With the Serbs in Macedonia

GOING OVERSEAS 15
We little knew.
" Henrys ''
have lots of ways of their own,
and many and bitter have been our experiences
of the tricks they can play. They are wonderful
vehicles— they go where no other car can
go, and can do what no other car can do ;
but
their front-axles and their steering torque-rods
bend rather easily. A Ford with a bent frontaxle,
and a fool or a novice at the wheel, can
knock spots off a bull in a china shop, as we
were destined to discover.
Passing through Bath to our camping-ground
in the park, we had to make a sharp turn, and
the driver of one vehicle, travelling too fast,
struck the opposite kerb a rather sharp blow.
He didn't ''
shut down,'* as he should have
done, and the car waltzed merrily away to the
other side of the road. Then it came back
again, mounted the pavement, and crashed
into a huge sheet of plate glass on one side of
a draper's doorway. Not content with that,
it ricochetted across the doorway, and shivered
another sheet of glass on the other side, coming
to rest in the window itself with various intimate
feminine garments suspended on its mud-
guards. A blushing subaltern, at the stern call
of duty, was obliged to inspect the damage done,
and some of the injured garments exhibited by
the lady assistants were very intimate indeed.