Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-08-31

ON A PNEUMATIC TIRE.
 torted mouth like that of one who has tried to eat with a souvenir spoon to ex- cess.
 No" l said. II was born too far back to pick this up. can never ride the wheel in public successfully" l tried one of the tall kind once, because it looked so graceful, and it not only threw me in such way as to drive my spectacles up my nose quite long distance, but it fol- lowed me up and stepped on me and lay down on me and got one of its cold, hard treadles ln the bosom of my bicy- cling jacket, where my lunch was.
 But with a pneumatic tire and low wheel there is less danger of shortening the spine and finding vertebrfe in your shoes when you undress at night. The pneumatic tire is blown full of air. be- ing a tight rubber tube encircling the wheel. Riding on air that way is great sport. especially to the witness. It is luke running a lawn mower
 have a large colored gent who exerts himself for me at n reasonable price, and saw him from my study pushing the lawn mower one bright June morning till could not stand it any longer. He pushed it from him us he would water melon. il was so easy. He kept singing something about like this:
 Shell bc called when de great day come
 Or shell hide my hade in shame2
 Shell jine de hosts dat wall and gum
 Gag Dennis is my Christian name? And the green grass rolled like a fragrant cataract over the machine. I couldn't write because the sputter and buzz of that lawn mower and the hymn, or what ever II was, kept wooing me to the win dow, and l couldn't get two ideas to- Gether to save my reputation. Finally l gave up my job and went outside. It looked even easier out there than it did from the house.
 "1ou may go down to the garden, Al cibiades." l said and weed the succo- tash pines awhile. will finish moving the lawn"
 l took off my rich dressing gown and hung it up on the loShouse; took off my reversible cuffs and put them on the tail of a beautiful, ornamental iron dog which stands on the lawn. and started in.
 But why % on: Every man with a soft muscle or two has tried these things to get up a glow. did not do anything more ur less than other men have done who need exercise and gorge themselves with il ill au hour so that they cant bear the sight of it any more forever.
 l moved q place as big as this morn inEs paper. think. a small rosebush and a rubber doll, when l began to see that the sun was rapidly removing the shade from the llwn and putting it over on the north t,de If the house.
 ! mcwe3 down the old rusty arches of : forgotten c-o4uet ses and got lad eigL times and started tuno- at the place where rested the handle of the mower against my person. The hotter l got the less knew. aimed at first to just fool with the machine awhile and quit, but as l went on and overheated my judgment l moved down bed of mi just beginning to bear.
 l would have moved down trainload of fresh air fund children if they had come my way, but that's nothing. Any body would do that if they had ever met fresh air fund outfit alone on the road.
 Well, that's the same way 1 rode the bicycle, only 1 concealed myself while practicing. Then I went at it on rainy days. It was in the barn. I enjoyed it some, though at times I knocked the rafters little to one side with my head. l soon learned. too. to carry in one hand heavy club with which to knock over the machine whenever it hopped on me while 1 was down.
 Next learned how to repair my wheel if the pneumatic tire got punctured and let the climate out. You carry a little kit of things, gum and things, also a plumbers furnace by strap over your shoulder, with your vest pocket full of charcoal, and then when your pneumatic tire gets hole in it and looks like pink tight in the hands of the sheriff you get off the wheel at the roadside, and the children of the district school come and stand by your side while you fix it.
 am not of a mechanical turn of mind and so 1 could not find the hole where the air had escaped when broke down. When you puncture your tire, you blow into the valve, and then, if you look soon enough, you will deftly discover the air ;n the act of escaping. Then you heat q piece of pneumatic pelt and solder it ol as soon as possible.
 l did not realize till l was II miles trCm home, at the bottom of a five mile