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A Bicycle song (1900)

Three smart young men and three nice girls
All lovers true as steel--
Decided, in a friendly way,
To spend the day awheel.
They started in the early morn,
And nothing seemed amiss,
And when they reached the leafy lanes

They-----in-----like
rode-----twos----this !

They wandered by the verdant dale,
Beside the rippling rill ;
The sun shone brightly all the while;
They heard the song-bird's trill.
They sped through many a woodland glade,
The world was full of bliss
And when they rested in the shade,

Theysat----intwos like-----this.

The sun went down, and evening came,
A lot too soon, they said ;
Too long they tarried on the way ;
The clouds grew black o'erhead,
Down dashed the rain ! They homeward flew,
Till one unlucky miss
Slipped sideways---Crash !----Great Scott !!
the lot

Wereallmixedupxeduplikethis.

Notes

From the Tasmanian Newspaper The Examiner 16 Jun 1900 p. 13.

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