A dozen riders, for instance, may, ko leading the way when one of them has a puncture. The others immediately put on a spurt so as to gain 2s much ground as possible before the unfortunate one can make good the damage, they know well that, in his unaided efforts to make-up for lost time, he will take a good deal more out of himself than they who travel company. The riders are alternately baked by the sun and drenched with rain. In the Alps they encountered snowstorms and such cold that their fingers became quite numbed and they could hardly
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