JUSTIFICATION.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXII, Issue 2516, 20 December 1927, Page 2

JUSTIFICATION.

The suspicion and dislike with which Swiss peasants regard motor car drivers is partially justified by the extreme dangerous nature of some of their lanes and. village streets, and —if all tales be true- —by the very lighthearted manner which some French and Italian tourists negotiate these narrow and tortuous routes. One of the tales now going the rounds is that a French woman knocked down a peasant with fatal results. On being arrested, she inquired, coolly, “How much?” “How much, madame?” queried the puzzled magistrate. ‘Certainly,” was her alloyed answer; “if I kill, I pay!” Another yarn tells how a motorist travelling alone, found a man lyingon the road in a pool of blood and took him at speed to the nearest village. He was unable to speak the language and the infuriated villagers supposing that he had knocked the man down, threw his car into the ravine and were barely restrained by the local policeman from lynching him.