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rested or killing some one ! Of course, 

 there are automobile rambles, just as 

 there are pedestrian races, but they are 

 the exceptions. Then there is another 

 objection. If you leave your machine 

 for any length of time, in a country dis- 

 trict, you may well expect to find one 

 or more tramps investigating it on your 

 return, and sometimes may even find 

 some screw or nut gone, — stolen for no 

 reason but the instinctive desire of the 

 tramp to destroy the property of those 

 richer than himself. I was lucky 



And did we not find the belt con- 

 necting the fan for the radiator most 

 unaccountably gone? You don't know, 

 but I do, and while I never ex- 

 pect to produce that photo in a court of 

 law in proof of the aimless knavery of 

 two of the submerged tenth, still I al- 

 ways look at it with interest when I 

 think of the circumstances and spend 

 idle time in idle speculation a la Stock- 

 ton and the Lady and the Tiger, — 

 Which ? The Negro or the White ? Yes, 

 it's risky to leave the car for long walks 



But don't they look guilty? 



enough to get a picture of a negro 

 tramp and a small boy hoodlum turning 

 away from an interested inspection of 

 the interior of the engine hood, while 

 the car was left alone. Part of the 

 party came along the road, and were 

 visible for some little distance. I 

 returned through the trees and took 

 this picture unobserved. Of course, you 

 say, neither one is doing anything, 

 but don't they look guilty? And did 

 not the engine get most unaccount- 

 ably hot immediately after starting? 



away from it, for pictures or other pur- 

 poses, if in a lonely country, and there- 

 in is one of the greatest objections to 

 using the automobile as an adjunct to 

 the camera. Moreover, there is a prac- 

 tical objection in the carrying of good- 

 sized outfits in the automobile ; the cam- 

 eras and cases bounce around so on a 

 rough road that the owner is in mortal 

 terror lest his expensive outfit be re- 

 duced to splinters. I have a fondness 

 for rough, tough trips, and I know 

 whereof I sneak. But if a little inge- 



