To begin with _terra firma_, one finds an early illustration of the motor in 1895, when the Hackney observes to the Shire-horse: "Look here, friend Dobbin, I'll be shod if they won't do away with us altogether some of these days." The road in the picture is crowded with bicyclists, male and female, with a traction engine and a "patent road locomotive" of the waggonette type in the foreground. In 1896 the unsettled nomenclature of this "new monstrosity from France" is shown by the various alternative names--autocar, automobile, etc.--gradually settling down to motor-car. Bells were used as signals--_vide_ the poem "Tinkle, twinkle, motor-car"--and a speed of twelve miles an hour is spoken of as typical. _Punch_ was busy throughout the year with forecasts and prophecies--a motor Derby; a "motor-crawler" for deer stalkers, not altogether unlike the "scooter" of recent years; a motor-coach for the Lord Mayor's procession; and a "moto-growler" almost indistinguishable from the electric brougham. Reference is made to the trial run of motors from London to Brighton, and the frequent breakdowns associated with motoring in its early stages are illustrated in the conjugation of the new verb to "mote":-- [Sidenote: _Motors and Motorists_] PRESENT TENSE I mote. Thou stokest. He looks out for the police. We run into a lamp-post. Ye knock a man over. They pay damages. IMPERFECT TENSE I was moting. Thou wast trying to steer. He was carrying a red flag in front. We were going four hours a mile. Ye were cussing like anything. They were giving it up as a bad job.