Every once in a while they would ask him some such question, but he paid no attention to them.

At last he reached the top of the hill, and then he suddenly flung three of the lines on the left side of the team, and the other three on the right side.

He then began "playing the silk to them,"-- that is to say, he began to lash them unmercifully.

The team started off like a streak of lightning, so to speak, without a single rein being held by the driver.

Bob cried out to the Englishmen, saying, "Hold on, gentlemen, and I'll give you a lively ride, and show you how to stage it in the Rocky Mountains." [Illustration: BOB SCOTT'S FAMOUS COACH RIDE.] His next movement was to pull the lamps out of the sockets and throw them at the leaders.