And hurled the cart in proudest rage
Over a precipice’s edge.
“Well done!” thought Hans. “We wisdom from experience borrow;
I’ll trust the mad beast with no loads again.
I’ve passengers to take to-morrow;
He shall be put in leader of the train.
By using him, two horses I shall spare;
He’ll learn in time the collar, too, to bear.”
They went on well awhile. The horse was fleet,
And quickened up the rest; and arrow-swift the carriage flies.