- [first lines]
- [Pat peers at the horizon through a pair of binoculars]
- Dale Evans: Pat Brady, that's the lazy man's way of looking for stray cattle.
- Roy Rogers: You give a lazy man a job and he'll find the lazy way to do it.
- Roy Rogers: One-Arm Johnny!
- Dale Evans: One-Arm Johnny? Oh, it can't be!
- Roy Rogers: Look!
- Pat Brady: Well, what's so excitin' about a fellow with one arm? Let me see.
- Dale Evans: It is.
- Pat Brady: Well, gee-willikers. He's all white-like and leadin' a burro.
- Roy Rogers: The legend is that whoever sees him usually ends up murdered.
- Pat Brady: Oh? Murdered?... Murdered! And I seen him. Come on, Nellybelle, let's get out of here!
- Roy Rogers: You don't believe those old stories, do you Sheriff?
- Pat Brady: What do you mean old stories? Nobody tells me nothin'!
- Roy Rogers: Well, Pat, back in 1872, One-Arm Johnny Martin was killed on his way back to the Apache gold mine which he claimed he discovered.
- Dale Evans: And since that time, a number of people have claimed to have seen his ghost.
- Roy Rogers: And everyone of 'em met up with some kind of fatal accident.
- [Dale has found Roy's "lost" neckerchief]
- Pat Brady: Oh, gee whiz, that's a relief. I could just feel that silk neckerchief around my Adam's apple making beautiful applesauce.