ACCIDENT. Ill 



it, I whipped the off-wheel horse, when 

 a noise like the report of a cannon, and 

 I on my back, made me aware of the 

 consequences of inattention. 



I was on my legs in an instant, and 

 soon sufficiently recovered my senses to 

 ascertain that I was unhurt and near 

 the spot where, but a few years before, 

 I had had a narrow escape with my life 

 on the runaway mare. 



There were four young ladies inside, 

 all of one party, who were soundly asleep 

 when the accident occurred, and they 

 innocently asked what had happened. 



After extricating them, and disen- 

 tangling the team, I left three of them, 

 in charge of my valuable and voluble 

 fellow-traveller, who had, like myself, 

 received little or no injury, and mounting 

 the other horse galloped to the residence 

 of my brother-in-law, about a mile and 

 a half distance, to obtain assistance. This 



