A good-natured irresponsible tramp is seen contemplating the finished performance of a swell bicycle rider and on his going into an office building and leaving his bike standing in the doorway, Mr. Tramp sees no reason why he cannot do the trick just as well, and being troubled with no conscientious scruples, appropriates the bicycle and mounts it and proceeds on his wobbly-very wobbly-way. Gaining control as he proceeds, he manages to brace up a little and avoid quite so many bad falls, but seems to have a peculiar faculty for running into any and everybody on either side of the road, his various adventures being almost too numerous to detail, but include two young ladies out for a walk, a party of happy picnickers taking lunch on the front lawn, a boot-black stand, and two Irishmen with a can of beer are run into and scattered in every direction, while the tramp takes a short rest to look over the situation. Refreshed he starts once more, overturns a fruit stand in front of a grocery store, a surveyor with tripod and instruments who is engaged in taking street levels and a Jewish merchant and finally runs straight into two policemen who seem to be discussing a matter of great importance. The dignity of the policemen is much upset by this incident and as soon as they can gather themselves and their belongings from the ground where they have been thrown, they pursue Mr. Happy Hooligan with dire threats of vengeance. He regains his bicycle and certainly leads the cops a merry chase, but he cleverly makes triumphant connection with the rear end of a passing street car and is towed off.
—Selig Catalog (1907)