- Ossie Harper: Ossie, I told my pa if he ever did that again; if he ever hit you, I'd never speak to him again.
- Martha Fenton: Scare him much?
- Jed Fane: You better find yourself a hidey-hole and pull it in on top of you! Go on.
- Ossie Harper: What for Mr. Fane? I ain't no lower nor any worse than I ever was. Just the same as always - dead wrong, dead drunk... Why not dead dead?