Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-07-09
Humprolls department.
LOVE on A TANDEM.

and Necessarily Take H1sks'
From the Chicago Daily Tribune.
"You are sure it doesn't make it GO
any harder ?"
"What doesn't?"
"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 all"
"No?"
"No. 1t would be at home in the
woodshed."
This would not do. The conversa-
ton was taking a personal turn. Miss
McCurdy decided to change the sub
ject.
"I have had so little experience in
tandem riding" she said, "that L
didn't know. This is beautiful land
scape, isn't it? ?"
II haven't been looking at the land
scape."
This also had an alsrmingly person
al bearing and she hastily put one
hand to her back hair to ascertain
whether or not anything was loose.
"It's all right" volunteered the
young man, "and your hats on per-
fectly straight"
"No, he hasn't been looking at the
landscape" mentally decided Miss
Glycerine McCurdy. >,
"Her cheek looks like peach said
young Spoonamore, to himself. "And,
by George, she is 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 I lean
ing too much to one side ?"
"Not at all. You are sitting beau
tifully."
~ don't seem to be doing any of
the work. Aren't you getting tired ?"
"Tired? I could keep on riding
this way forever"
"Absurd !"
"Well, I'll make it million years.
That's coming down good DEAL"
"Oh! What's that?"
"Nothing but bug. Don't be
afraid, I brushed it off your shoulder" ;"
~ am not scared. Was it large
bug?"
"Not large, but unpardonably pre-
sumptuous. 1t was making for your
neck"
They pedalled in silence for few
minutes and then she said:
"Wasn't it risky to take one. of your
hands off the handlebars ?"
"Risky? Great Caesar I could ride
that way for"
"For million years ?"
"Now you're smiling"
"You are not watching the road
closely enough. We came near run
ming over that big stone."
"I saw that we missed it 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"
lawfully tired. I haven't seen your
eyes for Is minutes"
On second thought Miss McCurdy
concluded not to propose stopping to
rest. 1t would serve him right to
make him work hard for the next two
hours to pay for that speech. And
yet
"Miss Glycerine ?"
"Well."
sDo you see that brick house off to
the left on the other side of the or
chard ?"
He went on with some rambling, un-
important recollection about that
house.
He merely wanted to see whether
her left cheek had turned as red as
the right one.
1t had.
They passed under the projecting
limb of an apple tree standing just in
side of the fence, and with dexterous
upward reach young Spoonamore pull
ed off bunch of blossoms.
"Oh! What's that ?"
'iIt isn't bug this time. It's clus-
ter of apple blossoms. I am about to
take the liberty of putting them in
your back hair"
"Upon my word !"
"Not for the purposes of ornament,
beg you to believe, but because l love
fowers-too-and having cut these of
in their early bloom, feel bound to
see that they enter upon happy here
after. Hold still !"
"How can l? I have to keep my
pedals moving, don't II"
eyes, but you don't have to move
your head-just yet. There The
effect is beautiful. You have no idea
how it sets the flowers off. Do you
see that church spire over there on the
right ?"
No, she did not see it. She suspect
ed, and she looked straight ahead.
Whereupon the young man rubber
necked.
"Glycerine" he whispered, close to
her ear.