Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1861-06-26

SO we organised our party-ten OF Us;
some to carry eating aPpartus, in the way Of
spoons and forks; some to provide bread ;
some to see to thc cold meat and mustard:
soa2e TO attend TO the cold fowls; some TO look (
after the sandwich department; some to take
care that the boxing gloves aud foils were not
forgotten some to be sure that the chess board
and the guoits were brought along: and
everybody had special instructions to see that
there was Something 70 drink" in his own
individual haveTsack
When we parted to meet on the appointed
day, at the appointed spot on the Heights Q:
jersey overlooking the Bay and City of New
York. then and there to cure ourselves Of the
Picuic-Fever.
AT the hour. every man was on the spot ex-
cept Jiniwiak, who had neatly saaaked cut:
we were dismal set; we knew We must 20
through the farce Of pretending to enjoy our
solves; Sd vs bean at once 20 unpac,s on
stores.
Men don. seem to have tie necessary ge-
MUS to provide for picnic without a grea.
redundancy Of some things aud correspond
ing scarcity OF others: so We had ten salt
cellars. bat no salt-sbcuEh we had plenty OF
mustard Tor each rlan-taEiaE IL f1- granted
that every other man would forget that iud.s-
PensaOle conlim-uS-hai brought at least balf
a pound but we didu't have any uustard-pot,
though We got along very we'll with pickle
bottle 50 lIei ve 7-ied-Brown eating tweo-
;y-thrca fgi.-sizei picked cucgm5ezs, SO tha.
;hey need not BE- vested then we had p.ovi-
siouz enough FOR six weeks 7as.ou= fer small
army; We Lad plenty Of silver forks aud
spoons, but DO. carving knife, o. any sort
Of I kniie larger than 4 Pen-kuil-.
Come 70 tahe al Inventory, we had. OF AZ
average two cold roast fa@ls apiece. twelve
roua each Of c5lI boiled beef eir6tIOaves Of
bread. :ou- P9uals of crackers. half a dozen
Bologna sau.aEcs, besides roast III key and
whole ham to every three fellows, and wash
tue full Of eggs, and G-e bushels Of potatoes
the contribution Of Squiiis. who said he'd
make fire and roast EN-.
When we couldn't find anything that was
very much wanted it was At once discovered
tha, that particular thing was 70 have been
provided 10y the absent J.aia.-l; J.-iai -,
was TO have seen to the salt, 10 have cct rs
some table cloths, and to have brought some
driuking-cuPs and Jiaiwiuh had certainly
promised TO have sauce pan On he ground,
and big pot TO boil potatoes IN and e ball
and a ser of bats. 50 tha- we could have q lit
lie base ball and Jiuivink wls also II have
brought rope, so that wc could have fas.en-
cd it to . tall tree. and have had some cymnas-
tics and the unfortunate Jiuiw.lk was -
have attended to a thousand other little affairs
which had not been attended to by anybody,
because every body asserted that Jiniwink had
made those forgotten things his special and
particular care.
We drew lots who should be cook Bagley
was duly appointed to that laboriors but not
lucrative situation So we ali dispersed to en-
Joy our selyes-leaviGg Bagley to make fire.
roast the potatoes and the eggs. spread out
the newspapers that we're 10 GO service in
stead of table-cloths, and call Us when all was
ready
Some Of Us boxed, and got bloody noses
aud black eyes some of US pitched quoits,
/ and got bruised shins; some Of US climbed The
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.,a .,n,bls8 down aud nearly broke onr nscEs.
80 $ -. -, -.,,s aud s.,,bfs5 mr. toes ~,
rnsso, -oc,,s and sterna5 into unexnecta5
PITS. and rolled and tumb,ei, aud pitched
about in the most miscellaneous and ProDis-
.r,,s strIc =, n. rroa. de.r,mep, os cu-
,r.-3robs so,n Homes had torn one 1eg Of hi.
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