Identifier: enroutedescripti00trev (find matches)
Title: En route; a descriptive automobile tour through nine countries & over nineteen great passes of Europe
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Trevor, Roy
Subjects: Europe -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : E. Stanford
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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such a fashion that onecould sweep round them with undiminished speed.Through the firs we could see the valley sinkingbeneath us : With towns and hamlets studded,And with streams and vapours grey. The square-shaped Stella group of Dolomitesgrew closer as the pines thinned. One or twocarriages we met caused some delay, their horses,mostly young ones, resolutely refusing to pass.Drawing Mercedes on to the precipice side of theroad, I stopped her engine, and Ken, Dennis and Idescended to help. After some coaxing, the restiveanimals were led past, and it was not until thecarriage disappeared far beneath us, that I restartedthe engine. Dennis, as I mentioned before, had oncebeen a coachman, and he patted and talked to thehorses in a way that visibly astonished and charmedtheir drivers, whose black looks quickly melted intosmiles and thanks. I do like the way you always stop when wemeet a horse that looks restive, said Sheila, whosat in front with me. I love animals, horses anddogs most,96
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IN THE HEART OF THE DOLOMITES I think we all love them/ I answered, andany one who doesnt will never make a motorist.Its the cad who goes barging recklessly along theroads that gives motorists a bad name. Thosedrivers we have just passed will be generous towardfuture automobilists, till some day they meet thatfiend flying along, careless of what damage he does,who, never wanting to traverse the same road twice,reckons he can escape the consequences, forgettingthat he leaves behind him an inheritance of ill-willand discontent, which will be vented upon the con-siderate motorist who follows. Thank Heaven, thatclass of men is rare and will soon become a thing ofthe past. It is a shame, agreed Ken. If those driverswho began by scowling and ended by raising theirhats, meet the motor fiend, all our work will beundone in an instant and theyll once more bemotor haters. Ive met him, in my own countrytoo, and know what it is to be left to quiet aneedlessly terrified horse. Meanwhile, we had bee

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