" Hold your lines tighter. Pull that 

 nigh leader. Get out of that, Frank! 

 Now steady, boys ! Don't pull there ! " 



Down went the brake ; we were safely 

 round the turn, and all hands rested for 

 a moment. 



Thus we worked all that morning, 

 Green with the brake, the whip, and his 

 tongue; I with the lines, what strength 

 I had and mother wit in lieu of ex- 

 perience. 



There were stretches of two hundred 

 feet of granite, smooth and polished 

 as a floor, where the horses repeatedly 

 slipped and fell, and where the wheels 

 brought forth hollow mocking rumbles. 



There were sections where the rocky 

 ledges succeeded one another in steps, 

 and the animals had to pull the heavy 

 wagon up rises from a foot to eighteen 

 inches high by sheer strength as easy 



