Category: Travel Writing
The following Estimates of the Expense of keeping Horses and Carriages, are Accurate Statements, they cannot be well kept for less, and they need not cost more:--the Reader will have no difficulty in finding a Hackneyman, and a Coachmaker, who will furnish him with them on the...
The following Estimates of the Expense of keeping Horses and Carriages, are Accurate Statements, they cannot be well kept for less, and they need not cost more:--the Reader will...
2. Part 2As I have said, the Price charged for Job Horses varies as the goodness of the Horses, and as the Work required, does. Some persons do not Exercise their Horses enough;--others...
3. Part 3A Chariot built with the very best Materials and of the best Workmanship,--the Body made with convex sides, lined with fine cloth and silk lace, and lace Footman’s holders, Moro...
4. Part 4_The Green Silk Spring Sun Shades_ should be fixed upon the Doors; this saves the trouble of putting them up every time you open the Door, which must be done when they are fixed...
5. Part 5He informed me that another unconquerable opponent was the servant of a Gentleman who had a new Carriage every five years, and who gave the Old one to his Coachman:--now, as Col...
6. Part 6preserve the Paint from the injury of the Road dirt, or Boughs, while Travelling: these covers are frequently used, and are so made that the Doors may be opened and shut with th...
7. Part 7“‘Not _later_, Sir!--Pipe all hands a _Quarter Before_, if you please, Sir!!--a Quarter _Before_, Sir!!!--to that Quarter of an Hour I owe all my success in Life!!!--Do you thin...
8. Part 8In other quarters of the Town, our Economical Ancestors appear to have considered him as the most ingenious Architect, who could build up the greatest number of Houses in a give...
9. Part 9A Careful Coachman will gently try the Nuts about once a fortnight; but, in screwing them up, use no violence, and take care not to injure the Paint with the Wrench.
10. Part 10Let the Horse you select for trial be stripped--let your own Servant (who being a stranger to him will not know how to humour defects or conceal any dispositions he may have to...
11. Part 11_The most common cause of Colds_ is riding or driving Horses till they are Hot, and then suffering them to stand still where the Air is cold and chilling.--Another very usual ca...
12. Part 123. The Hackney-Coachman’s 3. Gentlemen’s Equipages Motto is the same as are generally Fair-weather MADAM HECATE’S, Play-things.--If “_Fair is Foul, and Foul is Fair._” you have...
13. Part 13On an average of Forty weeks, it seemed, that _the most productive Days_ are Wednesdays and Thursdays. This may, in some measure, be accounted for, by the greater number of Dinn...
14. Part 14[11] Carriage, in the usual meaning of the word among Coachmakers, signifies the lower system, on which the Body containing the Passengers is suspended, and to which the Wheels...