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Show chance to take hold, and often one could get out better under these conditions, if there is a load in the rear seat. "If the wheels continue to slip at low speed, it becomes necossary to tie ropes about the rear wheels, or to throw stray or brush under them. With a light car one can often help it forward by placing one end of a stout crank or pole under the rear axle, and with the leverage thus gained, lift it forward, while another an-other applies the power slowly." DRIVING HINTS BY OVERLAND SALESMAN Edmonds Tells How to Manipulate a Car When Stalled in Soft Mud. "When a car stalls in soft mud it is the driver's first and most natural impulse im-pulse to jam down the accelerator to et all the possible power from the motor," mo-tor," says Salesmanger Edmonds of the Browning Automobile company, local Willys-Overland distributors. "But," continued Edmonds, "if the car has stalled because the rear wheels cannot take hold in soft mud, and are slipping around, this is not the best way-out. way-out. By whirling the rear wheels the driver is simply 'dieging himself in.' It is better, after shifting into low. to let the motor run at comparatively low speed and let the clutch in gentlv. By doing so the rear wheels have a Detter |