Quotation

(Curtin and Dobbs dismount from their burros and collapse, exhausted, while the old man surveys the ground) Fred C. Dobbs: "You know what I was thinkin'? I was thinkin' we oughta give up. Leave the whole outfit... everything behind 'n... go back to civilization..." Howard: "What's that you say - go back?! Ha-ha! Well tell my old grandmother! I've got two very elegant bedfellows, who shake at the first drop of rain, and hide in the closet from thunder rumbles! My! My! My! What great prospectors! Two shoe clerks readin' the magazine about prospectin' for gold in the land of the midnight sun, south of the border and west of the Rockies. Ha-ha!" Fred C. Dobbs (jumps up clutching a rock): "Shut yer trap! Shut up or I'll smash yer head flat!" Howard: "Go ahead! Go ahead, throw it! If you did, you'd never leave this wilderness alive! Without me, you two would die here more miserable than rats!"