298 COACHING. 



the last few years incredible improvements 

 have taken place, not only in the vehicles, 

 but also in the horses and their drivers. Trans- 

 formations almost as wonderful as that of 

 Cinderella's fairy carriage have been effected. 

 The carriages are better constructed and sus- 

 pended, and are arranged more comfortably 

 inside. The creation, too, of one-horse coupes 

 (broughams) has successfully provided for the 

 wants of the public, and at the present time a 

 vast number of new companies, under various 

 names, have vied in skill and conferred upon 

 the people vehicles of tasteful shapes, horses 

 in good condition, totally unlike the rosses of 

 former days, harness neat, drivers in uni- 

 form liveries, and above all, civil and atten- 

 tive. 



To complete this sketch, let me pay a parting 

 tribute to the Parisian omnibus, that accommo- 

 dating carriage which takes you up at all hours, 

 at every moment, in the street or at your door, 

 and carries you without any delay to any street 

 or door you wish to alight at — sociable vehicles 

 which, for the trifling sum of thirty centimes, 

 convey you two leagues from the Barriere 

 de I'Etoile to that of the Trone, and from 



