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SONG OF VELOCIPEDING, by                    
First Line: Queer sights we every day do find
Last Line: And bruise your latter end
Subject(s): Animals;horses;singing & Singers


Queer sights we every day do find,
As the world we pass along,
The ladies' hoops and crinolines,
And then their large chignons;
To come out in French fashion,
Of course we must indeed,
And have a dandy horse,
The famed Velocipede.

* * *

The Velocipedes are all the go,
In country and in town,
The patent dandy hobby-horse
It everywhere goes down;
A wheel before and one behind,
Its back is long and narrow,
It's a cross between the treading mill
And a Razor Grinder's barrow.

* * *

The railways they will be done brown,
The steamboats too, beside,
For folks when they go out of town
The Velocipede will ride;
But I'd have you all look out for squalls
Or else you may depend
You will go down, dandy horse and all,
And bruise your latter end.





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