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For the sake of the ancestral Wheelers, she hoped it was the broadcloth-coated village parson; but she had her doubts. Her doubts increased into a positive agony of uneasiness when she discovered, at the reception later on, that the three young clergymen, with one consent, had put their waistcoats on hind side before.
The butler reported that she was dining at the Wheelers', and he thought the man eyed him with restrained commiseration. "Did she say I am expected there?" he asked. "She ordered dinner for you here, sir." Even for Nina that sounded odd. He took his coat and went out again to the car; after a moment's hesitation he went back and got the orchids.
For we had not gone far when the coach gave a plunge, and the wheels sank axle-deep in a crab-hole. All hands had now to set to work to help the coach out of the mud; while the driver urged his horses with cries and cracks of his long whip. But it was of no use. The two wheelers were fairly exhausted, and their struggling only sent them deeper into the mud.
The Chihuahua wagon was drawn sometimes by twelve, sometimes by twenty mules, four abreast in the swing, the leaders and wheelers being single teams. For mutual protection trains were made up of from ten to twenty wagons. Drivers frequently meeting a chance acquaintance going in an opposite direction would ask, "What is your cargo?" and the answer would be frankly given, "Specie."
They got into a four wheeler and they said "cabby drive as fast as you can," not knowing that four wheelers never go faster than a dead march " to "where do you think? St. Paul's, the Temple, the Abbey, their lodgings, the Houses of Parliament the Pavilion Music Hall the Tower no to none of these "To the Post Office." That is what my mother and sister did!
He would have been downed completely, judged by the finical standards of the little college. It was in his choice of college that, for the first time in his life, Scott Brenton's will had become dominant. His mother would fain have had it otherwise. The Wheelers, one and all, had been little-college men.
"Carn't wait, ma'am time's hup" and just at this moment a two-horse coach is heard stealing up the street, upon which the coachman calls to the horse-keepers to "stand clear with their cloths, and take care no one pays them twice over," gives a whistling hiss to his leaders, the double thong to his wheelers, and starts off at a trot, muttering something about, "cuss'd pair-'oss coach, convict-looking passengers," observing confidentially to Mr.
Go easy, will you!" he had just shoved his foot still harder against the brake, when there was a sharp crack, and the huge vehicle suddenly sprang forward upon the wheelers' heels. "God help us!" cried Jack, "the brake's gone. We've got to run for it now." And run for it they did. It was a time of great peril. Mr. Miller clung tightly to the seat, and Bert shrank back between his knees.
For the wheelers, being in the slough with the cart, are powerless; but the leaders, who have scrambled through, are safe on dry land at the end of their long traces, and haul out their brethren, cart and all, amid the yells, and I am sorry to say blows, of the black gentlemen in attendance. But cane cutting is altogether a busy, happy scene.
As he drew near the head of the ox procession, the driver roared out a Wo-o-o-o in a tone which was intended to be understood as a general command; the powerful wheelers held back obediently and drew the chain tight in their efforts to stop; the rest of the string, after pulling them a short distance, also obeyed. "Hello, Uncle." "Good-mawnin', Mistah Hicks." "How's things doing down home?
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