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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! 
After that, earth had no terrors for 
me; the worst road that we could bump 
