ying this, Frank turned to open the carriage door to call to the
driver. As he did so, he loosed his hold of Bob, who, being no
longer stayed tip on that side, fell over on Frank's lap with his
face downward.

Upon this, Frank turned back, and determined to lift Bob up again.

Shaking him as hard as he could, he yelled in his ears and shouted
to him to get up.

Now Bob was asleep, yet in his sleep he had a kind of under
consciousness of what was going on. He was stupidly conscious that
they were trying to raise him up to an uncomfortable sitting
posture--a bolt-upright position. This he was sleepily unwilling
to submit to. There wasn't any particular strength in his hands,
and his drowsy faculties didn't extend farther down than his head.
He felt himself lying on something, and to prevent them from raising
him from it, he seized it in his teeth.

"Bo-o-o-ob! Bo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-b!" yelled Frank. "W-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-ake
u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-p!"

But Bob wouldn't.

He only held on the tighter with his teeth.

Upon this, Frank seized him with all his strength, and gave Bob a
sudden jerk upward, when--

C-r-r-r-r-i-k-k-k-k!--

A sharp, ripping sound was heard, and as Bob's head was pulled up,
a long, narrow piece of cloth was exhibited, hanging down from his
mouth; and held in his teeth.

Frank looked at it in dismay, and then looked
down.

He gave a cry of vexation.

Bob had seized Frank's trousers in his teeth, and as he was pulled
up, he held on tight. Consequently the cloth gave way, and there
was poor Frank, reduced to rags and tatters, and utterly unpresentable
in any decent society.

He gave up Bob in despair, and began to investigate the extent of
the ruin that had been wrought in his trousers. It was a bad rent,
an irretrievable one, in fact; and all that he could do was to tie
his handkerchief around his leg.

Bob now slept heavily, held up by Uncle Moses.

The other boys grew drowsier and drowsier. Frank was just deciding
to get out of the carriage and make them all walk for a time, when
a sudden event occurred which brought a solution to the problem.

It was a sudden crash.

Down sank the carriage under them, and away it went, toppling over
on one side. A cry of terror escaped all of them. Every one started
up, and each one grasped neighbor.

There was something in this sudden shock so dreadful and so startling,
that it broke through even the drowsiness and heavy stupor of Bob,
and p