The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-05-01
Love on Wheels.
BY GoscATAY.

BY GoscATAY.
A lovely couple played, and loved, and often
mingled tears
AS they grew up toge ther from early childhood's
years
Yes, since their very babyhood they had played
with each other,
Together they had spent their years like sister
and like brother,
And each to each had pledged their troth-each
had the others heart.
They did not entertain thought that they couId
live apart.
One day they got in dispute and firmly they
held to it,
They did not think the time would come when
both would surely rue it.
day, week, month went by since either
one had spoken;
ana worse and worse they seemed to feel be-
cause their troth was broken
morbid mind endangers health-a mind that's
i'll at ease
viii surely end in broken health-is fruitful of
disease.
And so twas thought Toms health was poor.
his spirits were so low
His nearest friends doctor called or course
they did not know
What caused the boy to pine away; his appetite
to lose;
Grow weak and weaker every day; all reme-
dies refuse?
The doctor diagnosed his case and said the how
must ride
bicycle to gain his health-a thing he had not
tried.
So OIL he went and bought a wheel, and by the
moons pale light
He started out to learn to ride, because the
people might
or they should see him try to ride and tumble
in the dirty
Laugh at his falls, which would (for him) be
worse than getting hurt.
Tom did not think bicycle would heal broken
heart;
But, while his mind was occupied, he would not
feel the smart.
Perhaps there is no malady like being crossed
in love,
Surely no disease so common that I can now
think OF.
Certainly there is no complaint where, at least
for time,
The patient thinks his case SO bad, that but a
change OF cline
viii heal broken heart, and so this way he
turns his face.
He cannot bear to meet his friends-at home
he's out of place
"a bicycle has been prescribed; the thing is
most absurd;
How would look perched on wheel-the like
was never heard"
But Notwithstanding all these views, q bicycle
he bought
And when he started out to ride (or so, at least
he thought,)
His sisters should not see him try-hed d go out
in the night
And learn to ride, If 1t should take him till the
mornings light
''Of course" he thought, ''he'd learn with ease,
for every boy in town
Could ride wheel with perfect ease, and they
never fell down."
That night, when all had gone to bed, he slipped
out with his steed.
He'd donned the Oldest clothes he had, for these
he thought he'd need.
He took his wheel into the road and tried his
best to mount;
But every effort that he made he found to be no
count,
For though the wheel was staid enough and
seemed to stand so quiet,
IT would slide out from under him as oft as he
would try it.
At last he tried the other side to quickly gain
the seat,
But the wheel as quickly turned, and he fell
not on his feet.
1t hurt him some, but he arose and brushing OF
the dirt,
He thought how strange that he should fail, and
then, besides get hurt.
Again he grabbed his fractions steed believing
he could find
A way to ride the bicycle by mounting from be-
hind.
He placed one foot upon the step and then he
made o hop,
And though he sternly, did his best, the wheel
came out on top.
Then 'what the mischief shall dor" unto him
self he said,
1--WE tried in vain to ride the thing-if I've not
fought, I've bled."
He did not like to give up beat-you know the
reason why
And to himself again he said, 1T will get on or
diet"
Just then his thoughts to Heaven turned, where
the Good Book reveals
Where 'moth andsrust does not corrupt, nor
thieves break in and stealr
He'd rather die than fail TO ride, since he the
wheel had bought;
And all the neighbors knew this fact--of this he
had not thought.
Again he tried his steed to ride, again he came
to earth; IA,
1t seemed to him his efforts were OF very littl o
worth.
Just then ahead. a tree he spled, to which he lea
his steed
And by the help of low branch, to mount he
did succeed.
And there he sat- So much. he'd gained. bu