The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-07-23

JULY
will rain If we wait. We'd better get |
there befOreit rains, think. Perhaps |
the others have forgotten to go, or
maybe they are sick or have too much
work to do. What time is itP Oh!
believe our watches and clocks are all
slow. Couldn't you turn 'em ahead
a little? Why won't they startp What
is the use of waiting and being so
awful slow. I've no patience with
folks that are slow. Why couldn't we
go on and get the woods ready? Pm
not afraid of woods. Hope we shall
see bears and things. Don't bears grow
In woods as far out of town as thats
Oh, | wouldn't have woods without
bears. If you don't have bears, what
do you have in woods to have any fun
with? Want me to eat some breakfasts
I'm not hungry. DON'T s'pose / want
to eat my dinner now, do you? Say
what time is it? viii | want my rub
Der boots? Don't want my top along?
What's the use Of having woods with
no place in them to spin tops? There
they come! Hurrah!! No it isn't.
Take off my hat and have picnic right
away at home? No indeed. Home
isn't any place to have picnics," etc.,
ETC., for four hours.
AT THE PICNIC.
"What makes the hill so steep and
roughP shall fall. My but isn't
this big hill? Isn't this over thou
sand feet high? Wish we had it in our
front yard. When it had ice on 'twould
be smooth wouldn't it, and good to
slide down on. Why don't we have
hills? This would be great deal
nicer than lawn that you have to
NOW. These hornets that they have in
woods wouldn't sting would they? Did
you 'spose trees were SO tall? They are
so long before they have any leaves.
believe should like to have them get
dinner. Have we got to wait for every
body else to get hungry? Why didn't
they have camp chairs and hammocks
enough to 60 round? 1t makes fell
lows legs get tired like to climb such
big hills and stand around so much.
Picnics make folks dreadful dry don't
they? Seems as if | had not had any
lemonade at all. believe was never
so hungry before. Have we got to sit
on the ground to eat our dinner? Oh,
a blanket isn't a good stool to sit on.
Won't the ants and things crawl Oh US?
Is this the way they always do at pic
MICS? 1t makes my back ache and my
legs get SO stiff trying to sit this way.
| Don't they wish they had brought
tables and chairs along? Too much
trouble did you say? l don't think it
too much trouble, not half so much
trouble as too make fellows legs ache
this way. l don't like to have grand.
father long-legs crawling on my neck,
and those green-looking grass-hoppers
after my cake; and look, the ants are
coming toward my jelly, and there is
a fly bound to drown himself in my
coffee. How can we wash our hands
This napkin don't amount to anything
when fellow is all sticky. Say, can't
we stay all night here? wouldn't be
afraid. l could sleep in the hammock
and | presume you big folks would
want to sit up and talk all night any
way. Can't we stay? Pm not hungry
now and I'd like to stay here week,
or all summer. I'd like 10 wade in that
river. Is that the Ohio river? 1t
isn't? Well, don't see what river it
can be then. How far away are we?
Does the man who owns this land know
what river this is, and is this his hill
too? Can't papa buy river, l wish he
would, 'twould save going out of the
yard to learn to skate. Is all the
lemonade gone? Tired? No. L don't
want to go home. like picnics if we
only had our things all here ;"-and SO
on for four hours.
AFTER THE PICNIC.
81 don't feel good here in my stomach
guess you gave me too much lemonade
Pm not tired or sick, but that jelly and
cake didn't suit me. Don't you think
E warm dinner would have been better
for us? I wish we could have stayed
longer. The rest of them did not al
have to come away so soon. Does ;
. fellow always have the headache wher
he has been to picnic? Do you fee
rested, mamaP They said 'twould be ;
real good rest for us all to so to tina
!. picnic, but l don't feel any better thai
, l did before. What makes my fac
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