He'd had a blow-out down the other side of Patmos and he was sore because they didn't have no tires he could use down there.

He bought three tires--_three,_ mind yuh, and peeled off the bills to pay for 'em! Sa-ay when yuh figure two hundred cars a day rollin' through, and half of 'em comin' to yuh with grief of some kind--" "It's darn little I know about any car but a Ford," Casey admitted plaintively.

"When yuh come to them complicated ones that you can crawl behind the wheel and set your boot on a button and holler giddap and she'll start off in a lope, I don't know about it.

A Ford's like a mule or a burro.

You take a monkey wrench and work 'em over, and cuss, and that's about all there is to it.