Doing and Daring

"[...]assure him they were unhurt.
Poor little Cuthbert was crying on the ground. His nose was bleeding from a blow received from one of the numerous packages which had flown out from unseen corners in the suddenness of the shock.
"Mr. Bowen," said the navvy, "now is your turn."
But to extricate the stout old gentleman, who had somehow lamed himself in the general fall, was a far more difficult matter.
The driver, who scarcely expected to get through a journey without some disaster, was a h...