The houses tire built in the picturesque Swiss style, with flat, projecting roofs and ornamented balconies, and the people are the very picture of neatness and cheerfulness.

A burst tire was a comma; carburetor trouble a colon; nervous prostration of the sparking-plug a period.

We managed to get to Pawtucket, and there tried to stop the leak with liquid preparations, but by the time we reached Providence the tire was again flat andas it proved afterwardsruined.