- Jesse McCord: [after plunging through a snowbank into a mine tunnel] We dead?
- Johnny Baxter: I didn't want to be the first to mention it.
- Jesse McCord: Johnny, I hate to add to your troubles, but it's getting hotter.
- Johnny Baxter: [Whispered] It sure is.
- Jesse McCord: Must be that go-round I had with the widow Corzine. But heck, that was 20 years ago, and she started it.
- Wally Perkins: Old Gordon Bowers' pipes froze last night and I was giving him a hand, but my blowtorch set his wall on fire. He sure gets mad easy.