Casey Ryan too old to lick any man who gave him cause, too old to hold the fickle esteem of those who met him in the road?
Casey squinted belligerently at the Old-man-with-the-scythe and snorted.

"I licked him good.

You ask anybody.

And he's twice as big as I am.

I guess they's a good many years left in Casey Ryan yet! Giddap, you--thus-and-so! We're ten minutes late and we got our record!" At that moment a Ford touring car popped around the turn below him and squawked presumptuously for a clear passage ahead.