Daily Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1854-1855, 1855-03-12
Sleigh Riding Extraordinary.

a letter about Safeguarding from winch W
Il. axe specimen extract:
Agreed to 60, put on my highest boots
and got ready--time came, sleigh arrived
q tin. received promiseueus introduction
to seventeen young ladies' BY the light III
stree, lamp, found place for my feet anon
the miscellaneous pedal assortmen, at tn
bottom, sat down, held on with both hands
and prepared to enjoy myself. After
great deal OF whipping of the spirited hor-
Sc and some curiously emphatic observa-
tons Ly the driver, we got under way
Diver Tan enthusiastic Hibernian with o1e
r,e9 took lie NJ ddle Of the street, resolved
10 rive the road to nothiag, met young
rent in cutter he didn't turn cut, are didnl
turn cut, collision ensned, young man so'
/ the worst, his hat was smashed and MS del
icate person lett in snow bank, his horse
! started, hit anains, lamp-Post, then ran
/ away. distributing the ruins OF Tue cutter
along the road, leaving piece at every
corner aud telegraph pole, until there
+ wash, enough left in any one spot to make
/ a rat trap-iinaly dashed through the
/ show window Of eonicctioncr's shop, aud
I being brought II stsnd-stlll b, the shafts
strikinyin soda fountain, Met charcoal
cart, run against lis and dist bated ahow-
i OF pulveri1ed nigritude over the company, u
I the great damage OF the clean linen OF the
/ gentlemen, aud the adornments generally
I OF the ladies' especially those little white
rosettes which they had tied On the backs
OF their heads, and d.niied with the tabu-
/ Ions title of bonnets. Met a stage sleigh
got tanned with us--Gnd during the three
,,.;,,,,,ns nrseedinq our yi,,ent eytricatinn
had leisure 10 take particular notice OF the
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,;,,s.,,,.c,9;stfnefi..ns In h. par.
800 ,.otirla Z, sb;ershlv dressed miss.
~ go, ,,ocsssi,y t.kc, her SET - the
80 49, ~, yb1 IL l6s anxiety ~
~ - -, conGw,.ble had mt ore nrm
.'aM N.I ,r,,sis, onS on. !, IA mo her mnIr
a', na.tor, ,aa,rha,, " CARVING ) wash.
e,,s,,,s Rim Mi. ! dsp,lt- IN ntent
Iaa,b baots. Was hol.ing her bundle OF
,;rtv linen. A pevs-boy steatsnr ride.
VA: smoking a Connecticut cigar, and paiFing
The smoke into the faces OF tie inc ngr,latls
assembly. a ner,s woman was sustaining
her nosiiior ON The edge Of the slippery
craft. by holding on with one arm round the
neck of n cle-gvmaa In a blue coat, with a
brsss hook and eve at the neck, who had u
basket Of nn,atoas with leg Of mutton in
!, v.hi,!, = setisr was using ior Shield to
,ro,rc, him from the shower Of now-balls.
tired bv the b,ys on he corner--naurhfy
bops--one h.t one of our ladies' on the head,
sba msaa \ very prattv faint, but vas sosn
revived by a niece of lee which | slipped
da,yn bpr hack one backed the drivers on
~ eve. and a narticulsrly and so!idly un-
oIsasaot ore. hi Sa1d:c inthe mouth ana
walked him m.
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81, lor, seane5 mennonite I,r iceberg.
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I,.ad n.ai,, ny snnaor IN c,st i,nr
gtrden-fence.
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ybi.Ears ~ he gsntisman noon.itr. and
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