Outing . SLeiQH eeLL! WITH a tingle and a tangle,All the sounds a seeming jangle,And a swinging backward, forward, to and fro ;On the frosty morning breaking,Clear their silvery notes outshaking,The sleigh bells are ringing oer the snow. How they set the nerves a-thrillingThrough the heart a joy distilling, Mingling music with the beauty of the day ;As with slipping and with sliding,Swiftly, softly, smoothly gliding, With a song o er the snow we drift away ! Lisa A. P> tc deling m Japan. A MAN who purposes making a bi-cycle tour in Japan must notobject if he is considered a fairy
Outing . SLeiQH eeLL! WITH a tingle and a tangle,All the sounds a seeming jangle,And a swinging backward, forward, to and fro ;On the frosty morning breaking,Clear their silvery notes outshaking,The sleigh bells are ringing oer the snow. How they set the nerves a-thrillingThrough the heart a joy distilling, Mingling music with the beauty of the day ;As with slipping and with sliding,Swiftly, softly, smoothly gliding, With a song o er the snow we drift away ! Lisa A. P> tc deling m Japan. A MAN who purposes making a bi-cycle tour in Japan must notobject if he is considered a fairyor a fool. For none but evilspirits would adopt so strange a meansof locomotion, and all methods of self-propulsion, even without mechanicalaids, are disdained in the thoughtfulEast. One might as well be a coolieat once as bend his back and strainhis muscles when he could be whirledaround the bases of the steep hills in anairy jinricksha. In Oriental countries,where an elephant and a harem wouldbe accepted by transportation companiesas personal baggage, one who rides ona bicycle must base his claim to recog-nition upon other considerations thanhis belongings. Our party, which consisted originallyof three, was reduced to one when thecycle trip began. There were validreasons for this ; the laziness that in with the air, the cheapnessof labor, the privacy and comfort of aperambulator, all go to prove that acyclist is merely a beast of if one first
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