DOBBIN COMING BACK.
(By WALT MASON.) It looked as though the horse was doomed, the way the motor business boomed, and Bobbin, steed of sterling worth, prepared to tumble olf the earth. Town dwellers tried to give away the surrey and the one-hoss shay, "and every other wheeled machine that wasn't run by gasoline. And any man who drove a hoss was looked on as a total loss; we wouldn't bow to such a dub, or have him at the Country Club. His wife no longer, we'd invito, when we had tea or euchre fight. But we betin to realise that ho who drives a orse is wise, for no horse owner e'er is seen to fill his steed with gasoline. A horse eats hay, and hay is cheap; one bale in luxury will keep a charger for three days or five, no odds how hard a man may drive. But. if you fill your car with hay, and try to run the thing that way, it will not wag its tail and ears, or go a foot in forty vears. The owner of a car, alas, must blow his substance in for gas, and as the sparkling juice ho pours, the fierce old price still higher soars.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11755, 20 July 1916, Page 4
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208DOBBIN COMING BACK. Star (Christchurch), Issue 11755, 20 July 1916, Page 4
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