Setting the lantern carefully at a little distance, and bidding Will "charge" and be still, she began the descent, feeling the way carefully with her feet, and grasping the rough stones firmly with her hands.

Down! down! while the huge wheel towered over her, and grinned with all its rusty teeth to see so strange a sight.

At last her feet touched the soft earth; another instant, and she had Jock in her arms, and was fondling and caressing him, and saying all sorts of foolish things to him in her delight.

But a cry of pain from the poor puppy, even in the midst of his frantic though feeble demonstrations of joy, told her that all was not right; and she found that one little leg hung limp, and was evidently broken.

How should she ever get him up?
For a moment she stood bewildered; and then an idea came to her, which she has always maintained was the only really clever one she ever had.