We had reached Ardrahan the previous night, sleeping there in rooms hired at the village post office, and leaving in good time on the following morning, clinging insecurely to one of the typical jaunting cars.

"Why, when Aunt Lulu goes on a jaunt," said Dwight Herbert, "events begin to event.

To see Dr. Johnson in any new situation is always an interesting object to me; and, as I saw him now for the first time on horseback, jaunting about at his ease in quest of pleasure and novelty, the very different occupations of his former laborious life, his admirable productions, his London, his Rambler, &c. &c., immediately presented themselves to my mind, and the contrast made a strong impression on my imagination.

Here is Jumbo, gentle creature, Kindness shown in every feature; On his back the children are, Safe as in a jaunting car.

"When I got there, he met me at the station, driving a jaunting car, and drove me up to the castle, which, by the way, he called a 'house shanty.'

But I thought if they could not pay me, they need not have kept a jaunting-car.

" "Is it a jaunting-car?" cried Molly.

For still another two hours Thor led Muskwa on that tiresome jaunt into the north.

On March 10, 1815, he writes: "My jaunt to Bristol in quest of money completely failed.

Thus ended my jaunt in quest of money.

The dear saints know I found it dull enough at first, for I'd been used to jaunting round with my old man and the boys; but what with marketing and preserving, and one thing and another, I get on better now, praise to Saint Agnes!"

She knew how other girls had gone out with Willis in his smart car and come back to give rather sketchy accounts of the evening's pleasure jaunt.

The tune was borrowed from 'The Irish Jaunting Car', a popular Hibernian air.

Mr. Prentiss and Mr. Stearns have spent a fortnight in jaunting about; beginning at Thun and ending at Munich.

As soon as summer had arrived, the minister sent a comfortable char-à-banc a sort of jaunting car, to convey Madame Tube and her children to Toeplitz; he also sent her a present of money for her expenses.

They almost seemed to feel that this jaunt might be in the nature of a "try-out" for racing material; or at the very least it might offer something worth while in the way of adventure.

[Illustration: THE CAR COASTED DOWN ALL THE HILLS] It was indeed a treat; for always at the end of the jaunt there was an interview with "Scotty" Allan, who was sure to look Baldy over carefully and say fondly, "Well, how's my Derby hero to-day?" and give the expected hearty greetings to Irish and Rover.

The railway and the automobile omnibus make communication with Bayonne to-day easy, but formerly folk came and went on a donkey side-saddled for two, arranged back to back, like the seats of an Irish jaunting-car.

When it does leak out it must be understood we are just going for a little pleasure jaunt.

I have thought of it since, and am inclined to believe that nothing but two English could have been capable of such a jaunt.

My dear child, what if you were to take this little sea-jaunt?

Ben followed in a wagon, with the trunks and "jaunting-car-r-r." When we reached the ferry, the porters carried my couch, and Ben myself, depositing us upon the deck, where I could look upon the river.

He made for me, with his own industrious hands, what he calls a "jaunting-car-r-r-r."

I was always ready for that I had enjoyed the "jaunting-car-r-r" so much, that my sister, resolved to gratify me further, had made comfortable arrangements for longer excursions.

She said they had a real House of Parliament and you could drive in jaunting cars through Lake Kilarney region and the rocky road to Dublin that we've all hearn about.