THE MOTOR CAR’S COLT

New Zealand Tablet, 20 November 1913, Page 62

THE MOTOR CAR’S COLT

Louis Disbrow, the well-known motor car racer, finds now and then a man whom the speed mania has •not reached. ‘ Loitering afoot down a road one day,’ relates Disbrow, his eyes twinkling, " I met an old man and a boy. As we passed the time of day the brazen honk of an automobile horn echoed and re-echoed through the quiet hills, and a red streak flashed by us and disappeared in a cloud of dust. ‘ The old mountaineer was dumbfounded. He looked first at his son and then at me, and was about to formulate a question, when a motor cycle, trailing the automobile, sped by with an unearthly shriek. ‘ When he had recovered his powers of speech, the old fellow turned to his son and said: ‘“Well! Who d a-thought that deni thing had a colt!’ *