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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1903 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI. MODEST MOTORING CONSIDERATIONS. During the portion of the summer immediately antecedent to the introduction of the Motor Regulation Bill, that section of the community casually alluded to by Mr. Dooley, when speaking of the French, as the " Boorjawce," has been greatly inflamed by the perusal of numberless letters in every newspaper on the horrors of motoring. Is a dog run over by a motor car? the columns of " The Leading Journal" are open to a well-known writer, who indites a lurid not to say a purple epistle giving all particulars of the dreadful event with fullest details. Suppose a butcher boy had had the same misfortune with his cart. Would " this bilious scribe " have grasped his trembling quill and thrilled the listening thousands of Suburbia with the awesome tale? No--it was a motor car, a nezv thing, horrible--away with it! It is not to be denied that there is a division of motorists, but fortunately a small one, who drive to the common danger, and in their selfish recklessness are a pest and a curse to all who have to use the road. The wealthy cad is the worst offender, but he is hard run by the ordinary " chauffeur " out for the day (without leave) in his master's car, and by the " CarFaker " who buys rubbish at auctions, gets it to go somehow for a few weeks, and sells it to the greenhorn, following lines of business even more crafty than those of a gipsy horse coper at a fair. The chauffeur is an arch offender. He has less to lose than the others in the event of damage being done either to the car or to the public, and in getting back to our root question of economy he becomes the subject of portentous musings mayhap on this wise--" I suppose I shall have to get a motor in the end. My wife says so, so does my daughter. Look at the d...
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