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Show BIRDS AND AUTOMOBILES. Philadelphia Record. Birds are one of the greatest annoyances annoy-ances that the automobllist has to contend con-tend against when scorching. As, in his sixty-horse-power motor, swathed In a bearskin coat, this man shoots like a streak of red or white lightning along a country road, he is apt at any moment to receive a guinea fowl, a duck or a chicken full in the face. For his automobile automo-bile moves too fast for these creatures; they cannot gauge it; It bewilders them. And hence, in their perturbation, they are quite as likely to fly into him as away from him. Pigeons and swallows also strike the automobllist some times,' though more rarely. The Impact of these little birds Is not so violent nor so unpleasant un-pleasant as the heavy, rough, soft, warm Impact of a chicken or a goose.At night, when its great and brilliant lamps are lit, the aulumobile does a cruel quantity of killing among the creatures of the country. Birds, frogs, lizards, snakes, dogs and many other live things pause in lta way, enchanted by the effulgent rays It - sends forth, ami in a moment are crushed to death. |