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1"''Twill all come right some day or night': you were right, my dear; you generally are. Run in and get the supper, and
2I'll have Jack's harness off and make him snug and happy in no time." After this Mrs. Briggs wanted Jerry's cab quite as
3often as before, never, however, on a Sunday; but there came a day when we had Sunday work, and this was how it
4happened. We had all come home on the Saturday night very tired, and very glad to think that the next day would be all
5rest, but so it was not to be. On Sunday morning Jerry was cleaning me in the yard, when Polly stepped up to him,
6looking very full of something. "What is it?" said Jerry. "Well, my dear," she said, "poor Dinah Brown has just had a
7letter brought to say that her mother is dangerously ill, and that she must go directly if she wishes to see her alive.
8The place is more than ten miles away from here, out in the country, and she says if she takes the train she should
9still have four miles to walk; and so weak as she is, and the baby only four weeks old, of course that would be
10impossible; and she wants to know if you would take her in your cab, and she promises to pay you faithfully, as she can
11get the money." "Tut, tut! we'll see about that. It was not the money I was thinking about, but of losing our Sunday;
12the horses are tired, and I am tired, too--that's where it pinches." "It pinches all round, for that matter," said
13Polly, "for it's only half Sunday without you, but you know we should do to other people as we should like they should
14do to us; and I know very well what I should like if my mother was dying; and Jerry, dear, I am sure it won't break the
15Sabbath; for if pulling a poor beast or donkey out of a pit would not spoil it, I am quite sure taking poor Dinah would
16not do it." "Why, Polly, you are as good as the minister, and so, as I've had my Sunday-morning sermon early to-day, you
17may go and tell Dinah that I'll be ready for her as the clock strikes ten; but stop--just step round to butcher
18Braydon's with my compliments, and ask him if he would lend me his light trap; I know he never uses it on the Sunday,
19and it would make a wonderful difference to the horse." Away she went, and soon returned, saying that he could have the
20trap and welcome. "All right," said he; "now put me up a bit of bread and cheese, and I'll be back in the afternoon as
21soon as I can." "And I'll have the meat pie ready for an early tea instead of for dinner," said Polly; and away she
22went, while he made his preparations to the tune of "Polly's the woman and no mistake", of which tune he was very fond.
23I was selected for the journey, and at ten o'clock we started, in a light, high-wheeled gig, which ran so easily that
24after the four-wheeled cab it seemed like nothing. It was a fine May day, and as soon as we were out of the town, the
25sweet air, the smell of the fresh grass, and the soft country roads were as pleasant as they used to be in the old
26times, and I soon began to feel quite fresh. Dinah's family lived in a small farmhouse, up a green lane, close by a
27meadow with some fine shady trees; there were two cows feeding in it. A young man asked Jerry to bring his trap into the
28meadow, and he would tie me up in the cowshed; he wished he had a better stable to offer. "If your cows would not be
29offended," said Jerry, "there is nothing my horse would like so well as to have an hour or two in your beautiful meadow;
30he's quiet, and it would be a rare treat for him." "Do, and welcome," said the young man; "the best we have is at your
31service for your kindness to my sister; we shall be having some dinner in an hour, and I hope you'll come in, though
32with mother so ill we are all out of sorts in the house." Jerry thanked him kindly, but said as he had some dinner with
33him there was nothing he should like so well as walking about in the meadow. When my harness was taken off I did not
34know what I should do first--whether to eat the grass, or roll over on my back, or lie down and rest, or have a gallop
35across the meadow out of sheer spirits at being free; and I did all by turns. Jerry seemed to be quite as happy as I
36was; he sat down by a bank under a shady tree, and listened to the birds, then he sang himself, and read out of the
37little brown book he is so fond of, then wandered round the meadow, and down by a little brook, where he picked the
38flowers and the hawthorn, and tied them up with long sprays of ivy; then he gave me a good feed of the oats which he had
39brought with him; but the time seemed all too short--I had not been in a field since I left poor Ginger at Earlshall. We
40came home gently, and Jerry's first words were, as we came into the yard, "Well, Polly, I have not lost my Sunday after
41all, for the birds were singing hymns in every bush, and I joined in the service; and as for Jack, he was like a young
42colt." When he handed Dolly the flowers she jumped about for joy. 38 Dolly and a Real Gentleman Winter came in early,
43with a great deal of cold and wet. There was snow, or sleet, or rain almost every day for weeks, changing only for keen
44driving winds or sharp frosts. The horses all felt it very much. When it is a dry cold a couple of good thick rugs will
45keep the warmth in us; but when it is soaking rain they soon get wet through and are no good. Some of the drivers had a
46waterproof cover to throw over, which was a fine thing; but some of the men were so poor that they could not protect
47either themselves or their horses, and many of them suffered very much that winter. When we horses had worked half the
48day we went to our dry stables, and could rest, while they had to sit on their boxes, sometimes staying out as late as
49one or two o'clock in the morning if they had a party to wait for. When the streets were slippery with frost or snow
50that was the worst of all for us horses. One mile of such traveling, with a weight to draw and no firm footing, would
51take more out of us than four on a good road; every nerve and muscle of our bodies is on the strain to keep our balance;
52and, added to this, the fear of falling is more exhausting than anything else. If the roads are very bad indeed our
53shoes are roughed, but that makes us feel nervous at first.
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