(Half an hour later, he and his wheel have been picked up by the occupant of that carriage, both badly bruised and battered):—“What luck, that this cab came along! I wonder how I would have gotten home without it!”
Lies Elsewhere
Lady (on her wheel, meeting the Herr Förster, an acquaintance):—“Please, Herr Förster, in what direction does Lahnberg lie? I am riding there to meet my husband who is on his new wheel.”
“Lahnberg lies about two miles from here on the road to the right—your husband lies to the left.”
A Pair of Them
A:—“How is your wife?”
B:—“I see her very seldom now.”
A:—“Why, how is that?”
B:—“Well, you see, she always sits behind me on the tandem.”