Another moment and we should surely 

 have sunk, when the horses, by a su- 

 preme effort, managed to scramble on 

 to the bank, but were too exhausted to 

 draw more than half of the wagon 

 after them, so that it was practically on 

 end in the water, our outfit submerged, 

 of course, and ourselves reclining as 

 gracefully as possible on the backs of 

 the seats. 



Had anything given away then, there 

 might have been a tragedy. The two 

 men immediately fastened a rope to the 

 tongue of the wagon, and each winding 

 an end around the pommel of his sad- 

 dle, set his cow pony pulling. Our 

 horses made another effort, and up we 

 came out of the water, wet, storm tossed, 

 but calm. Oh, yes — calm I 



After that, earth had no terrors for 

 me ; the worst road that we could bump 



