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 had happened to the gentleman and lady, and ran on towards the place at which they had juſt before loſt ſight of the phaeton: in a minute after they met one of the ſervants, who begged them to go immediately to his lady, who he feared was killed, by being thrown out of the carriage.

The good man and his wife haſtened with all ſpeed, while the ſervant, with the aſſiſtance of ſome other working men, diſengaged the horſes, which were taken to a farmer's ſtable. In the mean while Robert and his wife beheld a moſt affecting ſight. The poor young lady lay ſenſeleſs on the ground, having hit her head againſt the ſtump of a tree, and her brother, in the greateſt agony of mind imaginable, ſtood by her, not knowing what ſtep to take, one of the ſervants, however, of his own accord, went to fetch a ſurgeon from the neareſt town; but where to take his ſiſter to the gentleman knew not, as they were at a diſtance from any houſe with which he was acquainted. When he ſaw Robert Hardy and his wife he conceived hopes that they could lend him aſſiſtance; and they were ready to do ſo to the utmoſt of their power. Robert informed the gentleman, that his poor habitation was but a little way off, and his wife could lay the lady on a clean, though homely bed, with curtains to it, and could alſo fetch in a neighbour, who was a main handy woman. Well, then, ſaid the gentleman, my honeſt country.