- Miss June Crabtree: [asking the children different questions] Jackie Cooper!
- [Jackie stands up]
- Miss June Crabtree: Who was the Hunchback of Notre Dame?
- Jackie: Lon Chaney!
- [Miss Crabtree is surprised at the answer, and Jackie sits down]
- Miss June Crabtree: [in a History lesson, everyone is giving Miss Crabtree silly answers that classmate Bonedust got out of a comedy book] I'm going to punish the next child severely that gives me a foolish answer. Farina!
- Miss June Crabtree: [Farina cautiously stands up] What was Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address?
- Farina: 1644 South Main Street.
- [Miss Crabtree is furious, and Farina slinks back into his seat]
- Farina: Believe me, I'm never gonna get married. And I'm gonna bring all my children up the same way!
- Jackie: I was afraid we was gonna lose Miss Crabtree during our vacation.
- Farina: Oh.
- Donald Haines: Y'know, she might get married. Women do that every once in a while. My ma did.
- Farina: Mmm. My mammy married three times in a row. It's a habit with her.