- Charles Ingalls: Now come on, clean out the coop.
- Albert Quinn Ingalls: Do you have to do those kind of things when you come home from a days' work?
- Charles Ingalls: Of course I don't!
- Albert Quinn Ingalls: Why?
- Charles Ingalls: Because it's different, that's why!
- Albert Quinn Ingalls: In what way?
- Charles Ingalls: Albert, try to understand. I'm supporting a family! I'm doing a man's work!
- Albert Quinn Ingalls: Is chopping firewood a man's work?
- Charles Ingalls: Yeah.
- Albert Quinn Ingalls: Is clearing a pasture man's work?
- Charles Ingalls: Yeah.
- Albert Quinn Ingalls: Is plowing a field man's work?
- Charles Ingalls: Of course it is.
- Albert Quinn Ingalls: Well, that's what I've been doing. So if I can do the work of a man, I should have the right to be treated like one.
- Charles Ingalls: Albert, I... I am the man around here and you do what I say. You want to work, work for me and I'll pay you.
- Albert Quinn Ingalls: No. That would wreck everything!
- Charles Ingalls: Why?
- Albert Quinn Ingalls: Because it's an allowance. And allowances are for kids.
- Charles Ingalls: Well, what are you?
- Albert Quinn Ingalls: I'm a man, and you just said so.
- Charles Ingalls: I did not.
- Albert Quinn Ingalls: You said a man chops wood, clears and plows...
- Charles Ingalls: Clean the coop, Albert! Just clean the coop!
- Albert Quinn Ingalls: Grownups! Whenver they're wrong, they yell at you!
- Charles Ingalls: Just clean the coop!