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When he found the gate he waited for Jerry, who could be heard calling from the darkness. Kurt answered him. "Here's the gate!" yelled Kurt, as Jerry came galloping up. "Good road all the way now!" "Lickity-cut then!" shouted Jerry to whom the pace had evidently communicated enthusiasm. The ride then became a race, with Kurt drawing ahead.
It took fust money, that did," said Mr. Harum with a confirmatory shake of the head. "Wa'al," he resumed, "in about a few minutes back she come, lickity-cut, an' pulled up in front of me. 'C'n you send my sister's hoss home? she says, 'an' then I sha'n't have to change agin.
Then the song begins, very slowly at first, and in the old familiar strain: "Ko ka chi lunk, ko ka chilunk, koka chilunk, kokachilunk," repeated again and again, varied only when the short rails are crossed, where it adds a few extra syllables in this style: "Kokachilunk chilunk, chilunk," growing faster and faster every moment until the utmost speed is attained: it then soars into this impressive refrain: "Lickity-cut, lickity-cut, lickity-cut, lickity-cut," repeated as often and as rapidly as possible.
'T any rate, I'd take the chances of a lickin' jest once fer that's what it meant an' I up an' put fer the village lickity-cut. I done them four mile lively, I c'n tell ye, an' the stun-bruises never hurt me once. "When I got down to the village it seemed to me as if the hull population of Freeland County was there.
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