Motorists, we all know, like "the man who smokes, who reads the 'Times', who goes to Christmas pantomimes" are "capable of any crimes." But there are some others also against whom motorists are, perhaps justly, entitled to ejaculate "Bt tu Brute." Not all motorists by any means are road hogs. Careful observation teaches that it is for the sins of comparatively a few that a great many suffer. But there is a small-class of pedestrian to whom apparently anyone in a motor-car is anathema, the proverbial red rag. These people, when crossing the road, will, if a motor be coming, deliberately slow up, in the hope of forcing the driver to change his gear. If by any chance he happens to stop his engine, they are happy for the rest of the day. At least so "one might imagine from their general demeanour. It is popularly supposed that if a pedestrian is run down by a vehicle in Paris, he, and not the driver, is fined. There are people in Shanghai for whom that rule might be introduced with advantsze. Their attitude is, one supposes, that they have a Protest to register against motorists' ill manners—which assuredly their own do little to improve.
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