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This is in relation to finding examples of the use of the word "jumper" to mean "A crude kind of sleigh, usually a simple box on runners which are in one piece with the poles that form the thills." I am editing and will soon publish on line a letter from Sarah Orne Jewett to her sisters, Mary Rice Jewett and Carrie Jewett Eastman from September 1894, in which she uses this word twice in an account of her stay at Raquette Lake, NY. Here are the relevant passages.

I forgot to say that we found some horses at the landing with what they call a jumper* -- like a low pung on runners,...

... then it was so dark that most of us were put into the jumper which earned its name and bumped about like a stone drag running away so that we had to hold on hard to each other to keep from spilling.

Terry Heller (talk) 16:29, 29 July 2017 (UTC)