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Title: The Brighton road : the classic highway to the south
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Harper, Charles G. (Charles George), 1863-1943
Subjects: Horses Brighton (England) -- Description and travel England -- Social life and customs
Publisher: London : C. Palmer
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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lain concisely whatis most abominable, Sussexian. No one wouldimagine them to be intended for the people and thepublic, but rather the byways of individuals, or, moretruly, the tracks of cattle-drivers ; for everywhere theusual footmarks of oxen appeared, and we too, whowere on horseback, going along zigzag, almost likeoxen at plough, advanced as if we were turning back,while we followed out all the twists of the roads.. . . My friend, I will set before you a kind of problemin the maimer of Aristotle :—Why comes it that theoxen, the swine, the women, and all other animals (!)are so long-legged in Sussex ? Can it be from thedifficulty of pulling the feet out of so much mudby the strength of the ankle, so that the musclesbecome stretched, as it were, and the boneslengthened ? A doleful tale. Presently he arrives at the conclusionthat the peasantry do not concern themselves withliterature or philosophy, for they consider the pursuitof such things to be only idling, which is not so very
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18 THE BRIGHTON ROAD remarkable a trait, after all, in the character of anagricultural people. Our author eventually, notwithstanding the terribleroads, arrived at Brighthelmstone, by way of Lewes,just as day was fading. It was, so he says, avillage on the sea-coast; lying in a valley graduallysloping, and yet deep. It is not, indeed, contemptibleas to size, for it is thronged with people, though theinhabitants are mostly very needy and wretched intheir mode of living, occupied in the employment offishing, robust in their bodies, laborious, and skilledin all nautical crafts, and, as it is said, terrible cheatsof the custom-house officers. As who, indeed, is not,allowing the opportunity ? Batchelor, the pioneer of Brighton coaching,continued his enterprise in 1757, and with the comingof spring, and the drying of the roads, his coaches,which had been laid up in the winter, after the usualcustom of those times, were plying again. In May headvertised, for the convenience of country gentle

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