The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-07-31
The Pleasures Of the Picnic


This is the season of the year when
picnics are most frequent. For real
solid enjoyment we. for our part, must
prefer a weli-conducted funeral 10 an
ordinary picnic. You generally reaoh
the grounds about eleven o'clock, and
the exercises begin with climbing hill,
if there is one, up which yoa are COM
PEELED to carry two heavy lunch bas-
kets. When you reach the summit you
are positively certain the thermometer
must be nearly six hundred and fifty in
the shade. You throw yourself on the
grass, and in few moments brigade
of black ants begin to crawl down the
back of your neck, while phalanx OF
ticks charge up your trowser leg. And
just as you jump up. your Oldest boy,
who has been out in the woods, where
he stirred up a yellow jackets nest,
come in with his head aud face swelled
to the size OF water-buckot convey
ing the information that your other boy,
William Henry, is up tree and can't
get down. After laboring to release
William Henry, the thermometer seems
to have gone up two more hundred de-
grees, and you think you viii take q
swim in the creek. While you are in
the water, young Jones strolls out with
Miss Smith, and unconscious OK your
presence they sit down close TO your
clothes and engage in conversation Tor
three-Guarters OF an hour, while you
lie down in the shallow stream, afraid
TO bulge and nearly killed with the hot
sun. When they leave yen emerge and
And that some wicked boy from the
neighboring village has run on with
your shirt and socks. Yoa hx up a.
| well as you can, and when you get back
with the party they are eating dinner
from a cloth laid on the ground A
spider Is spinning oobweb from the
/ pickle lar to the little end Of the cold
ham ssraddlebugs are fr0lieldng
around over the pound cake, eaterPil-
| lars are exploring the bread plate,
grasshoppers are jumping into the but
ter, where they stick fast, the bees are
30 thick around the sugar bowl that you
are afraid to 60 near il. and there are
enough ants IN the pie to walk COM
pletely OF with it. You take 8 seat,
however, determined to try 70 eat some
thing, but you get np suddenly, all ct
once, as it were, for you have sat down
on briar. Then William Henry, who
has quaffed an unreasonable quantity OF
lemonade, gets the collie, and his moth
er goes into mysteries because she
thinks he Is poisoned with poke berries.
You lay him under sn umbrella, and
proceed 10 climb a tree in order TO hx
. swing for the girls. After sbdnni- 9
your hands, tearing your trousers, and
running your coat, you get 70 the top
tie the rope, and undertake 70 come
down on It. You do come down, with
: velocity, and your fingers are rubbed
: entirely raw. Just then il begings q
; rain furiously, and ths whole PsrtJ
! stampedes to the depot for shelter
t When the shower slackenB you go bacl
r 70 the ground to get the rope, snd jus
: as you get up in the tree tbs owner o
8 the place comes along with gun an'
: a dog, and threatens 20 blow you
4 brains out and eat you up Il you don'
= leave Immediately. Then you com
4 down again with celerity, and set ove
the fenos as II you were in earnest
T Going home in the train ell the Passen
g gers regard yon. from your appearances
y a. an escaped convict. OF laustie VIII
Il has broken from his keepers an
# when ycu reach Jour home you plung
!, into q shirt, cover your hands wit
y court plaster. aud register . solem
vow never to go on another pioni'
II And We are with you We never vi
70 either.