Stage-coach and Mail in Days of Yore, Volume 1 (of 2)

CHAPTER I

THE INTRODUCTION OF CARRIAGES

“Ah! sure it was a coat of steel, Or good tough oak, he wore, Who first unto the ticklish wheel ’Gan harness horses four.”

The lines quoted above are not remarkably good as poetry. Nay, it is possible to go farther, and to say that they are exceptionally bad--the product of one of those corn-box poets who were accustomed to speak o...