jSTcw Use for Motorists.—As the motor car dashed through a, little village tho driver pulled up with a frantic jerk. A man was standing right in front of his machine, waving his arms violently, and shouting: Hi! Stop!" "what's the trouble?" snapped the motorist. "Is it a police trap? Because, if it* i a I wasn't driving- more than twenty miles an j hour " " That's all right, "sir," said the countryman blandly, " I 'ain't no policeman. Only my wife lias been invited to a, wedding to-morrow, and I wanted to ask | you; if you could spare her a drop o'' gaso- !-***» 4ft -sleaxi her dove* -nrith."
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Evening Star, Issue 16625, 7 January 1918, Page 4
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106Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 Evening Star, Issue 16625, 7 January 1918, Page 4
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