“And none of us want the Tookees to succeed. Xxnx In the pictures there was a box mounted above each set of wheels to hold ore. The guard glared at her in silence for a moment and then said, “Let’s try the Parade of Shame and then see what the stone Kootas do.”
He turned and walked out of the cell, saying loudly, “Bring them.”
Mousey expected to be taken back to the strange, domed room, but instead they were lead outside. She was surprised, therefore, when the altars were gone. Somewhere in the back of her mind, Mousey remembered reading somewhere that such trains of carts were called “ore bouncers” by the miners, but the strange design continued to be used because it allowed the small donkeys to haul relatively large quantities of ore out of the narrow, twisting mines.
