On 9/22/2016 1:33 PM, graham wrote:
> 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.

I was born in the wrong era and in the wrong country.

Jill