Scribner's magazine . noise be-hind them, a noise that they do not un-derstand. The position is, of course,perilous for the driver, but not by anymeans hopeless, as, if the horses can bekept on the road till the noisy train ispast, they will slacken their speed short-ly and become tractable again. Mean-while, as we see in the picture, thedriver is not easy in his mind ; but inthis case he is to be congratulated onnot having ladies and children with most trying of all situations is tohave unruly horses and a lady by jonvside who is overcome with terror, and,in her eagerness to be doing
Scribner's magazine . noise be-hind them, a noise that they do not un-derstand. The position is, of course,perilous for the driver, but not by anymeans hopeless, as, if the horses can bekept on the road till the noisy train ispast, they will slacken their speed short-ly and become tractable again. Mean-while, as we see in the picture, thedriver is not easy in his mind ; but inthis case he is to be congratulated onnot having ladies and children with most trying of all situations is tohave unruly horses and a lady by jonvside who is overcome with terror, and,in her eagerness to be doing some-thing, seizes hold of the reins. In jus-tice to the sex in general, and moreparticularly to conciliate the ladies whomay read this, I hasten to add thatsuch cases are exceptional, and thatones usual anxiety in dangerous driv-ing is for the safety of the ladies them-selves. As for children, they make onestill more anxious, particularly whenthey begin to scream and want to jumpout, and have to be held by ^^^^^
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