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dies, while the assistant moves you slowly along, with one hand on your 

 arm and the other on the end of the spring. 



It is hardly necessary to say that the best place to learn is a large room 

 llcry, with smooth-boarded floor or flag-stone pavement. 



Now, directly you are in motion you will feel quite helpless, and exper- 

 ience a sensation of being run away with, and it will seem as if the 

 machine were trying to throw you off; but all you have to do is to keep 

 the front wheel straight with the back wheel by means of the handles, 

 and the assistant will keep you up and wheel you about for a quarter of 

 an hour or so, taking rest at intervals. When you want to turn move the 

 handle so as to turn the front wheel in the direction required, but avoid 

 turning too quickly, or you will fall on the reverse way. 



Observe that in keeping your balance, all is done by the hands guiding 

 the front wheel. Do not attempt to sway your body, and so preserve 

 your balance, but sit upright, and if you feel yourself falling to the left, 

 turn the wheel to the left ; that is to say, guide the machine in the direc- 

 tion in which you are falling, and it will bring you up again ; but this 

 must be done the same moment you feel any inclination from the perpen- 

 dicular. Do not be violent and turn the wheel too much, or you will 

 overdo it, and cause it to fall the other way. 



Practise guiding the machine in this way until you feel yourself able to 

 be left to yourself for a short distance, and then let the assistant give you 

 a push, and leaving his hold, let you run by yourself for a few yards be- 

 fore you incline to fall. Should you feel that you are losing your bala: 

 stretch out the foot on the side on which you incline, so that you may 

 pitch upon it, and thus arrest your fall. 



SECOND LESSON. 



Eaving pretty Well mastered the balancing and keeping the machine 



i may now take a further step, and venture to place your ! 

 on tli.- treadles, and you will now find the novel movement of the legs up 

 and down liable to distract your attention from the M, -i -ing ">' balanc'. 

 lut after a few turns you will get familiarize. 1 with the motion, and find 

 this ditlieulty disappear; and it will seem within the bnunds of pos.sil.ility 

 that you may BOme time or other l>egin to travel without assistance. 



torse, in tli is and tin- former Lesson, 8OID6 will take to it more quickly 

 than others, and the duration of the lessons must depend on the learner 

 himself, and the amount of meclianieal aptitude he may be gifted with. 



DQC we have known t fcal as much teaching U others. 



