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The road-side halt, the post-horn's well-known air, The inns, the gaping towns, and all the landscape fair. There were also various other sources of innocent enjoyment in the journeyings of our grandfathers of which we have been bereft and it must, for instance, have been very agreeable for a lady to be married in her riding habit, and jog off for her honeymoon on her pillion, with her arm round her husband's waist.