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NARRATOR: Gunsmoke.

With Milburn Stone as Doc.

Amanda Blake as Kitty.

Ken Curtis as Festus.

Buck Taylor as Newly.

And starring James
Arness as Matt Dillon.

Be glad to help you home
with all that, Mrs. Travis.

It's all right, Noah.

I have to stop at the
post office first.

I don't mind waiting.

Not now, Noah.

Thank you.

Let's go, Colby.

Would you be needing any
help with all that, Mr. Eaton?

We'll manage.

Why didn't you
let him help, Pa?

We didn't need any.

Don't you like him?

Not much.

Not much to like
about Noah Beal.

Well, he sure is trying to
make friends with people.

It isn't friends he's
trying to make, it's money.

So he can buy himself a bottle.

Noah don't care much about
people, just whiskey.

Oh, and people give him money
for helping carry their things.

Mostly old ladies.

I'm going in to
talk to the marshal.

I want you to stay
out here at the wagon.

And if, uh, Jess Bradman get
his hands on that piece of land

controlling the water, my place
will go to dust in less than a

year.

Eaton, there's no way for
Bradman to file on that land.

These homestead laws aren't
there to make one man rich,

you know.

Oh, it'll do it for
Bradman just the same.

He's salting those
claims with his own men,

or anyone he can find.

He'll pay 'em dirt,
and the land is his.

Miller, Beaver, Pearson,
they're all Bradman men.

They're sitting on claimed land
right now, holding it for him.

What you say may be
true, but the point

is there's nothing I can do
about it unless I got proof.

And there's nothing
you can do, either.

Marshal, I killed
a cougar last week.

Not for pleasure, but because
he was eating off my stock.

Something that was mine.

Now, marshal, I'll do it again
if I have to-- lion or man.

Let me tell you something--
you kill a cougar,

your trouble's over.

But if you kill a man, your
trouble's just beginning.

Uh, here.

Over here.

I'll take this from you now.

I sure want to thank
you for helping

me out like this, Colby.

Is there something wrong?

No, ma'am.

Colby.

Here.

I didn't have this
much in mind, ma'am.

I didn't know you had
any amount in mind.

Next time, set your
price at the beginning.

That way a lady'll
know where she stands.

Yes, ma'am.

I know I should have.

Now you're stuck
with what I gave you.

I guess I am.

Thank you, Miss Kitty.

Thanks a whole lot.

How much did you get?

A quarter.

That's not so much.

I done better lots of time.
-Good for you.

Give it to me.

I said, give it to me, boy!

Did you hear?

No.

I don't have to.
It's mine.

I earned it.
-You stole it!

I did not.

Miss Kitty gave it to
me, and you know it.

You stole it, sure as you
took it out of my pocket.

I'm the one that works
the general store.

Everyone in town knows
this is my corner.

My spot, and you post on it.

That quarter's mine.
I want it.

-No.
-You're stealing.

You know that, boy?

You can see that, can't ya?

No, I've got as much right
to help people as you.

You don't even own that store.
Where's--

I don't mean to
stand here and argue.

Now give me that quarter.

No, just let me-- let me go!

-Give me that money, boy!
-I'll tell my pa!

Pa!
Pa!

Pa!

Uh, fill it up
again, will ya, Bull?

When I see some
money in front of me.

Aw, now Bull, you're going
to let me have that bottle.

I was only $0.20 short
The way you pour drinks

in that shot glass,
there's no way a man

can get his money's worth!

Just one more.

I only want it to start working.

All I need is to feel
a-- a little sleepiness.

Fill it up, Bull.

What'll you give me for it?

What do you want?

Just to do what you
want-- put you to sleep.

You willin'?

One punch in that ugly face
of yours for the drink.

[laughter]

Last chance.

We got a deal, or not?

Go ahead, take it!

You can do it!

Come on!

Come on, he won't hurt ya.

Come on, let him hit ya.

He won't even stagger you.

Almost enough money there
for you to buy a full bottle.

What do you say?

With the left hand.

One left hand
punch for the drink.

Right?

And all the money on the floor!

Wait!

Wait.

Wait.

Let me have the drink first.

You'll probably
need it more after.

I may be dead after.

Up to your old tricks, Boomer?

It was just funnin', Otis.

No harm done.

Don't forget, old
man, you owe me one.

Boomer.

Come here.

Boomer, if I have
to come to you,

you're going to be
in real trouble.

Come on.

Come on.

Come on.

Yeah.

Now, that old man
don't owe you a thing.

Right?

Right.

That's better.

Now move.

[laughter]

Give me a bottle.

