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Before we ascend the staircase, however, we must request you to pause in front of this little bar-place with the sash-windows; and beg your particular attention to the steady, honest-looking old fellow in black, who is its sole occupant.
She used to call the Brownie to the bar-place, put the bridle on, and let him out; and then he would stand motionless before her while she fastened the saddle on; looking round sometimes, as if to make sure that it was herself, and giving a little kind of satisfied neigh when he saw that it was.
Another bar-place let them in again to another narrow, wild, bush-grown path around the edge of the cliff, the lower spur of the great hill; and down over shelving rocks, a long, gradual descent, to the foot of the fall.
I ain't agoing to hurt him, but I am agoing to make him rear no, I won't I'll make him leap over a rail, the first bar-place we come to that'll be prettier." "Oh, you mustn't do that." said Ellen "I have not learned to leap yet I couldn't keep on you musn't do that if you please." "You just hold fast, and hold your tongue.
"Oh, don't!" cried Ellen, bursting into tears for the first time she had with great effort commanded them back until now; "poor Brownie! How can you! Oh, please let us go! please let us go!" For one minute she dropped her face in her hands. "Be quiet!" said Mr. Saunders. "Here's a bar-place now for the leap!"
"The First Cataracts are in here," said Sylvie, gleefully, leading the way in by a bar-place upon a very wet path, the wetness of which nobody minded, all having come defended with rubbers and waterproofs, and tucked up their petticoats boot-high. Great bosks of ferns grew beside, and here and there a bush burning with autumn color. Everything shone and dripped; the very stones glittered.
His object, however, was merely to gratify the smallest of minds by teasing a child he had a spite against; he had no intention to risk breaking her bones by a fall from her horse; so in time he had enough of the bar-place; took the bridle again, and walked on. Ellen drew breath a little more freely. "Did you hear how I handled your old gentleman after that time?" said Mr. Saunders.
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