AT THE MARKET-PLACE

yet. (An) engine trouble has just developed this morning, and the mechanic does not believe that he can repair it to-day. Then can you give me the address of another place where I may l hire one 2 ?

Do you mean that yours is the only automobile in the city? Is it not strange that there is 1 only one in a large city like Toul ? In Paris there are automobile stands at nearly every street corner.

Horse-drawn carriages have almost wholly disappeared from the streets of our large cities. Automobiles have replaced them. However, it 3 is very different in the country. Our peasants believe that the horse is indispensable for the work of their small farms. Besides that, automobiles are very dear in France. They are not as cheap here as in the United States.

Those that you see on our highways are touring cars 4 which belong to the rich merchants or to the manufacturers of our cities. You will often see them when they are on their way with their families to Alsace-Lorraine or to the Swiss frontier.

But I am certain that our peasants will continue to go to market in their wagons. They do not travel so much as your American farmers. They are not so modern. They live as their fathers and grandfathers lived, and they are satisfied. So, do not expect to see them sell their horses to 5 buy touring cars.4