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I ain't a-going another yard. It's plain murder, and I ain't gonna stand for it.

4 seconds sound clip from the The Outcasts of Poker Flat classic radio drama series episode.

You can hear this line at 00:06:25.760 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- There's plenty more bows on that old sycamore for any of you that we set eyes on. Now get moving. The lot of you.

- The road to Sandy Bar lay over a steep mountain range.

- In that advanced season, the party soon passed out of the moist, temperate regions of the foothills into the dry, bracing air of the Sierras.

- The trail was narrow and difficult.

- At noon, the Duchess, rolling out of her saddle upon the ground, declared her intention of going no further, and the party halted.

- I ain't a-going another yard. It's plain murder, and I ain't gonna stand for it.

- Okay, ma'am, we'll take a little rest. But we're hardly halfway through the mountains yet.

- I don't care where we are. I ain't going no further.

- I'm sorry, ma'am, but we'd be crazy to stop here for more than a half hour.

- And we can camp out here, young fella. We're out of the wind here.

- We're not equipped for camping. We're short on provisions.

[...]

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The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1954) Sound Clip

The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1954)Listen to Laurence Olivier bring the characters of Bret Harte's story 'The Outcasts of Poker Flat' to life in this rare 1954 Theatre Royal radio play, featuring sound clips on our page.

Actors: Laurence Olivier (Narrator / John Oakhurst), Margot Stevenson, Bessie Love, Lionel Murton

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