Hastily leaving the coach and sending the family forward with all possible dispatch, I chartered a common dray, the only conveyance at hand, placed a trunk upon it, took the invalid in my arms, seated myself on the trunk, and bade the driver to put his horse on his best speed.

After a time, however, I thought that I remembered that there was a comparatively new power station in St. Paneras driven by turbines: and at once, I uncoupled the motor, covered the drays with the tarpaulins, and went driving at singing speed, choosing the emptier by-streets, and not caring whom I crushed.

It is astonishing to see what work oxen will do; they drag drays over almost incredible steeps, not quartering them as horses do, but going straight up, be the hills ever so steep.

If ever, Cousin Mary, you drive a dray, they will serve you.

In fine, they have not the formation to handle a dray or cart.

" "I should have thought," she observed, "the man in the car would have been the maddest It couldn't have hurt the dray much.

In the lane he found them loading a dray in front of the distillery, and he started across to watch the men straining at the next barrel.

Charles Gregory, who had accompanied his brother, was now engaged by the Government to overtake Babbage and acquaint him with their intention, but when he reached Port Augusta, Gregory took it upon himself to order the drays home, Babbage being away surveying.

He owned a dray and died at Brinkley.

And I wonder what the devil Jack Robertson would say If he saw us promenading Round the old bullock dray.

The Border Police they were out all the day To look for some thieves who had ransacked my dray; But the thieves they continued in quiet and peace, For they’d robbed it themselves—had the Border Police!

Preparations had been made for his journey by filling a bullock skin with water, and sending a dray with it as far as possible.

In the first place, he has not the power to steady a dray; and, in the second place, they never can be taught to do it.

Sturt thereupon turned the drays, which were already in difficulties in the loose soil, sharp round to the right, and finally came to the river again, where they camped to discuss the untoward circumstance.

Thou hast trod upon my foot!" Outside, that the Western world might not suspect what was going on, Shaheen Mahfous and Shanin Saba unloaded with as much noise as possible a dray of paper for Meraat-ul-Gharb, the Daily Mirror.