How To Drive A Motorcar
A Key To The Subtleties Of Motoring

MEETING CATTLE pace with the progress of the approaching car, but very little practice enables one to do this without any trouble at all. V Cattle on the Road Another point to be remembered is that the night time is frequently chosen by farmers for moving cattle from one part of the country to another, and sheep, for instance, with their “ whitish ” wool, are some- times very difficult to detect on a white road at any distance. It is well, therefore, always to keep a weather eye open for cattle, more especially in agri- cultural parts of the country and on commons, in the , New Forest, Dartmoor, and similar places. W Powerful headlights give warning of a car** approach to cross road». It is not infrequent in the latter places to find ponies sleeping on the road, and in the writer’s expe- rience it is a matter of no certainty that one will not also find in the alleged charge of the sleeping cattle a drover who is carrying more liquid fuel than, is necessary for his accurate propulsion. On the other side of the balance, however, there are several factors in night driving which render it in a way safer than daylight driving. In the first place, there is usually considerably less traffic about, and, in the second place, a powerful set of headlights give warning of one’s} approach a good distance away, and 17 B