2o8 Four-in-Hand in Britain, 



away," but at the thrilling call of the horn we mount, 

 and with cheers and God-speeds take our departure for 

 other scenes, but many a long day shall it be ere the 

 faces of the kind people we leave behind fade from our 

 memory. 



Chorley has been one of the seats of the cotton 

 manufacture in England for more than two hundred 

 years, the business having been begun there about the 

 time of the Restoration. During the American Revolu- 

 tion it was visited, like other places in Lancashire, by 

 mobs who broke up the spinning machines because they 

 feared that they would deprive the poor of labor. 

 Similar mobs once destroyed sewing-machines in France. 

 What a commentary upon such short-sightedness has 

 been the success of the spinning-jenny and the sewing- 

 machine, and the revolution they have made in the 

 manufacturing industry of the world ! 



Preston, July 8. 

 Preston, sixteen miles away, is our destination, 

 permitting a late start to be make. Our route is 

 still through a manufacturing district; for Manchester 

 reaches her arms far out in every direction. We pass 

 now and then a company of show-people with their 

 vans. Sometimes we find the caravan at rest, the old, 

 weary-looking horses nibbling the road-side grass, for 

 the irregularity of the hedges in England gives fine 

 little plots of grass along the hedge-rows, and nice off- 



