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Identifier: motoringaboard00pres (find matches)
Title: Motoring aboard
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Presbrey, Frank Spencer, 1855- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, The Outing publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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n the second floor where heHved with his family. I introduced myself and showed him the tele-gram which I had received from the stationmaster at Oban. *0, weel man, he said, thats a richt, butyou should hae been here in time for the train. The dispatch doesnt say anything about atrain, I answered. Weel, I tak it he thoct youd kenned. Thetrain has been gone for half an oor, and theflat should hae been taen ower by the train. When does the next train go.^ Therell be na mair, replied he, tilltwenty minutes past eleven Monday forenoon. And this was Saturday night! Well, we were literally nonplussed for a fewminutes but soon regained our wits sufficientlyto ask if there was any place where we couldstay all night as it was getting so dark we didnot wish to go much further in the motor overunknown roads, and we had passed no housesfor miles back. You can return tae Ballachulish, he said,which is aboot thirty miles, and that is thenearest place. We told him we had just come from there and 212
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The road down the west coast of Scotlandhugs the sea for much of the way. sometimes atits level and again many feet above it. Cmtiarfeing for Srelanb would not think of going over that mountain roadin the night. *Is there no place in the station where we cansleep? we asked. Na, he replied, my wife and I and our sixbairns live upstairs and we hae no room. Here was a dilemma. We had had nothingto eat since noon and we did not look forwardwith keen anticipation to a supper and break-fast of Suchard chocolate, French sausage and*Perrier water, a supply of which we alwayscarried in the car for emergencies. As a last resort I asked if he could call up theoffice of the railroad at Oban and see if theywould send a special engine over to pull the flatcar with the motor on it over to Oban, a distanceof only nine miles, but a real case of so nearand yet so far. He agreed to do this and we waited patientlyfor him to call up on the telephone—all traindispatching in that part of Scotland is done

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