The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-07-06

s~S HOoA WaOai plOsulS6 u(6 mOSt lS6s
quent. For real solid enjoyment, we,
for our part, much prefer a we'll con.
Quoted funeral to an ordinary picnic.
Yon generally reach tho ground about II.
O'Clock, and the exercises begin with
climbing hill, up which you are com.
PEELED to carry two heavy lunch baskets,
When you reach the summit, you are
positively certain the Thermometers must
1e nearly $50 in the shade. You throw
yourself on the grass, and in few mo-
ments brigade of black ants begin to
crawl down the back of your neck, while
phaianx OF ticks charge upon your
trouser-leg. And just as you Jump up,
your Oldest boy, who has been out in the
WOODS. where he stirred up yellow
lacketa nest, comes in with his face and
head swellcd to the size of water.
bucket. conveying the information that
your Oldest boy, William Henry, ia I'D a
tree and cant get down. After laborine
to release William Henry, the thermome.
ter seems to have gone up 200 more de-
grees, and you think you will take a
swim in the creek. While you are in
the water, young Jones strolIs out with
Miss Smith, and, unconscious of your
presence, they sit down close to your
clothes, and engage in conversation for
three quarters Of an hour, while you lie
down IN the shallow stream, afraid to
budge and nearly killed with the hot
sun; When they leave. you emerge and
hnd that some wicked boy from the
nelghboring village has run off with
your shirt and socks. You fix up as we'll
al you can, and when you get back with
the purity, they are eating dinner from o
cloth laid on the ground. a spider is
spinning cob.wcb from the pickle-iar
to tie little end of tho cold ham, strad-
dIe' bugs are frolioking around over the
pound-cake. caterpillars are exploring
the bread plate, grasshoppers are iump.
ing into the butter, where they stick
fast; the bees are go thick around the
sugar-bowl that you are afraid to 40 near
it. and there are enough ants in the pie
to walk completely off with it. You
take seat, however. determined to try
to eat something; but you get up sud
denly-all nt once, as it were, for you
have sat down on briar. Then William
Henry, who has quaffsd an unreasonable
quantity OF lemonade, gets the collie and
Ills mother goes into Mysteries, because
she thinks he is poisoned with poke
berries. You lay him under an um-
brellu, and proceed to climb O tree, in
order to fix swing for the girls. After
skinning your hands. tearing your trou-
sers and running your coat, you get to
the top, tie tho rope. and undertake to
come down on it, You do come down,
with velocity. and your fingers are
rubbed entirely row. Just then it be-
gins to rain furiously. and the whole
party stampedes TO the depot for shelter.
When the shower slackens, you go back
to the ground to get tho rope, aud Just
as you get up in the tree, the owner of
the place comes along with gun and q
dog, and threatens to blow your brains
out and eat you up if you don't leave
Immediately. Then you come down
again with celerity. aud get over the
fence as if you were in earnest Going
home in the train. all the passengers re,
gard you, from your appearance. as an
escaped convict. or q iunatic who has
broken from his keepers; aud when you
reach your home. you plunge into o
shirt. cover your hands with court-plas.
ter, dnd register solemn vow never to
go on another picnic And We are
with you; Wa never will either.
saturday Eoening Post.