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with a coarse wood-cut, representing
the world dragged along on carriage
wheels by Satan, with a fashionable
lady for an assistant.

The writer says, “I think such an
impudent, proud, saucy intruder, never
came into the world before, as a coach
is; for it hath driven many honest fa-
milies to all misdeeds, hospitality to ex-

THE YOUTH’S CABINET.

tortion, plenty to famine, humility to
pride, compassion to oppression, and all
earthly goodness almost to utter con-
fusion. Oh, beware of a coach as you
would do of a tiger, a wolf, or a levia

than. I'll assure you it eats more,
though it drinks less, than the coachman
and his whole team.” Such were some
| of the arguments used against coaches.

 

THE HORSE LITTER.

jesty declared that the lives and limbs

In 1634, the coach found very power-
ful enemies in the shape of sedan chairs | of his subjects being greatly endangered
and horse-litters. The latter vehicle is | by the number of coaches in London
represented in the second engraving. | and Westminster, this new style of con-
Sir Saunders Duncombe, about that  veyunes would be a good substitute.
time, brought the sedan chair into fash- |The sedan which was in use about this
ion; and the king granted him the priv- ‘time, is represented by the following
lege of “letting sedan chairs to hire for engraving, which also shows how it was
the term of fourteen years.” His ma- ‘borne from place to place. The vehicle

 

 

THE SEDAN CHAIR,

 

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