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FIM1509

10 H. P. 2 SEATER] Equipped with Ballon Tyres

34 MILES per. GALLON

Domonstration Model

for Sale

Price $1850,00

For particulars apply"to-

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

DOUGLAS.

That

Good Cycle!

TO ARRIVE SHORTLY.

WHEN DESERTS ARE

WET

MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, JULY 3, 1926.

And here and there more cow While cleaning off enough gumbo ponies were anchored to posts or so that the front wheel could turn, Just standing at ease with their a passing motorist halled us," bridle reins on the ground. We seeking information about the A MOTOR-CYCLE JAUNT. stopped for fuel and inspection by road bohind us. We didn't want

[LY WORTH & KNOWLES.]

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other.

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a railful of loafors. What those to, discourage him so we didn't follows, said about the three say much, but what he told us wheeler was aplenty. They want-about the stretch ahead he whis- ed to know if the wind hild was pered. Sooms he didn't want his, It was the first spring motor-to keep the grasshoppers out or wife to hear it for some reason or cyclo jaunt to the Grand Valoy make the passengor stay put and its princ. al metropolis,Our puncher, passongor replied, Grand Junct on. The trip was telling 'em that said wind screen not without. joy though I never was to keep the pratty girls from reached my urban destina ion, getting at him. To prevent Mother Earth was woll frozen fight in times o' peace wo le when I headed out of town for the town...

valloy and though the rad to The next station was. Silt. Now Cuntia is reported to hbo Looking at Wobster's Unabridged. rough I failed to see anything ofI find that silt means mud. Silt that naturo except a brown dog was dust that day, the mud being. that was for rough play, even if it out of town on spucial business:

Messrs. Societe Italiana Inip. Esp. Alex. Ross & Co. (China), did morit him & couplu kicks, which you'll lea' n about later.

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We

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DUNLOP TYRES

for your protection.

They are made at Fort Dunlop, Birmingham, and they are recognised to-day as the Standard by which all Tyres are judged.

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What ho did to my trousers is un- Aftor that we hit some scenery mentionable.

which took 6 lot of tino to 'pro- Trailing the mighty Colorado porly digest, and we used the River around the foot of some camera every mile or two.. Rifle stony looking hills I came upon was the next town and maybo what seemed to be a cow punclier you won't believe it but the name bo was wearing one of those o' the hotel is the Winchester and Buffalo Bill hats anyway, and was they tell me that the two restaur- on foot-who ever heard of alants are called Romington and puncher walking? Well, this Savage and when they set out to

time, except for the rain which Wo wore having a pretty good

had chosen the time and the placo and was not to be deferred for a moment, Going ahead we hit

bird was consuming his quota of capture business there's a lot of "another beg, came out of it and sole leather and only because he noise. Then there's a newspaper would have been all to the good didn't have the change about him where we stopped to let a cub re- if the wheels has turned now and to ride the Pullman which covers porter have a good glimpse of

the same territory. According to something on three wheels and then. A passing teamster told us his tale his gilredge securities would you believe it, they call that DeBeque was six miles ahead and assets wore all tied up and be the shoot the Rifle Report. Some and that the road was just as had been up to the Snuggler sharp cracks they make I'll bot. Food as that we had just covered. There were some oodar trees and Tucks close by and after a little noodless argument the puncher and I pushed the outfit under 'am to wait for a freezo which we thought oughta' come any time as a messenger of Providenco .sent in our behalf..

Mine looking for something with regu ar wuges tied to it. He ac cepted free passage radily enough, but that just goes to show that he didn't know what was coming,

Just when I had given up all hopes of ever, sening a good cigar or other sign of civilization again we burst into New Castle, a real Will West place, looking as though it might have slipped out of a Bill Cody, weekly,"

A puncher and his pinto pony were headed down Main Street

We hit some good road and pushed the maximum hand of the Corbin-Brown speedometer right up past the place where it usually losfa and but for sending a spor tive jack rabbit to the hospital wo reached Grand Valley without incident. Grand Valley is one of these places which the railroad invented to make fino words for a time-table and as a sort of "go- between "for the bootleggers in the mountains and the dispensors in the valley. It was a grand place from every viewpoint.

Six miles bumped over and we neared some dark I oking coun- try. Ahead of us a wagon rolled and plunged through amoras; of washe and muddy ruts, drawn- by two husky Missouri malos. The Harley-Davidson snorted a little and spurted by the mules like the Twentieth Century pas sing a freight. The long-cred cusses didn't like the colour of our paint and shi da hit, but were behaving pretty well by the time they had gone through the

The clouds ovorhoad didn't kiak espoolally good natured and we looked about though we had heard that from Grand Valley to Do- Bequia there were plenty of racks and trees but no ranches. Unfor tunately for the inmates of the same we spied a tent and wallowed in that direction, Investigation showed that these persons were also in possession of two covored wagons and one tent, all thres said to be unoccupied by man or beast. They offered use of one covered wagon with stovo, 'bad'

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nearest fence and ove a coupla boulders. Outside that we didn't make any impression worth. recording. We started up a long hill. We kept looking at the top. and pretty soon I could see that' we weren't getting near the peak at all. The whole outfit was standing atil and the rear wheel was trying to dig out of sight. We got off and stood still. This, in a little mud which didn't come much higher than our boot tops. We cut down all the timber within reach and ambled into Romo friendly appearing ruts and went ahead with about fifty: pounds of excess baggage, which our foot accumulated.

There was a bog ahead and because I thought the three- whhofer might take a fancy to it I gave 'er the gas and didn't give it time to conjure up any devil- mont. We wout through it alright I hadn't really figured on a bath" until Saturday night! being unprepared as it were.

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