The invalid was hoisted in and laid with her couch across the seats, so that her shoulders rested against one side of the van and her feet against the other.

Humility climbed in after her; but Taffy, to his joy, was given a seat outside the box.
"C'k!"-- they were off.
As they crawled up the street a few townspeople paused on the pavement and waved farewells.

At the top of the town they overtook three sailor-boys, with bundles, who climbed up and perched themselves a-top of the van, on the luggage.
On they went again.

There were two horses--a roan and a grey.
Taffy had never before looked down on the back of a horse, and Joby's horses astonished him; they were so broad behind, and so narrow at the shoulders.

He wanted to ask if the shape were at all common, but felt shy.