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Spare the cussing, Mother, or the kids will hear you.

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

You can hear this line at 00:19:09.804 in the radio play.

Quote context

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- The third day came, and the sun, looking through the white-curtained valley, saw the outcasts divide their slowly decreasing store provisions for the day.

- It also revealed drift on drift of snow piled high around the hut.

- A hopeless, uncharted, trackless sea of white lying below the rocky shores to which the castaways still clung.

- Through the marvellously clear air, the smoke of the pastoral village of Poker Flat rose miles away.

- Poker Flat! May it burn in all the fires of hell!

- Spare the cussing, Mother, or the kids will hear you.

- 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.

[...]

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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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