THE BIKER BIKED

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."

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!"

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.

English Dictionary Illustrated.—"Coincidence." The falling or meeting of two or more lines or bodies at the same point.