How pleasant it is to spend an evening in this way! I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!
I'd invented an automatic gate closer out of cement-filled tires, a solar cooker that didn't work very well out of an umbrella and tinfoil, baking-pan alarms to entrap my siblings.
They owned a tire company, Michelin and Co, and believed if they produced a guide highlighting a list of places to eat and rest, drivers would spend more time on the road.