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w to drive up a flight of brownstone steps 

 ^ on Fifth Avenue. There were places 

 |t between huge boulders where a swerve 

 ^ ' of a foot to the right or to the left would 

 E have sent us crashing into the unyield- 

 F ing granite. 



^ When we got to the top there was 



no place to rest — only rock, rock every- 

 where. No water, no food for the ex- 

 hausted horses, nothing to do but to 

 push on to the bottom — and such 

 going! Have you ever felt the shud- 

 dering of a wagon with brake hard on, 

 as it poised in air the instant before it 

 dropped a foot or two to the next level, 

 from hard rock to hard rock '? Have 

 you ever tried to keep four horses 

 away from under a wagon, and yet suf- 

 ficiently near it not to precipitate the 

 crash? Have you ever at the same 

 time tried to keep them from falling 



