He succeeded, like most persons who labour diligently.

The curly-haired Italian lad became a general favourite.

He took his native politeness with him everywhere; and made many friends among his various customers throughout the country.
Bianconi used to say that it was about this time when he was carrying his heavy case upon his back, weighing at least a hundred pounds--that the idea began to strike him, of some cheap method of conveyance being established for the accommodation of the poorer classes in Ireland.

As he dismantled himself of his case of pictures, and sat wearied and resting on the milestones along the road, he puzzled his mind with the thought, "Why should poor people walk and toil, and rich people ride and take their ease?
Could not some method be devised by which poor people also might have the opportunity of travelling comfortably ?" It will thus be seen that Bianconi was already beginning to think about the matter.

When asked, not long before his death, how it was that he had first thought of starting his extensive Car establishment, he answered, "It grew out of my back!" It was the hundred weight of pictures on his dorsal muscles that stimulated his thinking faculties.
But the time for starting his great experiment had not yet arrived.
Bianconi wandered about from town to town for nearly two years.