You're still $0.20 short.

Aw, not again.

Give him the bottle.

You don't have to do
anything for it, Noah.

Drink up.

Would you gentlemen care
to have a drink with me?

Be glad to.

And when this bottle runs
dry, we'll get another one.

Where are we?

Never mind that.

You passed out on us.

We got a lot of drinkin' to do.

Ah, I'll be right with ya.

Right there.

Just want a little--

Come on.

You stay awake for a
couple more minutes,

then you can sleep
all night long.

I want you to sign
this piece of paper.

Come on.

It's the claim, the land claim.

You're filing on it, remember?

I don't want any land.

It's for Jess Bradman.

You know Mr. Bradman, don't ya?

And I don't like him.

Well, how can you
say that when he's

willing to do so much for you?

All you gotta do is sign
this piece of paper,

and when the time comes,
he'll give you $100 to buy it.

Now, that's a lot of money.

Don't want any land.
I'm no farmer.

Now listen here, you old fool.

Now, listen!

Yeah.

All you gotta do is live
here for just a little while.

Not for long.

Mr. Bradman is a real friend.

Look.

Look what he sent ya.

It's all yours, Noah.

Didn't I tell ya that
Bradman was your friend?

That's all yours.

Every bit of it.

And when that's gone,
we'll get you some more.

All you can drink.

Now, just sign it.

Hey, old friend, old
friend, just sign it,

and you can drink yourself
to sleep every night.

Yeah.

Now you can drink
yourself into hell.

[laughter]

COLBY: Come here, you.

Come here.

Hi.

What do you want?

Don't want nothin'.

What you doing?

Worming.

You have to know
where to look for 'em.

You want any help?

Not from you.

If my calculations are
correct, they should

be right under this rock.

I've looked under plenty rocks.

Ah, but there are rocks,
and there are rocks.

There ya are.

All you want.

You know, I ain't got
that quarter with me.

I didn't ask you for it, did I?

They're real ugly.

That depends on
how you look at 'em.

They look like
little ol' shrunken

up snakes without their skin.

They're pretty
special creatures,

if you stop and think about it.

Do you know how-- how much
one of them worms weighs?

Less than 1/2 of
1/2 of 1/2 an ounce?

They do 10 times the work a
hundred men can do in a year,

working 10 hours a day.

Oh, yeah?

Like what kind of work?

Can't tell ya.

Because they don't do
nothing more than what I said.

That's why.

No, because I can
see in your eyes

you think they're
ugly and worthless,

and your mind ain't open to
hearing nothing good about 'em.

OK, go ahead.

Tell me.

Well, you know how when
the-- the heavy rain comes in,

and the wind, and the snow, and
all that turns over the land,

you see, bringing the
bottom land up to the top?

And turning the way
around, but it takes

a long time for that to happen.

Maybe 100 years before you get--
you get a good, rich topsoil.

Well, now, picture
in your mind all them

worms, millions of 'em,
crawling around under the earth.

Crawling and moving
all the time.

Each and every
one of them eating

his own weight in leaves, and
grass, and dirt every 24 hours.

Honest?

Honest.

Do you ever ask
yourself what happens

to all the soil they're eating
and pushing out of the way?

No, what happens?

Well, now, they're shifting,
and shifting all the time.

They're moving, rotating
it, bringing the bottom up

to the top, and doing
it a whole lot faster

than all the rain and the wind.

What them millions of
worms do it 10 years,

it takes a whole
lot longer for God

to do, by sending all
the wind and rain he can.

Yeah, but God made the worms.

Sure he did.

Sure he did.

He's no fool.

He-- he-- he-- ke knows how
important them worms are.

He seems them as working
creatures, not little

slimy snakes without their skin.

And think what it would
be like without 'em.

There'd be no crops
for your father's farm.

No grazing land for the
sheep and cattle to eat on.

Not much of anything.

No, sir, life would
be awful displeasing

without them little creatures.

I guess if you look
hard enough, you

can see there's a place for
everything in this world.

Maybe even drunken old men who
try and steal money from boys.

You weren't all wrong.

Like you said, I
did take your place.

Aw, you were better than
me, and I was jealous.

That was more than most
of the tips I ever got.

Really?

Sure it was.

You live around here?

Yeah, on the farm
just over there.

Ah, then we're new
neighbors, I guess.

My place is right over that way.

Well, you must be some farmer.

My pa, he doesn't know near
as much about land as you do.

But he's pretty good, himself.

You start working the land yet?

No.

Why not?

Well, it takes help, and
you know, I ain't got any.

