On and on we clattered along the rough and stony road, rattling and jolting, till a loud and sharp “Toot-toot-toot,” with a long clear flourish “that warbled away in an acoustic ringlet” from the driver’s horn, announced the fact that that day’s work was done; that our journey was complete, and we were safe in the little village of Ayr.
As our journey beyond this point was upon the trackless deep, I will here say nothing about it, save that we were while on board the steamboats neither blown up nor drowned.
FOOTNOTES:
[234] Chitty on Carriers, 253; Story on Bailments, § 597.
[235] Ker v. Mountain, 1 Esp. 27.
[236] Chitty on Carriers, 252.
[237] See Mr. Dowler’s remarks in Pickwick.
[238] Brien v. Bennett, 8 C. & P. 724; Lygo v. Newbold, 9 Ex. 302.
[239] Webb v. Page, 6 M. & G. 204; Walker v. Jackson, 10 M. & W. 168; Philleo v. Sandford, 17 Texas, 227.
[240] Clark v. Gray, 4 Esp. 177; Lovett v. Hobbs, 2 Shower, 127; Hutton v. Bolton, 1 H. Bla. 299 n.; Dwight v. Brewster, 1 Pickering (Mass.), 50; Jones v. Voorhees, 10 Ohio, 145.