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Updated: May 11, 2025
"A great deal; that is why I leave it in your hands. You are a thinking man you are not afraid of tradition." "Tradition tradition! the ruts made in the road by the vehicles that have passed over it in years gone by!" "The road to the Church is sadly in need of macadamizing, Mr. Holland or, better still, asphalting. Make a bicycle road of it, and you are all right.
He showed me fine specimens of gold collected at Newtown, the English frontier-settlement immediately east of French Assini. I had also warned him to look out for, and he succeeded in finding, beds of bitumen permeated with petroleum: this material will prove valuable for fuel and for asphalting, if not for sale.
Few wayfarers braved the swimming sidewalks, and the little clusters of chairs and tables beneath permanent cafe awnings were one and all neglected. But in the roadways an amazing concourse of vehicles, mostly motor-driven, skimmed, skidded, and shot over burnished asphalting all, of course, at top-speed else this were not Paris.
Pegasus sprained his off hind leg by slipping on it, Bucephalus got into it with all four feet and had to be lifted out with a derrick, and every other fine horse we had was more or less injured, and the damage suits against the city were enormous. To remedy this, the asphalting was taken up and a Nicholson wood pavement was put down. This was worse than the other.
"I haven't any father or mother," answered the urchin, evasively. "What's your name?" "The Orphan." "And why do they call you that?" "Why! Because I'm a foundling." "And didn't you ever have a home?" "No." "And where do you sleep?" "Well, in the summer I sleep in the caves, or in yards, and in winter, in the asphalt caldrons." "And when they're not doing any asphalting?"
They were badly paved. They were full of good intentions, but the citizens thought they ought to have something more lasting, so they voted to appropriate an enormous sum for asphalting. They didn't realize how sloppy asphalt would become in that climate, but after the asphalt was put down they found out, and a Beelzebub of a time of it they had.
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