All taut, are you?
Good enough! then we'll get under way." He flapped the reins and added, "G'long, Julius Caesar!" The horse, a sturdy, sedate beast to whom all names seemed to be alike, picked up his feet and pounded them down again.

Showers of spray flew about the heads of the pair on the seat.
"I ain't so sure about that duckin'," commented the rescuer.

"Hum! I guess likely we'll be out of soundin's if we tackle that sink hole you was undertakin' to navigate.

Let's try it a little further down." Ellery looked his companion over.
"Well," he observed with a smile, "from what I've heard of you, Captain Hammond, I rather guess you could navigate almost any water in this locality and in all sorts of weather." The driver turned in surprise.
"So ?" he exclaimed.

"You know me, do you?
That's funny.