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Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals

CHAPTER X
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It has the driver's seat in front, and a very narrow seat behind him.

One person can have room enough on this second seat, but it usually carries two.

Invariably the drosky is lined with dark-blue cloth, and the drosky-driver wears a dark-blue wrapper, coming to the feet, girded around the waist by a crimson sash.

He also wears a bell-shaped hat, turned up at the side.

You are a little in doubt, if you see him at first separated from his drosky, whether he is a market-woman or a serving-man, the dress being very much like a morning wrapper.


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