- Huckleberry Finn: If I tried to kill anybody back where I come from, I'd have the whole town after my hide.
- Buck Grangerford: You're joshing, don't they have fueds back there?
- Huckleberry Finn: No, they never have had, not that I can remember.
- Buck Grangerford: They're people, how do they settle their arguments?
- Huckleberry Finn: Well, they yell at each other a lot. Sometimes they gets into a fist fight, or a wrestle. Most of all, they just go to court. They do a lot of that.
- Buck Grangerford: Hm.
- Buck Grangerford: [the Grangerfords are about to go to church] You look like you swallowed a tadpole.
- Huckleberry Finn: You got a gun!
- Buck Grangerford: O'course I got a gun, we all got guns. You should have one too, I'll get you one.
- Huckleberry Finn: But it's Sunday!
- Buck Grangerford: Don't make no never mind, you can get ambushed on a Sunday, too.
- Huckleberry Finn: [narrating] The way I figure it, feudin', just like everything else, had to have a day off now and then.