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gigs for them. The ordinary run of gigs weigh from 

 three hundred to three hundred and a half. I always, 

 as I have before stated, limit mine for travelling to 

 two hundred, quite enough if they are made of picked 

 materials. Of course I do not allude to Stanhopes, 

 Tilburys, or cabs, all three of which, though quite 

 proper for London stones, are about as fit to drive 

 forty miles on a journey as the Master of the Horse's 

 state-carriage. I once determined to try a four-wheel 

 carriage, and built one : it was only two hundred and 

 a half when complete, as high as a gig, the fore- wheels 

 locking under the seat, so I got them as high as an 

 ordinary Stanhope wheel. This certainly ran along 

 the level as well as any gig, but I was beat up the 

 hills, and found my horse labour at them very diffe- 

 rently to what he was accustomed to do in my buggies. 

 I drove it twice ; a friend of mine fell in love with it ; 

 I did not balk his inclination. 



I have asked many travellers, I mean commercial 

 ones, their opinions as to the advantage or dis- 

 advantage of four wheels, and find they generally pre- 

 ferred the latter. They stated that they found they 

 got along quite as well in them as in gigs, and they 

 held them to be safer. Now I in no way doubt these 

 good people's assertions that THEY got along " quite 

 as well ; " but I was and am unfortunately debarred 

 from getting the question I put to them answered by 

 their horse, consequently I am a little sceptical as to 

 whether the horse was included in the THEY, and 

 whether he was considered as one of the firm in the 

 getting along business : for, though not knowing 

 much of trading affairs, I do consider there may be 

 cases where in a firm one partner gets along well 

 enough, while the other, though he perhaps gets on 



