The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1865-11-08
Pie-nits and how to Enjoy Them.

] a sensible article on pic-nics. Some of hi
Illustrations will answer any meridian, ant
We take a slice OF his entertaining dish
Get packed in car like box Of oranges
and smother in white muslin until you ge
to the grove, where you will arrive in
state of perspiration and bliss.
Don't be particular about your own bas
kei Baskets usually get mixed.
Take the Biggest one you can get The
ladies always fill their baskets.
When you get in the grove you are ex
pected 20 declare that it is the delightfules
spo: you ever saw.
Select pretty teacher, and explore the
shady recesses, and pour out your soul.
When it is poured out, ask the young la
dy if she won, take a swing.
She will.
Sawyer has sung Swinging in the Lane,
but don'l think he ever tried swinging in
a grove. did.
was kept at it for three hours and q
quarter, swinging all the girls that came
along.
is splendid exercise, beats Burnhan's
gymnasium, double trapeze and all.
havn't got over il yet.
An old lady then proposed that should
climb an apple tree 10 exlricaie her Johnny,
who had got his trowsers involved in a
branch about thirty feet up, and was hung
like sign of the golden fleece.
Told The old lady TO wait till he got ripe
and he'd drop of his own accord.
Old lady said was brute, and hadn'i
got the feeling OF mother.
She went TO the man that kept the park
and sold lager. He brought ladder and
restored the aspiring youth to the fond eu
brace of his maternal relative.
Whereupon she spanked him for tearing
his trowsers.
Which served him right.
We then took dinner.
Pretty teacher spread her pocket hand
kerchief for table cloth and unpdcked the
rations.
The rations had got somewhat mixed.
The ssrdine box had busted and "struck
ile.n The huckIe5erry pie had amalgama-
ted with the pickles, and the cherries had
resolved themselves into jam.
But It was. so charming to eat your dinner
on the grass beneath the outrageous shade
of the noble trees.
So the pretty teacher had observed, as
was squeezing the lemons in the dinner
kettle 10 make the festive beverage, which
neither cheers nor inebria:es, but frequently
stom-ach-aches.
was started by piercing shrek from
the pretty teacher, and dropped a hall
lemon partly squeezed and few to the res
cue.
A "horrid bug" descending from the UNI
brageous foliage previously mentioned, had
alighted on her alabaster neck.
/ despatched the creature and we pro-
cseded to despatch our repast.
But the insect horrors thickehed.
chronological specimens of many vari-
cites inrudei upon our banquet, got involv.
ed in the pie, and met very walsry grave
in the lemonade.
Pretty teacher turned pale and lost her
appetite.
| grew desperate. As the reckless in
sects wouIdn'I get out of the way, Left
them 10 their fate
eat several indescribabIe specimens with
my sandwiches, and drank spider in a
glass of lemonads.
isurvived il.
don't know how it agreed with the spi-
der.
After dinner we resumed our festive
sports.
We played Copenhagen.
Which is very hilarious sport.
1t consists Of chasing girls under a rope
tearing their clothes and kissing them
The girls appear to like it.
The dominic who had been surveying
our sports with benign satisfaction, propos-
ed 10 improve the occason in oratory.
Just as be was about to hold forth, pro
videntiaI thunder shower extinguished him
and saved Us the inflic,ion.
We took shelter under a seven -by-nine
shed wisely prepared for such contingent.
cies, and overHowed the refreshment shanty
until the shower dried up.
Groves are e1otimmediateIy- improved by
showers, and the grass being wet and the
leaves dropping, our festivities were damp
ened. ~ te
We began TO experience the remorse
which follows dissipation. s.sf .,ts.
Pretty teacher was in tears; she had ru-
ined her dress by accidentally sitting down
in currant pie.
The ice cream had all melted, the straw
berries were gone.
We started ina wilted procession for the
cars.
The conductor being a Iiharal man eaxe