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When ladies are comfortably seated behind a
fast horse, and with a good whip in hand, they
are the most reckless and dangerous of drivers.
They are peculiarly insensible to obscure, remote,
or invisible dangers. In this case there was one
possible catastrophe always painfully present to
my mind, but which was fearfully disregarded
by all my responsibilities, in spite of the great
eloquence of my remonstrances. It was that of
galloping headlong in single hie close behind
each other down a rough road, having the
ordinary angle of a moderate house roof.
Norwegian ponies do sometimes fall in the course
of these flights, and the carriole driver is brought
up in the manner already described (page 211) ;
but if the foremost of six ladies should thus
come to grief, the remaining five, being as
helpless as Mazeppa in the matter of pulling up their
steeds, must of necessity roll over the first, and
altogether form a heap of debris, a human, equine,
and vehicular moraine of horrible complication.
Every steep hill that we descended—and during
this day’s drive we were always descending such
when not ascending them—presented this fearful
contingency to my mind, hence my nervousness.
Speaking of Haughen, Bennett says, “ Station
wretched.” We stojjped, and entered the station
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