40 TROTTED OVER. 



The pace that these " trotters " drive at is awful, when, 

 as their horse has no mouth, and is absolutely by his jaws 

 testing the utmost of the weight and strength behind 

 him, if they come suddenly on a quiet gentleman taking 

 a digestive drive in the dusk, the probability is that he 

 suddenly finds himself let down from having a wheel cut 

 off, and before he is quite sure as to the nature of the 

 shock and appending catastrophe that has befallen him, 

 from the midst of a cloud of dust above he hears a nasal, 

 and, were it not for disaster, an amusingly insufficient 

 apology of " S'cuse me/' and the trotter flies away with 

 un diminished, or rather an increased speed, lest he 

 should be called on to pay dollars for a death or destruct 

 ive difficulty. That accidents are not more frequent I 

 only wonder. I saw but one the whole time I was in 

 America, and that was at St Louis, when a trotter 

 caused a difficulty by overtaking a baker's cart. When 

 Mr Campbell, with whom I was driving, and myself 

 reached the spot, there was a sort of pile of rubbish, 

 beneath which there seemed to my astonishment some 

 thing alive, and at last the baker scratched himself to 

 light, after the semblance of a mole, in great doubt as to 

 what had befallen him whether he had been smitten 

 by a flash of lightning, or blown up by one of his adul 

 terated loaves. His personal injury amounted to no 

 more than a scratched face. The astonishment of Ame 

 ricans when I told them that, with all my predilection 

 for sport, I cared nothing for a trotting horse, or matches 

 against time, was great. They seemed to think it was 

 the most interesting of all equestrian perfections. 



During my stay I visited Fulton Market, and found it 

 well supplied with meat, fruit, and vegetables, and with 

 game when the weather was cool. The beef was good, but 



