"GIVE IT A GO!"

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3150, 31 July 1917, Page 7

"GIVE IT A GO!"

A ROADSIDE INCIDENT. The centrK of the roadway was taken up by marching troops; there was barely, room on either side lor a vehicle to pass, and when the head of tho column passed on to a narrow bridge spanning a creek the motor-cars. from both directions had to halt, or else make a hazardous passage of a foi'd through tho rushing water. "Give it a .go!" the marching men urged a driver who "was proceeding in the same direction as 'She troops. But he .Bjiook his head. His passengers, mostly soldiers returning to Featheraton Camp Jrom leave, chaffed the marching men. "Hurry up," they said. "It's not me thafs stopping you," one of tho men retorted. "Ifs the crowd with me." At last the car managed to slip in between two companies and crept over the bridge, while the, troops following it gravely counted-it out. But. although the driver of the car would not tackle- the ford himself, ho was not above urging the driver of the leading car of tho waiting lino of caw bound, to Feathcrston to make the attempt. The suggestion found favour. "I'll do it," the other driver said, and he did—or, to bo precise, ho didn't. Kβ dashed into the ford, where the water was nearly two feet deep. Perhaps he | weut too last. Tho water rose in a wave over the bonnet, tho current pnco up against the tonneau, and -the eußine stopped. Then two ripples of laughter ran, in opposite directions—one ;u-=ng the line of approaching troops, the other along tho lino of waiting cars. "The real original water wagon," a soldier jeered. The driver tickled up all the switches and levers, but the car stood still; "Work your wireless, mate, thor'e's a steamer in the Strait. She'll come and tow you off." 'Tut a message in a. bottle .ind throw it overboard," another suggested. Such desperate expedients were not resorted to, however, and when the road was clear tho car was safely hauled out.