The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-07-03
LoVE ON A
Rott Riders labor Under Disadvantages and
Necessarily Take Risks.

From the chicago Daily Tribune.
"You are sure 1t doesn't make it go any
harderl'
what doesn'tI"
my being on this front saddle"
"If you weren't on that front saddle I give
you my word this machine wouldn't be going at
"Nol"
NO. 1t would be at home In the woodshed."
This would not do. The congregation was
tHki5g - a cr personal a.. tHEi.o, Miss M0Curdy de-
81 have had so little experience in tandem
riding" she said. that l didn't know. This is
O beautiful landscape, isn't it,"
~ haven't besn looking at the landscape"
This also bad an alarmingly personal bearing
and she hastily Ia t MGolrh Put one on n6 ha a0v 70 her SSSk o hair
TITS all right" volunteered the young man.
and your hats on perfectly straight =,
mentally decided Miss Glycerine .McCurdy.
Tier cheek looks like peach said young
is a peaoh!' he added with the fervor Of a dis
coverer upon whom a great truth had Just
You ought not to miss this view, Mr.. Spoon
amore. Look at the grand sweep of that
I'm not missing anything. l have to keep
an eye on the road, you KNOW
How can you do itl Am l leaning too much
Not at all. You are sitting beautifully"
~ don't seem to be doing any of the work.
:STiFedi T could keep on riding this way for
"Absurd!''
coming !!npP d %Tnt : T99a @oal''
"Nothing but a bug, Don't be afraid. I
brushed it of your shoulder"
Not large, but unpardonabl,y p%rOsumptuoua.
1t was making for your neck
They ~podalled IN silence for a few minutes
Wasn't it risky to take one of your hands of
the handlebarsi'
"Itiskyi Great Cesarl / could ride that
'For a million yearsl"
Nov you're smiling
"You are not watching tho road closely
enough. We came near running over that big
stone"
breadth. II thought you. must have taken
one hand off tho bar again.
The young men drew his breath hard.
mir. SpOonamore. you are getting tired"
"Awtully tired. l haven't seen your eyes for
fifteen minutes
not TO propose stopping to rest. II would serve
him right 10 make him work hard for no next
two hours TO pay for that speech. And yet
Miss Glyccrincf'
DO you sec that brick house of TO the loft on
he other side Of the orchardl'
He went on with some rambling. unirnportant
recollection about that house.
lie merely wanted TO see whtther her left
check had turned as red as the right one.
TheS passed under the projecting limb of an
hIplG llpN iva A'lAH gA'' 't'H"N NF -, 'f
will a deXtCrOus upward reach young spoon
am0re pulled OF a bunch Of blossoms.
"OhI What's thRtF'
at isn't a bug this time. It's a cluster Of APP.
nle Blossoms. / am about to take the liberty OF
put!ins them In your back hair
'N0t for Inc purposes Of ornament, / beg you
to believe, but because ! love howers-too--
and having cut these OF in their early bloom,
feel bound to SEE thu they enter upon a happy
hereafter. Hold slill!'
"How can II have to keep my pedals NOV
ing, don't r.
just yet. Thcrel Tho effect ID beautiful; You
have M Idea how il sets the flowers on. 70 you
see that church spIre over there on the rightf,,
No. she did not see 1t. She suspected and she
looked straight ahead.
Whcreupon the young man ruOberneGkeu'
"Glycerlnel" he whispered close to her ear.
At this thrilling moment the machine, lott
practically to It's own guidance. ran Into a rut-
And spoiled one OF tho most promising ro-
mances of the year,
o, young people, lot this be a solemn warning.
Do not become sentimental on a tandem until
tina ara of gond roads has fully coma