The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1881-08-27
Going Berrying.

Going Berrying. -'' 2
One Of the romantic episodes of a two
~,eks' stay at Il Michigan summer re.
.ort is gong 5errying. Nature has been
LEASED to establish a huckleberry swamp
r. blackberry patch within three miles
%gery village, lake, bav or grove in
me State which claims to be, a summer
sort. THE excursion to the swamp IS
me idea ether Of an old fiend who wants
,hs whole MOTEL to himself for the day.
n else Of some romantic young lady who
aoesn't know q hucklebery from "a
umpkin. The party start very earl, in
4 he morning to avoid the heat. and they
,slk in order to gather bouquets. Also,
I n order to fall over roots, plunge over
mtten logs, wrestle with ne,tles and
drop into concealed holes and boys.
| The theological student from Kalamazoo
Avs something about mosquitoes, and
receives y reprimand that chills his soul.
l 4 bachelor from Canada turns back
,fter having one eye raked out BY a
limb, and the excursion votes to cut his
acquaintance. A grocer from Saginaw
sets mired in a swamp, and sly hints are
! thrown out that he came along with in.
tent to spoil the excursion. The swamp
never nearer than three miles, and
the route invariably includes three old.
.ashings, half dozen thickets, three
brush fences, two creeks, two swamps
| sud COW with bell on. There is a.
ways geologist in the party, and when
/ be calls a swamo-ash tree a Eastwood it
j. in tone which admits of no dispute.
l The orni biologist points to blue-jay
I searching for his breakfast and informs
| the excursion that wood -peckers live to
/ be fifteen years old and are Of a retiring
DISPOSITION. The botanist digsup a lon.
wild-tulip root and parcels it out under
| the name of sarsaparilla, and there are
bud bupts of applause as the forest sud-
denly "opens and admits a landsca. e
composed ofsa log school. house, a yoke
l Of oxen and . small boy with the brim
| Of his nat chewed off by mosquitoes. ~
The swamp is generally reached by
l noon, and the first thing in order is ia
| sit down in the brush and eat some
mashed pickles. crumbled cake, rancid
bread and butter and fuzzy looking corn
beef put up in the hotel dining. room
l With one seasons experience an intelli-
gent sxci1rsionist can separate q lunch.
con from the flies and mosquitoes and
pass the latter to the fat woman from
Grand Rapids, who thinks 1t would be
just too sweet for anything to live in q
cave With bear. / s. e.
A hhckleberry swamp need not neces
Mrilys contain any huckleberries, bu
most Of them contain from three to five
They are reached after q push through
thicket, q wade through q swamp anC
3 climb over a windfall. Sometime!
they are . humid ed rods anart, but az,
generally found in close company in thu
vicinity Of q good place for snakes
Having secured, the from three to fivt
berries and placed each one in . ten
quart pail or q peck basket, the groce
| from Saginaw suddenly inquiries VIVA
Internal fool invented this picnic9 Tn
theological student braces up at this an(
charges, the fat woman with havipI
| lured binAtO destruction. She retaliats
| by call1e the, blonde school-teaehe
| from Chicago 81 romantic fool, and =,
| the time it gets around to the botanist h
| struggles up out Of tie windfall and OF
| iers to kndck the 70 loeist's head of 70
| the small sumof Niche, and give hin
six msaths,' .essait = ,tAaAsss hen il
| excursion gets back to the hotel the
| meet the Band who went out to see TIL
hidden lake, and found only dea
mule The band WHO went to the s.eas
eades i0und n( ~, puE 4 .l1A
hole II( q turtle - Ed log; and III
choc lew whe snsal "a off after tror
and 4 and . boy who hal heard an0thaeE
boy s@v, that he had seen q creek with
"shiI ef''in it somewhere in the nes
count % Then sllisj and peace, ey
9ythbg il forgiven, Ind B. the s spl
~ Town everybody takes s.seatO
dew sInda and lies ikea trooper abot
biz hight, appetite ard agmiort, an
decla ~ thstIche already fesls twent
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