fire-carriage

Updated: August 13, 2026

In the old days the English people were not thus. The fire-carriage has made them soft. In the old days, when they drave behind horses by day or by night, they said naught if a river barred the way, or a carriage sat down in the mud. It was the will of God not like a fire-carriage which goes and goes and goes, and would go though all the devils in the land hung on to its tail.

Rudyard Kipling - Soldiers Three