 | Maud Wilder Goodwin - 1896 - 318 pages
...came in gangs, the whole family with carriage and riding horses and servants, sometimes three or 223 four such gangs at a time. We had thirty-six stalls...send horses off to another place. I have often sent a wagou-load of hay up to the stable, and the next morning there would not be enough left to make a bird's... | |
 | Sydney George Fisher - 1897 - 424 pages
...travelled in their own carriages and came in gangs, the whole family with carriage and riding horses and servants, sometimes three or four such gangs at...We had thirty-six stalls for horses, and only used ten of them for the stock we kept there. Very often all of the rest were full and I had to send horses... | |
 | Alice Morse Earle - 1898 - 548 pages
...travelled in their own carriages and came in gangs, the whole family with carriage and riding horses and servants, sometimes three or four such gangs at...We had thirty-six stalls for horses and only used ten of them for the stock we kept there. Very often all the rest were full, and I had to send horses... | |
 | Hezekiah Butterworth - 1900 - 330 pages
...Jefferson. their own carriages, and came in gangs — the whole family, with carriage and riding horses and servants — sometimes three or four such gangs...of them for the stock we kept there. Very often all the rest were full, and I had to send horses off to another place. I have often sent a wagon load of... | |
 | James Parton - 1902 - 798 pages
...travelled in their own carriages, and came in gangs, :he whole family, with carriage and riding horses and servants; sometimes three or four such gangs at...another place. I have often sent a wagon-load of hay "p to the stable, and the next morning there would not be enough .eft to make a hen's-nest. I have... | |
 | Sydney George Fisher - 1908 - 420 pages
...servants, sometimes three or four such gangs at a time. We had thirty-six stalls for horses, and only used ten of them for the stock we kept there. Very often all of the rest were full and I had to sena horses off to another place. I have often sent a wagonload of hay up to the stable, and the next... | |
 | Paul Wilstach - 1925 - 334 pages
...travelled in their own carriages, and came in gangs — the whole family, with carriage and riding horses and servants; sometimes three or four such gangs at...there. Very often all of the rest were full, and I have had to send horses off to another place. I have often sent a wagon-load of hay up to the stable,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes - 2002 - 376 pages
...carriage and riding-horses and servants; sometimes three or four such gangs at a time. We had thrity-six stalls for horses, and only used about ten of them for the stock we kept there. Very often all the rest were full, and I had to send horses off to another place. I have often sent a wagonload of... | |
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... year; but about the middle of June the travel would commence from the lower part of the State to the Springs, and then there was a perfect throng of visitors. They travelled in their own carriages, and came in gangs —the whole family, with carriage... 