Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1913-09-18
WHY HE
SOLD 1T
By RUTH GRAHAM

4 lug up Tue uulO spur, tOt nc heio OSSh
an enthusiastic automobilist.
Had an upset?"
mo"
Found it cost too much to keep the
machine in repair, reckon"
Not that. either"
"Well. them" looking at handsome
collie that was evidently in Rogers
company, you've set up dog instead
of car as less expensive and more
amusing"
II sold my auto for $500, and you
couldn't buy the dog for $4,000"
"Did you pay that for him?"
mo; didn't pay anything"
Come; what does it all mean?
Rogers asked Jones into the house
and told the story:
"NIy friends always supposed from
the speed put on while travelling
through the country on good straight
roads that | was perfectly fearless. 1t
wasn't so at all. | realized the dan
ger of fast travelling. but enjoyed the
sport so well that | was willing to take
the risk. Fact is, danger always adds
to the zest of sport. The very thought
that l might burst tire at any mo-
mcnt and swerve into telegraph pole
or stone fence gave me pleasurable
thrill. Besides these was the danger
of soue drunken driver coming along
with wild yep and knocking me into
the middle of next week"
WELL" interrupted Jones, (which
was 1t that cured you of AUTOMOBILE
ing?"
"Who's telling this story-you or n"
"You. Go 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 a spill while l
drove her. | don't know for certain.
but think if | had been tossed
through the wind shield aud shot a
dozen yards forward without getting
killed | would have been all the hotter
for autoing.
but I'm not getting on with my sto-
~. was driving along one day at
forty mile gait when, looking ahead,
saw place where the road ran through
a narrow cut. 1t wasn't turnpike by
any means, but one of those country
roads in which, when teams meet. one
must pull up in the best place to let the
other pass. The narrow bit was tell
ing you about was just wide enough to
get through without scraping On
either side the ground sloped at an an
gle quite capable of overturning car,
no matter how slow it was moving
craned my neck to see if any one was
coming that would meet in the cut.
| didn't see an auto or wagon. but
did see something that sent cold
chill through me-a little child tod
ding about right in between the two
banks.
st was near dark. and | didn't see
what was in the way till | was almost
on it. | gave q warning toot- but it
didn't even attract the child's atten-
ton. 1t was so young that | couldn't
tell whether it was a boy or girl, but
by its dress l concluded it was q girl.
She was making a dirt heap in the
road As to age, she must have been
between two or three years old.
$50 much went through my mind in
q few seconds that it seems there
wasn't time for it all. | knew there
must be house near by or the child
wouldn't have been there. | glanced
to the right and the left and on the
left saw small cottage about 200 feet
from the road How | did long for
some one to run from the house to get
the child out of my way! Bat when l
saw her there wasn't time for any one
to go over half the distance. looked
at the right bank to see If 1t would
be possible to run up over 1t without
my machine turning turtle. There was
no possibility of climbing it without
going over on the child, If not on my
self. The left bank was worse than
the right.
1--WE heard what an awful. strain 1t
Is on locomotive engineer to run
down human being, but had no con-
ception of the horror of it till now.
I put on my emergency brake, or tried
TO. but was so ratified that lost time
in getting my foot ON it. By the time
| was pretty near the child ! was 60
ing slow enough. but great Scott
what difference docs IT make how slow
you're going when you run over soft
little bundle of 6eSh like that?
II had given up all hope when of
sudden | saw a yellow streak making
/ from the house 10 the child. 1t was a
| dog and I've never seen train or an
! auto that seemed to get over the
ground so quick He made a bee line
for the child. who was between the
middle and the side of the road. hxed
his teeth In her dress and yanked her
toward The bank. getting her just on to
IT MS | went by Mt the rate OF about
| four miles an hour and stopped not
twent, feet away.
"Thr rhild's mother came out. and
when she learned how near death the
little hing had been she pretty nehr
fllntcd
"Yeu'l never get me into an auto