h food and drink.

But good-will was not all that was necessary to make their enterprise
successful. Their strength was giving out, and on seeing the gleam of
another light at a distance it was thought best to try to procure
another horse. Again the two young men set off across the meadows, and
again the good old Judge came into the car and took his seat on top of
the barrel. But the sequel of the second endeavor was more satisfactory
than the first had been. The young men returned with a lively young
horse, which, after being duly fastened with the rope that this boy had
not forgotten, started off at a good pace as soon as the car had been
got underway. He seemed to draw the load so easily that the three
exhausted men thought they might rest a while, and so they all piled
into the car and drew the door partly to, in order to keep out the cold
wind, which had begun to blow quite hard. They, poor souls! rejoiced
greatly over their change of base, and imagined themselves in wonderful
luck; while we, the former occupants, realized that our misery had a
lower depth than we had yet experienced, since we were nearly stifled by
the confined air, and at the same time chilled to the very marrow of our
bones by the close proximity of those animated bundles of melting snow.
But an unexpected piece of good-fortune fell to us all just then. The
Judge, while swinging his foot over the side of his barrel, happened to
strike one of them against a small object that tumbled over and rolled
away between the boxes. He sprang down to the floor in a moment.
"Hurrah!" he cried: "I believe I have run down a keg of oysters." A
match was lighted and the precious freight hunted for. It turned out to
be not oysters, but a tin box of oyster-crackers. "Never mind," said the
Judge: "it is something to eat, at any rate, and the owner will never
need it as much as we do. What's the use of being a director of the road
if one cannot help himself to the property once in a while?" So saying,
he pried open the box, the young lawyer keeping the matches going in
order to give him light, and soon the contents were distributed among
the company. While we were munching away at our dry food, now and then
varying the fare by a pull at a snowball, the driver gave a shout and
the car suddenly stopped.

On going out the men were told that we had come to a culvert, over which
the horse could not go, and so one of the party unhitched the horse and
led him carefully do