"It's going to be an uphill climb, old-timer--and a blamed long hill at that.

And it's going to be pretty darned slippery, in places." "I sabe that, all right," grinned Mason.

"But I sabe you pretty well, too.

You'll dig in your toes and hang on by your eye-winkers if you have to.

But you'll get up, all right; I'll bank on that.
"Speaking of booze-fighters," he went on, without giving Ford a chance to contradict him, "I wish you'd keep an eye on old Mose.