_Effie_ (_to whom a motor-brougham is quite a novelty_). "Oh, mummy
dear, look! There's a footman and a big coachman on the box, and there
isn't a horse or even a pony! What _are_ they there for?"
_Mummy dear_ (_not well versed in electricity and motor-mechanism_).
"Well, you see, Effie dear--the--(_by a happy inspiration_) but, dear,
you're not old enough to understand."
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The _Daily Mail_ has discovered that the "Motor-Cough" is "caused by the
minute particles of dust raised by motor-cars which lodge themselves in
the laryngeal passage." If people _will_ use their gullets as garages,
what can they expect?
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Illustration: _Horsey Wag_ (_to Mr. and Mrs. Tourey, who are walking up
a hill_). "And do you always take your cycles with you when you go for a
walk?"
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IN EAST DORSETSHIRE.--_Cyclist (to Native)._ How many miles am I from
Wimborne?
_Native._ I dunno.
_Cyclist._ Am I near Blandford?
_Native._ I dunno.
_Cyclist (angrily)._ Then what do you know?
_Native._ I dunno.
[_Cyclist speeds to No Man's Land in the New Forest._
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