Spring Seat

Sitting hunched over on the spring-seat of a big farm wagon, clad in overalls and a print shirt, with a wide hat tilted against the sun and a cigarette dangling from his lips, he was indistinguishable from any other _paisano_ on the road. ❋ Harvey Fergusson (N/A)

John came and talked to Luther, mounting the spring-seat at his side to ride to the field, but did not look at Elizabeth, though she looked at him longingly and everything in her cried out for reconciliation and openness. ❋ Dell H. Munger (N/A)

At the bottom of the hill he saw a driver on the spring-seat of a round-up wagon urging two lean-necked and narrow-chested horses up the hill. ❋ Caroline Lockhart (1916)

The high spring-seat was the only one, so Barbara had to sit there. ❋ Lillian Elizabeth Roy (1900)

The cumbersome ranch-wagon, with its high spring-seat, was drawn up beside a telegraph pole to which the skittish young horses had been securely tied. ❋ Lillian Elizabeth Roy (1900)

Her hair was ruffled, her cheeks were red, with the wind she had faced for two hours on the spring-seat of her father's "dead axe" wagon. ❋ Mary Hallock Foote (1892)

Perched high on a spring-seat, I made the journey and saw more sights and wonders than I have ever seen on a journey since.” ❋ Barrus, Clara, 1864-1931 (1914)