gain. Faster this time. The pretty girl has just come. Will show
what I can do now. Career over large hole. Bicycle sinks, and then takes
a mighty leap. Unprepared for this. Am cast into the air. Picked up.
Can't stand. Something broken. Doctor will say what. Anyhow, clothes
torn, bruised, disheartened. Dare not catch the eye of pretty girl.
Carried home. Shall give up bicycle riding. Awful fag, and no fun.

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In its "Hints for Bicyclists," _Home Chat_ says: "A little fuller's
earth dusted inside the stockings, socks and gloves, keeps the feet
cool." Nothing, however, is said of the use of rubber soles as a
protection against sunstroke.

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OVERHEARD AT A MOTOR MEETING.--

_Inquirer._ "I wonder what they call those large, long cars?"

_Well-informed Friend._ "Those? Oh, I believe those are the Flying
Kilometres, a French make."

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People who are in favour of increasing the rates--Motorists.

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Illustration: THE PERILS OF CYCLING.--(_A sketch in Battersea Park._)

_Angelina._ "Come along, dear!"

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Illustration: MOTORING PHENOMENA--AND HOW TO READ THE SIGNS

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Illustration: _The Squire._ "But I tell you, sir, this road is private,
and you shall not pass except over my prostrate body!"

_Cyclist._ "All right, guv'nor, I'll go back. I've done enough hill
climbing already!"

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THE MORAL BIKE

_Truth_ has discovered that temperance is promoted, and character
generally reformed, by the agency of the bicycle--in fact, the guilty
class has taken to cycling.

That is so. Go into any police-court, and you will find culprits in the
dock who have not only taken to cycling but have also taken other
people's cycles.

Ask any burglar among your acquaintance, and he will tell you that the
term Safety Bicycle has a deeper and truer meaning for him, when, in
pursuit of his vocation, he is anxious not to come in collision with the
police.

Look, too, at the Scorcher on his Saturday afternoon exodus. Where could
you have a more salient and striking example of pushfulness and
determination to "get there" over all obstacles? He is, in fact, an
example of Nietzsche's "Ueber-mensch," the Over-man who rides over any
elderly pedestrian or negl