_Lady Grace._ Oh! I see ’em go by me. Ah! ha! _John._ Then, you mun think, Measter, there was some stowage for the belly, as well as th’ back too; such cargoes of plum cake, and baskets of tongues, and biscuits and cheese, and cold boiled beef, and then in case of sickness, bottles of cherry-brandy, plague-water, sack, tent, and strong beer, so plenty as made the owld coach crack again! Mercy upon ’em! and send ’em all well to town, I say. _Manly._ Ay! and well on’t again, John. _John._ Ods bud! Measter, you’re a wise mon; and for that matter, so am I. Whoam’s whoam, I say; I’m sure we got but little good e’er we turned our backs on’t. Nothing but mischief! Some devil’s trick or other plagued us, aw th’ day lung. Crack goes one thing: Bawnce goes another. Woa, says Roger. Then souse! we are all set fast in a sleugh. Whaw! cries Miss; scream go the maids; and bawl! just as thof’ they were struck! And so, mercy on us! this was the trade from morning to night. _Chapter the Sixth_ _EARLY GEORGIAN CARRIAGES_ “May the proud chariot never be my fate, If purchased at so mean, so dear a rate. Oh, rather give me sweet content on foot, Wrapt in my virtue and a good surtout.” GAY’s _Trivia_. Few new private carriages seem to have been designed during the earlier decades of the eighteenth century, although improvements and small alterations were constantly being carried out. There is an isolated reference to a _sociable_ built apparently in Germany, and the _four-wheeled chaise_, or _chariot à l’Anglaise_, which was to be so popular thirty or forty years later, put in an appearance about this time. Of the sociable little enough can be said. The particular carriage mentioned from its small size would appear to have been built for the royal children. It was a low-hung, open carriage over a single perch, and with seats facing each other. The four-wheeled chaise was a small chariot with a wide window in front. Gray, writing to his mother in 1739, speaks of the French chaise in which he was making the grand tour with Horace Walpole.