involves risk of injury to passengers, and is prohibited.
Didn't you know that?"

He regarded me with a seraphic smile, nearly lost his life by
getting into a tram-line, and said I ought to know better than
to talk to the man at the wheel.

"Friend," said I, "I perceive you are a humorist. Lo, here in
this car are already three humorists. Under these unfortunate
circumstances, I have no alternative but to ask you to withdraw."

It was just then that the near hind tyre burst exactly under him.

We gave him half a sovereign towards buying a new bicycle, but I
believe he will always think we did it on purpose.

It had been arranged that we should spend the night at Salisbury
and push on to Cornwall on the following day. We made the
Cathedral city soon after five and slipped out to see Stonehenge.
There were a few other people there, and one or two of them
turned to watch our arrival. Berry left the car and went
straight to the nearest- a fat tradesman, wearing a new imitation
panama and a huge calabash.

"Can you tell me if this is Stoke Poges?" we heard him say. The
rest of us alighted and walked hurriedly away in the opposite
direction. Clearly my brother-in-law was in a certain mood and
no fit companion for the sensitive. Memories of the unutterable
torment, to which on like occasions we had been mercilessly
subjected, by reason of Berry's most shameless behaviour among