There's a lot of
tools and supplies

that I haven't got
around to buying yet,

mostly on account of I
haven't got the money.

Well, I could help.

And I can get some of
the tools for you, too.

My pa wouldn't mind
lending them to you.

That's awful nice of you,
but I ain't no farmer.

You mean you never
tried farming?

No, and I'm in no
mind to start now.

Why not?

It ain't hard.

I watched my pa
lots of times, and--

Your pa must need
your over at his place.

Must be a lot of good
help he gets from you.

Well, he don't
let me do too much.

He saws it's quicker
doing it himself

than explaining things to me.

Yeah, but I know a lot
more than he thinks.

Hey, if you let me work
your place with you,

I could be a real help.

I'd work real hard.

Then we could show him.

I could bring him
down to your place,

and he could see for
himself what I could do.

Well, you don't gotta pay me.

I'll work for nothin'.

Here.

I've had it with me all along.

It's yours.

You see, I want to
make it right with you.

You keep it, boy.

Then I can work with ya?

You gotta get it
into your head.

I ain't no farmer.

How do you know if
you ain't never tried?

Don't say ain't.

You did.

Don't sass me, boy.

When you get to my
age, there's a lot

of things you can do you can't
when you're a lot younger.

Yeah.

Except work.

Now, why don't you
go on home, boy?

Go on.

Home!

Hey, Colby!

What are you doing
with the tools?

What's this all about?

It was going to be a surprise.

It is.

What's going on?

Well, you remember I told
you about our new neighbor

last night?

And all this is for him?

Son, Noah Beal is a
drunk, like I told you.

That's all he is.

He's no farmer.

Yeah, but he could be.

Colby, Noah Beal
just ain't no farmer.

He didn't file on
that land to work it.

He's more than likely
holding it for Jess Bradman.

He's not holding
it for anybody.

He's a farmer.

I know it.

Except he-- he's ashamed to
admit he hasn't got the money

to buy tools and things.

Please, Pa, believe me.

He'll be a great farmer.

Well, if what you say is true,
you've got nothing to lose.

It'd be neighborly
to help him out.

But if he's there for Bradman,
you'll find that out, too.

Thanks, Pa.

Mr. Beal!

Mr. Beal!

Now, what are you doing here?

Look what I brought.

I thought I told you,
I wasn't no farmer.

Well, that's what
you keep saying,

but I don't believe you.

You know too much about worms,
and land, and growing things.

Well, it's real neighborly
of ya to bring all that stuff,

but you just can't
up and start farming.

You have to-- have
to plan, and think.

Yeah, but we could do it.

I know we could.

Well, I guess it wouldn't
do any harm to talk.

Wouldn't do any harm
to talk about it.

Maybe-- maybe we could
decide the best way to begin.

I mean--

I know one way
better than any other.

What's that?

You just start by starting.

You know something, son?

They say Rome wasn't
built in a day.

But then, you weren't
the foreman on that job.

We're going to do it, Mr. Beal.

You just wait and see.

Colby, wait a minute!

Wait a minute.

This one's been here
100 years, looks like.

Yeah, but it's right in
the middle of the field.

Precisely.

A man needs a bit of shade
to relax in, where he can

sit and watch the seeds sprout.

We'll leave it
another hundred years.

It'll be our tree.

Sure it will.

And we'll carve our
initials in when

we get the first crop, right?

Right.

Yahoo!

Just think, we'll
start plantin' soon.

Gee, I hope the rain's
good to us this year.

Last year my pa
almost got ruined

because of a flash flood.

What did he do?

I prayed a lot.

Maybe we should do the
same, before it happens?

God's a long way up there.

He's got so many people
trying to talk in his ear,

he may not hear your voice
in all that confusion.

Maybe we should try?

I never been on a
personal basis with him.

Maybe we should.

Bye, Noah.

See ya at sun up.

Pa!

Pa!

What are you doing?

No, boy!
No!

No!

Come here!

Come here.

Noah.

You're lucky, Eaton.

The last time somebody
took a swing at Beaver,

he got his arm broken
in four places.

Now, you listen good-- a lot
of things happen to farmers.

Sometimes their crops
get ruined by stampedes,

their barns burn--
sometimes their little boy

is supposed to come home
before dark, don't show up.

You get out of here.

You get off my land!

Not for long, Eaton.

This place is gonna belong
to Mr. Bradman, soon.

One way or the other.

We're either going
to buy you out now,

or we're going to sit and
wait till that old drunken

fool Beal gets his
land legal, and then

Mr. Bradman dries you up.

Now, you think about that.

Real hard.

Beal.

