Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1902-11-28
LAST Rum Of the Green
Pea Desperate.

| | had assured myself that my head had
not been snapped off we were i'll a
strange street.
The rate of speed that Buggles was
going at was positively sickening.
am willing to swear that when our big
fat wheels hit manhole the whole
engine jumped foot. We went around
corners on one wheel, with women fall
ing Imply into policemen's arms on the
curb, and the policemen shouting at
us until their yells sank to drone in
the distance. We ran over a yellow
dog and threw the animal into the air
behind us in the most talented fash
ion. 1t landed on the top of brougham
"a rather stylish position for yellow
dog. [ noticed these things then, but
they didn't appeal to me as interest
ing. The most interesting thing Just
then was the preservation of my life.
1t was in Buggles's hand-I felt that
and Buggles was about as careless of
it as though it was the life of Rock
away oyster.
We dashed into the Park on curve
that shot a fan OF gravel off of the
near wheel and all over belated May
party. which Immediately looked to me
like coterie Of landslide victims being
dug out A mounted policeman put
his horse at us, but he got in
the trail of our gasolene gas, from the
exhaust thing in the back, and his
horse baked. An old lady, trying to
cross the drive ahead, just escaped be-
ing rolled out by such a close margin
that her silk boa was whisked into the
| near fore wheel and twisted about the
spolSes while she could have said knife.
| Try it on an electric fan with a hand
kerchief. from behind, and you get the
same effect. Later on, Buggles said,
he would get the boa out and put it up
in his den with lot of other relics
that he was in the habit of prying out
Of the shutter on the automobiles
PROV after trips. Bits of little things
he'd hit, you know. He admitted that
| he was sentimental euss, did Bug
giles.
We went up the West Drive like an
| express making up time and with
about as much noise. Around the
corner saw the Van Doutzers coming
| in a victoria. They are one of the
| families that / really like to bow to,
and so, abolishing as much of my fear
| for my life as l could, l got ready to
take off my hat, hoping, ! must con-
| fess, that they'd take ME for the owner
of the Desperate, instead of Buggles.
| To carry out the idea 1 just rested
my hand ON the wheel thing that you
steer by I bowed. but | discovered,
to my horror, that 1 was bowling to a
park policeman-the Van Doutzers
| must have been whisked Try about
| three blocks back by the tine | got
my hat off.
| All at once there was a frightful
rush O. profanity from Buggies, and
noticed that we Were richotting on a
| wonderful angle up an incline covered
with tulip beds l peered wildly be-
hind me-the road was just disappear
ing in the distance between trees and
| The tracks Of the automobile among
the flowers looked like the first dig
glngs for canal. Suddenly we diyed
| INTO a shady grove on the summit
Ihere was a tremendous, shivering jar,
ana L shot head first into a prickly
sort OF bush The Pea Green Desper-
ado was trembling and gurgling, head
on, against a tree trunk. AS for Bug
giles, ne had Travelled some feet further
than l had, and landed in sort of rus
tic summer house through the window.
on the laps of two persons already