“Ye who late loll’d in easy chaise and one,
And now must walk, or ride Old Grey or Dun,
Enquire when wheels were tax’d (to mend your fate)
What patriots, spokesmen were in the debate.
And get this act, a promise to revoke,
Or put into each spokesman’s wheel a spoke.”
Chapter the Seventh
THE WAR OF THE WHEELS:
WITH SOME CURIOSITIES, REGAL AND OTHERWISE