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one hour a-week during the summer. But then their fathers must unite in setting them to work; and there is not one in the Glen who would not sooner have his horses lamed, and his carts torn to pieces, than have his son employed in a work that would benefit his neighbours as much as himself!” At the foot of a short precipice, the road again made a sudden turn, and discovered to them a misfortune which threatened to put a stop to their proceeding any further, for the present evening. It was no other than the overturn of a cart of hay, occasioned by the breaking down of a bridge, along which it had been passing. At first indeed, neither boy nor horse were seen; but as Mr Stewart advanced to examine whether, by removing the hay, which partly covered the bridge, and partly hung suspended on the bushes, the road might still be passable, he heard a child's voice in the hollow, exclaiming, "Come on, ye muckle brute! ye had as weel come on! I'll gar ye! I'll gar ye! That's a  gude beast now; come awa! That's it! Ay,  ye're a gude beast now." As the last words were uttered, a little fellow, of about ten years of age, was seen issuing from a hollow, and pulling after him, with all his might, a great long-backed clumsy animal of the horse species, though apparently of a very mulish temper. "You have met with a sad accident," said Mr Stewart, "how did all this happen?"