device for holding it in position when 

 it was put on hard, and the driver had 

 to rely upon his strength of limb to 

 keep it in place. It seems that Green, 

 in pounding these bits of leather in the 

 spring, had badly crushed his left hand. 

 He said nothing to me, and I did not no- 

 tice that, contrary to custom, he was driv- 

 ing with his right hand, which he usu- 

 ally reserved for the whip and the brake. 

 We crossed the shallow brook and 

 started up the very steep and very rocky 

 road, when everything happened at 

 once. Two of the horses refused to 

 pull and danced up and down in the 

 one spot, a sickening thing for a horse 

 to do. This meant the instant applica- 

 tion of the brake. We had already be- 

 gun to slip backward (the most un- 

 comfortable sensation I know, barring 

 actual pain). Nimrod's horse, tied on 



