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We must try it, as he was sure we should once we
read the circular, and give up the “ Humber.”
Our tandem, with its symmetrical parts and
modest coat of varnish well covered with mud, was
indeed insignificant compared with the nickel-
plated glory of his three wheels, no two of which
were of the same size, the largest being as tall as a
bicycle.* At all events the people of Neuvy, most
of whom were armed with circulars, thought so.
They looked at us, because a meeting of tricyclers
was not an everyday occurrence in their town, but
we gathered no crowd of admirers.-
“ How many kilometres do you make in a
day ? ” asked the Frenchman.
J-- said that we had left Montargis, and were
going on to Cosne—seventy kilometres in all.
“ Seventy kilometres 1 It is too much for
Madame” said the Frenchman, with a bow.
—In my heart I was of the same opinion. But
I declared the ride to be a mere nothing, and
almost apologised for not making it longer.
He rejoiced in the exercise, he declared with
enthusiasm. It was a little fatiguing sometimes,
but what would you have ? And it seemed that
his love for the sport occasionally carried him to
* For the cycler it suffices to say that it was an overgrown
“ Bayliss & Thomas.”
the
We must try it, as he was sure we should once we
read the circular, and give up the “ Humber.”
Our tandem, with its symmetrical parts and
modest coat of varnish well covered with mud, was
indeed insignificant compared with the nickel-
plated glory of his three wheels, no two of which
were of the same size, the largest being as tall as a
bicycle.* At all events the people of Neuvy, most
of whom were armed with circulars, thought so.
They looked at us, because a meeting of tricyclers
was not an everyday occurrence in their town, but
we gathered no crowd of admirers.-
“ How many kilometres do you make in a
day ? ” asked the Frenchman.
J-- said that we had left Montargis, and were
going on to Cosne—seventy kilometres in all.
“ Seventy kilometres 1 It is too much for
Madame” said the Frenchman, with a bow.
—In my heart I was of the same opinion. But
I declared the ride to be a mere nothing, and
almost apologised for not making it longer.
He rejoiced in the exercise, he declared with
enthusiasm. It was a little fatiguing sometimes,
but what would you have ? And it seemed that
his love for the sport occasionally carried him to
* For the cycler it suffices to say that it was an overgrown
“ Bayliss & Thomas.”
the