[The Luckiest Girl in the School by Angela Brazil]@TWC D-Link bookThe Luckiest Girl in the School CHAPTER XV 18/31
Change places with me now, and you shall try again when we come to a quiet road." Rather thankful not to have to venture her 'prentice skill in the narrow winding street, Winona gave the wheel into her aunt's more experienced hands.
It was only _pro tem._, however, for when they were once more in the open country Miss Beach continued the lesson, making her start and stop several times just for practice. "I believe you know the routine now," she said.
"It's the motorist's first catechism.
Remember those cardinal rules, and you can't go so far wrong." "Do experienced people ever forget them ?" asked Winona. "Sometimes, when they grow careless.
Mr.Forster sprained his wrist the other day with a back-fire, which he ought to have avoided, and I heard of a horrible accident in Paris, when a chauffeur started his car with the clutch in gear, with the consequence that it dashed over a bridge into the Seine, and the occupants--a lady and two little children--were drowned before his eyes.
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