Just as it got agin me it kinder slackened, and the fore wheel ran off smack and scissors." "Was he hurt ?" quickly asked Mary.
"Not a bit on't," said Mr.Knight, "but he was scared some, I guess.

I got out and helped him, and when he heard I's from Rice Corner, he said he'd been into school.

Then he asked forty-'leven questions about you, and jest as I was settin' you up high, who should come a canterin' up with their long-tailed gowns, and hats like men, but Ella Campbell, and a great white-eyed pucker that came home with her from school.

Either Ella's horse was scary, or she did it a purpose, for the minit she got near, it began to rare and she would have fell off, if that man hadn't catched it by the bit, and held her on with t'other hand.

I allus was the most sanguinary of men, (Mr.Knight was never so far wrong in his life,) and I was buildin' castles about him, and our little school-marm, when Ella came along, and I gin it up, for I see that he was took, and she did look handsome with her curls a flyin'.
Wall, as I wasn't of no more use, I whipped up old Charlotte and come on." "When did Ella return ?" asked Mary, who had not before heard of her sister's arrival.
"I don't know," said Mr.Knight.