Phaeton (carriage) "His companion went into seventeen shops — he amused himself with counting them — and accumulated, at the bottom of the phaeton, a pile of bundles that hardly left the young Englishman a place for his feet. As she had no groom nor footman, he sat in the phaeton to hold the ponies." Georgette Heyer, the Regency romance novelist, frequently wrote about sporting gentlemen driving their phaetons. Some of her heroines were also notable whips, such as Hero from "Friday's Child" who gets into a scrape by agreeing to participate in a 'Lady's Race' in her phaeton. Phaeton (carriage) A
What Are Little Boys Made Of? Iona and Peter Opie, this first appears in a manuscript by the English poet Robert Southey (1774–1843), who added the stanzas other than the two below. Though it is not mentioned elsewhere in his works or papers, it is generally agreed to be by him. The relevant section in the version attributed to Southey was: <poem> What are little boys made of What are little boys made of Snips & snails & puppy dogs tails And such are little boys made of. What are little girls made of Sugar & spice & all things nice</poem> Extracts from the nursery rhyme