The immature Wilbur drove the thing acceptably, though requiring help on the larger boxes of merchandise, and Trimble Cushman, still driving horses on his other truck, was proud of his employee.

Moreover, the boy became in high repute for his knowledge of the inner mysteries of these new mechanisms.
New cars appeared in Newbern every day now, and many of them, developing ailments of a character more or less alarming to their purchasers, were brought to his distinguished notice with results almost uniformly gratifying.

He was looked up to, consulted as a specialist, sent for to minister to distant roadside failures, called in the night, respected and rewarded.
It was a new Newbern through whose thoroughfares the new motor truck of Trimble Cushman was so expertly propelled.

Farm horses still professed the utmost dismay at sight of vehicles drawn by invisible horses, and their owners often sought to block industrial progress by agitation for a law against these things, but progress was triumphant.

The chamber of commerce recorded immense gains in population.