Bikey the Skicycle and Other Tales of Jimmieboy

a lot of these tall steeples about here, and it wouldn't be any f

sn't a steeple in the world can touch us now. What we wa

mieboy. "There aren't any Alps in

essons as well as you ought to you'd be able to tell one country from another. You are wheeling directly over France now.

mieboy. "I want t

?" aske

ered Jimmieboy. "

thought you meant a man to put in a pane of glass, and it struck me that

eems to me we might coast down Mont Bla

n size. Furthermore, we haven't come out to explore the earth. I was going to take you off to the finest bicycle track you ever saw. I never saw it either, but I'v

got eight moons, I think he said. One for every d

got moonlight to burn. If you'll pedal ahead now as hard as you can we can get there in time for one turn and

is Saturn?" a

good place for bicycling. Nobody'd take an ice cart or a furniture truck that far just to get in the way of a wheelman, and then as it doesn't

ent, passing through huge fleecy masses of clouds, now and again turning to one side to avoid running into strange little bits

those if you want to, Jimmiebo

to me I could go on this way forever. It'

chuc

laughing at?"

said it was easy as sleeping I th

"I am awake, ain't I? This isn't li

es have been quite different. But, I say, we're g

immieboy, quite elated.

o the other boy's Nicaragua page in the stamp album. There are o

Jimmieboy. "It's go

hat?" ask

ol, and so of course you don't know what a hello is. It's

mebody say I was an angel of a bicycle. I don't

hing with wings,

ne of those. Don't they ever have wheels?

aid Jimmieboy. "But I suppose they come. A

thing that was worth having was too much for him to

y, after a moment's silence. "It must be

Saturn to say anything, so he, too, kept silent and pedalled away as h

ad? Looks like the side

t's the ring of Saturn, and, as the saying goes, for biking

ed before a great, blinding light caused Jimmieboy to close his eyes, and when he had o

key, "we're on the ring

ss," said Jimmieboy. And

a body like a man's, but instead of legs it had wheels like a bicycle. If you can imagine a Centaur with

"but we have to be very particul

," sai

have caused disturbances of late that we have had to forbid them coming. You are the only Earth people who have been here,

ikey, "and if you'll tell us your rul

shall ride a wheel standing on his head. There was a person over here from Mars last

absurd!" sa

mitted. We used to allow that until a man from Jupiter ran slap bang into another man who lived at the extreme end of the handle of the Great Dipper, who was coasting backward from the other direction. They came together so hard that we couldn't get 'em ap

n't think we'd need a rule like that, because, while our bicycl

ther along. We had to stop that, too, because the last time they did it the men were so strong that the bar was pulled apart and both tuggers went flying off on one wheel so fast that they have never managed to get back-not that we want them back, but that we don't want people to set bicycling down as a dangerous sport. It means so much to us. We get all our m

and now we know the rules

go to the Captain's office and get a per

llars?" echoed J

I said," said

fully, "I haven't got more

t a permit for five cents' worth-that's

is a season?"

d the policeman. "You can r

y la

," he said. "And where

an. "Give me the five cents

ding along over a beautiful golden road so wide that he could not see the o