"flying horses"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 8/10/2011 04:40 PM, George Thompson wrote:
>       Presumably these were all some sort of Whirligig, or Roundabout, or
>Merry-go-round, &c.; though perhaps some sort of a back-and-forth swing?

I definitely associate "flying horses" with carousels
(merry-go-rounds), not swings.  The ones that go up and down as the
merry go round. (That is, I must have heard or read it at some
time.)  But perhaps this is too far in the past for you young whipper-snappers.

Joel

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