Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 392
ined together by a backbone, or perch, that car-ries a saddle, on which the rider sits, over the for-ward wheel, and with hisfeet hanging down on eitherside. A bicycle for boys will have a front wheelthirty-six inches in diameter, a rear wheel of sixteeninches, and it will weigh about thirty-eight… … forcethan itwould taketo walk twenty! A man ona wheel can outrunhorse, go as fast as a dog, and have all the fun ofa bird. You may be sure there was never any-thing invented equal to a good bicycle for realmanly out-of-door sport. Well! This is all very fine for a man. Will itdo for boys? All…
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