Mark Twain, in Roughing It, a book that many people don't know about—but I highly recommend to anybody of any age to read it. He and his brother crossed the United States in a stagecoach. How romantic can you get?
Ginny had just emerged from the crowd, clutching a squirming Crookshanks, " Thanks, " said Hermione, relieving Ginny of the cat. " Come on, let's get a carriage together before they all fill up..."
As we watched him he looked across at a boy who was bawling out the latest edition of the evening paper, and, running over among the cabs and busses, he bought one from him.
As the omnibus contained only one other passenger, a sleepy old lady, Amy pocketed her veil and beguiled the tedium of the way by trying to find out where all her money had gone to.
It first emerged as a concept in the mid-Victorian period, and as men got on the omnibus, or the train, each morning to head to their city jobs, they left their wives behind to forge a new social space.
With hundreds of thousands traveling into the city for work every day, the roads are clogged with a stinking mass of pedestrians, wagons, omnibuses, coaches, and of course, horses that pave the streets with manure.