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significance. At present it only means a high-seated, hooded, pair-horse driving-carriage, to 

 carry the driver and one other person besides the groom or grooms, which can be made 

 sufficiently strong for every purpose, and ffot too heavy for a pair of light blood-horses, 

 equally available for country use and the town, for the bachelor and the married man. 



For the convenience of ladies steps have been contrived, which, fitting under the driving- 

 seat, can be drawn out and returned with great facility. 



For the driver and a companion, in the prime of life, with one or two grooms behind, 

 there is no pair-horse driving-carriage that excels the mail phaeton in pleasure and comfort. 

 It affords sufficient room to stow away any amount of men's — and even a reasonable wife's — 



MAIL PHAETON. 



luggage, not forgetting, in these days of dismal roadside inns, corn for the horses. The front 

 seat is not only sufficiently high for fully commanding your horses, but for enjoying the 

 scenery of the country through which you pass. It is well suited in town for displaying the 

 points of the most extravagant steppers, if your fancy lies that way ; while your wife or 

 sister may, with the approbation of the most prudish maiden aunt, appear at your side. In 

 the country, whether going to cover side, a dinner party, or even a ball, no vehicle is better 

 calculated for conveying two over rough roads with " safety and dispatch " at as high speed 

 as your horses can conveniently compass. 



The very finest horses of the most brilliant action, " stepping and going," look their 

 best in a mail phaeton ; but if your taste and means incline you rather for utilitj' than for 

 ornament, for long distances rather than the solemn yet sociable parades of the Park or 

 the Champs Elysces, a pair of low-priced scrnvs, as your richer friends will term them, if 



