CARS AND CARS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12757, 29 September 1919, Page 6

CARS AND CARS.

(By WALT MASON.) I have a Large and costly car. upholstered in the richest plush; and when to Jaunt afar, I ought to get there with a rush. It truly is a gotgeoua boat and should with ease my person haul; the man who sold it Knn+ m +i d U9 u hr » at opining how it beats them all. But every time I take it out, it mves me naught byt grief and toil; the carburetter has the gout, a cylinder starts pumping oil. -And while in agony I try to find what'makes its works complain, the cheap tin cars f“,? vil , !ZZ } a £ b J r > their drivers grinning vuth disdain. My tumbril cost 4000 bones, and every time I’d drive she quits; she coughs and backfires, heaves and throws a hundred kind • V I. d alwa ys when she sheds a sigh, and leaves me stranded far from home, the cheap tm cars go whizzing a™ klck up gravel, dust and loam. lin often stalled; it is my fate to have a car that will not run; and all the cheap cars m the State whiz by, and have al! kinds of fun. With patience I could bear my load, and make some showing, too of glee, if I were stuck upon the road, and there was no one else to see; but when I feel the motor die, and know I’m stalled for half a day, the cheap tin cars go whizzing by, so insolently blithe and gay I