The Motormaniacs

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Lloyd Osbourne. The Motormaniacs

The Motormaniacs

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THE GREAT BUBBLE SYNDICATE

COAL OIL JOHNNY

BEAUTIFUL STACKPORT TWO HOURS' RIDE FOR $1 CHILDREN ½ PRICE

JONES

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Lloyd Osbourne

Published by Good Press, 2019

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I guess I wasn't any better myself, and quite a coolness sprang up all around.

The repair bills came to a good deal of money, and the eighteen dollars a month we paid at the garage was the least of the total. The Henry Ward Beecher agent had told Harry it cost a cent a mile to run a Fearless, but if he had said a dollar-eighty he would have been nearer the mark. Mr. Hoover said cheerfully he knew only one person who had got automobiling down to bed-rock, and that was pa! But for the rest of the syndicate it was their life's blood. It began to dawn on Harry and Nelly that they could never get married at all, as long as they stayed in the combine. It had cost them all the money they had saved to come in, and now it was taking every cent they had to stay in. Nelly used to cry about it, though I never noticed that it made any difference in her taking out the car, which she did regularly, and didn't let me ride with her unless I paid a dollar each time in advance. She said she didn't know any other way of saving money.

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