E]

Behind the hotel near the stable. We came here through the woods so we'd not be seen.

[F]

My friends, you arrive at the time of trouble.

[E]

Yes.

[C]

After hearing of the difficulties into which the camels had plunged his friends, the masked man told about the plight of the travelers on the desert. Then Ma Hank said, those camels will have to go.

[D]

This is no time to be fighting over them.

[E]

Those camels can help the people of the wagon train.

[D]

But how?

[E]

Toddle now. Ride them to salvation. Well, and take canteens of water. We'll take a direct route.

[F]

That Shortcut is impassable. The sand is too fine and loose, mister.

[E]

Not for camels, Marshall. They can travel where no horses can go.

[F]

That's right.

[E]

We'll save hours of time.

[F]

Good, good. Go out the back way and leave town without being seen. When you and Tono have left, I'll bring some of the mob here and show them that the camels are gone. That'll satisfy him. Then I'll lead a rescue party to Salvation.

[E]

Well, be sure to bring extra horses for the wagons. Also scouting silver.

[C]

It was early that night when the Lone Ranger and Tonto brought the camels to a halt near Salvation.

[E]

Well.

[C]

The bright moonlight revealed a dune built by the sandstorm. The water hole and wagons were beyond the ridge. Then gunfire began. You must have.

[E]

Yes.

[C]

Bandits here already.

[F]

Gun flash. Show them. Surround wagons.

[E]

Otto, look over there. The point of the dune. Horses there. The outlaws must have left them there so they'd be out of range of the gunfire. There are only two men guarding those horses. Tahlo. Let's charge them. All right, come on, get it out.

[C]

As the towering camels closed in, the outlaw's badly frightened horses screamed, pitched and kicked. One guard who tried to fly at them was knocked down. The other took to his heels, firing wildly over his shoulder. Before the Lone Ranger could return the fire, the milling horses broke the picket line and at a mad gallop headed for their home range in the distant hills that six outlaws.

[E]

Ho, ho. Now dismount, Toto. They tie the camels to the picket line, then try to crawl through the outlaws line of the wagons.

[C]

Meanwhile, the bandits had heard the commotion as they lay in a circle around the wagon train, creeping back from the firing line until they were out of sight of the besieged travelers. Flint, Carson and Hook Taylor leaped to their feet.

[F]

Hook, what's happening beyond the dunes? I don't know, Flint. Someone's coming this way on a run. It's Chala, senor. Senor, the horses are stampede. Oh, no, not that. True. It's true. A masked man and Indian riding on two monsters scared them. Oh, you've been eating loco weed. No, senor. Flint, where are those fellows now? After I get away, I stop and look back. I see them crawling to the drywash that goes toward the water hole. Must be trying to reach the wagon train. Flint.

[E]

Yeah.

[F]

Charlotte, you go back with the rest of the men. Come on, Hook. Let's get the apartments who've stranded us.

[C]

Flint and Hook wormed their way to the edge of the shallow dry wash and lay in wait, concealed by the heavy Shadow of a boulder.

[F]

It's too dark here to see my gun sight.

[E]

Well, I can see my.

[F]

The holsters warranted Bright. You better shoot first.

[C]

Listen.

[F]

I hear something. Hey, look. The masked man. The engine's behind him. I'll plug the masked man first. I'll wait till he's close.

[C]

Unaware of the ambush, but always on the alert, the Lone Ranger had been scanning the top of the dry wash. He saw nothing above except the boulder. It was about to creep on to certain death when Flint Carson's six gun projecting over the edge reflected moonlight like a flash. The masked man fired. Killer's gun blazed harmlessly. Then it fell into the dry wash as he groaned.

[E]

Cover me, Toto. I'm going up there.

[F]

Me? Keep watch.

[C]

Scrambling up the slope, the masked man pounced upon the outlaw who had rolled out into the moonlight.

[E]

Let's see that hand, fella. Yes, there's a tattooed star on the back that my bullet didn't touch.

[F]

What are you talking about?

[E]

You're Flint Carson. A man, a dozen sheriffs. What a hang.

[C]

In the meantime, the bandits on the firing line had heard through Challa that their horses were gone. For the disappearance of their leaders, they began to break. The defenders of the wagon train were throwing up mounds of sand. As Breastworks saw what was happening.

[F]

They're running after the poor catch, Fellas. Follow me.

[C]

Some of the bandits fell wounded. Others surrendered. The remainder scattered and hid in the desert. When Cap Morris and his men returned from their victorious sortie they found the masked man at the wagon train with Flint Carson. Cap was puzzled.

[F]

How'd you do it, Misty?

[C]

While the Lone Ranger explained, Tonto appeared with the camels loaded with canteens of water. A cheer went up.

[D]

Hurray for the Max man and Tunnels.

[E]

Don't forget so Rab and Rustum.

[D]

Hooray for the.

[C]

It was the next day when the rescue party arrived led by Ma Hank, Uncle Homer and Marshall Jim. Later, Hook Taylor and the other outlaws who had sought refuge in the desert came in with their hands up preferring legal punishment for their crimes to the tortures of heat, thirst and slow death. After tying and loading all of the prisoners into wagons the marshal said, these.

[F]

Crooks will soon be headed for jail or a rope. The wagon train will be heading east. But what about those camels?

[C]

He pointed to Sohrab and Rustem who stood tethered on the sand dune out of Mischief's way.

[D]

As mayor of Modoc City, I take.

[F]

My hat off to the darn. I mean, noble and heroic beast. But we can't have them in town. Don't you agree, Homer? Well, I reckon I have to.

[D]

May I?

[F]

How about giving the camels to old Hard Pan Pete, the prospector?

[D]

Homer, that's a good idea. Poor old Hard Pan Pete lost his burros. He'll be right kind to the camels.

[E]

Hey, look.

[F]

Masked man and Tono are getting on their horses.

[E]

Friends, we're sorry to leave you, mister.

[F]

Isn't there something we can do for you?

[E]

You did enough, Cap, when you prayed for us. Adioso to.

[F]

Boy.

[C]

Hank, it appears like you know that masked man.

[D]

Well, now. Nobody ever really knows a man like him, Cap. But he's a grand man, you see. He's the Lone Ranger. It's.

[C]

It's Saundranger Incorporated it Created by George W. Trendle, produced by Trendle Campbell Enterprises, directed by Charles D. Livingston and edited by Fran Stryker. The part of the Lone Ranger is played by Brace Beame.

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Foreign.

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