One-horse shay

Description

Very similar to the Chaise. It's also a light, fast vehicle that is more or less a chair on wheels pulled by a horse.

In fact, sources consider the One-horse Shay to merely be the American version of the French Chaise. Perhaps the

anomaly of seeing this in a French book can be considered a result of a less-than-ideal translation.

The invited guests arrived early in a variety of

vehicles. One-horse shays, two-wheeled charabancs, old gigs

without tops, vans with leather curtains. And the young men

from the nearest villages came in farm-carts, standing one

behind the other along the sides and grasping the rails to

keep from being thrown, for the horses trotted briskly and

the roads were rough. They came from as far as twenty-five

miles away, from Goderville, from Normanville, from Cany.

All the relations of both families had been asked, old

quarrels had been patched up, letters sent to acquaintances

long lost sight of. (pg 30)

"shay." Online Photograph. ibiblio. 14 Apr. 2008

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"one-horse shay." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2008. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 14 Apr. 2008