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Loud was the merriment at school over the Cranstons' blunders in spelling and arithmetic, but what what was that as offset to their prowess on pony-back, their skill with the bow and sling-shot, their store of Indian trinkets, trophies, ay, even to the surreptitiously shown Indian scalp?
Those placid matrimonial ambitions with which he had left England had been all swept away; and as he followed her she on pony-back, he on foot along the mountain trails, watching the lightness of her small figure against the splendid background of peak and pine, he became a troubled, introspective person; concentrating upon himself and his disagreeable plight the attention he had hitherto given to a delightful outer world, sown with the caches of antiquity, in order to amuse him.
Then he led the pony around with her on his back, and Janet liked it very much. "I wants a wide, too!" cried Trouble. "Hi! that's so! Mustn't forget you!" laughed the cowboy, and he held Baby William in the saddle, much to the delight of that little fellow. "Now you mustn't bother any more," said Daddy Martin. "You children have had fun enough. You'll have more pony-back rides later."
Along it the whole of the food, ammunition, and material had to be carried on pony-back, or in a few ponderous carts drawn by gaunt, over-worked teams, which too often left their wheels fast-caught in the mire. At the front it had been raining in torrents for hours the mud was thicker, blacker, and more tenacious.
But as he got his team into a gallop the leaders took fright at the charging Indians on pony-back, and tried to leave the trail. William was alone on the driver's seat. He put all his strength into an attempt to drag the leaders back into the trail and the rein broke! Under ordinary circumstances this accident would not have been of much moment.
Had we of the Wide Valley risen against constituted authority and filled all Balcary Bay between Isle Rathan and the Red Haven with floating tea-chests? Well, not exactly; but many a score of stealthy cargoes had been carried past our doors on horse-back, pony-back, shelty-back up by Bluehills and over the hip of Ben Tudor.
We reached Kunis at two o'clock, and found the village half submerged, the water being up and over the low shores from the recent rain. Our boats were moored in a clump of willows, whose feet stood so deeply in the water that we had to embark on pony-back!
"It wouldn't have happened if you had been traveling on pony-back, and had stopped to camp out for the night before you got your supper; would it, Ted?" he asked with a smile. "No," said the little boy. "I wish we could camp out and hunt Indians!" "Oh my goodness!" exclaimed his mother. "Don't get such foolish notions in your head.
Her school supplied the originals of all the little boys, whether greedy or gracious, grave or gay, on foot or on pony-back, in knickerbockers or in nightshirts, who figure so frequently in Punch between 1850 and 1864; and one of the pleasantest recollections of those distant days is the kindness with which the great artist used to receive us when, as the supreme reward of exceptionally good conduct, we were taken to see him in his studio at Kensington.
The journey to the nation's capital was made almost entirely on pony-back, there being no railroads, and the Sioux delegation was beset with many hardships on the trail. His visit to Washington, in behalf of peace among men, proved to be his last earthly mission. From a sudden illness, he died and was buried here.
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