Excerpt from From Sand-Hill to Pine

There was a slight jarring through the whole frame of the coach, a grinding and hissing from the brakes, and then a sudden jolt as the vehicle ran upon and recoiled from the taut pole-straps of the now arrested horses. The murmur of a voice in the road was heard, followed by the impatient accents of Yuba Bill - the driver.

"Wh-a-at? Speak up, cant ye?"

Here the voice uttered something in a louder key, but equally unintelligible to the now interested and fully-awakened passengers.

One of them dropped the window nearest him and looked out. He could see the faint glistening of a rain-washed lantern near the wheeler's heads, mingling with the stronger coach-lights, and the glow of a distant open cabin door through the leaves and branches of the road side.

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