What These Things Were, Of Course, We
Could Only Guess, And We Did Not Care Much, So We Could Only Get Out
Of Our Wooden Box.
We came to the conclusion that we could
sympathize tolerably well with poor Box Brown.
We, as we had been advised, took a noddy. A minibus is only a small
omnibus. A noddy is a contrivance that holds four, and has a door at
the end, and only one horse, - very like a Yankee cab.
Glasgow, as every one knows, is one of the greatest manufacturing
cities in the world. Before we arrived, we were astonished at the
great fires from the iron works in the environs; and, as the streets
were well lighted, our eyes were dazzled and delighted with the
whole scene, and we were so pleased with the comfort of our noddy,
that we did not at first feel troubled at the fact that neither our
driver nor we knew where Dr. Nichol's house was. Presently we found
ourselves left in the middle of the street, and saw our noddy man,
in a shop as bright as day, poring over a directory. All he could
learn was what we had already told him, and so on he went, not
knowing whether right or wrong, giving us a fine opportunity of
seeing the city in the evening. At last, he came to the bridge over
the Clyde, and there the tollman directed us to the Observatory.
After a long drive, evidently over not a very good road, the driver
stopped, and told us that here was Dr. Nichol's house.
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