From Trail to Railway Through the Appalachians
From Trail to Railway Through the Appalachians
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A traveler between Philadelphia and Washington said that often the driver would call to the passengers to lean out of the carriage on one side or the other, so that their weight might keep the balance even. He would say, " Now, gentlemen, to the right 1 '* and the men would lean out as far as they could ; or, ** Now, gentle- men, to the left ! '* and over they would swing to the other side.
It took strong wagons to travel such roads, and some- times the wheels were cut solid by sawing off short... sec- tions of the butt of a great tree, much as the wheels of a toy cart have been made by many boys. When a driver was stuck in the mud he had to wait for other teams to come up, when they would hook on with him and drag him out upon hard ground again. They were a rough but sociable company, the teamsters of those days, feeding their horses and cracking their jokes at the taverns which lined the turnpikes. They would stand by one another loyally, but when they met some Digitized by Google Digitized by Google Digitized by Google OLD JOURNEYS FROM PHILADELPHIA 65 fine gentleman on the road they did not object to taking off a wheel or crushing the frame of his light carriage.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
A traveler between Philadelphia and Washington said that often the driver would call to the passengers to lean out of the carriage on one side or the other, so that their weight might keep the balance even. He would say, " Now, gentlemen, to the right 1 '* and the men would lean out as far as they could ; or, ** Now, gentle- men, to the left ! '* and over they would swing to the other side.
It took strong wagons to travel such roads, and some- times the wheels were cut solid by sawing off short... sec- tions of the butt of a great tree, much as the wheels of a toy cart have been made by many boys. When a driver was stuck in the mud he had to wait for other teams to come up, when they would hook on with him and drag him out upon hard ground again. They were a rough but sociable company, the teamsters of those days, feeding their horses and cracking their jokes at the taverns which lined the turnpikes. They would stand by one another loyally, but when they met some Digitized by Google Digitized by Google Digitized by Google OLD JOURNEYS FROM PHILADELPHIA 65 fine gentleman on the road they did not object to taking off a wheel or crushing the frame of his light carriage.
What to read after From Trail to Railway Through the Appalachians?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Brigham, Albert Perry, 1855-1932 to read onlineMoreLess
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