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I also helped him acquire simple skills, ones that most kids grasp without difficulty, such as swimming, bike riding, tree climbing, etc. And though not yet adolescent, I had to function as a responsible adult in our household.

John returned to Desmond's room. "You've told me so much," he said; "tell me a little more. How are you going to do it?" "To do what?" "Get out of the house? Get a bike and all that?" "Easy. Lovell went out that way, and others. You jump from the sill of the first landing window into the horse-chestnut. One must be able to jump, of course; but I can jump.

"Oh, well!" laughed Frank, as his cousin wheeled his bike out to the front gate, where he could mount better, "it makes mighty little difference, because, from what I've seen of Shea, I imagine he sleeps on his post. I'm glad we didn't let him inside, because, like all Irishmen, he is fond of his pipe and might have set fire to the shed.

She had always esteemed the author of her own existence and her family's prosperity, but she had never hugged him; nor had he shown any evidence of desiring such an operation. "Good gracious, Jean!" she exclaimed. "We are arranging a bike ride," beamed her father.

"I'm sure it's all right, or can easily be made so again; and if you'll let me enter into the plot, perhaps between us we can think of a road out of the difficulty with Lady Tressidy. But the first thing to do is to get you safely away from this." "I'm afraid I can't walk!" she warned me, laughing nervously. "Of course not. A cab's the thing, with the invalided bike on top. But may I be with you?

At the cross-road they stopped Miss Stokes should turn off. She had another mile to go. 'You'll let us see you home, said Albert. 'Do me a kindness, she said. 'Put my bike in your shed, and take it to Baker's on Monday, will you? 'I'll sit up all night and mend it for you, if you like. 'No thanks. And Joe and I'll walk on. 'Oh ho! Oh ho! sang Albert. 'Joe! Joe!

Bartie went up to town, and Major Cameron took Dorothy and Ronny and Vera and me and Mick to Birdlip in his dog-cart, only Mick and me had to bike because there wasn't room enough. However we grabbed the chains behind and the dog-cart pulled us up the hills like anything, and we could talk to Dorothy and Ronny without having to yell at each other. He did us jolly well at tea afterwards.

There was one the other day I don't think it was you who inquired quite solemnly what a 'bike' was; and I recollect another it was in a horse-racing case who pretended not to know the meaning of the phrase 'two to one on. I don't profess to understand why you all do that kind of thing, but I'm willing to suppose that there's some good reason for it.

A rich man, and settled in business, John Lummox concluded that he would marry Mary Bike. With that far-sighted logic which had always characterized him he reasoned that, having first met her on a liner, he would find her again on one if he took passage to Europe. He did but she was down on the passenger list as Mrs. Edwin Wraggles. The result of their interview was given to Mrs.

Are we all pedaling at breakneck pace to the Grove of Daphne, where lust is law? Is the bike transforming this staid old world into one wild bacchic orgy or phallic revel? Have we toiled afoot thus far up the social mountainside, only to go bowling down on a pneumatic tire "as low as to the fiends?" Head us, somebody! Police!