And a few men took off their hats and then I saw it - the stretcher, the blanket thrown over the shapeless form. And the blackened shriveled cowboy boot...
12 seconds sound clip from the Consequence (1949) classic radio play.
You can hear this line at 00:10:25 in the radio play.
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- And I walked alone... And I was sick to the depths of my soul. And I walked some more.
- Well, this is terrible how did it happen?
- Somebody said they think it was the gas stove.
- Stunned and confused I began edging through the crowd, and then there was a sudden stillness.
- And I remembered... Ted! Ted had been in that house.
- They just got him out now. Yeah, what's left of him.
- They say you wouldn't hardly know it was a man.
- They were looking at the ground, in the stretcher, and that thing that lay there on it.
- Yeah, I knew him. He was a good man.
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