The Machine Now Rolled Along With Prodigious Rapidity, Over The
Stones Through The Town, And Every Moment We Seemed To Fly Into The
Air, So That It Was Almost A Miracle That We Still Stuck To The
Coach And Did Not Fall.
We seemed to be thus on the wing, and to
fly, as often as we passed through a village, or went down a hill.
At last the being continually in fear of my life became
insupportable, and as we were going up a hill, and consequently
proceeding rather slower than usual, I crept from the top of the
coach and got snug into the basket.
"O, sir, sir, you will be shaken to death!" said the black, but I
flattered myself he exaggerated the unpleasantness of my post.
As long as we went up hill it was easy and pleasant. And, having
had little or no sleep the night before, I was almost asleep among
the trunks and the packages; but how was the case altered when we
came to go down hill! then all the trunks and parcels began, as it
were, to dance around me, and everything in the basket seemed to be
alive, and I every moment received from them such violent blows that
I thought my last hour was come. I now found that what the black
had told me was no exaggeration, but all my complaints were useless.
I was obliged to suffer this torture nearly an hour, till we came to
another hill again, when quite shaken to pieces and sadly bruised, I
again crept to the top of the coach, and took possession of my
former seat.
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