- [first lines]
- Adam Cartwright: Hey Toby, my cup's empty. Seems to me like you oughta be springing to your feet and fetching me another, huh?
- Toby Barker: Can't spring a lick until the sun's up for a full hour. Ya have about forty minutes to go yet. Why don't you spring for yourself?
- Adam Cartwright: Oh, that wouldn't be seemly. You're the station manager. The station manager's supposed to wait on folks.
- Toby Barker: I wait on the horses.
- Adam Cartwright: Heck of a way to run a stage line.
- Toby Barker: Heck of a stage line.
- Adam Cartwright: Hm... I won't argue that. There'll be no stage, I missed it's connections... I had to stay here all night... Straw to sleep on... bugs to bite me... and you snoring. And to top it all off, I had to get up first this morning and make the coffee.
- Toby Barker: Well, the right kind of a customer would have gone out and fed the stock.