He jerked it back into the road and sent it ahead again at a faster pace.
"Well, now, any time yuh see CASEY RYAN settin' with a shawl over his shoulders--" "Well, maybe not YOU; but the bird sure comes to it that thinks he's too old to play the game.

Why, you'll never be ready to settle down! Take yuh twenty years from now--I'd rather bank on a pardner like you'd be than some young clown that ain't had the experience.

From the yarns I've heard about yuh, yuh don't back down from nothing.

And you're willing to give a pardner a chance to get away with his hide on him.
I'd rather be held up by the law than by some clown that's workin' with me." He paused; and when he, spoke again his tone had changed to meet a prosaic detail of the drive.
"Stop here in Victorville, will yuh, Casey?
I'll take a look at the radiator and maybe take on some more gas and oil.

I've been stuck on the desert a few times with an empty tank--and that learns a guy to keep the top of his gas tank full and never mind the bottom." "Good idea," said Casey shortly, his own tone relaxing its tension of a few minutes before.