"That's better.

Just as if I shouldn't hold on! Think I wanted a cold bath ?" "You gave me quite a turn!" said West.

"Will you leave it to me?
I can manage it!" "Go on, you vain young coxcomb! So can I manage it! If you don't look out, I'll be up first! Well, what are you stopping for ?" "Look down there!" said West.
Ingleborough held on tightly while he twisted his head to see that the two ponies had hurried out of the cave to wade to the place where they had started from, and were looking up wonderingly.
"Ha, ha!" laughed Ingleborough.

"They're afraid of being left behind! Here, you two, be off back into your stable," he continued, getting hold of a loose piece of rock with the intention of dropping it into the water to scare the lookers-on.
"No, no, don't do that!" said West softly.

"You may scare them into cantering down into the midst of the Boers!" "Right," said Ingleborough, replacing the stone.