I don't know nothin' about his spunk, but I do know there's a woman with him.

'Tain't likely he'll want to race you when he's got a passenger aboard.' "'Oh, I don't know!' says he.

'I've got you, Barzilla; so 'twill be two and two.

Let's heave alongside and see.' "So he clucked to the Queen, and in a jiffy we was astern of t'other rig.

Loveland looked back over his shoulder.
"'Ugh!' he grunts, 'bout as cordial as a plate of ice cream.