Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1909 — Ups and Downs on the Road. [ARTICLE]

Ups and Downs on the Road.

It’s, easy lb drive an automobile When everything goes O. K.: When the wind Is fair and the road Is bare, And the engine Is chugging away. It’s easy to steer the ponderous thing, It’s easy to start and stop; But It’s hard, I say, when she won’t obey. And the engine refuses to flop. It’S easy to drive an automobile When she’s anxious to sail along; When she thrills to feel the life In her keel. And Is chugging her highway . song. It’s easy to fly down the boulevard When there’s nothing your speed to mar, But It’s hard to bowl when a telegraph pole Runs carelessly Into your car. —Joe Cone.