- [last lines]
- James T. West: Are you sure you don't want to join us, Artie?
- Artemus Gordon: Are you kidding? After five hours in that saddle just catching up with that stage...
- [groans]
- Artemus Gordon: All I want now is a little rest and quiet, and darn little of that.
- James T. West: Well, the important thing is Ms. Posey's in the pokey thanks to you.
- Artemus Gordon: [sarcastically] Oh, yeah. Three cheers for me.
- James T. West: Artie, I think you might get some kind of accommodation for it.
- Artemus Gordon: Nah... You really think so?
- James T. West: Well, of course. Ms. Posey was a very dangerous...
- [the telegraph starts giving a message]
- James T. West: Speaking of accommodations...
- [walks to the telegraph; the telegraph starts repeating the message]
- Artemus Gordon: Another assignment right away?
- [looks down at the telegraph]
- Artemus Gordon: KOOTENAY PASS? THAT'S SIX HOURS ON A HORSE GOING JUST ONE WAY!
- [sits on a chair and starts complaining]
- Little Pinto: [Pinto has tied West to a slide used for delivering cakes of ice]
- [laughs]
- Little Pinto: I hope you appreciate what a clever rig this is, Mr. West.
- James T. West: I do. I do. But you shouldn't have gone to so much trouble on my account.
- Little Pinto: Oh, no. No trouble at all. You see 300-pound cakes of ice are being held in place by this one rope. Now you'll notice this lamp here.
- [lights a match and then lights the lamp]
- Little Pinto: Now I'm gonna set the lamp right under the rope that's holding up them cakes of ice.
- James T. West: I noticed that too, a little too close to the rope, isn't it?
- Little Pinto: Now you're beginning to get the big idea. See, the lamp starts charring the rope, the rope starts parting, finally...
- [clicks tongue]
- Little Pinto: Gives away and down comes two big cakes of ice. Your own private glacier right into your lap.
- James T. West: You ought to patten that.
- Little Pinto: Yep, just might. Well, I'd figure it be about 45 minutes before anything really interesting happens around here. I'll be back by then. Now you just take it easy and relax.
- [laughs as he leaves]