The fact that both the driver and the sailor escaped being seriously hurt, was not so wonderful as it might seem.

Horses have generally an instinctive caution about not stepping upon any thing under their feet.

If a little child were lying asleep in the middle of a road, and a horse were to come galloping along without any rider, the mother, who should see the sight from the window of the house, would doubtless be exceedingly terrified; but in all probability the horse would pass the child without doing it any injury.

He would leap over it, or go around it, as he would if it were a stone.

This is one reason why, in so many cases, persons are run over without being hurt.