Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1897 — Signs of Bicycle Eiders. [ARTICLE]

Signs of Bicycle Eiders.

To lend your wheel is a sign you will quarrel with a friend. To read the advertisement of newly invented painless saddles is a sign you will die poor and despised. To be chased by a yellow dog with a head like a cook stove and a mouth like a cellar presages a bad fall. To puncture a tire ten miles from home is a sign that you will have a spavin on your left hind hoof. To see a red-headed woman wearing green bloomers is a sign your rim will split unless you say “Kokalo” and throw a bale of hay over your left shoulder. To fail to pay the regular weekly installment is an ill omen, and it means that you will meet with a dark man who will afford you much trouble and inconvenience.