Ponny
PONNY
A sleigh-ride. "Come on out and have a ponny." Long Island.
-Harold Wentworth's American Dialect Dictionary, 1944
East Coast Sleighing
was described in James Boardman's America and the Americans (1833):
These vehicles were to be seen of all dimensions, and in every style, from the dashing and elegant four-in-hand, with its buffalo robes or its leopard skins, to the humble sliding frame with its load of wood or coals. The diversion of sleighing is extremely agreeable, and one of which the Americans are passionately fond. Not content with excursions by day, they borrow the night, at all hours of which sleighs might be seen skimming along filled with gay parties, although the thermometer was often much below zero. Scarcely an hotel within ten or a dozen miles of New York was unfrequented by nocturnal visitors. . . . In one of our excursions we passed a sledge filled with convicts on their way to prision. The party were chained together, but seemed to forget their degraded situation in the delights of a sleigh ride-an amusement which some of them were not soon again likely to enjoy.
from: Jeffrey Kacirk's Forgotten English 2006 Calendar
A sleigh-ride. "Come on out and have a ponny." Long Island.
-Harold Wentworth's American Dialect Dictionary, 1944
East Coast Sleighing
was described in James Boardman's America and the Americans (1833):
These vehicles were to be seen of all dimensions, and in every style, from the dashing and elegant four-in-hand, with its buffalo robes or its leopard skins, to the humble sliding frame with its load of wood or coals. The diversion of sleighing is extremely agreeable, and one of which the Americans are passionately fond. Not content with excursions by day, they borrow the night, at all hours of which sleighs might be seen skimming along filled with gay parties, although the thermometer was often much below zero. Scarcely an hotel within ten or a dozen miles of New York was unfrequented by nocturnal visitors. . . . In one of our excursions we passed a sledge filled with convicts on their way to prision. The party were chained together, but seemed to forget their degraded situation in the delights of a sleigh ride-an amusement which some of them were not soon again likely to enjoy.
from: Jeffrey Kacirk's Forgotten English 2006 Calendar