- Hump: But she can hear like a panther, listens to the sunrise, a fella told me.
- Johnny Yuma: Same fella that told you about the trapdoor?
- Hump: Real pretty.
- Johnny Yuma: I stayed in town once. With Pa's sister. You know what she did? She tied a long string of sacking twine to me. So I wouldn't get hurt, she said. Like I was a kept critter. Aw, when Pa saw that he was fit to be hogbound and branded.
- Hump: I'm coming in, Mister, 'cos one way or the other, freezing out here, or getting shot in there, we're dead!
- Hump: He's still half-frozen, I've rubbed him with snow as long as I could to take out the bite. I don't know. He looks bad. You got alcohol?
- Johnny Yuma: Not the medicine kind, just corn.