OUT OF SIGHT, BUT—

Mr. Turtle. "Hello! What's this—ostrich eggs?" Mrs. Turtle. "Sure enough! Let's pick to see who gets the odd one." Mr. T. "Good. This is out of sight."

Mr. T. "Thick shells, aren't they?"

Mrs. T. "Yes; I see I'll have to hit harder."

Bang!!!

!!!!!

Johnny (watching his little brother Toddles, just learning to walk). "Oh, mamma, I'm terribly afraid of something!"

Mamma. "What's that, my dear?"

Johnny. "I don't believe Toddles can ride a bicycle next summer."

Tommy. "Say, Bob, what did you find the hardest thing in learning to ride a bicycle?"

Bob. "Trying to stay on it."

Uncle Bob. "I haven't seen you eating any candy lately, Russell. What's the matter?"

Russell. "I'm saving up. Papa says when I get twenty cents he'll put the rest of the money to it and buy me a bicycle."

"Have you got a brake on your bicycle?"

"Yes; two of 'em. That's why I'm not riding it. One break's on the sprocket, and the other's on one of the spokes of the fore-wheel."

"Let me ride your wheel, will you, Bobbie?" asked Ethel.

"No, indeed," replied Bobbie. "You're a lady, Ethel, and my bittycle hasn't got a side-saddle on it."

A NEW IDEA.

I wish I had a rubber tire So big that it would be An easy thing to ride a wheel Across the raging sea. I'd love to climb a breaker high, To coast along a swell, And skirt along a ripple, and To wear a diving-bell, So that if I a header took, No harm would come of it! Come, makers of ye bicycles, Here's chance to show your wit.

Jack. "I've got the bicycle fever awfully."

Jimmie. "Well, I know a splendid cure for it."

Jack. "What is it?"

Jimmie (sadly, looking out of the window). "Snow."

"Oh dear!" sighed Billy, impatiently, gazing out at the snow-storm; "I told mamma she bought my bicycle suit too soon. It will be all worn out coasting before the bicycle weather gets here."

"Isn't it fun?" cried Jack. "You can go twice as fast on a bicycle as you can without one."

"Oh, I don't know about that," replied Wallie. "The day I took my header I beat my wheel down the hill by ten feet."

A SCORCHER.