Bikey the Skicycle and Other Tales of Jimmieboy

n pretty much every kind of coasting thing there is, and I think I neve

the North Pole, did yo

o slippery that you can even slide up it-that's awful slippery, when you come to thin

t dangerous?"

because it's warmer, and you don't have to exert yourself. That's the great thing about this track. We aren't going at all, though we seem to be-it's the track that makes my

immieboy a little fearfully; "I don't

, when what should they see before them but a g

ey. "Put on the

eboy. "I-b-bub-busted it on the l

en-back pedal,

on 'em, they're going s

e-take a nail or a pin or anythi

nail or a pup-pin or a

e to a full stop two feet from the stone wall and directly in front of a little hotel, fr

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at was the narrowest escape I ever had. If we hadn't stopped we'd have been smas

dgy little old fellow, appearing in the

ed Bikey looking up. "I di

and it signifies gentlemen who ride bicycles. Instead of saying 'good morning, gentlemen

here are twenty-six punctures in the front one and eighteen in the hind one. I shou

pudgy little old fellow was. "If it hadn't been for those tacks I'd like to know where you'd be at t

id Jimmieboy. "Those t

to growl about 'em, you haven't any right to growl at me because the g

Bikey. "Queer la

d the landlord. "Is it a queer law which

to remove that stone wall," said Bikey. "And th

dlord, "but I must say that you don't know what you are

ully regarding his tires, which looked for all the world li

to be so little that you see that I have my doubts. Well, this inn is run, not because I think it's a game I'm playi

enough, but that doesn't account

leman in the universe went coasting by here and never a one stopped in, so I never got a cent and was paying $26,000 a year to the government into the bargain. Of course I complained to the Secretary of t

I see. And did you b

cked nose, but every one of 'em had to stay here two months at $10 a day apiece, and, of course, their families had to visit 'em, and they paid from $5 to $8 apiece, and then I charged 'em all for medical services, and altogether things began

500 a week.' He didn't like that a bit, the Secretary didn't, because his salary depended on the money I paid. Being Secretary of

m there," l

't want to have people making complaints all the time, so I said that while the stone wall h

cried Ji

They're small square pieces of zinc with prickers on 'em. City people

asked Bikey

; but the scheme didn't work. I had an idea that the cat teasers would puncture the bicycle wheels in time to stop 'em, and they did, but they interfered with people on foot as well, and after these people got lockjaw from puncturi

," said Bike

ved me," sai

ever to get ho

elves together and come inside. I think I can fix you o

y, "I'd sort of like to see the

t any $800,"

landlord. "I run a banking business here,

n for the Tired Out," and a most re