Mr.Crow's dignity asserted itself just as the valiant posse prepared to "straddle" the wheels in mad flight.
"Hold on!" he panted.

"I lost my dark lantern down there.

Go back an' git it, Bud." "Land o' mighty! Did y'ever see anythin' like it ?" gasped Jim Borum, trying to mount a ten-year-old boy's wheel instead of his own.
"I'd like to have anybody tell me there ain't no sech things as ghosts," faltered Uncle Jimmy Borton, who had always said there wasn't.

"Let go, there! Ouch!" The command and subsequent exclamation were the inevitable results of his unsuccessful attempt to mount with Elon Jones the same wheel.
"What'd I tell you, Anderson ?" exclaimed Isaac Porter.

"Didn't I say it was ghosts?
Tramps nothin'! A tramp wouldn't last a second up in that house.