The rapid growth of Cycling. (How it jumps!)

To those who have the energy and leisure

It affords—(Confound this saddle! it so bumps!)

What otherwise would be quite unattainable,

A healthy, and a pleasurable form

Of exercise. (Yes, health is hereby gainable;

But I am most uncomfortably warm!)

It gives them the advantages of travel,

(By Jingo! I was nearly over then!

A tumble and the "gravel-rash" would gravel