Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1898 — Is That It? [ARTICLE]

Is That It?

Little Edward—Papa, why do they call those funny looking, two-wheeled carriages hansoms?” Papa—l think it’s because it takes some han’same balancing on the part of the drivers to keep from tipping the horses up in tihe air.