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DRIVING. 



the ground behind his heels, and on these poles he placed, and 

 in some way or other fastened so that it would not fall off, what 

 he wanted to carry. We can, of course, only imagine dimly 

 the sensation which was caused when the proud inventor first 

 exhibited his carriage for that this was the original carriage 

 seems to be proved by the circumstances that a similar con- 

 trivance is still in use among the red men of America. For 



The first carriage. 



the sake of contrast let us step over a few thousands of years 

 and glance from the earliest carriage to the latest. 



We are apt to consider these the days of marvellous 

 inventions, but we cannot by any possibility realise the 

 magnitude and brilliance of the idea of the first wheel. There 

 is nothing to guide us even to about the century when by 

 degrees some man of active mind first began to perceive that 



