The law of the road; or, wrongs and rights of a traveller

· 1911

New Year’s Day.--Collision with Old Bolus.--Must I pay for my Servant’s Deeds.--Deaf Man run over.--Effects of an Avalanche.--Housemaid injured by Coachman.--Wives, Snakes or Eels.--Icy Walks.--Falling Snow.--Board Walks.--Driver and driven.--Right Side or Wrong.--Look out.--Walkers.--Sunday Driving and Visiting.--Church-going.--Sunday Laws. My life, so far as the readers of this sketch are concerned, may be taken to have commenced on the New Year’s morning after I had married a wife, and set up a trap with the necessary accompaniments of a horse or two and a man.…

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