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Updated: June 7, 2025
He put cart-wheels in his coat-of-arms, and they have remained to this day in the arms of the town, a fine reminder to snobbery that ancestry only explains, it cannot exalt. "Pigmies are pigmies still, though perch'd on Alps, And pyramids are pyramids in vales." The atmosphere in these towns is one of repose.
I have not described and cannot describe these four. The little son of whom he was tremendously proud slept with his father in the great quilts in The Enormous Room. Of The Wanderer's little son I may say that he had lolling buttons of eyes sewed on gold flesh, that he had a habit of turning cart-wheels in one-third of his father's trousers, that we called him The Imp.
As we walked up from the shore, Dr Johnson's heart was cheered by the sight of a road marked with cart-wheels, as on the main land; a thing which we had not seen for a long time. It gave us a pleasure similar to that which a traveller feels, when, whilst wandering on what he fears is a desert island, he perceives the print of human feet.
These simple homes of the Burmans are often very pretty as they lie among the trees which cast their broad shadows across the straggling lane, grass grown and deeply rutted by the cart-wheels. Bougainvillæa and other creepers spread luxuriantly over the roofs, or drop their festoons of flowers from the eaves.
Porters, peasants, lads, and children were clamoring about our cart-wheels like unto so many jackals. The bedlam did not cease as we stopped before a wide, brightly-lit open doorway. Then through the doorway there came a tall, finely-featured brunette. She made her way through the yelling crowd as a duchess might cleave a path through a rabble. She was at the side of the cart in an instant.
I poked my head out of the coach again, but I might have stayed under the cover of the hood, so distinctly, though still from a distance, the sound reached me of cart-wheels, men whistling, the jingling of tambourines, and even the thud of horses' hoofs; I even fancied I could hear singing and laughter.
In one hand he held a huge pitchfork the trident of this watery Mercury. "Shall I conduct you?" he asked, dipping the trident as if in salute, into the water, as he still puffed and gasped. "If you please," as gravely responded our driver. For though up to our cart-wheels and breasts in deep water, the formalities were not to be dispensed with, you understand.
I timed my leap, and made it, landing in the cleft in a scramble and ready to lend a hand to those who leaped after. It was slow work. We were wet and half freezing in the wind-drive. Besides, the leaps had to be timed to the roll of the hull and the sway of the mast. The cook was the first to go. He was snapped off the mast-end, and his body performed cart-wheels in its fall.
The cart-wheels and gate-hinges were oiled by unseen fingers. The mushrooms in the croft gathered themselves and down on a dish in the larder. It is by small savings that a farm thrives, and Miss Betty's farm throve. Everybody worked with more alacrity. Annie the lass said the butter came in a way that made it a pleasure to churn. The neighbours knew even more than those on the spot.
"He is deaf," screamed the little boy, who was now joined by his companion, and both in great excitement danced round the fine gentleman. "Give me a soldo," they yelled together. "Show me the house of the Padre Curato," answered the Prince, "then I will give you each a soldo. Lesti! Quick!" Whereupon both the boys began turning cart-wheels on their feet and hands with marvellous dexterity.
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