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have five or six hours for transacting his business. 

 The next year, 1816, Bianconi started a car from 

 Clonmel to Waterford. The new cars were well 

 appointed, and the men who drove them were good 

 coachmen ; before this the jaunting-cars had been in 

 a very bad condition, the drivers, too, were a drunken 

 lot. Mr. Smiles says : " They were often very reck- 

 less, and that a car-driver on one occasion said to 

 his passenger, ' Will I pay the pike or drive at it, 

 plaise your honour ? ' " 



Sam Lover told a tale of a car-driver, who, at 

 the end of a long journey over very bad roads, 

 asked his fare for something extra. 



" Faith," said the driver, " it's not putting me 

 off with this ye'd be, if ye knew but all," where- 

 upon the passenger gave him another shilling. 



"And now," said the passenger, "what do you 

 mean by saying, 'If ye knew but all'.''" 



"Why," said the carman, "I druv yer honour 

 the last three miles without a linch-pin." 



Bianconi now commenced to build his cars for 

 himself, at the same time he kept on his carving 

 and gilding shop, and still sold engravings and 

 picture-frames, until at last he was forced to give 

 the shop up and stick to the cars. 



The car from Clonmel to Waterford was at this 

 time his most triumphant feat ; the distance was thirty- 

 two miles, and the fare was three-and-sixpence. In 

 1 818 he established a car between Waterford and 

 Ross, the next year a car between W^aterford and 

 Wexford, the year following a car between Water- 

 ford and Enniscorthy. A few years later he ran 

 cars between Waterford and Kilkenny, and Water- 

 ford and Dungarven, and other cars were speedily 



