Today the public conveyances are full of elderly standees while kids and teenagers and lots of young men and women in designer jeans sit staring blankly ahead.
Kiouni—this was the name of the beast—could doubtless travel rapidly for a long time, and, in default of any other means of conveyance, Mr. Fogg resolved to hire him.
The conveyance came close, and the man was about to pass her with little notice, when she turned to him and said, " I think you have been inquiring for me? I am Mrs. Yeobright of Blooms-End."
And it was a freight and passenger conveyance until about 1950, when the railroad had fallen to the wayside by truck and airplane, and truck and car traffic, and train travel wasn't really a thing any longer.