BIKE v. BICYCLE.
Some Tennysonian Bouts-rimés.
[Mr. Ernest Shipton, Secretary of the Cyclists' Touring Club, protests against the term "bike" as being unmitigated slang.]
Bike, bike, bike,
By your leave, oh C. T. C.
Quite too long for my tongue to utter
Is "bicycle"—bike for me!
O well for the slang-loving boy,
That he "bikes" with his sister at play!
O well for the lass or lad