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Like gregarious beasts, its companions went with it; the front of the van was wrenched round and the off fore-wheel ascended the path, while at the same moment, as the furious trumpeting continued, there was a crash, one side of the van was heaved up as if by an internal earthquake, and the next moment, amidst the noise of splintering wood, the plunging of horses, and the elephant's deafening roar, the great yellow vehicle lay over on its side, and the monstrous beast, fully ten feet high, stood panting and trumpeting with uplifted trunk by the side of the ruins, glaring round as if seeking which enemy to charge.
"Buy a silver guard-chain for your vatch, sir!" cried a dark eyed urchin, mounting the fore-wheel, and holding a bunch of them in Mr. Jorrocks's face; "buy pocket-book, memorandum-book!" whined another. "Keepsake Forget-me-not all the last year's annuals at half-price!" "Sponge cheap, sponge! take a piece, sir take a piece." "Patent leather straps." "Barcelona nuts. Slippers. Rhubarb.
The informant's booziness had returned. One foot kept slipping from a spoke of the fore-wheel. With pretence of perplexity he examined the wheel. "Mr. Mahch, this wheel sick; she mighty sick; got to see blacksmiff befo' she can eveh see Widewood." John looked. The word was true. He swore. The mulatto snickered, sagged against it and cocked his face importantly. "Mr.
She was radiantly bright, and smiled merrily as she extended her hand and shook his over the rickety fore-wheel as she leaned forward from the dilapidated, sagging seat, the springs of which rested on the sides of the wagon-bed. "I told you I'd be in," she laughed, "and, if the market is off to-day, back I go to my shanty. Nothing but the best prices catch me."
With a less sure-footed horse than Dolly they would soon have come to grief. Gregory was becoming greatly fatigued, though he strove to hide it, and both were filled with genuine uneasiness at the prospect before them. To make matters seemingly desperate, as they were descending a little hill a fore-wheel caught between two stones and was wrenched sharply off.
At night each man had to retire to his wagon for prayer at eight-thirty, and to rest at nine. If they camped by a river they drew the wagons into a semicircle with the river at its base. Other times the wagons made a circle, a fore-wheel of one touching a rear wheel of the next, thus providing a corral for the stock.
And they thronged nearer, eager to catch the first glance of their beloved and honored empress. The carpet was laid without a wrinkle. One of the footmen opened the carriage door, while another approached the fore-wheel. "She comes! she comes!" cried the populace, and they crowded around in eager delight.
Still the street boy held the pony's head, and it is probable that he would have come off the victor in this controversy, had not Diana's dignified action given to the reins which she held a jerk. The brown pony, deeming this full permission to go on, went off with a bound that overturned the boy, and caused the fore-wheel to strike him on the leg as it passed.
The fore-wheel of the coupe had been taken from the axle, and in the difficulty of so doing, from the excellence of the workmanship, two of the spokes were broken the patent box was a mass of rent metal, and the end of the axle turned downwards like a hoe.
"Yes." "Then come on!" Under the fore-wheel the Gentleman was lying on his back, with closed eyes. The boy stopped. "Are you hurt, sir?" The other shook a smiling head. "Only shocked. Jerked off my box. Run, Little Chap, run! or they'll bottle you." "Kit, damn you!" stormed the Parson. "Will you run?" Across the greensward half a dozen Grenadiers were hurling.
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