Education and religion prepare us for the common-place; nature takes care of the extraordinary.
The Quaker hits back before he thinks.

It is so much easier to repent than prevent.

On the score of scarcity alone, an ounce of prevention is worth several tons of repentance; and--" It was so apparent that the Professor was losing himself in abstractions, that I quietly let the clutches slip until the machine came to a stop, when the Professor looked anxiously down and said,-- "Is the blamed thing stuck again ?" We turned off the Bowling Green road to the River road, which is not only better, but more direct from Napoleon to Perrysburg.

It was the road we originally intended to take; it was down on our itinerary, and in automobiling it is better to stick to first intentions.
The road follows the bank of the river up hill and down, through ravines and over creeks; it is hard, hilly, and picturesque; high speed was quite out of the question.
Not far from Three Rivers we came to a horse tethered among the trees by the road-side; of course, on hearing and seeing the automobile and while we were yet some distance away, it broke its tether and was off on a run up the road, which meant that unless some one intervened it would fly on ahead for miles.

Happily, in this instance some men caught the animal after it had gone a mile or two, we, meanwhile, creeping on slowly so as not to frighten it more.