Bicycle Funeral.
We have had in our time the bicycle christening and the bicycle wedding; it is, therefore, but meet that there should be a bicycle funeral. Such an event, carried out in great style, is reported by Dalziel from Scandovi (wherever that may be). A cycle maker, it appears, died expressing a wish that his funeral should be attended by all his cycling friends, and that the bicycle should, as far as possible, be utilised in the final funeral arrangement*. His coffin, we are told, was, therefore, accordingly carried on a frame between two tandems, and taken to the cemetery, some miles distant. His friends followed on their bicycles. After such a funeral one hopes there was no scorching.
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Manawatu Herald, 22 March 1902, Page 2
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120Bicycle Funeral. Manawatu Herald, 22 March 1902, Page 2
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