Quotes
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Marty Markham : Did you see Perkins while you were out there?
Russell : Did we see Perkins!
Speckle : If it wasn't for Perkins, we won't be here! We woulda been eaten up by a bear!
Marty Markham : What do you mean? What happened to Perkins?
Speckle : We were in a tree, and a bear was down below, and Perkins comes riding up. He rides right up to that bear, and the bear takes one look at him and high-tails it way over the mountain!
Russell : He sure is a brave one!
Marty Markham : But what happened to Perkins?
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Bill Burnett : Speck, you can stand a little kidding, can't you?
Speckle : Sure, Mr. Burnett, go right ahead.
Bill Burnett : [singing] Speckle came to the Triple R, collected a frog and a snake in a jar. He caught a chipmunk, so he thunk, but the stripes were white and boy, how it...
[Bill holds his nose]
Speckle : That wasn't a skunk, that was Louie!
Louie : Hey, I do not!
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Spin Evans : Last year, a kid bust his arm by standing on his head in an upper bunk.
Louie : I could do that.
Spin Evans : You shoulda seen how fast his folks yanked him outta here.
Ambitious : I'll bet his grandmother's instructions didn't say anything about this.
Alfred "Al" McGrath : Grandmothers are even worse than parents about blood and stuff.
Ambitious : Poor Marty. Just when he was startin' to like the Triple R.
Frank : Liked it? He called it a dirty old farm, and he kept tryin' to run home, didn't he? So let him! Honestly, who cares about a drip like that?
Spin Evans : Why don't you stick your head in a bucket?
Rick : Boy, that guy didn't even cry.
Freddie : And it hurt, too, bad. He took out the horse all by himself, and then he fought a rattlesnake single-handed.
Speckle : I wish he had remembered to cut off the rattle for my collection.
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Speckle : I got Rick's camera and Mr. Logan's field glasses and my telescope. Come on!
Russell : I told you I'd rather go swimmin'.
Speckle : It isn't such a walk. Besides, I need you to help me get up that tree.
Russell : Who wants to look at some baby birds anywhow?
Gerald : I like baby birds.
Speckle : They're Cooper's Hawks fledglings, and besides, you never know what else you might run into.
Russell : Maybe we'll find a spot to go swimmin'!
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Russell : Can bears climb trees, Speck?
Speckle : Sure they can.
Russell : Oh, I knew I shouldna came! Mr. Logan said we were all goin' on a pack trip this week. You don't suppose they'd go away and forget us, do you?
Speckle : Don't be so silly. That bear'll leave pretty quick. It shouldn't even be out this late in the summer. They stay up in the pine country mostly.
Russell : He probably doesn't read all those nature books like you do.