The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-06-18
AN AWKWARD FIX.
Two GreenviIIe Boys Adventures on
Their Wheels.

Two GreenvfIie Boys Adventures ON
Their Wheels.
Two very naughty mischevious little
Greenville boys, Robbie Zeiger and a bosom
friend of his hired bicycles the other day
and contrary to the wishes of their parents
started out to ride to Cresco, Pa.
Say George" said Rob with a grin as
thew were c~oasting down the hills toward
Dover. This is bully, amt it, l wish Doc
was here" Doc is an estimable veterinary
practitioner in Greenville who acts as a
sort of Mentor to this young Telemachus.
The pair went flying down the road until
they at length reached Dover. In this
giddy and fashionable metropolis the boys
tarried. So expensive was that 'tarry" that
when the bill was footed up they hadn't
enough cash to settle up. Here was a nice
state of things and what was to be doneF
They were upstairs in their room in a
veritable Waldorf sort of an hotel with a
long hotel bill before them and only fifteen
cents, a pocket knife, two handkerchlefs
two Waterbury watches and a pack or
cigarettes as assets to meet the dreadful
liability.
perhaps they'll trust u.s." said George,
just on the point of bursting into tears.
''Not they. You are a chump," replied
Rob, with a heroic effort to keep back a sob.
81 guess we'll have to hook our bicycles"
he said, after the pair had INDUCED in five
minutes blubbing.
''But we only hired them, said George,
whose eyes were red with weeping.
Here was fresh difficulty. To pledge pro-
perty of another is larceny, and at the
thought of a year IN Snake Hill the poor
little fellows howled with grief and anguish.
1t was such a dismal prospect. Here they@ere
between the devil and the deep sea, between
Scylla and Charvbdis. On the one hand was
a hotel bill to settle and two bicycles to
realize on. If they didn't pay the bill they
would be arrested for d~efrauding the land
lord, and if they pledged the wheels there
Judge Rudspeth and Snake Hill ahead.
The gordian Knot was severed by the land
lord himself, who impounded the wheels, and
Robbie and George were now confronted
with another trouble. What would the
owner of the hired bicycles have to say
about the deals Weary at heart, f~ootsore
and hungry, they tramped into Dover minus
their wheels.
s'Say, Rob- began George, ''what shall
we write to our folks in Greenville!"
Rob was, however, equal to this emer-
gency, and, drying his ewes on his coat
Sleeve, and investing five of the remaining
fifteen cents IN a sheet of note paper, an en-
velope and a stamp, wrote this letter to his
BROTHER
My Dear Ed:
You will wonder why we haven't written to you,
but we were attacked by footpads and they stripped
us of everything. they took our wheels, our
watches, money and clothes and left US their old
rags to dress ID. Say, Ed, send us five dollars and
tell the man who loaned us the wheels that weare
going to put the police on the track of the thieves.
we got to Dover and borrowed decent clothes.
s ssce to US ol &c sr @0nfG at T Hafe ts se f boe % sed o 90e SCI OF
our troubles.
Your loving brother,
Rob.
Brother Ed, hover, is a smart individual,
and knowing Bob's propensities for blutfing,
ignored the letter.
He is now waiting for the culprits, who
are also waiting for S. to get home with.