- Kavendish: Listen, if there was a shorter way to Sleepy Eye, why ain't there no road?
- Charles Ingalls: You sound like my wife.
- Kavendish: I'm surprised a man fellow like you could be married... to anybody with sense...
- Kavendish: By noon? Is that what he's been telling you?
- [laughs]
- Almanzo James Wilder: What's funny?
- Kavendish: By noon, your father-in-law had us stuck in a bog in the middle of a prairie. And by 1:30, he had driven us on to a dead end! Some shortcut. He had to drive at least five miles back to the road!
- Mary Ingalls Kendall: I don't understand any o f this.
- Almanzo James Wilder: Well, I sure do. It means your Pa's treatin' us to supper instead of me. I think that I'm gonna have a nice big steak. The biggest one you got. Then I think I'm gonna have two eggs over easy. Then I'm gonna have a nice big side of mushrooms, and a nice green salad. And for dessert, a nice big piece of your peach pie.