La Burlesque Équipée Du Cycliste

If you (presuming you are of the sex that does such things)-if you had gone

into the Drapery Emporium-which is really only magnificent for shop-of Messrs.

Antrobus & Co.-a perfectly fictitious "Co. " by the bye-of Putney on the 14th

of August 1895 had turned to the right-hand side where the blocks of white

linen and piles of blankets rise up to the rail from which the pink and blue

prints depend you might have been served by the central figure of this story

that is now beginning. (Excerpt)