Other indistinct sounds also came to our ears from along the road ahead, though nothing was as yet in sight.

Then again that awful, prolonged _Hough--hough--hough!_ broke forth.
Close by, lumbermen had been hauling timber from the forest into the highway and had made a distinct trail across the road ditch.

While Willis stood up, staring, the horses suddenly whirled half round and bolted for the lumber trail, hogs and all.

They did it so abruptly that Willis had no time to control them, and when the wagon went across the ditch, he was pitched off headlong into the brush.

Before I could set my feet, my span followed them across the ditch; but I managed to rein them up to a tree trunk, which the wagon tongue struck heavily.