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Show 4- Walt Mason THE HAPPY PAST My auto didn't cut out vice, when New" V..ir In.v Invited vows, and now instead of running nice. It's halky as the law allows. Two cylinders an- pumping pump-ing Oil, and when up heavy grades I climb, the radiator starts lo boll, and oh. 1 have the dingodesi time' 1 sometimes some-times think, when steeped In woe. In rkf thai seems to have- no epd. of happv days of long ago, when Dobbin was my faithful friend. Year after year he plugged along, contented vvitn his hav I and oats, and seldom did his works g-j wrong, as go the works of modern boats. He has all kinds of pep an.l power, from blowouts, punctures, he was free, he made six parasangs an hour and that was fast enough for me. Me dldll't fret sa up overnight when he won In his stable stalled: no punk mechanics found delight In seetng he was overhauled. No carbon in his system formed, his carburetor dldn t cough, he didn't buck till he was warmed, when In the morn 1 drove him off. And In those happy bygone tlm.-v I had some kopecks In mv dUdS I always had the needful dimes to buy some sausage sau-sage or some suds. Bul now I m always i in the hole, the motor car has wre, k.-d mv life, the stern mechanic gets my roll and huys more diamonds for his wife. |