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So, with food and their hopes dwindling, a week passed over the heads of the outcasts.

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

You can hear this line at 00:19:47.001 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Oh, no, they won't. I never cuss when they're around, but it sure does me good to cuss when I can.

- I wish something would do me good.

- Just you go out there and see that smoke rising from Poker Flat, and cuss and cuss. You just see if you don't feel better.

- Well, I'll go see after the gal. She must be feeling pretty bad, poor thing. With Tom out of the camp...

- Where's he gone? Oh, getting wood if he can dig any out, and looking for the trail which he'll never find.

- So, with food and their hopes dwindling, a week passed over the heads of the outcasts.

- The sun again forsook them, and again from reddened skies the snowflakes were sifted over the land.

- Day by day, closer around them grew the snowy circle, until at last they looked from their prison over drifted walls of dazzling white that towered 20 feet above their heads.

- It became more and more difficult to replenish the fires, even from the fallen trees beside them, now completely hidden in the drifts.

- Yet no one complained.

- The lovers turned from the dreary prospects, and looked into each other's eyes, and were happy.

[...]

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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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