Beal.

Noah Beal.

He's Bradman, just
like them two are.

Lock, stock, and barrel.

That old drunk's as much
a part of this as Bradman

or the rest of 'em.

Do you understand?

Do you understand
what he is now?

Colby, what you doing
here this time of night?

Are you working
for Jess Bradman?

Are you?

And everything we've been
working for-- is it for him?

Is it?

Colby, it's not
that easy to answer.

It is.

Either yes or no.

Well, uh, it
started out that way.

There's no use denying it, but
things have changed, Colby.

You gotta believe that.

I don't want to give the
land over to Bradman.

Yeah, but you have to, because
you promised him, didn't you?

Didn't you?

Yeah.

Then everything's
been for nothing.

All the planning and dreaming
we did-- all for nothing.

Colby--

It's been a lie, all of it.

You're nothing more than
what my pa said you were.

Nothing but an old drunk.

You're a liar.

Colby, please--

Here.

It's yours.
It belongs to ya.

I don't want any part of it.

I hate you!

I hate you.

Colby!

Colby!

Colby Eaton!

Hey, Beal.

I want to talk to the boy.

Beal, you're trespassing.

Now, you're in my
quarrel-- that's one thing.

But you keep Colby out of it.

Colby!

Show yourself, boy!

I got something to tell ya!

I'm me own man, Colby!

Not Bradman's, or
anyone else's--

Whatever you got to say,
he doesn't want to hear it.

Now get!

I didn't lie to you, boy!

I'm going through with
everything I promised!

Get out of here.

I want you to be with me!
Partners!

Equal!
-Get out of here.

Go on, get out of
here, you old drunk.

I'm giving you half
the place, Colby!

Now, you stay out of here!

Colby!

Do you hear me?

Give me another chance, please!

Without you, it
don't mean nothing!

Colby!

Please!

Bradman.

Afternoon, marshal.

I saw Eaton this morning.

Told me about your boys
paying him a visit.

I went out to see him.

Talk about some business
Mr. Bradman had in mind.

He came at me with a rifle.

Some people shouldn't be
allowed to own a gun, marshal.

Too short tempered.

Now, of course, if
Eaton's been telling you

another story-- well, I
think Miller's word is

just as good as his, isn't it?

Not in my book it isn't.

Now, unfortunately in court
it will be different thing.

Now, I'll tell you one thing--
I've been hearing some talk

about you that I don't like.

What kind of talk?

About salting those homestead
claims, for one thing.

Look, marshal, a
few of my friends

might be homesteading
until they own the land,

and, uh, when they do,
and they want to sell

to me, that's their right.

There's no law that says a
man can't do what he wants

with something that's his.

Yeah, but there's a law against
collusion and conspiracy.

Now, if I can find
one man who will say

he acted in your interest
in taking up those claims,

I'll be coming for you.

Stop!

No!
Stop!

Wait!

Noah, it's our tree.

There ya are.

Colby!

Get up on that seat,
and get on out of here.

What's wrong, Pa?

Do what I tell ya.

Get up there.

Now, you've got the last out of
us Eatons you're going to get.

You got coolie
labor out of my boy,

and you're using my
equipment to plow

this ground for Jess Bradman.

For me and Colby,
not for Bradman.

Oh, you're Bradman's
man, all right.

From the whiskey in your belly
to the lies in your mouth.

That's not true.

I just came up from the creek.

They're damming it up.

They said the new owner of
the land told him to do it.

That's you.

Now, Bradman's doing
that, and you're letting

him cause you work for him.

I didn't tell no one they
could dam up any creek.

I don't know what
you're talking about.

Look at him, Colby.

Look at him squirming
like a snake,

trying to make you think
it's night when it's day.

I don't want to see
you no more, Beal.

Now, you keep away from
my boy, or I'll kill ya.

Come on, let's get
on out of here.

Come on!

Wait!

Listen!

I don't know anything about it!

I'll tear down that
dam, I swear it!

Colby, please!

I swear it.

Stop that!

Get out of there!

You have no right!

You put that down!

I didn't say you could!

You old fool.

Come on.

Why don't you breathe on it?

That'll tear it down.

Come on, you fool.

I tell ya, it's a
good thing you come by.

We'd have never got
it built without you.

You're not even drunk!

Hey, get the bottle.

I didn't say you--

You're supposed to be
a drinking-- oh, you're

supposed to be a drinking man.

I like you better
when you're drunk.

Otis!

All right.

You do the pouring,
and I'll do the holding.

Hey!

Come on, have a drink.

It's good for ya.

Now, you hold that bottle,
and you drink that bottle.

