Mrs. Peterkin said that Elizabeth Eliza and the little boys might go.

So Mr. Peterkin had the horse put into the carryall, and he and
Agamemnon went off to their business, and Solomon John to
school; and Mrs. Peterkin began to get ready for her ride.

She had some currants she wanted to carry to old Mrs. Twomly,
and some gooseberries for somebody else, and Elizabeth Eliza
wanted to pick some flowers to take to the minister's wife, so it
took them a long time to prepare.

The little boys went out to pick the currants and the gooseberries,
and Elizabeth Eliza went out for her flowers, and Mrs. Peterkin
put on her cape-bonnet, and in time they were all ready. The little
boys were in their india-rubber boots, and they got into the
carriage.

Elizabeth Eliza was to drive; so she sat on the front seat, and took
up the reins, and the horse started off merrily, and then suddenly
stopped, and would not go any farther.

Elizabeth Eliza shook the reins, and pulled them, and then she
clucked to the horse; and Mrs. Peterkin clucked; and the little
boys whistled and shouted; but still the horse would not go.

"We shall have to whip him," said Elizabeth Eliza.

Now Mrs. Peterkin never liked to use the whip; but, as the horse
would not go, she said she would get out and turn her head the
other way, while Elizabeth Eliza whipped the horse, and when he