Show AUTO RACING IN EGYPT r II By B Hank Burmester In Seattle Post I first auto a to race last week Two persons person were e killed and fourteen injured The khedive has placed a ban on the sport News Item You have heard Ji ard about the camel on burning sands fIands Going eight long days without a sin single gle drink And about the recluse mummy cutting out all kinds of fun Since the th grim old reaper put him on the blink You Too have heard of Cleopatra rind and nd of Antony the mark And you probably have heard about the kid Who took a brief ant and a d within a single night Got busy and stacked up a ay pyramid p Old Egypt has been bC T branded as the tite cemetery state v Irrigated by a streamlet called the Nile j But Cairo Caro i table u a EJ the re rev suit was was simp grea c cIt CIt It even eyen caused the blase Sphinx to smile A Yankee auto merchant with a can of gasoline gaso Went down the to shame n i r c cHe He had a brace of or wagons and framed up an auto race To put the natives Jerry to the game The khedive d a smoke s stick Ick un unwrapped wrapped a Jo And said My boy bOYtIm Im with you to the wire The The New York gasoline matt tali t hired a I brace of sturdy serfs And prepared to set the desert sands afire a r The natives know a from a crank cr And they tell a from a can they strapped them 1 to t the cush cushions ions lons and released leased r the Ormonde juice There was moving In the early homo home of Ham The racing course was narrow and within a half a mile One chauffeur plowed a furrow through the crowd The other dark brown driver shut his eyes ees and prayed for fot luck While he sped as fast as Egypt laws law allowed The air was blue with Sanskrit as the natives sought for shade And protection prote from the Ute car that smelled so vile Till at last the mad race ended with a crash crass that woke w ke the mums When hen the Fearless roadster struck a crocodile The motor cat car caris is in bad down where Milo Is the smoke And gasoline is hated worse than booze The natives broke their lethargy to see one auto race Then retired to take tale another century snooze The khedive put the kibosh on the fes festive festive festive tive limousine They went so fast he lie really couldn t think He chose to play the camels and cutout cut cutout cutout out the buzz machine Heres a hope he goes gocs eight months Without a drink |