- Splutters - One of the Children: A whole month ago you said the Lord would help us get away. What's He been doin' all month?
- Molly: He'll help us--if we keep on prayin'. He's pretty busy--watchin' every sparrow that falls--...
- Boy #1: How come them sparrows got such a pull with Him?
- Mr. Grimes: Hey! You, Molly! Git them brats back to work! Them veg-tables is wuth money. Quit a-tramplin' 'em or I'll run the lot of yer into the swamp!
- Molly: You kids kiss an' make up. Remember what the Bible says: 'Let not thy right cheek know what thy left cheek getteth'.
- Hog Buyer: That your young-un?
- Mr. Grimes: He's--he's a--a orphan. I been giving him a home.
- Hog Buyer: I could shore use one on my place to pick pertater bugs.
- Mr. Grimes: How much money would yer give for him?
- Hog Buyer: He'd ought ter be wuth half as much as the hawg.
- Boy #2: Are you sure He ain't forgot about us?
- Molly: He never forgets. He keeps a list of everything in His big book.
- Boy #1: I'll betcha turtles to frogs my toothache is last on that list.
- Mr. Grimes: They're makin' fer the Moss Creek Road. If the mud don't git 'em, they'll make a good meal fer the alligators!
- Molly: Thanks, Lord, a whole lot. I've been boostin' You all along to these kids--an' we certainly won't never forget Your kindness.
- Boy #1: Say, Molly, them sparrows ain't got nothin' on us now.
- Mr. Grimes: That Molly's been a troublemaker ever since she come here. I'm goin' to shove her in the swamp.
- Mrs. Grimes: Some day you'll shove one too many in the swamp.
- Mrs. Grimes: Didn't I tell yer? Didn't I? Now we're in fer it!
- Mr. Grimes: Shut yer mouth! They won't never find her--I'll chuck her in the swamp tonight.
- [the Devil's share in the world's creation was a certain southern swampland - a masterpiece of horror. And the Lord appreciating a good job, let it stand]
- Title Card: Out of the swamps--and into the morass of the Law.
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