PETROL PEPYS DIARY
Up at dawn, and after guttling ample breakfast of tripe and luscious stewed prunes did hasten to garage, where it is my intent to wash and polish our gallop-coach ’gainst the week-end, when I have promised to take my sorry wench to the hills for brave picknick. Did clamber into the rear seat and sprawl there meditating whether to start on forward or postern fenders first. Then did fall into slubbergullion stupor of day-dreams and vision myself in noble gas-chariot with seven-league tyres, leaping over treetops and crags, and finally finde myself flitting from cloude to cloude, light© as a magpie, while the engine did purr out the melodie of “The Wreck of the Old 97” prettie as anything 1 ever did hear. But cripes! A nidderling cloude did buckle and part and we plunge back to grounde, I and my little chariot, and I thwack my pate mightly upon the turf. Awaken to finde I have fallen out of the coach and that it is past noontide. So to the scullery in disguste, to see if my wren hatch have been looking to our lunch victuals.
There are approximately 53.000 automobile and truck dealers in the United States, reports the California State Automobile Association.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 124, 16 August 1927, Page 6
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