carpet-stool

Updated: June 11, 2025

On the appointed Sunday we rise betimes, "gear up" the nag to the sulky, and depositing a carpet-stool in the foot, sit upon it between our father's legs, and trot out of town at a respectably slow gait to clear the preacher of any suspicion of keeping a fast horse.

George Alfred Townsend - Tales of the Chesapeake