text:  There were also another mare and her foal; but our acquaintance was confined to the three generations--or rather to the two--for Grannie was old and stupid; and as the farmer sported a fine old-fashioned strong rough gig we occasionally pressed Polly into the service put two or three children on footstools in the front brandished a whip that had done duty at the plough and trotted off with the easy dignity of four miles an hour and lionized the whole neighbourhood