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`` I say , would n't this be a paradise for the English workingman ? '' said Deppingham . `` That 's the kind of a day 's labor they 'd like . Do you mean to say that these fellows trudge eight miles to work every morning and back again at noon ? '' `` Certainly not , sir . They ride their thoroughbred horses to work and ride them back again . It 's much better than omnibuses or horse cars , I 'd say , sir -- as I remember them . ''