Show auto frightened negro ma mammy m we had one rather en counter which might have re bulted in serious injury although it fortunately did pot said mrs airs francis boyd in describing a recent trip through the south in an automobile As we rounded a curve in crossing the mountains ot virginia we saw ap preaching a wagon load of negro folks drawn by a skinny horse that labora bously climbed tr toward ward us in the group was a mother who held a baby close to her breast she evidently had never seen an automo bile before 01 0 she shrieked it its s a black devil and it will ge us and she threw the baby out of the wagon to the road side and then jumped over the amov ing wheels to the ground the woman was so thoroughly frightened that it took some time to quiet her and make her understand that the auti mobile was not danger ous |