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device for holding it in position when 
it was put on hard, and the driver had 
to rely upon his strength of limb to 
keep it in place. It seems that Green, 
in pounding these bits of leather in the 
spring, had badly crushed his left hand. 
He said nothing to me, and I did not no- 
tice that, contrary to custom, he was driv- 
ing with his right hand, which he usu- 
ally reserved for the whip and the brake. 
We crossed the shallow brook and 
started up the very steep and very rocky 
road, when everything happened at 
once. Two of the horses refused to 
pull and danced up and down in the 
one spot, a sickening thing for a horse 
to do. This meant the instant applica- 
tion of the brake. We had already be- 
gun to slip backward (the most un- 
comfortable sensation I know, barring 
actual pain). Nimrod’s horse, tied on 
