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Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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while the bodyof the rig extended back to receive thelight freight an errand to town was sureto accumulate. An ample hood top ofgray canvas could be raised for protec-tion against either sun, wind or rain.Most powerful brakes could be manipu-lated by a thrust of the drivers foot.You may be sure they were outsidebrakes. Inside brakes were then con-sidered the weak expedients of a tour-ist-driving mercenary. Generally thetongue and moving gear were paintedcream and the body of the vehicle darkgreen. This substantial, practical, and busi-ness-like vehicle was drawn by a pairof mighty good, bright bay horses,straight-backed, square-rumped, deep-shouldered, with the fine heads, smallears and alert yet gentle eyes of high-bred stock. When the word was giventhey fell into a steady swinging trot.One felt instinctively the power of itand knew that they were capable ofkeeping up this same gait all day. Andthat would mean many miles. Theirharness was of plain russet leather, neatand well oiled.
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£im. THIS SUBSTANTIAL, PRACTICAL AND BUSINESS-LIKE VEHICLE WAS DRAWN BYPAIR OF MIGHTY GOOD, BRIGHT BAY HORSES Concerning them I made some re-mark, trivial yet enough to start Man-ning. He told me of them and of theirpeculiarities and virtues. He descantedat length on their breeding and whencecame they and their fathers and theirfathers fathers, even unto the sixth gen-eration. He left me at last with the im-pression that this was probably the bestteam in the valley, bar none. It was agood team, strong, spirited, gentle andenduring. We swung out from the little towninto a straight road. If it has seemed thatI have occupied you too exclusively withobjects near at hand, the matter couldnot be helped. There was nothing moreto occupy you. A fog held all the land. It was a dense fog and very cold.Twenty feet ahead of the horses showedonly a wall of white. To right and leftdim ghostly bushes or fence poststrooped by us at the ordered pace of ourtrot. An occasional lone poplar treedeveloped

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