The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-02-19
'HANG ON HERE, AND WE SHALL BE BLOWN
ASHORE"

any speed in it, If you can assure me
of twenty miles an hour shall be posi-
| lively chawmed."
He was quietly assured and after the
machine got well started he found the
assurance we'll founded Bunny began
to get nervous after the speed exceeded
fifteen miles an hour, but he managed
to restrain himself until it had reached
! twenty-five Then his hat blew of, his
hair stood up, and there was a CULVER
to his voice as he turned to the girl
and said:
"Oh, now, / thought we came out
to see the landscape, doncher knaw."
Farmers began to yell, dogs to bark
and drivers Of teams to draw out to
the fences as the speed was raised to
| thirty miles an hour, and Bunny Ira
vers confessed to himself that for the
| first time in two years he wasn't bored.
The pace went to thirty-five and then
to forty, and he finally judged that it
had gone to a hundred and the auto
was flying above the trees. Then ii
slackened as they entered a village,
and the girl steered the machine up one
street and down another and finally
halted before the Office of justice of
the peace. A benign looking old gen
tleman came out, and the girl handed
him So.
Now, then, what's all this?' asked
Bunny as Miss Nettie was turning the
machine about.
"Oh, whenever l exceed the speed
limit I stop and pay fine. They don't
have TO arrest me and have witnesses
and a trial Saves time and carries
out the letter of the law, you know.
Little invention Of my own, and l am
| thinking of taking out a patent. I'll
try for a mile minute going back"
Bunny groaned. To his utter amaze
ment, he was not in the least bored.
On the contrary, he was anxious to
suggest that Miss Nettie accept check
for 81 900 for the benefit Of charity and
allow him to walk home Before he
could state the case, however, the
machine was under way. When they
reached home the girl found bundle
Of clothes in the seat beside her. After
awhile Bunny Travers emerged from
the bundle and said that he was a
changed man
| An hour after breakfast next morn
ing when Bunny had finished his cigar
his entertainer asked him II he wouldn't
like to have bout with the foils. he
smiled incredulously, but she asked
him to follow her to the billiard room
and there produced a pair of foils.
Here was his opportunity to get even
with her for the scare of the day be-
fore He would disarm her three or
four times and wound her vanity. 1t
was Bunny however, who was pinked
and disarmed and driven all around
the room and made to look like 80
cents. The afternoon was rainy, and
Miss Nettie proposed billiards and pool
Bunny began by giving her twenty on
billiards and four balls on pool and In
the course of three hours found that
she could give him all that and then
win every game.
Next morning he got up to wonder
what was coming. He soon found out
There was a cracking good sailing
breeze, and the whtecaps were run.
ming on the sound. When Miss Nettie
| proposed a sail in her catboat Bunny
looked at those whitecaps for long
minute, and shivers ran up his back
He followed her down to the boat land
ing, however, and did his best to ap
pear Indifferent. The girl hoisted the
sail, took reef in 1t and then shipped
the tiller, and the visitor was asked to
sit amidships and trim the craft. When
half mile out and just after the ffth
barrel of spray had struck him in the
back, he said something about having
an important engagement in the city
but the boat did not cease to bounce
nor the spray to fiy for nearly an houl
later. Miss Nettie was also sopping
wet and her hair flying, but she was
Dumping Bunny On approaching the
landing she rounded into the wind
held fast TO the sheet and yelled out as
the boat turned turtle. She was along
side of him as he came up, sputterine
and gasping, and as she reached out 6
hand and drew him to the overturned
boat she said:
Hang on here, and we shall bt
] blown ashore. We might as well hays