No Icelander walks when he can ride! Wherever they have to go, even a
short distance, they jump on their handy little pony and skim away to
their destination...The funniest loads are put on the ponies' backs. I
have met a worthy couple jogging along driving a third pony carrying a
spinning wheel! Ponies carry planks and iron for building, tools,
provisions, and I have even seen a live sheep having a ride! A piano is
carried out to the country between two ponies; and sometimes milk or
cream is carried in tins, in wooden panniers. "Mrs. Disney Leith, Iceland, 1908, pp. 39-40
Sketch is from Hesten i Nordboernes Tjeneste paa Island, by Daniel Bruun, 1904, p. 92.
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