MOTORISTS AND PEDESTRIANS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20343, 26 August 1929, Page 14

MOTORISTS AND PEDESTRIANS.

Sir, —I would ask "Once Bit, Twice Shy" to shed the latter part of his cognomen and never to weary of - well doing. Here is one who acknowledges most gratefully the kindnesses of "Once Bit" and his kind. I have lived in one of the agricultural towns of the Waikato during the last two years, four miles from work. Often, instead of waiting for a lato bus, I took to the road, but never walked the entire distance. Some vehicles, full or for some quite good reason, would pass me, but always would come one that stopped, and by some agency opened an inviting door. Or I would bo invited to hop on to the front of a motor-lorry or to sit on a load of road metaL I have ridden in state with local farmers, commercial travellers, actors, world trotters and once, -when I had a driver from my home town, she revived some poignantly lovely memories by reciting names of halfforgotten lanes through which her car had rolled. This is a very, very poor tribute of thanks to fully 100 drivers, and, through them, to the whole confraternity. Edwin Gbeensmith.