Fancy Carmen frightened by an ordinary horse, not even a dray-horse, of which no Carmen would have been afraid!
The dray-horse of these countries has a large share of Flemish blood in him.
Awakened by the oath, he just got out of the way of a huge Flemish dray-horse dragging a brewer's cart.
It was as marvellous as though a man should walk down the street carrying a dray-horse on his back.
His lady, who has to work all day like a dray-horse and scold the servants besides, to get things into order, loses her temper.