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Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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A shell road in the making—it pays to wait for the finished product. ° ograp y and a delightful one it proved. Weambled happily about the decorous streetsand what we heard of our route convincedus we could go farther and fare worse, sowe decided to spend the night here, and,having dined, occupied the evening indrawing up and presenting to the amateur alist of driving instructions: Dont drive on too rich a mixture, thehotter the day the more air your motorneeds. Keep in your top speed notch as long as or a patch of new metal, do so—tires areexpensive. Dont put your reverse in till your carhas come to an absolute stop, even steel hasan ascertained breaking-point; it may betoo low to meet the occasion. Dont run on half-inflated tires or youmay have to run on a deflated one beforeyou get home. Dont let your tires stand unprotectedin the sun—Solar heat does not improvevulcanized rubber.
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A peacefal invasion of old Fortress Monroe. Photograph by N. Lazarnick. The rule of the road is the same as therule of the sea—the slower and weaker hasthe right of way. Dont lean desperately over your wheel—the policeman will add ten miles an hourto your speed. The fact that you have a couple of brakesfitted to your car does not in itself annihil-ate the laws of Momentum— Festinalente is an excellent motorists motto,though it is antique. Dont break speed laws; respect thelocal restrictions you encounter; slowdown at all cross roads; come to a stop atall unguarded railroad crossings. Lubrication is the second law of Nature.You are not likely to forget the first. Man sometimes forgets but Machinery neverforgives. Dont outrage it. Some fifteen miles south of PrincessAnne, over indifferent and very crookedroads we crossed into Virginia which neces-sitated our hanging out a new license num-ber. We passed a number of small villageson our way, most of them monotonouslyalike and merely

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