The Bicycle Fiend

"One most obtrusive unpleasantnesa in theconversation of the bicyole fiend, " observed a noubicyclist, "is his habit of personally appropriating every part and partiële of his machine. It is apparently not enough that he should possess the bicycle in its entirety, but also in detail. 'My wheel, ' when uttered two or three times to every sentence, is bad enough, but when it comes to 'my saddle, ' 'my tires,' 'my valves, ' 'my handle bar' and so forth, the effect is both irritating and irrational. I onoe heard a man disoourse for hours upon 'my inner tube.' Being then uot 60 erudite npon the thing ae I aru now, I had the greatest diffioulty in determiuing what he meant. From the viewpoiut of hirn who does not ride, the possessive case is uowhere so overworked as ia the