A Dodge of Bicycle Thieves.
The bicycle thief is Inventive this year. A young man was practising circles m front of his bouse, when two fellows stopped on the pavement to admire bim. One of them asked how much the wheel weighed, and the young man said it weighed 22Tb. The smaller of the two said that was too light, and that he believed in wheels weighing at last 30Tb. Albo he mentioned that he once came out ahead In a ten-mile race and rode a wheel weighing 381 b. At this the larger of the strangers laughed derisively, and said. " What do yoni know about wheels ?" " Why, T've ridden more wheels than you ever saw," replied the other. " I don't believe you can ride at all." " T'll bet you a sovereign I can. Let me show him on your wheel. I won't hurt It." He could ride ail right. He wabbled slowly on the wheel for a short distance, and then he swished around the corner, and was away like *he wind. " You'd better run after that fellow," said the big stranger ; " I don't know him." The owner of the wheel set off. but the short stranger must have been a mile away by that time. Then when the owner came back the big stranger also had gone. ♦
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Bruce Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 3099, 15 September 1899, Page 6
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219A Dodge of Bicycle Thieves. Bruce Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 3099, 15 September 1899, Page 6
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