He would have been far happier if Tom Simpson had ridden off to his wedding and the outcasts had pushed on through the mountains while the daylight lasted.

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

You can hear this line at 00:10:21.376 in the radio play.

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- Do you know what? He won $40 off me at poker, all the money I had. Then he takes me aside and gives them back to me, just so long as I never played poker again.

- Can you imagine?

- You're a good boy, Tommy, but you can't gamble worth a cent.

- Mr. Oakhurst seldom troubled himself with sentiment, still less with propriety.

- But he had a vague idea that the situation was not fortunate.

- He would have been far happier if Tom Simpson had ridden off to his wedding and the outcasts had pushed on through the mountains while the daylight lasted.

- As it was, the scene very soon became animated.

- The fire was lit, for the evening turned cold and overcast, and the little party ate their meal and laughed and talked in the firelight.

- It was good to forget the darkness and the wind that rocked the tops of the pine trees, looming through their long and gloomy aisles.

- It sure would have been cold without a fire.

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