The Bold Bad Bicycle. 231

taken the bicycle. There was where it stood
[pointing], and what? Do my eyes deceive me?
There ts the bicycle, now!! Look, look,’ he
said, very much excited, ‘the thief has actually
brought back the machine. It is covered with
dust, and whoever stole it must have ridden a
long distance.”’

‘Indeed he did,” shouted all the bicycles,
laughing heartily, but the proprietor did not notice
them.

“JT will find the thief who took that bicycle,”
caiduhe itt takes Mie mavicats = tO. GOmitm -iplt
although he made every effort, he never did find
him, for beside the bicycles, you and I are the
only ones who know who the real thief was, and
we will never tell, will we ?