And we can take Laddie aboard here, then.

But I wonder he consented to go ahead, without us.

That isn't like Lad.
Holiday-spirits, I suppose.

This trip has made a puppy of him.

A stately old gentleman like Laddie would never think of rounding up bears and skunks, if he was at home." As he talked, the car got under way; moving at rackety and racking "first speed" over hummock and bump; as it joggled into the faint wheeltrack.