I'm a 'driver,' I know it, and a 'bully,' too.

Oh, I know what they call me--'a brute beast, with a twist in my temper that would rile up a new-born lamb,' and I'm 'crusty' and 'pig-headed' and 'obstinate.' They say all that, but they've got to say, too, that I'm cleverer than any man-jack in the running.

There's nobody can get ahead of me." His eyes snapped.

"Let 'em grind their teeth.

They can't 'down' me.