Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 391
ll 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 at… … think it would be great fun to fly. It is a pity we have nt the right style of wings, so that we could take a good fly now and then, but with a bicycle you can skim along the ground, if not over it. Riding a wheel is next to flying, and ten times better thancoast- ing or skating.There are two kinds…
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