All of which goes to show the disturbing influence of money, for in all truth those who had assisted did not expect any reward; they first laughed to see the machine in the ditch, and then turned to like tigers to get it out.
This whole question of paying for services in connection with automobiling is as interesting as it is new.

The people are not adjusted to the strange vehicle.

A man with a white elephant could probably travel from New York to San Francisco without disbursing a penny for the keeping of his animal.

Farmers and even liverymen would keep and feed it on the way without charge.

It is a good deal so with an automobile; it is still sufficiently a curiosity to command respect and attention.