Fast Trotters Appeared To Be Common In These
Parts, And As We Went Along The Road From Time To Time
A small cloud of
dust would become visible far ahead of us, and in two or three minutes
a farmer's
Trap would appear and rush past on its way to market, to
vanish behind us in two or three minutes more and be succeeded by
another and then others. By-and-by one came past driven by two young
women, one holding the reins, the other playing with the whip. They
were tall, dark, with black hair, and colourless faces, aged about
thirty, I imagined. As they flew by I remarked, "I would lay a
sovereign to a shilling that they are twins." "You'd lose your money -
there's two or three years between them," said my driver. "Do you know
them - you didn't nod to them nor they to you?" I said. "I know them,"
he returned, "as well as I know my own face when I look at myself in a
glass." On which I remarked that it was very wonderful. "'Tis only a
part of the wonder, and not the biggest part," he said. "You've seen
what they are like and how like they are, but if you passed a day with
them in the house you'd be able to tell one from the other; but if you
lived a year in the same house with their two brothers you'd never be
able to tell one from the other and be sure you were right.
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