The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-09-22
91Niatella,tto1ts.
Pic-Nies.

Cory o. Lanus of the Brooklyn Eagle, has a
sensible article on pic-ncs. Some of his llustra-
tions will answer for any meridian, and we take
a slice Of his entertaining dish
Get packed in q car like a box Of oranges, and
smothered in white muslin until you get to the
grove where you will arrive in state of perspi-
ration and bliss.
Don't be particular about your own basket
Baskets usually get mixed.
Take the biggest one you can get. The ladies
always fill their baskets. .is..f iyl .
When you get in the grove, you are expected
to declare it is the delightfullest spot you ever
saw. f f59 .9 y i..a.ai
Select pretty teacher, explore the shadiest re-
cesses, and pour out your soul.
When it's all poured out, asked the young la
dy if she won't take swing. ~
She will.
Sawyer has sung of {" Swinging in the Lane,
but dom think heever tried swinging in grove
Ibid. ea#
I,was kept at it for three hours and quarter,
swinging all the girls that came along.
1t is splendid exercise, beats Burnham's gym
nasium, double trapeze and all. hav'nt got
over it yet. o 80
An old lady then proposed that should climb
an apple tree to extricate her Johnny, who had
got his trousers involved in branch about thir-
ty feet up, and was hung up like a sign of the
golden fleece AZ
Told the old lady to wait till he got ripe, and
he'd drop of his own accord. e..aa5rs.r.
Old lady said was brute, and hadn't got
the feelings of mother
She went for the man who kept the Park and
sold lager. He brought ladder and restored
| the aspiring youth to the fond embrace OF his
maternal relative.
Whereupon she spanked him for tearing his
trousers.
Which served him right.
| We then took dinner. - .f.
Pretty teacher spread her pocket handkerchief
for table cloth and unpacked the rations.
The ratons had got somewhat mixed.
The sardine box had busted and struck lie"
The huckleberry pie had amalgamated 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. i- aae
So the pretty teacher observed as was squeez-
! ing the lemons in the dinner kettle to make the
festive beverage, which neither cheers inebri-
ates, but frequently stomach-aches. 9
was startled by piercing shrek from the
pretty teacher and dropped half lemon partly
| squeezed and flew to the rescue. aa5o saa .saaif
| A horrid bug" descending from the umbra-
| geous foliage previously mentioned, had allghted
on her alabaser neck.
| / dispatched the creature, and we proceeded to
| dispatch our repast. -sfuajass.s
| But insect horrors thickened.
chronological specimens of many varieties in
truded upon our banquet, gotinvolved in the pie,
and met a very watery grave in the lemon.
Pretty teacher turned pale and lost her appe-
tite. 81
/ grew desperate. As the reckless insects
wouldn't get out of the way, ! left them to their
fate.
| eat several indescribabIe specimens with my
sandwiches, and drank spiderin glass of lem
onade
survived it.
don't know how it agreed with the spider
After dinner we resumed our festive sports.
We played Copenhagen.
/ Which is very hilarious sport
1t consists of chasing girls under rope tear
ing their clothes and kissing them. e4
The girls appear to like it. .es. .4isy-
| The dominic, who had been surveying ouI
spo1t with benign satisfaction, proposed to i'm
prove the occasion in oratory
4 Just as he was about to hold forth, provi-
4 Dental thunder shower extinguished him and
/. saved us the infliction.
We took refuge under a seven-by-nine shed,
wisely provided for such contingencies, and over
I flowed the refreshment shanty until the shower
s dried up. - ss,.. ,.ssa, i, /,
Groves are not Immediately improved by show
ers. and the grass being wet and the leaves drop
ping, our festivities were dampened.
+ We began to experience the remorse which fol-
: lows dissipation. e,
Pretty teacher was in tears she had ruined
6 her dress by accidentally sitting down in cur
rau pie. f ;a :, -,
! The ice cream had all melted, the Strawberries
were gone.
We started in wilted procession for the cars
The conductor being liberal man gave us g
larger lease of pleasure than we bargained for
= and kept US waiting an hour.
When got home Mrs. O'Lanus wanted to know
,Iifpd been to a funeral. went to bed early and
dreamed all night that was struggling desper
ately with gigantic spider who had carried Of
the pretty teacher and hung her up by her wa
terfall on the topmost limb of a big tree. 'e' ID
Some people like pic-nics, others like strawber
ry festivals, but for my part give me liberty OF
give me death.
Yours, prespiringly,
CoRRY O'IANUS,