The very check rendered him more impatient; springing aside from the path he dashed himself from rock to rock.

William saw his danger, and with a steady hand endeavored to control the frightened animal.
This unequal contest was soon decided.

The nearer the horse came to the water the more he was alarmed,--at last he sprang from the rock, and he and his rider disappeared.
"Oh, my God!" said Mrs.Jones, "he is gone.

The poor boy; and there is no one to help him." She at first hid her eyes from the appalling scene, and then approached the creek and screamed as she saw the horse struggling and plunging, while William manfully tried to control him.

Oh! how beat her heart, as with uplifted hands, and stayed breath, she watched for the issue--it is over now.
"Hush! hush! children," said their mother, pale as death, whose triumph she had just witnessed.