Omnibuses and cabs : their origin and history (1902)
Moore, Henry Charles · London : Chapman & Hall, ld. · leaf 229
prefer them wild beast cariwans of homnibuses toa riglar cab with a fast trotter, and the latteradmiring how people can trust their necks into oneof them crazy cabs, when they can have aspectable ackney cotche with a pair of orses asvont run away with no vun ; a consolationunquestionably founded on… … THE COFFIN-CAB. Talk of cabs ! the great novelist wrote in Dickens on Cabs 211 his article on Hackney-Coach Stands. Cabs areall very well in cases of expedition, when its amatter of neck or nothing, life or death, yourtemporary home or your long one. But, besides acabs lacking that gravity of…
Horses · Horse-drawn omnibuses · Carriages and carts
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