"Oh! here's a steeper hill, Johnny! This is just fine! Now I'll show you!"
When Johnny reached the top of the hill, he saw there was a shorter and much steeper hill a little way off, in a nearly opposite direction from the river-road.
"Come, now, Johnny, just try it with me: this is the way."
Felix then told Johnny just how to proceed in going down the hill.
"But I don't like to try, the first time, on such a steep hill," replied Johnny. "I am about certain I shouldn't have confidence enough to do just right, and so should lose my balance, or get a header."
"Nonsense!" replied Felix: "I can go down this hill blindfolded. I'll prove that I can."
Felix immediately alighted from his bicycle, and, taking out his handkerchief, bound it about his eyes.
"Please don't, Felix," said Johnny anxiously. "I'm afraid you'll get badly hurt."
Johnny also alighted from his bicycle, for he was resolved not to go down either of these hills before he had tried some declivity that was not as steep.
"Oh, ho!" said Felix, mounting his bicycle without any apparent difficulty, in spite of the bandage. "I didn't suppose you were quite so much of a coward! Now just see me go down this hill blindfolded."