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 "My mother and that readin' worm had quite an excitin' time once, and I was in it, too.

"We all went out in the big box sled one day to the weavers, with a large basket of carpet rags.

"On the way home my mother got into the empty basket, with me on her lap. Her father was driving, and all at once that angle-worm readin' boy cut the horse with the whip, and the horse jumped so hard the box part of the sled slid off into the road.

"The horse ran on with the runners, with her father hanging to the lines. Now what do you think happened to the basket with us in it?

"We were at the top of a hill, and at the bottom was a pond. The basket toppled over and rolled down the hill. The handle kept us in,