| Show A REGULAR GOLD MINE how a justice ot of the reace mulched mulcted III cycle rid theres a justice of the peace in a country town not far from here said a bic bicycler yaler to a buffalo express man recently who has a scheme that ww will makelim him a millionaire it if he sticks to it toi forr a year or two you see the town has an ordinance forbid din s bicycle riding on the sidewalks A many wheelman wheelmen elmen go that way so BO what jaoes this justice do but scoop oufa hole and make a great big mud puddle clear across the street right in front of his office of course when hen a wheelman comes along rather than ride through them the mud he be turns upon the sido sidewalks balk what the justice is waiting for he has acon a constable on the watch and the two rush out and nab the cycler 1 I was caught in the snare one week though I 1 protested I 1 only intended to keep on the walk till I 1 passed the mud it was of no avail I 1 was fined five dollars and had topa to pay yit it I 1 got a chance to look at his book when he was recording my fine and there was a record of some twenty wheelmen wheelman elmen who had been served the same way that ilay day and it was still early in the afternoon it made me mad and I 1 began abasing the old fellow for having such a mud puddle paddle in the street why dont you fiu fill it up I 1 asked aske 4 if you want wheelmen wheelman elmen to keep in the road he grinned in a most exasperating manner and answered without so much asa as a blush spose were goin to destroy such a source of revenue as that mud puddle is I 1 gum guess not john turning to the constable you better take the hose and soften it up a little bit ready for the next sucker |
