A Bicycle of Cathay

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A Bicycle of Cathay is a novel by Frank R. Stockton. A pale girl falls to the ground and her bicycle lies in the middle of the road, while the speaker pushes forward to assist her. The girl says she twisted her foot in some way and is sure she cannot work her wheel.

One chapter is headed "The Larramie Family". A little army has thrown itself upon the speaker, among them a tall, bright-faced man with side whiskers and a lady with little curls on the side of her head. The list of illustrations includes, among others, "I Put on My Coat" and "The Rain Was Coming Down Hard". The speaker feels sure there is a wheel behind, and a bicycle bell is heard violently ringing.

About the author

Frank R. Stockton

Frank R. Stockton (1834-1902) was an American writer and humorist who worked as a wood engraver in Philadelphia before turning to fiction and children's writing in his thirties. He is best remembered for "The Lady, or the Tiger?" (1882), a story whose withheld ending became a national parlor argument, and for the Rudder Grange books that began in 1879.