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                          | "The Golliwogg's Bicycle Club" was the title of
                              Florence Upton's second children's book, which was
                              published in 1896.  The story starts with the Golliwogg and his five
                              Dutch doll friends sitting around, feeling rather
                              bored. Then "With sudden flash a brilliant thought
                              Disturbs the Goliwogg-", as he then declares "Oh
                              loveliest girls in all the world, E'den beyond
                              mortal praise - Listen to me And you will see I've
                              got the Cycle craze!" | 
 |  First edition (1896) of "The
                                Golliwogg's Bicycle Club" by Florence Upton
 |  The Golliwogg then proceeds to make some "clever plans"
                      for a bicycle and other vehicles, made of wood, so that
                      the six friends can travel the world. On page 8, he tells
                      the girls "cycle clubs are all the rage; And I am sure
                      that we Some happy times In foreign climes Can pass right
                      merrily." The friends travel together to Paris, Japan, Turkey and
                      Africa. Alas... the Golliwogg's bicycle and Sarah Jane's
                      tricycle reach a sticky end when they collide, but they
                      all hitch a ride on a camel, and after befriending some
                      cannibal tribesmen, they make their way safely back home
                      to "Doll-land" - by row boat. 
                      
                        
                          | The famous Russian-American author Vladimir
                              Nabokov recalled reading the scene when they are
                              attacked by the tribe of cannibals by saying,
                              “Over the shoulder of my past I admire again the
                              crucial picture: the Golliwogg, still on his knees
                              by the pool but no longer drinking; his hair
                              stands on end and the normal black of his face has
                              changed to a weird ashen hue.” | 
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