Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-06-25
The PIeasures oflhe plcnIc

This is the season of the year when picnics ara
most frequent. For real solid enjoyment we.
for our part, must prefer well-c0nducted fu-
neral to an ordinary picnic You generally
reach the grounds about eleven o'clock, and
the exercises begin with climbing a hill, up
which you are compelled to carry two heavy
lunch baskets. When you reach the summit
you are positively certain the thermometer
must be nearly six hundred and fifty in the
shaie. You throw yourself on the grass and
III few moments a brigade of black ants begin
to crawl down the back OF your neck, while a
phalanx OF ticks charge up your trowsers leg
Aud lust as you jump up, your oldest boy who
has been out i'll the woods where he stirred mn
q yellow Jackets nest, comes in with his head
aud face swelled to the size of water bucket /:
conveying the information that your other boy
William Henry, is up a tree and can't get down
After laborlng to release William Henry the
Thermometer seems TO have gone up two hum
qreu more degrees, and you think you will take
9 swim In the creek. While You are in the wa
tPr, yoHng Jones strolls out with Miss Smith.
aud unconscious OF your presence they sit down
elose by your clothes, and engage in couyersa-
tion Tor three quarters Of hour, while you lie
down in the shallow stream afraid TO budge
and nearly killed with the hot sun. When thes
leave, You emerge and lind that some wicked
bOy from the neiShborlng village has run oil
wlIh your shirt and socks. You ix up as well as
YOU can, and when you got back with the party
they are eating dinner from a cloth laid on
the ground spider Is spinning eobweb from
nam straddebugs are frolickiug around over
the ppupd-cake, caterplllars are exploring the
bread lilsts, grasshupPers are jumping into the
butter where they stick fact, the bees are So
thick around the sugar-bowl that you are
AFRAID TO 80 near it, and there are enough autA
IN the pie to walk completely off with it, You
take seat however. determined to try To eat
something, but You get up suddenly-all at
once as u were, for you have set down on a
Jrar Then William Henry, who has quaifed an
quantity OF letnonade gets the collie
and hlr mother goes into Mysteries because she
thinks he Il poisoned with poke-be1ries You Law
MN under al umbrella, aud proceed to Climb
Tree ~ order tu fix swing for the girls. After
7MuhlhE your hands, tearing your trousers aud |
snullis Your coat you get to the top tie the |
rope and Undertake to come down on it. You
10 come down, with velocity, and your fingers |
are rubbed enu o!y raw. Ju.t then IL begins To /
ram fntiuusiy. and the whole party statnpedes |
10 tue depot Ter shelter Wien the shower slack |
1ir ypu 81 n-cA to the ground tC get the rupa |
, Vi Just as You Elt up in the tree tie owner OF |
me place comes along with 4 sun aud a Il ig aud /
htea ems 10 b1W Nout brains out aud eat Vou ur /
! you dlH ieHve immediately. Then YOU come
Town asalu with CELEBRITY and get over lAe fence
- II N"a We're tu earnest. Glug Eumu in the
j diH AN a. - passengers regard volt from yuut
appearance. a. au e-capei couyct, or a luuatll
u" li- hh7keu from hir he, ptrs and when Won.
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i'i.i7 "ltA '1.ri-pIN-t1r, a-d register q solemn
aN heEeF 10 50 uu a4othur Iieulc. And We ar,
'itu YOU we never Will either.