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Identifier: motoringaboard00pres (find matches)
Title: Motoring aboard
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Presbrey, Frank Spencer, 1855- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, The Outing publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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if the Govner werentabout Id kiss ye for that. I simply mentionthis incident to show that little acts of kindnessand little deeds well done often produce aston-ishing results. The proprietor of the Lion Inn told us that hehad served his time in the Royal Navy and hadnow retired to the country to spend his days inpeace. I presume that he has a very good busi-ness in furnishing meals to motorists. Certainlythe excellence of his unpretentious house war-rants it. He was particularly anxious that noneof the constables should catch us speeding andcautioned us particularly about a trap just be-yond Buckden. He told us that if we wouldlook into the bushes on the left at a particularspot we should see the constables, and sureenough we discovered them crouching partlyhidden behind the foliage, first one and aboutthree hundred yards beyond another, with athird even farther up the road ready to step outand stop us in case he had been signaled to doso by the other two. A word to the wise, how- 164
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■2 ^ jfrom lonbon to ^cotlanb ever, had been sufficient and we passed the trapat such a snails pace that even the constablesthemselves were forced to return our sarcasticsmiles. When we had gone a few miles farther, a goodSamaritan, whom we passed on the road, told usto be very careful not only in approaching Stiltonbut in passing through the town itself and not toundertake to make any speed whatever until wehad passed the Norman Cross Inn about twomiles north of Stilton. Stilton has for manyyears been famous for its cheeses, and has nowin these later days become famous for the enter-prise of its constables in holding up motorists. The run from Buckden to Retford, a hundredand forty-seven miles from London, gave us acontinuous succession of delightful panoramicviews. We were in the heart of old Englandwhere apparently every one was thrifty and pros-perous, and we frequently commented on thegreat number of bicyclists we passed. Bicyclingis not only still a fad but the bicycle is used

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