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Just as Benny closed the gate with a slam the runaway horse reached / it and stopped short, trembling in every limb. The girl in the buggy / was as pale as a ghost. Two or three men came running up, and Benny / suddenly found himself a hero. He had fallen to the ground as the gate / swung to, and had struck his head so that his temple was bleeding / slightly. Little Alice was crying that Benny had knocked her down, and / Mrs. Bentley came running from the house.
She had seen the accident from the kitchen window, and without losing / her hold on her little girl, whom she tenderly picked up, she clasped / Benny in her arms as he staggered to his feet.