Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1914-06-11
WHY HE
SOLD 1T
By RUTH GRAHAM


q Had an upsetY
mo"
& Found it cost too much TO keep the
q machine in repair. reckon"
y Not that, either"
We'll, then" looking at a handsome
: collie that was evidently in Rogers
company, you've set up dog instead
: Of car as less expensive and more
: amusing"
81 sold my auto for 5000, 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:
my friends always supposed from
the speed l put on while travelling
through the country on good straight
roads that was perfectly fearless. Ii
wasn't SO at all. I realized the dan
ger of fast travelling, but l enjoyed the
sport so well that l was willing to take
the risk. Fact is, danger always adds
to the Zest of sport. The very thought
that 1 might burst a tire at any mo-
mcnt and swerve into telegraph pole
or stone fence gave me pleasurable
thrill. Besides these was the danger
of some drunken driver coming along
with wild yelp and knocking me into
the middle of next week"
WELL" interrupted Jones, which
was it that cured you of automobiI.
ing?"
"Who's telling this story-you or II
I "You. Go on"
Nothing broke in my machine and /
nobody ran into me. Ny auto was as .
good as ever except for several years /
use, and / never had a spill while ! I
drove her. l don't know for certain,
but 1 think If 1 had been tossed
through the wind shield aud shot a
dozen yards forward without getting
killed l would have been all the hotter
for autoiug.
But I'm not getting on with my sto-
ry. l was driving along one day at a
forty mile gait when. looking ahead,
saw a place where the road ran through
a narrow cut. 1t wasn't a 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 10
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 l would meet in the cut
l didn't see an auto or a wagon, but
did see something that sent a 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 l gave a warning foot. but it /,
didn't even attract the chiId's atten-
ton. 1t was so young that l couldn't :
tell whether it was boy or a girl, but
by its dress l concluded it was girl
She was making a dirt heap in the
road. As to age, she must have been y
between two or three years old.
$50 much went through my mind in O
a few seconds that it seems there NJ
wasn't time for it all. | knew there =
must be a house near by or the child :,
wouldn't have been there. | glanced :
to the right and the left and on the
left saw a small cottage about 200 feet
from the road. How l did long for
some one to run from the house to get
The child out of my wayi But when
saw her there wasn't time for any one
to go over half the distance. / looked
1t the right bank to see If it would
De possible to run up over it without
ny machine turning turtle There was
10 possibility of climbing it without
yoing over on the child. If not on my
elf The left bank was worse than
he right N
1--WE heard what an awful strain II &c
s on a locomotive engineer to run he
Town a human being, but had no con-
,eption of the horror of it till now.
put on my emergency brake. or tried -,
o, but was SO ratified that l lost time l.
u getting my foot on it. By the time
was pretty near the child / was go
ng slow enough. but-great Scott,-
What difference does it make how slow
ou're going when you run over soft m,
title bundle of fash Ike that? ce
81 had given up all hope when of DO
udden ! saw yellow streak making 90
rom the house to the child 1t was ~,
og. and I've never seen train or an =
uto that seemed to get over the %
round so quick He made bee line &c
or the child, who was between the an
middle and the side of the road. fixed ne
is teeth in her dress and yanked her VIC
oward the bank, getting her just on to is!
as | went by at the rate of about
our miles an hour and stopped not
wenty feet away.
"The child's mother came out, and
hen she learned how near death the yo
tile thing had been she pretty near On
linted