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Excerpt from The Velocipedist, Vol. 1: February 1, 1869
Government employes, and the compositors employed on different journals, ride them. The fashion Writers and the fashion leaders ra'ck their brains for the contrivance of veloci pede costumes. There are velocipede clubs formed, velocipede championships contested for at velocipede Tournaments. At night in every crowded thoroughfare, scores of the grace ful vehicles with lighted lanterns swinging before them, may be seen deftly threading their way through the throng of -car riages, some driving madly toward the outskirts, some with illuminated advertisements borne like banners above them, gliding swiftly and noiselessly up and down, and in the day time hundreds intersect the avenues of the Bois de Boulogne' whiz over the smooth pavements of the Boulevards, and the level ways of the Champs Elysees. They 'are queer looking affairs those veloces, or bicycles, as they are called in Paris, and when a score or more bowl along in the Sunday race at St. Cloud, Vincennes, and elsewhere, or when driven at break-neck speed on the narrow stone parapet at the east side of the Seine, and even down the hundred steps of the Trocadero, their riders all the time indulging in gymnastic feats, that would seem to invite certain destruction; the scene is at once novel and inspiring. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
