- [first lines]
- Bret Maverick: [narrating] This is the Bayou country, somewhere along the Mississippi. I say somewhere because I wasn't in any position to know exactly where at the time.
- [last lines]
- Daddy David Forge: There goes that old tickle heart again.
- Bret Maverick: Man I knew with the same thing lived to see 70.
- Daddy David Forge: I wish you'd stop saying that. I am 70.