The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1842-01-20
MISCELLANEOUS.
THE PIC MIC.


A correspondent OF the New Oreans
PIcayune, who subscribes himseif Pardon
Jones'" and dates from Shady Grove, Bay
State" gives the following account Of pic
tic party:
Ga "Wednesday we had q grea. pic uc
party down 10 wha, father calls the holo
nedder, close TO the Palmer rocks. The
neighbors they wanted IN Jerushy to fix
the party up jest as they du down to Luz
zyanny. Well we'd neYer neither on us
been TO grove party dowo there, bat we
dido, tell them so; aud SO: cur heads to
gether 10 see If we couldn't du sumthin TO
'storish them. So vent down to The vii.
lsge and hired three niggers that knew
how to play on the fiddle and FIRE drum,
and told EN- not to tell nobody tha, they
was going TO play for US, and to come to
Shady Grove, sly, the night before.
Then went 10 the hoilo medder grove,
end picket out the best shade, and built
place away up in The Top Of a big tree that
bent over, and kivered the under side Of il
with limbs, sos't nobody could see up
Right under that little plat form on the
groand | made big round table, sos't PEG.
pie could set inside aud outside of the rings,
and eat. When the day cone, had a
long bidder carried down aud set again the
tree, and made the niggers get up afore en-
ny come. Od Cesar, che jddler, IS real
fat Old feIler, and il took him a good ahlle
to get up.
Now" says !. 90 you set as still as
nice up there, aud don't make a BIZ of
noise I'LL | boiler " Music has charms, !"
md then du you begin to play " Hail Co
lambda" just as soft as you can. Make il
sound sweet and heavenly"
We., The neighbors got toge,her-ihe
gals all soi inside on ;he ring, aud the men
aud ole eNpen on the outside. Pafsou
Miller asked blessing, and we all begun
10 eat. Every sVng vent on nice and eve
~ body was jokeuNld lafin in great STYLE.
aOa," says !, lhIhe heavenly muses.
would only play US g HAl COLUMBIA" how
nice il would be Muse hatb charms !"
Cesar struck up, and thes>olaved away
most beautiful for some time. gsery body
vas 'mazed, aad they looked all Mad g.,
the music, couldn't see nobody nor nxf,o.
Cesar growed warmer and warmer% T
slipped away from the table and vent rouua
bshind bunch Of bushes, and peeped up
through the leaves al the nlggers. Cesar
he made his elbow 90 as If he had the
cramp N H. At last he wanted to see how
ibe folks liked II down below, aud he lean
ed over the platform near hall his length, {
rockiu all the time TO keep time with hi
fiddle. Putty soon heard sumthln crack
and when ! looked up the platform ha,
broke loose, and was tumblia, niggers AM
all, down through the limbs aud leaves. :
Cesar was The heaviest, and be come dowr
frsi, breakin every thing before him. II,
fell right on the table, between Person Nil
Ter and Jerushy, and fquashed II do@n Ga
to the gsoond--chIcken pie, glasses, col,
dnmplins and all The niggers With III,
drum fell on uncle Hezekiah spaldin'
head. The bigger fel, on top of the drum
aud as uncle Hezeklah SO, on the ground
one drum bead burst when il hit him. am
u kiTered hIm up, clean out Of sight, hl1s
'urnin an empty barrel over him To,he,
Niger fell straddle Of a gals neck. auc
eenamost killed her
inever see SIGH skeered set folks Il
my life; and ! b'lioye | was about as noci
skeered as any on en-. Tie nigeers ibe,
up and run like ~hneaeads, aud fore ID,
confusion was cleared Up there ~afn'l mar,
one on EN- TO be seeu. | never fel; S
cheap about any thing 10 nay life; but afte
] explained the Thing to 'em oil. aud som,
on EN- fund out that il want tho dew
that come down 'mobg 'em, they LATED i
of as vel as they could, and se all ser
home.