Drink it.

There you go.

Now, you finish that bottle.

Don't want no young
kid in my life.

No, sir.

Trouble it is.

All it brings is more trouble.

Don't pay.

Mind your own business.

Go your own way.

That's what's kept
me living this long.

You heard what your pa
said about not wanting

you on this place anymore.

Well, get off it.

You hear me, boy?

Get off my land!

It ain't yours.

Not yet.

Not until tomorrow,
when it becomes legal.

Pa told me so.

Anyways, I heard what you said
at the house the other day.

About how half
this land is mine.

We're partners.

Even.

That's what you said.

All I'm doing is
planting my half.

You're working for nothing.

All this belongs to Bradman.

All of it.

And me-- your pa
was right about me.

I'm not a farmer.

Yes you are.

I'm a drunk.

Plain and simple, that's all.

I make a living running
messages, carrying

packages for old ladies,
and stealing what I can,

wherever I can.

And that's all.

That's all!

That's all, Colby.

Let's go.

Colby.

I-- I still don't believe it.

Noah Beal selling whiskey
instead of buying it.

But if somebody gives
it to ya, you got

a right to sell it, right, boy?
-Right.

Right, boy.

Come on.

You get enough?

More than enough.

We can use the rest of the
money to buy some extra seed.

All right, Colby.

Come on!

The shovel!

Come on, Colby!

Get down!

[cheering]

We did it, Colby!

Colby, I don't want you
coming over here tomorrow.

Why not?
We're partners.

I want to face Bradman with you.

You're the junior partner,
and you'll do like I say.

It was me made the deal
with him, and it's me

has to do the tellin'.

Well, supposing he gets-- well,
supposing he doesn't like it,

and gets angry?

Well, he sure won't like it,
and he sure will get angry,

but I'll just have to get
a little angrier, won't I?

Well, you take care
of yourself, Noah.

Got to.

Can't let anything happen
to me now, and let me

partner do all the work.

No, no, no.

Remember, Colby, don't
come to the place.

I'll let you know what happens.

It's one thing to
stop being a drunk,

and another to get a man's
heart started in the mornin'.

Especially this kind of mornin'.

Didn't ever think
that would happen,

now, did you, Noah Beal?

[knocking]

BRADMAN: Noah?

You in there, Noah?

Come on in!

Well, ready to
talk business, Noah?

I'm sorry, Mr. Bradman,
but I can't sign that.

I saw the plowing
when I rode in.

You did a lot of work
around the place.

Suppose I should
take that into mind.

I'll add another 50
to sweeten the pot.

I'm, uh, keeping the
land, Mr. Bradman.

You'll sign, Noah, or--

Or what, Mr. Bradman?

You'll kill me?

Well, now, you see, I wrote
out a will last night.

It's not much, but it's enough
to see the land is turned

over to a friend of mine.

Colby Eaton, his name is.

That would [inaudible]
now, wouldn't it?

You'll sign, old man.

You'll beg me to let you sign.

See to it.

You're gonna sign that, Noah.

Make it easy on yourself.

I need this land, damn you!

What is it you want?

More money?

I'll give you 200.

Three.

Noah Beal wants a farm.

E-I-E-I--

I'll give you another spread.

No you won't.

It's this land I want.

You see, I got a partner,
and he likes it here.

Pick him up.

Pick him up.

Hold it right there.

Either unbuckle your gun
belt and put it on the table,

or use it.

You too.

I wouldn't do it, marshal.

They tried to make me sign
over the land, but I wouldn't.

It belongs to me, and Colby.

Bradman, I told you all
I needed was one man,

and I think I've found him.

I'd like to thank you, marshal,
for coming along like you did.

Accidental like.

The only thanks I need is your
signature on this complaint

right here, against Bradman.

I feel kind of funny
testifying against him in court.

I mean, I'll do it, marshal,
but sitting on that land for him

was the best thing that
ever happened to me.

I don't know.

I got an idea the best things
there are yet to happen.

Thank you, marshal.

Come on, Colby.

Noah?

Noah, I need some help
carrying these packages home.

[laughter]

Noah Beal!

Are you gonna stand there with
that boy, laughing like a fool,

or are you gonna help
me with these packages,

and earn some money?

You know, Colby, uh, a quarter
would buy us a good file

to sharpen the plow.

What if she only
gives us a dime?

Have to get one
that ain't so good.

Good day to ya, Mrs. Travis.

A pleasant day it is.

Let me and me partner help
you with the packages.

NARRATOR: Stay tuned
for exciting scenes

from our next Gunsmoke.

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