The workingman's advocate., 1869-02-13

noto only this, but when he had cleared II.
continued the velocity OF bis movements
with unabated energy, TO the great discom-
fort and no small terror Of both Johnny and
his companion, who now found themselves
going at rate which they had neither an
ticlpated nor desired. Indeed, this was 50
very great that both directly saw that some.
thing was wrong. Both saw. in short, what
was, indeed, too true, that the horse had
fairly run away with them; for be was now
going like the wind. with fury and distrac-
tion in his looks. 1t was a shocking and
dreadfully alarming affsir and 50 Johnny
and bis friend felt 1t to be, as might be dis
tinctly seen by their horror stricken faces.
Cndiscovering the predicament they were
10, both the trayelers--the one dropping his
whip, and the otter his stick-seized on the
reins, and began pulling with all their might,
10 the desperate hope Of checking the ami
mails speed by main force Johnny, in ter
ror, exclaiming the while distractedly-
"Alair OFT yet. mair OF yet Lord have
care o me, but this is awfu' This is waur
than anything ! hae met wiz yet. Waur
than the Fifteen Sisters, Dutchman, and a.
God be wi as | are my misfortunes never to
hae an end, till they hae finished me out
Erichtf Am never to get safe to eitker ane
place or anither 2-either 10 hame or to Bre-
chin 2 Surely ane o, them might be permit
ted to me. U, jamie, see hoo he's gaun I
He doesna seem to fn' US at his hurdles, nae
mair than II vi war pair o. preencushions.
This was true enough. The horse in his
fury dii not indeed seem to feel either them
or the vehicle they were in, but pushed
mady onwards, till he came to the where
the road divided itself into two distinct roads
the one being the right one, and the other,
OF course, the wrong-when, as if misplaced
by JohnnY's evil genius, he at once took the
latter, and in little more than twenty minutes,
had him and his friend fully half as many
miles out of their way. Now. however, the
catastrophe was to be wound up. A mile
stone caught one OF the wheels oI the gig,
canted il over, and threw Johnny sprawling
on the road with broken leg; bis friend,
although also thrown, escaping wholly un-
hurt
Awee, here it's at last" said Johnny,
sitting up in the mud amongst which be had
been planted, and fully believing that his in
juries were fatal. Here it's at last I'm
clean done for mao, after a. my escapes. 1t
may be moo plainly seen, | think" be went
on, "that some evil spirit has had me in bis
power, for these six weeks past at ony rate,
and has been gow6n' me about the world
ike fitba', to kill me wi gig at last"
Luckily, Johnny's injuries did not prove
so serious as he had feared they would DO
and no less fortunate was it that the accident
to which they were owing happened not far
from small country town in which there
was resident surgeon. To the latter place
Johnny was Immediately removed on a tenn
porary bier, hastily constructed for the pur-
pose by some labOring men who chanced to
be near the spot -aaere the accident nap
pened, and there he lay for six entire weeks,
when the surgeon above alluded to, and who
had attended him all that time, intimated TO
him that be might now venture 10 return
home. Delighted with the intelligence,
Johnny instantly acted on it, and next day
entered Carlisle triumphantly In post chase
not looking, nor really being, one or the
other, much the worse for his unprecedent ted
save and except a lameness IN
the injured limb, which ever after impaired
to his movements the graceful up-and-down
motion produced by that peculiar Longitude
Gal proportion of the nei. = limbs, designa,
ted ny the descriptive deti,,.non pf Ga ss'sr.e..
leg and shorter.e Having, with this last
concluded the story Of Johnny's
disasters, we have only to add that Johnny
has never, to this good hour, got the length
Of Brechin-nor viii, he says, ever again
make the attempt.