Anne Lynch Botta,
Memoirs of Anne C. L. Botta — To Miss Edith M. Thomas
(1894)
“ And leaves me to visit the markets and shops. (My car, you perceive, is the bobtail variety So little admired by the press and society.) But wherever we go he signally fails To lift me above the street levels and rails. So you see that our steeds are not matched for a race, And with all best endeavors can never keep pace. ”
