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Excerpt from The Finding of Saint Augustine's Chair
It was a pleasant sight to watch the sunburnt, dust-stained drovers, conversant with the nature and habits of their charge, patiently plodding along, each with a thick, warm, woollen plaid rolled up across his shoulders - the best protection against sudden storm, or heavy dew at night - and, with the help of trusty, well-trained dogs, quieting and guarding the strong and self-willed cattle.
The carrier's great heavy waggon - broad-wheeled to save the toll - still plied with profit, carrying the pro duce of smoke-beclouded towns to all the Western counties, and in the cratch at the back, reposing on clean straw, were passengers with lean purses, who for a small payment were conveyed, slowly but surely, to some distant country home; whilst fast, bright-coloured coaches dashing past, carried, for business or for pleasure.
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