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Gasoleneous Gadding.

But modern reader, while acknowledging the advantages of gasoleneous gliding, the fact remains that the motorist is a lone wolf, cut off from contact with his fellow wolf by his internal combustiousness, and isolated by celerity. Practically the only conversation he indulges in is when he broods over a burst tyre, and as the tyre has made its final remark before he begins, the meeting is liable to lapse for lack of a quorum or a twosome, and the conversation to resemble lonesome and lopsided loquacity. No sir and madam, for human communion and the exchange of the spoken word, give us the railway train; thus: