![]() ![]() ![]() He is always going to a particular destination or other on his bicycle at every hour of the day or coming back from there at every other hour. “Michael Gilhaney,” said the sergeant, “is nearly sixty years of age by plain computation and if he is itself, he has spent no less than thirty-five years riding his bicycle over the rocky roadsteads and up and down the hills and into the deep ditches when the road goes astray in the strain of the winter. “It would surprise me unconditionally,” I said. Would it astonish you to hear that he is nearly half a bicycle?” ![]() “Michael Gilhaney,” said the sergeant, “is an example of a man that is nearly banjaxed from the principle of the atomic theory. “The atomic theory,” I sallied, “is a thing that is not clear to me at all.” He walked on, looking worried and preoccupied, as if what he was examining in his head was unpleasant in a very intricate way. “It is doing untold destruction,” he continued, “the half of the people are suffering from it it is worse than the smallpox.” “Would it surprise you to be told,” he said darkly, “that the atomic theory is at work in this parish?” He leaned his mouth confidentially over to my ear. “Did you ever discover or hear tell of the atomic theory?” the sergeant inquired. ![]()
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