- Paladin: Well Armstedder, she didn't always have to hustle drinks in a bar.
- Sheriff John Armstedder: You know her 100 years ago mister?
- Paladin: I guess it was that long ago.
- Sheriff John Armstedder: Sour truth? Still, she looks sweet enough to be honey for Jalisco.
- Ben Jalisco: Lucy, my wife. Lucy, my life. Lucy, I love you. Remember how I used to say that to you, authentic Western poetry. Do you remember how I used to say that to you?
- Paladin: Jalisco, are you going to scare us to death, or just shoot your wife?
- Ben Jalisco: Lucy.
- Lucy Jalisco: I remember.
- Ben Jalisco: You remember when we lost our baby. How there wasn't a woman around for 300 miles and how I did for you.
- Lucy Jalisco: I remember that too.
- Ben Jalisco: And how you nursed when I was snake bit, and gunshot.
- Sheriff John Armstedder: Son, you're only teasing yourself. It don't taste the same as when you put a match to it.
- Paladin: Mr Armstedder, this is a kind of a compromise. it's not as good as a smoke, but, then again, it's not as bad as lighting a match and getting shot at.
- Sheriff John Armstedder: Now I chew. It's good for your health, disposition, and life expectancy. It don't have any of them unbeneficial side effects, like on a night like this.
- Paladin: Well, I have heard of a couple of fellows who got frightened and swallowed it.
- Sheriff John Armstedder: Yes, sir, I've done that myself a couple of times. But I consider it very beneficial to the disgestion. Now, my wife though, she never did like my chewing. I gave it up while she was alive. That seems like 700 years ago. I got a boy somewhere. The last letter he wrote me from from Montana. It's where he was punching cows. I'm glad of that. Now a lot of boys go wrong nowadays. You married? You're missing a fine thing. That and having children. It's a rich thing in a man's life. And becoming a sentimental old man is a bad thing!