- Ida Harris: [after Kenesaw shoots at a noisy bird in the tree] Kenesaw Clark, you leave that jaybird alone!
- Kenesaw H. Clark: Oh, uh, well, hello, hello, Miss Ida. How are ya?
- Ida Harris: You stop that shootin' and scarin' people half out of their wits!
- Kenesaw H. Clark: Oh, well, uh, Miss Ida, those jaybirds were makin' so much noise here that, uh, Chris just William Tell-ed him.
- Ida Harris: My land. Can't let a little jaybird hardly open its mouth.
- Kenesaw H. Clark: There, you know how it is Miss Ida with us writin' folks. We don't get much compensation. 'Bout all we get is just the right to act about half cracked.
- Ida Harris: Half cracked? Huh! If I hadn't lived next door to you for 20 years, I'd say you were all cracked. Now you leave that jaybird alone!
- Adele Anderson: I thought you were going to walk home from church with Miss Ida.
- Kenesaw H. Clark: Oh, she went to the missionary meeting to help feed the heathens. Americans will feed everybody that don't live close to 'em.
- Kenesaw H. Clark: My own daddy worked his self into the grave before he was 50 just trying to make enough to feed us kids on.
- Ida Harris: Well, I can well believe that. You don't catch me working that hard. Why I've got an electric stove, and a washing machine and a mixer and, why, everything in here runs by electricity. All I have to to do is press a button and my work's done.
- Kenesaw H. Clark: Yeah, with everything working by machines, Americans born a hundred years from now won't have any head or arms or legs ... just have a thumb just to push a button with.
- Adele Anderson: What no arms?
- Lee Austin: No arms?
- Kenesaw H. Clark: Well, maybe I'm wrong, I don't know.
- Lee Austin: I had to tell you, but I'm not a very desirable neighbor.
- Adele Anderson: Mr. Ken offered you a job, didn't he?
- Lee Austin: Yes, but that's different.
- Adele Anderson: And he asked you to live here?
- Lee Austin: Well, even I can't hurt a reputation like his.
- Adele Anderson: Oh, so you think my reputation is so shaky, that being friends with you would ruin it.
- Lee Austin: Oh, I didn't mean that.
- Adele Anderson: Well, then don't intimate it!
- [They laugh.]
- Ida Harris: You're just achin' to stir up some trouble, ain't ya?
- Kenesaw H. Clark: No, not achin,' but would be a pleasure.
- Adele Anderson: Mr. Ken did you write this copy in the dark? I never saw so many misspelled words in my life!
- Kenesaw H. Clark: Well, ain't gonna have to worry about that. When I first started in the newspaper business, misspell a word everybody said it was just pure ignorance. When you misspell all of them, they accuse you of being a humorist. They say you're quaint.
- Adele Anderson: Thought you were gonna walk home from church with Miss Ida.
- Kenesaw H. Clark: Oh, she went to a missionary meeting to help feed the heathens. Americans will feed everybody that don't live close to 'em.
- Lee Austin: He's in love with you, isn't he?
- Adele Anderson: Well, he's asked me to marry him if that's any proof of love.
- Lee Austin: Are you going to?
- Adele Anderson: [Teasingly] Well, I don't know. Let's see, Monday, yes... no... I'm going to be awfully busy...
- Lee Austin: I'd rather see you dead first.
- Adele Anderson: Why, Lee. That's the nicest thing you've ever said to me.