Mrs. Grayher real name is Mrs. Graham nowdoesn't want her boy brought up in the city, and his grandfather is tired of the city too, so they're all living in the brown house, and every day's a picnic day.

He didn't want tohe thought it wasn't the thing for a picnic, but I held him up to it, for I didn't want the people to see him in his corduroy hunting suit.

He said they looked foppish, but I just got the button-hook and put them on him while he was arguing, and asked him who thought of this picnic anyway!

" "Sure, and it was more like a revival meetin' than a picnic, Pearlie," said her father, laughing.

"I say, what's the matter one piecee picnic this week?

" A careful fellow was Mr. Hamilton Morris, and he well knew the value of a rowboat to a sea-going picnic-party.

If there was going to be a picnic you ought to have sent word, and I'd have tacked on an extra car.

The conductor of that train need not have been much alarmed at falling in with a "picnic" of any moderate size, for he would have had room in his train to seat a good part of it, at least.

"We might get him to make a barrel of it for the Sunday-school picnic," said Marcella, brightly, over her fourth cup.

[Illustration: "WE MIGHT GET HIM TO MAKE A BARREL OF IT FOR THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL PICNIC."

We were told that we should spend halcyon days among the preserves, return laden with honours and large stores of ivory, and in our spare moments enjoy a little campaigning of a picnic variety, against an enemy that only waited the excuse to make a graceful surrender.

" "No picnic," he admitted.

She had sent a picnic basket down to the farm earlier in the afternoon, and she had expected to find them enjoying the contents thereof in a shady corner.

Here she heard that the picnic-party had taken place and that the basket had been brought back by one of the men, but for some reason the children had evidently gone home early, for they had not been seen since.

A big fire is built in some convenient place for the crowd, and smaller fires by individual parties, who bring luncheon with them and have a picnic in the snow in the winter.

But since the new hotel had been built the Half-Way House had waned, and its quiet was only invaded by an occasional straggling traveller or a runaway couple, and its walls resounded with nothing more clamorous than the orgies of a Sunday-school picnic.

After a picnic repast, they ascended Monte Cavo, and looked down on the deep basins of the lakes, once blazing with volcanic fire, now full of water blue as the sky it reflected; like human souls in which the passions have burned out, and left them calm recipients of those divine truths in which the heavens are mirrored.

They regarded the Revolution as a jest, and the flight to the Rhine as a picnic.

" The Pioneer's Picnic seemed to limit many things.

She was quite the same as at first, and they resumed their old relations as if the fatal picnic had never taken place.

You needn't git oneasy Thanksgivin', or picnic-time, or Easter, or no other time 'twixt this an' nex' Christmasless'n, of co'se, you stray off an' git stole.

Last summer we had a time of it when it come picnic season.

He's been goin' to Miss Phoebe's reg'lar nowall but the exhibition an' picnic days in the other schoolsfor nearly five months, not countin' off-an'-on days he went to her befo' he settled down to it stiddy.

He thess glanced around unconcerned at all the people a-settin' around him, thess like ez ef they might 'a' been askin' him to a picnic instid o' him provokin' a whole school committee to wrath.

The honorable picnic.