- Gil Favor: Hey, Mushy. Come here. Go get some water, huh?
- Mushy: Get some what?
- Gil Favor: Get some water. The bird is sick.
- [to Tia]
- Gil Favor: Now, don't you worry. He's probably just tired and hungry and thirsty. We'll get some water and grain and, with a little bit of luck, he'll be as good as new in the morning. Yes, it's been a long hard day for everybody. And he's a pretty scrawny thing to start with.
- [Gil's droning tone sends the girl off to sleep, he carries the sleeping child back to her bedroll]
- Joaquin Vallino: You would know el Hombre Bravo if you saw him, Senor. He's a huge man, taller than yourself.
- [Favor is 6ft 3 1/2 ins]
- Joaquin Vallino: He has the courage of a lion and the shrewdness of a fox. Both show.
- Wishbone: Well, if they're soldiers, they're the sorriest lot I ever saw.
- Rowdy Yates: Yeah, well, in our present position, how they look doesn't really matter.