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railway coupled together with the engine." That hardly 

 applies to the dandy; but, wait, there is another of the 

 several definitions which may apply. " That which is 

 drawn or dragged along or after, as the hinder part of a 

 beast," seems suitable, if we consider that the dandy 

 is inseparable, figuratively speaking, from the horse. 

 Granting that a horse is a " beast," there was nothing 

 beastly about our placid tractor, nothing fiery or un- 

 tamed even and we congratulate the editor of Bradshaw : 

 when at work dandy and horse are one, a train. 



After all we did not stop at Glasson on the outward 

 journey; the passenger neatly skipped from his seat 

 beside the engineer on to the lonely platform; the engine 

 preferred to keep on the move. On the return journey, 

 a few days later, the dandy was full inside, for it was 

 market day at Carlisle. When we reached Glasson there 

 was a crowd of perhaps half a dozen waiting on the plat- 

 form, and whilst the driver attended to the receipt of 

 fares the engine left the metals and browsed contentedly 

 on the bank. Perhaps there were a couple of dozen 

 passengers in all, inside and out, but in summer there are 

 at times so many as fifty ; the overflow sits with the heavy 

 luggage on the top. With our light loads the horse 

 alternately trotted and cantered, keeping well in the centre 

 of the four-foot way, and striding over points without 

 striking a shoe against the metals. It knew its work and 

 acted as if it had an easy job, for the gradients, if any, are 

 of little moment. 



From information culled from a communicative fellow- 

 passenger, and from that man of many parts engineer, 

 fireman, guard, station-master, ticket collector, points- 

 man, and porter I gathered as we slid smoothly over the 

 well-known lines that the Port Carlisle Railway is about 

 fifty years old. Immediately we left Drumburgh we 

 ran into the bed of an old canal, and along this bed 



