Penny Dreadfuls, 1781 · page 45 of 120
A Month's Tour, &c. — page 45: what you’re looking at
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# Page Analysis This is a page of running prose (page 45) from a Victorian travel narrative titled "A Month's Tour." The text describes the author's frustrating experience with a sluggish carriage driver in Leipzig. The narrator complains that the driver was impudent and lazy, ignoring requests to speed up and even abandoning his post during slight inclines to offer passengers his hand. The author theorizes that the driver's slowness stems from the payment system—drivers earned sixteen pence per hour initially, then eight pence thereafter—which gave them no financial incentive to travel quickly. The passage employs period spelling conventions (e.g., "almoft" for "almost," "fuch" for "such").
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A MONTH’ TOUR. . 45 m the morning, and it was almoft noom when we arrived at Lipziip. Nor were we at all more expeditious in returning. Our charioteer was fuch a compofition of impudence and lazinefs as itis to be fel- dom met with. When we requéfted’ him: to accelerate his pace, he took no notice ef what we faid to him. When he came to the moft trifling afcent, he defcended from the-box, opened the carriage door, and offered to hand us out without any fur- ther ceremony. _ The caufe of their tardinefs may be ina great meafure attributed to the manner of paying them by the hour, fixteen pence the firft, and eight pence after, during thé whole journey. [If it was their interéft to travel faft, they would in time thake off , their a ee. 4 ee) aha, a tt % ; es ' > at “ “ 2 . “4 ? ee ae Tee (te, =o : 42 “2% + ~~" Pe * ry va > . ¥ 7 Paci Bk) + ‘ » a . * - oa . Fi comicbooks.com