You have observed that nearly all the accidents on the road are due to sharp turnings." "Right you are!" he exclaimed.
"A man who tries to turn too sharply on his way nearly always skids." "Or else turns turtle in the ditch." But it was not until we reached the subject of oiling that we mounted to the real summit of enthusiastic agreement.

Of all things on the road, or above the road, or in the waters under the road, there is nothing that the road-worker dislikes more than oil.
"It's all right," said he, "to use oil for surfacin' and to keep down the dust.

You don't need much and it ain't messy.

But sometimes when you see oil pumped on a road, you know that either the contractor has been jobbin', or else the road's worn out and ought to be rebuilt." "That's exactly what I've found," said I."Let a road become almost impassable with ruts and rocks and dust, and immediately some man says, 'Oh, it's all right--put on a little oil--'" "That's what our supervisor is always sayin'," said the road-worker.
"Yes," I responded, "it usually is the supervisor.

He lives by it.