6 New Arrival, Dating into the Factory, etc. 



in extreme cases, to proceed to such lengths as this 

 last to induce them to " proceed." Another favour- 

 ite " dodge " was to tie a thong or rope tightly round 

 the pastern of an unwilling starter, and apply vigorous 

 tugs and wrenches to this particularly tender part, 

 until the poor animal had no choice but between 

 immediate starting and a prospective raw leg for a 

 month from the friction of the rope. 



Besides the ordinary saddle-nag, the bamboo-cart 

 is most generally used for travelling ; the sketch 

 furnishes the details of one of these vehicles. They 

 can be made from part of an old indigo-chest and 

 four pieces of bamboo, and some of them are so 

 made for very rough-and-particularly-tumble work, 

 inasmuch as the wheels holding out, they cannot 

 break. But some are made quite elegant little con- 

 veyances, with very little of the bamboo at all about 

 them except the shafts. The real bond fide bamboo- 

 cart, with plain bamboo shafts and pincer springs, is 

 simply unbreakable, capsize or no capsize, so long as 

 the wheels are good and the two or three screw 

 fastenings required are tightly braced up. They 

 rank with the bullock-hackery, which has, since the 

 British occupancy of India, been unanimously pro- 

 nounced, by both amateurs and professionals, military 

 and civil, mercantile, agricultural, and marine (many 

 a gallant sea-captain in Cook or Brown & Co.'s 



