- Ed Rankin: You oxhead! Will you give me some lift! You have the brains of a bird dog and weasel hound! Now you say it! Say it, Jerry!
- Rowdy Yates: Jed, you get out there with the rest of them.
- Jed Colby: And leave you to swing the gel? No, sorry, Rowdy.
- Rowdy Yates: Well, somebody's gotta do it and I'm electing me. Now get moving.
- Jed Colby: You always take the soft option for yourself, don't you, huh?
- Jed Colby: We don't have any dynamite to blast with.
- Ed Rankin: I ain't talking about dynamite.
- Rowdy Yates: What then?
- Ed Rankin: That stuff I found up at that old miners' shack. Gun shells is what I think it is. Only thing is you set it off by concussion. Whereas with dynamite you set it off with a fuse. You get me a jug of that, and I could blow this here cave and mine wide open just like I was bursting a head for track.
- Wishbone: Jam up close to this air pipe, and I'm gonna keep yah awake by getting even with yah for walking away on some of my stories.
- Jim Quince: Simon, stay low to the ground, the air is better. Now, if you get dizzy now, you turn back. I don't think I could drag you far with this bung arm of mine.
- Simon Blake: Don't you worry about me, Jim, not afraid of the dark.
- Wishbone: You ever been on a boat?
- Jim Quince: Yes.
- Wishbone: I ain't never been on a boat but once. It was nothing but an old riverboat down on the Missouri. But, oh, what a trip it was. Yeah, they set us up on this place. They called it a deck, or something. It was all about sundown, you know when the land looks like, and you're skipping over this water, and you hear that old boat engine go snorting, and then you see the land. Tell me, does it always look like that?
- Jim Quince: Yeah, it always does look like that. I used to ride on a lobster trawl out of Nantucket. Coming back over tose ocean swells, sometimes i didn't think I'd ever make it. But we did make it. And you wanna know something, we're gonna make it this time too.