The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-05-25

after the machine, and sprinGing into
the saddle and straining every nerve to
keep the combination from going over.
Not to make too long story of it. 1
may say that for three days the ma
chine and discussed this matter, and
every morning when led it out on to
the lawn l seemed ut first to know less
about balancing myself than / had
done when quilted the business the
day before. Perhaps during the night
the machine had thought up some new
tricks.
At last rose up very early one
morning, long before the season-tic t
man began to pass my house to go to
the railway station, for his London
train. felt that the lawn was getting
too small for me. / could now work
the pedals reasonably well, and stagger
about the place from one end to the
other of the grass plot, but l could not
turn around, for when l attempted to
do so the machine would swoop like
hawk into one of the flower beds or
into convenient piece OF shrubbery.
Our neighborhood is quiet one, and
the street, at most times, Is not so
busy as the Strand. Iexpected to have
1t all to myself in the early morning
out, but In this / reckoned without the
milkman. I had no idea before that
the multitudinal milkman was such
fiend in human shape. He drives We
hicle modelled after the old Roman
chariots, and he drives at rate of
speed that is something appalling. The
moment got on my bicycle in the
road some accursed milkman would
come tearing up, and taking 1t for
granted that knew all about bicycle
steering he never paid the slightest at
tention to me. Consequently came
within an ace of being smashed up
into pieces on several occasions, and
after steering my machine up on the
sidewalk and into the fence to get out
Of his way used language that knew
must have turned most of the milk in
that neighborhood sour.
One morning, thoroughly discour-
aged with the business, got out on
the street little later than usual, so
rs to be rid of the milkman. One pc
culiarity Ct the bicycle seems to be
that although you are reasonably sue
cessful on your last interview with it,
the next you seem to have to begin all
over again. This particular morning
was more than usually discouraged
and had practically made up my mind
to sell the machine. All at once l
found myself in the saddle and rea-
lized that / had run along several
rods without any serious wobbling. On
and on we went with beautiful sense
of smoothness, ease and exhilaration.
turned In to the main coaching
road with my heart In my mouth
but my feet still on the pedals, and 1
executed a turn without disaster.
There was now o straight stretch
ahead of me for miles on smooth and
excellent road.
Surely said to myself, "the time
Is come when my neck Is to be broken.
This docility on the part Of the wheel
can lead to nothing but disaster"
Nevertheless on and on we went, and
after travelling for about mile and
coming to wide part In the thorough.
fare, / took sweep around with
amazing success and travelled back
again. 1t seemed to be an unbeliev.
able thing, but actually had succeed
ed In teaching that bicycle how tc
carry o man as a man should be car
ried. vi
There is no beautifler OF complex
lion, or form, or behavior, like the wish