On 9/22/2016 11:04 AM, S Viemeister wrote:
> On 9/22/2016 12:01 PM, jmcquown wrote:
>
>> Some horse drawn carriages had glass lamps with candles so you could see
>> after dark.
>>
>> I suspect the carriage was often "self-driving" because the horse knew
>> the way home.
>>
> My Dad said that his father's horse always knew its way home (early 1900s).
>
I saw many cases of that when I was doing geological fieldwork in SW
Ireland. Having delivered the morning milk to the dairy, the horsedrawn
cart was returning to the farm with the owner sitting on the back of the
cart, facing backwards and reading the racing pages.