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Newspaper
Abbotsford Post
Location
Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Apr 03, 1914
Page
3
In a small hardware shop a farmer is urged to buy a bicycle as a farm gadget. The salesman jokes a bicycle will eat the head off, offering it for thirty-five dollars. The farmer quips he’d rather spend the money on a cow, noting riding a bicycle would be as odd as milking a bicycle.
A fragmentary dialogue recalls an average citizen's four months of study in money theory and currency principles. A teacher questions a pupil who cannot recall the master's name, responding with a jest about being Brown, Blockhead. The snippet captures a rural classroom vignette with humorous naming.
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