Then Thad was sent around to the neighbor's with the horse and sleigh, while Hugh meant to get the good physician on the wire, and hasten his coming on an urgent call.
"If Mr.Jones notices that old Bill is wheezing a bit, as if he'd had a warm run of it, please explain how it happened, Thad.

I wouldn't like him, after all his kindness, to think I'd whip up his horse for nothing, or just in a spirit of sport." As it was an hour when Doctor Cadmus was through with his day's calls, Hugh had the good luck to hear the physician's voice on the wire.
"Mother wants you to come right over, Doctor!" Hugh told him.
"Who's sick ?" demanded the other, being very fond of all the Morgan family; "not your good mother, I hope, Hugh ?" "No, neither of us, Doctor," the boy continued.

"I ran upon a young woman and a small child when on the road after potatoes in Mr.Jones' sleigh.

She fainted dead away before she could tell me who she was, or where she was going.

I managed to get them both aboard, and fetched them here.