The Wheel and cycling trade review . y feelings overthe matter by thinking how my boys eyeswould sparkle when he saw the bicycle onChristmas morning. The next night Istopped at the house long enough to get theframe out of the shed, and hide it unseenunder the front stoop of the next house,which was closed up. I couldnt cover it upin any way, and all the next day I tried tothink of a plan to get it home. As I havenoticed a good many people carrying partsof bicycles in their hands of late, I finallydecided it would be safer to walk along thestreet with it during daylight than under thecover of d
The Wheel and cycling trade review . y feelings overthe matter by thinking how my boys eyeswould sparkle when he saw the bicycle onChristmas morning. The next night Istopped at the house long enough to get theframe out of the shed, and hide it unseenunder the front stoop of the next house,which was closed up. I couldnt cover it upin any way, and all the next day I tried tothink of a plan to get it home. As I havenoticed a good many people carrying partsof bicycles in their hands of late, I finallydecided it would be safer to walk along thestreet with it during daylight than under thecover of darkness. I was right. Watchingmy chance, I took it from under the stoopof the vacant house and walked down thestreet unchallenged, and no one paid any at-tention to me on my way home. Well, I felt happy that night. I got allthe parts and put the machine together, andwould you believe it, they fit as snug as abug in a rug, for by good fortune I musthave stumbled over the same make of wheeleach time. I felt proud when I got it all put. A Study in Angles—The Wheeler. The boy who cried to be put into longtrousers, when he gets a bicycle regrets theloss of the girls stockings he used to wear. parture, feeling well satisfied with my starttoward my boys Christmas present. The next night I visited the house again,but although I searched high and low, Icouldnt find the wheel. So I left, feelingrather cast down. Later on I had more the basement of a big house I entered Ifound two bicycles; one of them lookedabout the same as the one I fell over theprevious night, so I pulled out the wrenchand removed both the wheels. I tied themtogether, and after wrapping them up inbrown paper, I started for home. By goodfortune my big package excited no suspicion,and I congratulated myself on the rapid prog-ress toward my boys present. A couple of nights afterward I ran acrossanother wheel in a house I visited, and whenI got through with my regular business I re-moved the parts I had no use f
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