"One day Henery and the old man were going out a long trip
over the mountain, and down the Kangaroo Valley Road that's all cut out
of the side of the 'ill. And after they's gone a mile or two,
Henery sees a track in the road -- the track of the biggest car
he ever seen or 'eard of. An' the more he looks at it, the more he reckons
he must ketch that car and see what she's made of. So he slows down
passin' two yokels on the road, and he says, `Did you see a big car
along 'ere?'

"`Yes, we did,' they says.

"`How big is she?' says Henery.

"`Biggest car ever we see,' says the yokels, and they laughed
that silly way these yokels always does.

"`How many horse-power do you think she was?' says Henery.

"`Horse-power,' they says; `elephant-power, you mean!
She was three elephant-power,' they says; and they goes `Haw, haw!'
and Henery drops his clutch in, and off he goes after that car."

Alfred lit another cigarette as a preliminary to the climax.

"So they run for miles, and all the time there's the track ahead of 'em,
and Henery keeps lettin' her out, thinkin' that he'll never ketch that car.
They went through a town so fast, the old man he says, `What house was that
we just passed,' he says. At last they come to the top of the big 'ill,
and there's the tracks of the big car goin' straight down ahead of 'em.