. Quiet roads and sleepy villages. simmering animosityagainst the modern mode of travelling which isopenly expressed by the horsey persuasion ingeneral, when opportunity serves a ** breakdown,finds vent with vindictive force. The hard-hithotel coachman, justifiably perhaps, rejoices atthe stranded motorist. One of them, at least,unblushingly told us on one occasion, when hecame upon a party of tourists at a standstill inthe middle of a road-stream crossing, how he hadencouragingly told the victims to stop there and be blessed. And a word here in the defence of the much-abused petrol fiend may
. Quiet roads and sleepy villages. simmering animosityagainst the modern mode of travelling which isopenly expressed by the horsey persuasion ingeneral, when opportunity serves a ** breakdown,finds vent with vindictive force. The hard-hithotel coachman, justifiably perhaps, rejoices atthe stranded motorist. One of them, at least,unblushingly told us on one occasion, when hecame upon a party of tourists at a standstill inthe middle of a road-stream crossing, how he hadencouragingly told the victims to stop there and be blessed. And a word here in the defence of the much-abused petrol fiend may beexcused. With the complications of town trafficwe are not dealing, saving that coal and milkcarts appear to enjoy a special privilege of defy-ing the ordinary rules of the road. On thecountry roads the danger in nine cases out of tenarises when some lumbering vehicle going in thesame direction has to be passed. That derelictis invariably travelling on the wrong side, and thiscreates all the trouble, for a vehicle coming in roKcii, Long VVittenuam
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