QUAINT VEHICLES.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 3030, 24 January 1899, Page 6

QUAINT VEHICLES.

As every tourist is aware, a cariole is a most comfortable little car on two wheels for one passenger. The seat is Bhaped like a shell and nicely padded, and the traveller goes along with his feet resting in fixed stirrups at tho sido, unless he likes to tuck them up iti front of him, or dispose of them elsewhere on the framework of the carriage. The driver sits behind on a box, used for stowing away small packages inside and for taking quits a lot outside. A stolkjaerre is intended for two persons and a driver. It is a rough cart and again the driver sits behind. Very often these drivers are mere lads. You may get one of about eight in some places when the men are busy at the harvest, and it ia usual, when two conveyances are required by the same party, to expect one of the travellers to drive the second conveyance. As the little yellow ponies know the routes inch for inch, and us it is the custom when numbers of conveyances are going l he same way,forthem to form a very long procession, there is not much need for a crack whip. A trille is rarely seen. It carries four per sons, and is more or less like a small English baroucbe. The way in which the driver man- j ages to stow his person away in a luggage- j crowded vehicle is one of the wonclere of Norway.