'Huckley, ' said the policeman. 'H-u-c-k-l-e-y, ' and wrote something in his note-book at which young Ollyett protested. A large red man on a grey horse who had been watching us from the other side of the hedge shouted an order we could not catch. The policeman laid his hand on the rim of the right driving-door (Woodhouse carries his spare tyres aft), and it closed on the button of the electric horn. The grey horse at once bolted, and we could hear the rider swearing all across the landscape. 'Damn it, man, you've got your silly fist on it! Take it off!' Woodhouse shouted. 'Ho!' said the constable, looking carefully at his fingers as though we had trapped them. 'That won't do you any good either, ' and he wrote once more in his note-book before he allowed us to
