To the Editor of the "Nortu-Cutsa Day News.'
Sm,—Reading in your paper the letter from "Courtesy" and the reply from the Shanghai Cyclery, I should like to relate a similar instance to that described by Courtesy," that occurred in the Jessfiel Road last evening.
Driving out a friend behind a spirited horse, we were met by two carriages, followed by a very noisy motor car. When close enough, we signalled to the motor driver to keep behind the carriages, instead of which he rushed by them, and between them and us with a noise sufficient to startle the quietest horse ever foaled, with the result that we found ourselves in the fields by the roadside, and it was only by good luck that 2 nasty accident was avoided. Very different was the treatment we received a little further down the road from the driver of another automobile, who, on our signalling, immediately slowed up without noise until we were past.
Tam far from being an anti-automobilite—T hope and trust the automobile has come to stay—but I do think in the instance above mentioned that "French politeness" should be practised before it is taught either to Mr. Courtesy or to any other lover of well-bred and gentlemanly behaviour on the road.
Tam, ete.,
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