"Ten, fifteen or forty miles."
"Can't you tell me more precisely than that?"
"Somewhere atween ten and forty or fifty—dat's all I can tell."
"Have you ever been there yourself?"
"Offin—horseback."
"You know the way?"
"Jes' as well as did from de house to de barn."
"How would you like to go there?"
"What! alone?" asked Cato, the old look of terror coming back to his countenance.
"Certainly—you have been there and back you said, didn't you?"