and efficient rug which may be used with safety for motor-driving.
A Piccadilly tailor, again, is building a special motor-coat, which obviates the necessity for a rug by being cut very wide in the skirt and buttons at the side. The garment is of good appearance, and somewhat resembles a German officer's greatcoat. The motorist, therefore, has a choice of serviceable attire. One of the disagreeables of a long drive through rain is that the water is apt to accumulate on the seat of the carriage, so that its occupants are virtually sitting in a small bath. I was amused to see some correspondence on this matter in the 'Automobile Club Notes and Notices' of February 4, 1901, No. 32, p. 197. Mr. T. G. Carew-Gibson there gave the following amusing account of a device in common use in the back country of Australia by coach-drivers and others:—
In wet weather you put the cushion inside your coat before sitting down, and thus preserve a dry seat. Should you at any time leave the cushion exposed to rain, the water will not form a pool in the centre and saturate it, but will run away at once through the hole.
Just after the break-up of the 1888 drought, I, one day, struck the salubrious township of Booligal, in the Riverina District of New South Wales, and about 4 a.m. next morning, in a nice steady rain, issued forth from the 'hotel' to take my seat on the coach bound for Hay.
A minute later out came an old bagman who had also camped there, and seeing the driver standing dripping under the verandah, whilst the five lean and drought-stricken horses were being yoked up, asked him to wait a minute whilst he went across to the store. He shortly returned and climbed up beside us on the box, having
