THE SPEED MANIAC.
(By Walt Mason.)
Wher’or he hies he simply Hies, the dust behind him thickens, past my abode he burns the road, and kills my pup anti chickens. He toots his horn as though in scorn of folks who travel slowly; like a falling star his noisy ear attains a speed unholy. He does not care for your despair, nor heeds your angry feelings; he s.cpots ami rips and tears and zips with drpnken leaps and reelings. For poor galoot who toils afoot he does not care a stiver; he scares flip mules the farmer tools —they bolt, and kill the driver. Along his track for metros back his dead and maimed arc lying; he merely sniffs at mangled stiffs, and still he goes a-flying. When brought to court this measly sport is trued a few piasters, when h« should wail for years in gaol for causing .disasters. Throughout the land this thing >ye stand — we tsand it 'cause we’ve got. to — and all our kicks don’t serve to fix the saphead with the auto. Perhaps some time if will count as crime io jam amock, doggone it, along the pike, and /.-has-e and strike and maim the people on it.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1600, 19 August 1916, Page 4
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203THE SPEED MANIAC. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1600, 19 August 1916, Page 4
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