1:01:00
Since I had business in Clearwater,
I decided to pay her a visit.
1:01:04
I'm sorry I got here so late.
This is some letter!
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Care to read it?
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"Mr Charlie Bob Striker,
Pecos, Texas."
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_ That's you?
_ It is.
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This is Matt and Bud and Tom.
And I'm John Elder.
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Howdy.
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"Dear Mr Striker, it has been told to me
that you have a lot too many horses."
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"If this is true,
you have my sympathy,"
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"as I have been horse poor
myself in the past."
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"If you are still
in this predicament in June,"
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"I may be able to help you out and
take a hundred head off your hands,"
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"provided you are
prepared to deal on credit"
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"until I can resell them."
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"I am interested in good sound stock,
but nothing fancy."
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"And I would like to hear
your rock_bottom price."
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"Yours truly, Kate Elder."
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Horse poor?
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Sounds like she had more brass
than the Kansas City fire engine.
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It struck me funny, and the more
I read it, the funnier it got.
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Finally I said to myself,
"Striker, you've done a lot of fool things."
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"You haven't done any lately, and you're
overdue." I'm sorry I got here too late.
1:02:23
_ You two would've made a lively team.
_ Well, thanks!
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_ Why don't you come on in?
_ Thank you.
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But it'll be a favour to my bad knee
to stay here.
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_ It's been nice meeting you.
_ I've got a proposition for you.
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I wouldn't blame you
if you turned me down.
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_ It wouldn't hurt to hear it.
_ I'd like to take those horses.
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I'd run them to Colorado,
sell them to the miners.
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But I've got the same trouble
Mom had. No cash.
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_ I'll give you half the profits.
_ What about the rest of you?
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_ You in this, too?
_ We ain't been asked.
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_ Are you telling or asking?
_ Asking.