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the road was said to be slightly up hill and hard 

 on the horses; but this we soon discovered to be 

 merely an excuse to blind us to the fact that all the 

 good horses had already been engaged for Lord K., 

 and that we had been furnished with animals which 

 ought long since to have been turned out to pass 

 their few remaining days in some peaceful pasture. 

 After painfully laboring for an hour, they stopped 

 and refused to budge farther. The time until sun- 

 rise we spent tugging at the wheels and throwing 

 sand at our poor steeds, but to no purpose ; so finally 

 Perry and I walked ahead some five miles to procure 

 other conveyance. During the day we had our lug- 

 gage in some four or five different kinds of vehicles, 

 at one time having actually harnessed a pair of bul- 

 locks to the landau ; but this method of locomotion 

 proved to be of such dizzy rapidity that we soon had 

 to abandon it. 



Meanwhile we were vainly trying to satisfy our 

 hunger with the native chuppatties of black flour, 

 and at dark, as we were by this time far in advance 

 of the landau, it looked as if we should have to spend 

 the night dinnerless in some open field. At the 

 crucial moment our good angel came to the rescue, 

 for we suddenly espied two comparatively respec- 

 table-looking horses grazing in a field near by. If 

 the reader is inclined to combat the assertion that 



