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back seats $77.50. These prices are with shafts only ; for 

 a double team, the j^ole complete costs $10 more. 



The above description applies also to a smaller size of 

 Handy Wagon, only live feet long and with one (movable) 

 seat. This is a lighter wagon than the two-seat, and for 

 one horse would be even better for our Florida roads, since 

 if more than the one seat was occasionally required, a cush- 

 ioned board laid across from side to side would suffice. 



There are carts and carts; and if ever there was one 

 country more than another where that popular little car- 

 riage, the " road-cart," is in place, it is Florida. 



The old-style buggy is all very well where the roads are 

 firm and straight ; but even there we like the road-cart 

 best, for it is just as pleasant to ride in, just as roomy and 

 a great deal easier on the horse. 



We w^ould like to see the buggy banished from our Flor- 

 ida roads. They are for the most part sandy, and where 

 there is much travel, soft and yieldiug, and four wheels 

 for the horse to pull through the sand are just two more 

 than are necessary. 



In driving here and there through the country, where, 

 as is the case throughout the State, the roads are little 

 more than wagon-tracks, and very eccentric ones at that, 

 winding in and out around fallen trees, it frequently be- 

 comes necessary to turn short and " about face," as cul-de- 

 sacs are not uncommon. Eight here is one great advan- 

 tage of the two wheels over the four in a carriage ; another 

 is, that if the horse becomes frightened and wheels about, 

 there is no upsetting, as there is with the four wheels, with 

 danger to life and limb. 



The first of these carriage-carts that were introduced 

 were not easy to ride in, and hence a prejudice was excited 

 against them, and not unjustly either, for certainly the 

 jogging horse-motion was far from pleasant. 



