“ 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 
7, 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, 
eee and the animals had to pull the heavy 
SU wagon up rises from a foot to eighteen 
a inches high by sheer strength —as easy 
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