make before
dark."

"Switzerland has nothing to surpass this view!" declared Mr. Stott, who
had never been in Switzerland.

Everyone took a leisurely survey of the mountains.

"And the air is very like that of the Scotch moors." No one ever would
have suspected from his positive tone that Mr. Stott never had been in
Scotland, either.

"I am sorry to insist," said Wallie in response to another significant
look from Pinkey, "but we really will have to hurry."

Thus urged, they proceeded to clamber in, except Miss Gertie Eyester,
who was patting the roan on the nose.

"Dear 'ittie horsey!"

"'Ittie horse eats human flesh, you'd better not git too close," said
Pinkey.

Miss Eyester looked admiringly at Pinkey in his red shirt and declared
with an arch glance:

"You're so droll, Mr. Fripp!"

Since Mr. Fripp thought something of the sort himself he did not
contradict her, but told himself that she was "not so bad--for a dude."

"I hope the horses are perfectly safe, because my heart isn't good, and
when I'm frightened it goes bad and my lips get just as _b-l-u-e_!"

"They look all right now," said Pinkey, after giving them his careful
attention.

Miss Eyester observed wistfully:

"I hope I will get well and strong out here."

"If you'd go out in a cow-camp fer a couple of months it would do you a
world of good," Pinkey advised her. "You'd fatten up."

Mr. Budlong, who had gotten in the coach, got out again to inquire of
Pinkey if he was sure the horses were perfectly gentle.

"I'd trust my own step-mother behind 'em anywhere."

Mr. Budlong, who had had a step-mother, intimated that that was not
convincing proof, and returned to the coach declaring that he had no
fears for himself, but his wife was nervous.

To show his contempt of danger, Mr. Stott said: "Poof!"

Wallie, having closed the door, climbed up beside Pinkey, who unlocked
the brake.

"I always feel helpless shut inside a vehicle," declared Mr. Budlong.

Mr. Stott again said recklessly: "Poof!"

Just as he said "poof!", the leaders rose on their hind legs. Mr.
Tucker, who rose with them, clung valiantly to their bits and dangled
there. One of the wheel horses laid down and the other tried to climb
over the back of the leader in front of him, while the bystanders
scattered.

"There seems to be some kind of a ruckus," Mr. Appel remarked as he
stood up and leaned out the window.

Before he had time to report, however, two side wheels w