Vehicles of Past Days.

As to the mode of conveyance in the earliest days of settlement, Mr. Harris said that his mother told him that in 1859 she and his father were in the habit of making visits to neighbors on a sledge drawn by two horses. They had seats on the sledge and considered it a very gay turn out. Both his sister, Mrs. Pearson and himself would then be infants. In 1873 the spring cart was in use; it was a one-horse affair. Later on came the double-seated buggy—a four wheeled vehicle. Many of the old folks used to get into trouble with them by turning too short when the wheels would lock. They would have gone back to the old spring cart, but the young folks would not let them. Mr. Harris, with a smile, said he did not think he was ever in a pram. Today he was rushed about in a motor-car. Sometimes he thought he was safer on the sledge. The late Mr. Sievwright was the first man he ever saw on a velocipede. They were not favored; they had a high front wheel and a small one behind. He was sure, too, that the old gentleman never felt safe upon it. In his (Mr. Harris') young days he used a horse or had to foot it. In 1873 the use of bullocks was at its height. All the carting to and in the country was done by these patient animals. With a good driver it was hard to stick them. They would go practically page break page 167 anywhere. Mr. Ewen Cameron, of Toanga, had many fine teams; he was the Henry Ford of that day.