- [first lines]
- [after Annie races by practicing her trick riding, Tagg approaches Lofty who's napping nearby]
- Tagg Oakley: Say, Lofty, why aren't you watchin' Annie?
- Deputy Sheriff Lofty Craig: Oh, I've seen Annie 'Roman Ride' before. I'll see her do it again at one of the fairs.
- Tagg Oakley: What are you doin' out here while she's practicin'?
- Deputy Sheriff Lofty Craig: I'm supposed to help her if she gets in trouble - I guess. Have you ever known your sister to get into any trouble she can't get out of all by herself?
- [Abner wants to search for the outlaws who robbed him]
- Deputy Sheriff Lofty Craig: Just what experience have you had tracking?
- Abner Harkey: Well, ah, me and Napoleon, we - that's my hound dog - me and Napoleon, you know, we used to go slashin' through the swamp. We used to track most everything - bear and possums - that sort of thing.
- Deputy Sheriff Lofty Craig: Mm-hmm. The nice thing about bear and possum - they can't shoot back.
- Annie Oakley: But outlaws can - and do.
- Abner Harkey: They don't make these saddles none too soft, do they?
- Deputy Sheriff Lofty Craig: Stick with it, Abner. There's nothing you can't do if you set your mind to it.
- Abner Harkey: Well, it ain't exactly my mind I'm settin' on.
- Annie Oakley: You know, Abner, caution is a mighty important thing. Courage is fine, too, but you'd probably be better off if you used some good old common sense.
- Abner Harkey: Those no count cotton pickers got my gold watch. I gotta get it back. My Daddy give it to me, he did.
- Abner Harkey: Well, I reckon I better pitch in and help catch 'em no count outlaws.
- Tagg Oakley: Were you a lawman back in Mississippi?
- Abner Harkey: Well, no, no. Not exactly. But I reckon whatever needs doing, I can do it once I set my mind to it.
- Deputy Sheriff Lofty Craig: Are all you folks from Mississippi so modest?
- Abner Harkey: No, sir, we're not. Why do you ask?
- Abner Harkey: Gosh, that was a close one.
- Deputy Sheriff Lofty Craig: Any closer you wouldn't be talking now.
- Abner Harkey: I ain't gonna have no trouble with that roping and riding type stuff. It'll just come natural.
- Deputy Sheriff Lofty Craig: Sure it will.