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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 391

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call them bone-shakers. Aboutthree years ago, somebody madea better kind of velocipede, andcalled it a bicycle, and nowboys, and men, too, have a ma-chine that it is really some funto use. Lately they have begunto call it the wheel, which is a better name thanbicycle. Talk about coasting down hill…

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