The Autobiography of a Biycle single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1896... 1896 The Autobiography of a Biycle
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A hire combination bicycle relates its story from its month's trial with a man who couldn't afford it, to the life of a hireling with thanksgiving for not having been ridden by ladies in bloomers. Complaints of a fat lady riding it for health. Romance of a slim young lady, a sketcher, and her companion: a quarrel, her accident, then reconciliation, and marriage; and purchase of the bicycle. Light. (PB)

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  • From Detroit Free Press.

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 31 no. 375 August 1896 Z1052679 1896 periodical issue 1896 pg. 609-610
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