Henpeck'd he was. He learnt to bike.
"Now I can go just where I like,"
He chuckled to himself. But she
Had learnt to bike as well as he,
And, what was more, had bought a new
Machine to sweetly carry two.
Ever together now they go,
He sighing, "This is wheel and woe."
Illustration: "WHERE IGNORANCE IS BLISS," &c.
He (alarmed by the erratic steering). "Er--and have you driven much?"
She (quite pleased with herself). "Oh, no--this is only my second attempt. But then, you see, I have been used to a bicycle for years!"
Illustration: MISUNDERSTOOD
Donald (who has picked up fair cyclist's handkerchief). "Hi! Woman! Woman!"
Fair Cyclist (indignantly). "'Woman'! How dare you----"
Donald (out of breath). "I beg your pardon, sir! I thought you was a woman. I didna see your trews."
Automobile dust-carts, says the Matin, are to be used in Paris henceforth. We had thought every motor-car was this.
Illustration: ENGLISH DICTIONARY ILLUSTRATED.--"Coincidence." The falling or meeting of two or more lines or bodies at the same point.
