- Joe Scarlet: You know how to wrangle a baby?
- Mushy: I do.
- Joe Scarlet: Where'd you learn?
- Mushy: I heard the women talking.
- Joe Scarlet: It ain't the same as doing it yourself. That's a woman's work.
- Mushy: Why? Do you have to be a cow to take care of the calves?
- Joe Scarlet: Well, no, but it helps.
- Lissa Hobson: Oh, listen. I hear him singing every night. Do they do that to put the cattle to sleep?
- Rowdy Yates: Singing like that wouldn't put anything to sleep. More like the other way 'round.
- Lissa Hobson: Why'd they do it then?
- Rowdy Yates: You gotta let the cows know where you are. You sneak up on them, they, ah, unexpectedly and they just liable to stampede.
- Lissa Hobson: You mean they just start running in every which way?
- Rowdy Yates: Well, not every which way, usually they just pack together and run blind. Haven't you ever had a stampede even down Tennessee way?
- Lissa Hobson: No, we never had much more than one or two cows at the most. I like the singing though. It's got a real restful sound.
- Rowdy Yates: Well, you oughtta hear, Mr Favor, he's bad, but he's the best.
- Jess Hobson: You hear me, Mr Favor Boss. Hear me good. My Pa was an eldest son. I'm an eldest son. That young 'un is the oldest boy of my eldest son. You can see what he is to us. He's more than just a child. And there ain't no man, no woman alive that can take him away from me. And I swear to you and to you, I'll have him back, or I'll see you all rotting in the ground.
- Gil Favor: Well, you forget where the herd is?
- Rowdy Yates: This fellow Hobson, do you think I ought to put Scarlet on rifle guard?
- Gil Favor: Fine. But who're you gonna fill in on drag?
- Rowdy Yates: Well, I guess, anyway I look at it, there's only one man I can spare.
- Gil Favor: Huh?
- Rowdy Yates: Me!
- Rowdy Yates: A fella once told me that moonbeams and dreams cause much more trouble than they're worth.
- Jim Quince: Ma'am, well, me and Joe here, sorta, well, we didn't have anything else, and, ah, go on, go on.
- Joe Scarlet: We didn't have anything else.
- Jim Quince: He'll probably grow into them in a year or two most likely.
- Lissa Hobson: Thank you.
- Wishbone: BOOTS?