quatre-roues

Updated: May 11, 2025

But for us and the guides there were two quatre-roues, the typical vehicles of the century, as characteristic of Canada as the carriole is of Norway. It is a two-seated buckboard, drawn by one horse, and the back seat is covered with a hood like an old-fashioned poke bonnet. The road is of clay and always rutty.

Henry Van Dyke - Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness