Jemmy soon found that it would be prudent to restrain him, but in his upright position, he had no control over the horse by pulling the reins.

He only pulled the horse's head upwards, and made him more uneasy and impatient than before.

He then attempted to get down into a sitting posture again, but in doing so, he fell off upon the hard road and sprained his ankle.

The horse trotted rapidly on, until the bags fell off, first one and then the other.

Finding himself thus wholly at liberty, he stopped and began to eat the grass at the road-side, wholly unconcerned at the mischief that had been done.
Jemmy's distress was owing much more to his alarm and his sense of guilt, than to the actual pain of the injury which he had suffered.