at are out to-day are comin' this way,' he
says. You see he was passin' 'em so fast he thought they were all comin'
towards him.

"And Henery sees a mate of his comin', so he lets out a notch or two,
and the two cars flew by each other like chain lightnin'. They were each
doin' about forty, and the old man, he says, 'There's a driver must be
travellin' a hundred miles an hour,' he says. 'I never see a car go by
so fast in my life,' he says. 'If I could find out who he is, I'd report
him,' he says. 'Did you know the car, Henery?' But of course Henery, he
doesn't know, so on they goes.

"The owner of the big French car thinks he has the fastest car in
Australia, and when he sees Henery and the old man coming, he tells his
driver to let her out a little; but Henery gives the ninety-horse the
full of the lever, and whips up alongside in one jump. And then he keeps
there just half a length ahead of him, tormentin' him like. And the
owner of the French car he yells out to old John Bull, 'You're going
a nice pace for an old 'un,' he says. Old John has a blink down at
the indicator. 'We're doing twenty-five,' he yells out. 'Twenty-five
grandmothers,' says the bloke; but Henery he put on his accelerator, and
left him. It wouldn't do to let the old man get wise to it, you know."

We topped a big hill, and Alfred cut off the engine and let the car
swoop, as swiftly and noiselessly as an eagle, down to the flat country
below.

"You're a long while coming to the elephant, Alfred," I said.

"Well, now, I'll tell you about the elephant," said Alfred, letting his
clutch in again, and taking up the story to the accompaniment of the
rhythmic throb of the engine.

"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
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