air with a real gusto.

Glancing up the street, you descry an object in the distance which much
resembles a travelling dry-goods merchant, with the many fancy streamers
flying in the breeze; but as it draws nearer, you look around in
astonishment for "Barnum," fully persuaded if that worthy is not on the
ground, he has mistaken his calling for once. The object in question is
no less than a common two-wheeled horse-cart, such as are used to do our
heavy carting, except this is on springs, and of a lighter build; in the
vehicle are some half dozen ladies, standing, their only support being
short ropes attached to the sides, which, however, are seldom used,
except by those unaccustomed to this kind of exercise, and in this
position they ride with the greatest ease, seldom losing their balance,
even when going at full speed.

Thoroughly initiated, and having seen most of the lions of the place,
you find yourself becoming more and more attached, forget that you have
ever thought of the island as anything but attractive. Your one week has
become the length of four, and the letters to anxious friends at home
have been characteristic of briefness, unwilling to steal a moment's
time from the enjoyment which will furnish a topic for the unemployed
hours of longer days to come. Of the many excursions which have made
short the hours of your sojourn here, I will not enter into detail;
suffice it to say, you have been disappointed in Nantucket and its
inhabitants. You have made many firm friends, the memory of whom will
stir the tear of unselfish love, as you number them over, one by one, in
the future. They will never be forgotten. You have found Nantucket is
not merely an isolated place, where oil is manufactured; where the
people only work to eat, and eat to work. [Though as some have
suggested, a carriage drive connecting Nantucket with the Continent