I'M OF FOR A RIDE ON MY BIKE.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume 38, Issue 966, 22 May 1908, Page 1

I'M OF FOR A RIDE ON MY BIKE.

Don't talk to me now ! I've no timV to put ofl ! [ Some other day. Bill, if you like iWeMl;ftrgue the point, but meantime ■ you see . ; I'm off for a ride on'my bike ! Can T mount it! Of course ! Why, it's ensy enough— , ' At least I am going to try. Just watch how it's done : one, two and a hop- : Ob,.'haDg.it ! that saddle's too high. Never mind ! Now I'm going. There steady ! Hold up !, Oh scissors ! that go was *ll but. That's better ! Keep at it ! Bravo ! Great Scott! - I'm down with coy nose in the rut. All, here's a nice run, and surely this time My'efforts will not be in vain— That's better! much better ! I've travelled—Oh Joseph ! t've : come down-a cropper again.

Hang the old-thing ! -How it wobbles, about ! , ; That wheel hasgot'far too much\ ~ play. There, .round itJ__Th«t's ]ikeit—Gee 1 Whizz ! Now who put that stone right in the way 1

Confound it, T say ! .Now if there'h a stone, Or a rut, or a deep puddle near, ; And'l try to go round it, it's quite on the cards * That straight for the centra Hi st s ,

Oh, my hopes are airbus « al dashed »o t't« ground, For T'd plant •'' ti ie« I r MlOtJ, ' '. j And h bigjouniev i t —k""w'iich,'"••'<£ las.- < i Up tu Alar-. ■■■ ■ l Hi'/on

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' But it's all u -ji- up, f..r it -eenss to j me if- i I There's « culvert or ditch anywhere, And you rai»-> mi fiom dinner cnine qvjck and you'll find Either me or the ihere, Kau.~ Spec Giilly,

! Messrs Vlacassey and Co., hotel brokers, report having 3old on, behalf of Air T. fllichardson, the lease, furniture, .stock, etc, of the Otago Central Hotel, Hyde* as a going con { cern, to, Mr Jnines Silver, of Rokouga ■ also 'ihe lease, furniture, stock and effects of -the" Rokouga Hotel, *to M r i Nicholas Moloney. v The-above firm ' reports a very strong demand for hotel properties at the present time. About midnight last Saturday 1 three footpads inade.things lively for aeveial , belated wayfarers in Fitzgerald Ave nue, Chrislchurch. Two were armed with revolvorF, and they " bailed up"' all whom they thought likely to possess valuables. They struck'the first vie tim on the head with' t'ie butt of a revolver and then relieved him of £2 ] the next showed fight with w umbrella but they managed to get £4. The thirvl ran away, but was stopped by a revolver bullet which stiuck.the back of l>U hand. Tlipy then/robbed him of 17s Gd and a gold W 4 Rt'ch/und chain. Uhe Kst ma,n iisanaged to escape, but a bullet was sent through his overcoat and coat and grazidhis finger. After each Jexpluii they rode off on l>Jcycle-:. The pubcii arrested three men . named ; Frank brennan, James Keegau ;j,nd'Joseph Evans. I

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