PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI
VOLUME 105, August 19th 1893
edited by Sir Francis Burnand
POPULAR SONGS RE-SUNG. "BLAZY BILL; OR, THE BICYCLE CAD."
Air—"Daisy Bell; or, a Bicycle made for Two."
"The churl in nature up and down" is perennial and ubiquitous. Like the god Vishnu, he has many avatars. Every new development of popular pastime (for instance) developes its own particular species of "Cad." Leech's "Galloping Snob" of a quarter of a century ago has been succeeded by that Jehu of the "Bike," the Cycling Cad, to whose endearing manners and customs in the Queen's highway, and elsewhere, the long-suffering pedestrian is persuaded a laggard Law will shortly have to find its attention urgently directed. Mr. Punch, who is of the same opinion, adapts Mr. Harry Dacre's popular song to what he is convinced will be a popular purpose.