Show SOflE CYCLE SLANG Edifying Remarks of a Bloomer Girl Regarding Rubbernecks Buffalo Express The girl who wears bloomers was talking wheels at the boardIng house table The girl who wears bloomers Is always talking and It is usually of wheels of course The other bicycle girl the one who does not wear bloomers was doing tha listening act as usual and conversation between the other boarders was suspended at frequent fre-quent Intervals through force of necessity neces-sity VrclL I didnt do a thing this afternoon i after-noon but ride out to Wllliamsville and I across a country road to Tonawanda and backby the boulevard began the bloomer I bloom-er girl wljen the star boarder interrupted wlen ed her e How far did you ride Miss Daisy I Oh I dont know answered the bloomer girl My darned old cyclometers busted and I havent had the price to get I it ted Must have been about 2 miles though I feel like It was 40 And say i sho continued addressing herself to the other bicycle girl hI turned up a new card this afternoon You know what a lot of rubbernecks there always are lot on the boulevard fellows that think theyre tho whole push I a jrfrl happens to be riding alone I never noticed them replied the other bicycle girl who does not think I bloomers are proper Didnt you Ttjats queer responded I the bloomer girl Why I have no end of trouble with them every time I go out there They ride up alongside you know I and get up all kinds of gags to get talking talk-ing with you to see if they can ride with you Well le been against nearly all the games that ever came off in that line I I guess but I had 0 fresh one sprung on me this afternoon and say I nearly flattened my tires I What was It asked the other bicycle rhlt wa girl beginnIng to show a little Interest I Well you know usually Mr Good player will ride up beside you and say ExcUse me miss but would you mind telling me what kind of a wheel you ride I think thats a beauty and I want to get one for my sister said the bloomer girl Then if you tell him what wheel I I Ieu ride he will ask you something else I about it and the frt thing you know I old Mr Wisensteln Is riding along with you all good and easy for hImself and Jod t I talking about stopping up the road a i I was to get a little lemonade or something I some-thing Im dead next to those boys though and I dont stand for them a I r minute When they get too chummy with their Wheels I scorch a little and give I them tho shake The other bicycle girl lifted her eyebrows eye-brows just an Imperceptible trifle and the I bloomer girl went on 1 Well 11s afternoon t I was pumping I along the boulevard just the other side of the hill beyond Kermoro you know II when I heard a wheel come up behind me and when I looked around Mr Mann g8kse ur1 i I was smiling I good shape I looked back at the road and began t pedal as though I a wheel cop was after me for not having a bell but the fellow wasnt so worse at ridir himself and he kept pretty close Ito I-to jap and he says Excuse me miss I but WU you tell me where joi had your skirt made I wanted to have my sister I gel one like that and her dressmaker doesnt seem to be able to eott j tour skirt interrupted the other bicycle bi-cycle girl Why you dont wear any i Of course I dont rejoined the bloomer bloom-er girl and I wont wear one all summer sum-mer I this weather keeps up Thats what knocked me cold when the fellow sprung It I was expecting the same old jolly I about what kind of a wheel I was riding but when he sprung the skirt it made a hit with me I really fell oft my wheel with laughing and I says Well I though Id heard all of them but thats I a new one I says Youre all right I says but you dont go And then I got scared and commenced to pedal like a sixday race and he didnt catch me because j be-cause I guess he though I was on to I gess I myself i mysel of all things ejaculated the landlady as the bloomer girl paused to tackle I dYtg beefsteak He could1 I nt have been much to speak to a lady he I hadnt met before Oh I didnt mind I said the bloomer girl turning to the subject again Those lobsters dont worry me for a minute I they begin to think theyre in the family I can ride away from them or turn down some street and stop at a house to put up a horrible bluff that I live there Its i I easy enough to pass them along If you I dont want them I thought 1 had a I puncture this afternoon when I was I afernoon about four miles from Tonawanda and I I was scared half to death for I had left my toolbag at the house and there wasnt i a repair shop within a mile that I knew iof All the air went out of the rear lire Al and the first thing I knew it was fat Well I got oft and I was looking for the puncture when a fellow rode up a perfectly per-fectly lovely young fellow with a green sweater and stockings to match and took stocking off his cap and asked If he could assist me Maybe I was dead slow then I just wanted to stay there monkeying with that old tire for an hour or two all by myself I dont think So I told him there was something the matter and he found that the valve was on the bum and he fIxed it In no time We rode part way fed tme homes together and he showed me where loma tOlether Is a perfectly elegant house up lves Central Park with I big green lawn and a big stable and everything I guess hes some rich guy lies perfectly perfect-ly elegant Ho asked me If I went riding elepant I said I rode nearly every day and he asked me if he might ride with me some day and 1 said sure And hes an elegant rider too with a swell wheel So you dont always scorch away from those lobsters then put In the other bicycle girl with a queer little smile But the bloomer girl had fInished her second of tea and bustled away to fix her cut r tb t nWf lantern without deigning to notice the I other bicycle girls insinuation 0 I |