Runaway Carriage Startles Visitors at Mr. Franklin's Residence
A fragment describing a runaway pony-carriage incident in which a Miss Grant narrowly escaped injury when her team bolted onto the lawn of a Cunard line agent's residence, delighting or alarming onlookers.
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The Cairo Bulletin · July 11, 1873 · Page 2
1 min read[…] Or manfully clung to the lines and did everything possible to check the runaway, but all to no purpose, for they were unmanageable. Miss Grant bravely kept her seat and did not manifest any alarm, while the plunging ponies tossed the tiny carriage on either side of the road.
As the team reached the residence of Mr. Franklin, the agent of the Cunard line, they whirled into the yard and across the lawn, dashing themselves on to the plaza, where they were stopped in their mad career by the astonished visitors.
Miss Grant was assisted from the carriage, which miraculously escaped destruction, and was warmly congratulated on her narrow escape from serious injury.
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