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Show BBBA, jsie "There's a difference between an excuse ex-cuse and a reuson. You can find plenty exeunt, but not one bloomln' reaaon for boln' cureless." (By MAHCU3 A. DOW.) If there's any one kind of a hick answorlu' to the name of drivLn' fool It's the bird who waves allhl at you whenever he gets In dutch and has an accident. A party of my more or less remote nccjualntance parked his speed buggy at the curl) and went Into a house. While he was gone It rolled away and collided with a sedan. In the sedan was a lady nliout thirty years old. She was a Rood lookln' dame, fair complected, brown hair and a cheery smllln' sort of face that spread sunshine sun-shine wherever she went. Her sedan got a nasty rap and a piece of lagged glass cut a deep ugly gash on her pretty check, dlsflgurin' her for life. I vonder how does that thoughtless lunatic that left his car parked In an unsafe manner feel about It down In his heart? In his Insurance report he wrote, "While I was In the house the brakes on my car let go, which was the cause of the accident." Don't his alibi give you a laugh? As if that tin can of his had some ghostly power enabling It to let go and start up of Its own free will and ram another ear. Now you know and I know his brakes didn't Just let go. The fact Is this guy parked on a grade, forgot to cut his wheels to the curb, and left his engine running run-ning I The vibration of the engine Jarred the brakes loose and that old bus of bis rolled down hill. A natural outcome of this guy's damfool carelessness. care-lessness. I heard of a guy workln' on a railroad rail-road who turned In an accident re port like this, "John Smith, brnkeman, got bit on the end of the finger while trying to spit tobacco Juice down a rattlesnake's throat." In answer to the question, "Who was to blame for the accident?"- was written, "The rattle-snnke." rattle-snnke." Drlvln' a bus or auto careless like Is the same as teasin' a rattlesnake. Don't blame the snake If It bites you. And believe me, I know a lot of folk? this kick In the shins Is meant for. |