Outing . Drawing by Walter King Stone and Phillipps Ward MEN and women watch the speed gauge of their motors creep up past twenty-fivemiles, past thirty miles, past forty miles, with various emotions (not always thoseof pleasure), and fancy they are realizing a velocity on the open road peculiar to thetwentieth century. Nonsense! We used to travel sixty miles an hour, at the very least, downPhillips Street hill from Andover almost to Ballardville, on a ten passenger bob-sled, withBuckie Blagden at the wheel, and the muffler of every one of the ten passengers was cutout, too, so that even a mod
Outing . Drawing by Walter King Stone and Phillipps Ward MEN and women watch the speed gauge of their motors creep up past twenty-fivemiles, past thirty miles, past forty miles, with various emotions (not always thoseof pleasure), and fancy they are realizing a velocity on the open road peculiar to thetwentieth century. Nonsense! We used to travel sixty miles an hour, at the very least, downPhillips Street hill from Andover almost to Ballardville, on a ten passenger bob-sled, withBuckie Blagden at the wheel, and the muffler of every one of the ten passengers was cutout, too, so that even a modern motor cycle ridden by a reckless chauffeur going homefrom his days work to supper, would have been a cathedral hush beside us! Forty milesan hour in an automobile, indeed! A mere trifle! Nor does it require half the skill, halfthe strength, half the keenness of eye, to hold the motor on the road that it required tosteer that bob-sled when once the snow had begun to roar beneath our runners, andespecia
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