{"product_id":"2940013692626","title":"Old Blastus of Bandicoot","description":"It was in those days, so lately fled, when horseless carriages were a\u003cbr\u003ecuriosity beyond the seaboard. Some young bloods had made the journey\u003cbr\u003efrom Sydney to Melbourne in one as the most enterprising adventure at\u003cbr\u003ecommand following the picturesque performances of the Boer War, and had\u003cbr\u003ethereby rendered themselves as glamorous as minor flight pilots of later\u003cbr\u003eyears. Desirous of inspecting the country which produced their\u003cbr\u003ehigh-priced staples, a few German or French wool-buyers had penetrated by\u003cbr\u003ecar to the Southern Tableland, but these were foreigners, and in local\u003cbr\u003econsideration, their potentialities were outweighed by their\u003cbr\u003epeculiarities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was another pair of sleeves when Sandy Lindsey and his son Ross came\u003cbr\u003eback from Sydney with a car of their own. Motor cars became a personal\u003cbr\u003eand local concern from Canberra to Brindabullah, Bombala to Yass, and\u003cbr\u003eback again to Bandicoot, and the kernel of gossip. Nothing had so\u003cbr\u003etitillated the neighbourhood since Mabel Barry \"went wrong.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere was panic among the horses. Even the most ring-boned and sluggish,\u003cbr\u003eas though of instinctive premonition, stood on their tails and with\u003cbr\u003eterrified snorts and breathings, regardless of culverts or cuttings,\u003cbr\u003ebacked from the devilish monster which threatened their existence. Horse\u003cbr\u003ebreeders were derisive. Wait till the horseless wonder started up when no\u003cbr\u003eone was in it and careered over a precipice or crashed into a shop window\u003cbr\u003ein Monaro Street! Such evil-smelling, unnatural contrivances should be\u003cbr\u003estopped by law. What were innocent women, mothers of large families, to\u003cbr\u003edo when a man had the right to make the roads unsafe for them? People who\u003cbr\u003edrove cars were murderers.","brand":"WDS Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47083155587312,"sku":"2940013692626","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013692626_p0.jpg?v=1763584445","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013692626","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}