Show Joy riders come to grief rief in richfield canal A hilarious event luring during the christmas week unheralded ani and unsung took place during the early hours of one ot of tho the festive mornings when one of 0 the guests of oc a local hostelry secured a buicke bug and essayed a joyride accompanied by passengers of doth both sexes A apin of down own I 1 main street beaded disastrously for all concerned the driver evidently not acquainted with the idiosyncrasies of tho them modern bug and being himself ot oc that large fraternity who utterly contempt mr and hia a etor or amendment al also ji being not familiar with tho the curving outlines or of the pavement at al tho the toot of main street ho he tailed failed to negotiate the curve ani ancl plunged into atie well wel filled canal loud vociferous exclamatory clani atory not to say prof profane pronouncements noun cements emanated from the bugs occupants calling forth sleepy and yawn lug neighbors who looked mildly on nalle hile the bugs passengers male and female toi nale swam splashed waded and otherwise ana made e their way ashore leaving tho the bug like the swine at t holy writ to wallow in ill tile the mire the Joy riders like the ark of old were smeared within and without and presented an altogether ludicrous appearance they vended bended their way north along main street their clothes clinging to them like a long lost brother sadder and wiser from their dip in the canal the female of the species had also it is alleged by innocent bystanders I 1 ignored mr and the cold clammy waters of the canal were so different from the beverage kind th that at the shock rather dissipated the distilled joy within thus bendeth a title talc of holiday joy and woo |