behind, gave a frightened snort and 

 broke his rope. Green attempted to 

 take the reins with his left hand. They 

 dropped from his grasp, and I saw that 

 his fingers were purple and black. 



" Grab the lines, can you ? " he said, 

 as he seized the whip and put both feet 

 on the brake. The leaders were cur- 

 veting back on the wheelers in a way 

 which meant imminent mix up, their 

 legs over traces and behind whiffle- 

 trees. On the right of us was solid 

 rock up, on the left solid rock down, 

 one hundred feet to the stream, and just 

 ahead was the sharp turn the road made 

 to a higher ledge in its zigzag up the 

 mountain. 



I had always intended to learn to 

 drive four-in-hand, but this first lesson 

 left me no pleasure in the learning. 

 There were no little triumphs of diffi- 



