Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-07-31
WEEKLY BANK STATEMENT.
HE WAS A GOOD THING.

HE WAS A GOOD THING.
So His Fair Partner Got Him on a
String - How a Rubberneck Was
Fooled; or a Romance That Was
Spoiled.
"You are sure it doesn't make it go
any harder?'
What doesnt?"
my being en- this front saddle?"
IF you weren't on that front saddle
give you my word, this machine
wouldn't be going at all.
MOP"
mo. 1t would be at home, in the
wcodshed."
This would not do. The conversation
was taking personal turn. Miss Nc
Curdy decided to change the subject
Il have had so little experience in
tandem riding" she said, that l didn't
know. This is a beautiful landscape,
isn't it,"
scape,"
This also had an alarmingly personal
bearing, and she hastily put one hand
to her back hair to ascertain whether
or not anything was loose.
Its all right" volunteered the
young man. And your hats on per-
fectly straight"
mo, he hasn't been looking at the
landscape" mentally decided Miss
Gylcerine McCurdy.
Her cheek looks just like a peach"
said young Spoonamore to himself.
And, by George, she is a peach.' he
added with the fervor of discoverer
upon whom a great truth has just
dawned.
"You ought not to miss this view,
Mr. Spoonamore. Look at the grand
sweep of that"
I'm not missing anything
have to keep an eye on the road, you
know
How can you do it? Am leaning
too much to one side?'
Not at ALL You are sitting beauti-
fully"
Il don't seem to be doing any of the
work. Amt you getting tired "
Tired? l could keep on riding this
way forever!'
Absurd
"Well. I'll make 1t million years.
That's coming down a good deal.
oh! WHATS that?'
Nothing but bug. Don't be afraid
brushed it off your shoulder
I'm not scared. Was it a large
bug?"
mot large, but unpardonably pre-
sumptuous. 1t was making for your
neck
They pedaled in silence for few
minutes. and then she said:
Wasn't it risky to take one of your
hands off the handle bars?"
Risky? Great Caesar! ! could ride
that way for
For a million years."
"Ncw you're smiling"
"You are not watching the road
| closely enough We came near run
ming over that big stone"
Il saw it, Didn't you notice that we
| turned cut just in time to avoid it?"
Il saw that we missed 1t by just a
| hairs breadth II thought you must
| have taken one hand off the bar again.
The young man drew his breath
| hard.
"Mr. Spoonamore, you are getting
! tired"
"Awfully tired. I haven't seen your
eyes for fifteen minutes"
| On second thought Miss McCurdy
concluded not to propose stopping to
| rest. It would serve him right to
make him work hard for the next two
| hours, to pay for that speech. And
| yet
Miss Gycerine,"
"Well?"
do you see that brick house off TO
| the left on the other side Of this or
| chard?"
He went on with some rambling, IN
important recollection about that
| house.
| He merely wanted to see whether
her left cheek had turned as red as the
right one.
| 1t mad.
| They passed under the projecting
| limb of an apple tree standing just in
side the fence, and with a dexterous
upward reach young Spoonamore pull
| ed off bunch of blossoms.
20, What's that?"
1T isn't a bug this time. It's a clus-
ter of apple blossoms. / am about tc
take the liberty Of putting them in
your back hair"
Upon my word"
Not for purposes Of ornament,
beg you to believe, but because / love
ffowers-too-and having cut these
loff in their early bloom / feel bound tt
Isee that they enter upon a happy here
after. Hold STILL
How can +? l have to keep MI
pedals moving. don't IT,
Yes: but you don't have to move
lyour bead just yet. There! The ef-