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A carriage in Scotland has broken sending the occupants flying in all directions. Etching after J. Gillray, 1805. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
"A very clumsy post-chaise descends a mountain road across a bare moor. On approaching a hair-pin bend the fore-heels have broken off, the chaise is about to upset, the occupant falls through the front window. A Highlander lies prone on the roof, saying to the unfortunate traveller: 'Hald your haund mun, hold your haund! - en troth mun! e'n gin you na mind yoursel, youl just make the muckle laird coupeing his creels!'. The chaise was drawn by a horse and ass; on the latter, which kicks violently, sits a primitive postilion; the traces are of rope. A shepherd (the muckle laird) reclines in the elbow of the road in the foreground; his dog barks at the chaise, which is followed by a man on a donkey. Horned sheep with tattered fleeces and bare rumps are beside the shepherd (r.). All four Scots are bare-footed, and have bare posteriors, the kilt being a mere apron."--British Museum, loc. cit.
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