Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1913-08-01
WHY HE
SOLD 1T
BY RUTH GRAHAM

JOnts was sufpfiSeu al the uidn CIV
| ing up the auto sport. for be had beef
an enthusiastic automobihst
1 "Had an upsetY''
mo"
Pound II cost too much 10 keep tb.
machine in repair. reckon
mot that. either"
We'll. then" looking at handsome
collie that was evidently in Rogers
company, you've set up dog instead
~ car as less expensive and more
amusing"
II sold my auto for $500. and you
couldn't buy the dog for $1,000"
did you pay that for him?v
mo; | didn't pay anything
Come. what does II all meanle
Rogers asked Jones into the house
and told the story:
MY friends always supposed from
the speed ! put on while travelling
through the country on good straight
roads that was perfectly fearless It
wasn't so at all realized the dan
ger 81 fast travelling but enjoyed the
sport so well that ! was willing 10 take
the risk. Fact Is. danger always adds
10 the zest Of sport The very thought
I that ! might hurst a tire at any mo
Z ment aud swerye into a telegraph pole
I or stone fence gave me a pleasurable
I thrill Resides these was the danger
OF some drunken driver coming along
with Wild yep and knocking me into
the middle Of next week"
Well interrupted Jones, which
was Il that cured you OF automobile
ing77
who's telling this story--you or ~"
You. 60 ON
Nothing broke In my machine and
nobody ran into me. My auto was as
good as ever except for several years !
use, and | never had spill while 1
drove her | don't know for certain.
but think II had been tossed
through the wind shield and shot a
dozen yards forward without getting
killed I would have been all the hotter
FOR autoing
"hui I'm not getting on with nay sto
ry. was driving along one day at a
foriy mile gait when. looking ahead,
saw place where the road ran through
a narrow cut II wasn't turnpike By
any means. bat one Of those country
roads In which, when teams meet one
must pull up ia the best place to let the
other pass The narrow biz was tell
ing you about was just wide enough 70
get through without scraping ON
either side the ground stopped at an an
gle quite capable Of overturning car.
no matter how slow II was moving
craned my neck 10 see IL any one was
coming that / would meet in the cut.
didn't see m auto or q wagon. but
did see something that sent cold
rhll through me-a little child tod 7
Hing about right In between the two
ranks
1T was near dark. and didn't see
What was in the way ill was almost
N IL ! gave a warning foot. but it :,
Iidnt even attract the child's atten- ),
ion Il was No young that couldn't y
Ell whether Il was a boy or girl. but
y It's dress | concluded Il was a girl "
he was making dirt heap In the :,
Dad As 10 age. she must have been =
etwecu two or three years old =,
so much went through my mind IN =,
few seconds that It seems there =.
'asu't time for 1t all | knew there !.
ms, be house near by or the child -
ouldn't have been there glanced 81
} the Hight and the left and on the
q saw small cottage about 200 feet IN
ON the road How did long for of
'me one 20 run from the house TO get "a
Ie child out OF my way But when .
~ her there wasn't time for any one no
~ over half the distance look ed ~,
the right bank TO see II IL would :
possible 10 run up over IL without e
y machine turning turtle There was -.
possibility cf climbing II without 49,,
ing over on the child II not on my
n The left bank was worse than 80,
= right ~
i've heard " hat an awfu. strain II a.
on locomotive engineer TO run !.
wn n human being. but had no con
ptiou Of the horror Of it till now :.
put on my emergency brake. or tried A
hut was so ratified that ! lost tine
getting my foot on Il. By the time
was pretty near the child | was go
! slow enough. but-gceat Scott -
at difference does IL make how slow
n're going when you run over a soft -,
lie bundle Of 1esh ike that7
7 had given up ali hope when of '"s
tdsn saw e yellow streak making
IA tho house 10 the child ID was . '''s
/. snd I've never seen a train or sn
70 that seemed 10 get over the WIN
mud ~ quick He made = bee line ing
she child. who was between the over
idle snd the side Of the road. nxed can
teeth In her dress and yanked her II
ard the bank. getting her just on to Tore
Is | went by at the rate OF about "
' miles an hour and stopped not or /
.1ty fee; swry put
The ebild's mother came out. and Il
en- she Learned how near death the did
e thing had been she pretty near have
tied With
Fcg'H never get ma into an auto Jl