- Uncle Lopez: Well, if the groom were willing to dispense with a few formalities - say, the trifling details of a dowry, the happy event could take place next week.
- Luke McCoy: Oh, uh, what's this here dowry?
- Grandpa Amos McCoy: Yeah, I never heared of that one!
- Uncle Lopez: It is nothing - it is just an old custom!
- Kate McCoy: Oh, that's the money and the goods and things that the bride brings when she's going to marry a man.
- Grandpa Amos McCoy: Well, what do you know? That's like buying a saddle and gettin' the horse throwed in, ain't it?