A group of foreign emigrants picnicked in the shade.

The meat-eating animals were given a picnic of the freshest beef, with a little so decayed that it was only fit to be buried, for the hyenas and jackals, and every animal was happy.

This would comfortably keep me away during the month of March when my brothers would be studying for their school finals and I would return in time to enjoy the April-May vacations when our cousins from Belgaum, Lucano and Ricardo, would join us for a whole summer season of mangoes, jackfruits and umpteen picnics on the beach.

BILL OF FARE FOR A PICNIC FOR 40 PERSONS. 2149.

and I have a picnic to-night?"

Goin' on a picnic with Abe Rose is like settin' yer teeth into a cast-iron stove lid covered with a thin layer o' puddin'.

The picnic at which Mercy met Parson Dorrance had taken place on a mountain some six miles south-west of Penfield.

There were plenty of excursions with brass bands, and refreshments served on board, baseball matches by the hundred, athletic meetings and picnics by the dozen, but nothing that seemed to exactly please him.

" "Or the fine hardwood trees in Ashantee, where a whole regiment could picnic under the shade.

The four had many excursions and picnics into the country together; but Kenneth and Patsy were recognized as especial chums, and the other girls did not interfere in their friendship except to tease them, occasionally, in a good natured way.

Well, they had many jokes about it and many songs, but the governor built this house on the steps of which we sit as a permanent depository for archives in case of war, and here he used to come for picnics until a few years ago.

We have been on picnics up the river in a sampan where we waded and fished, then landed on an island of bamboo and fern and cooked our dinner over a hibachi.

She tells of rambles and picnics along the Hudson, climbing rocks to get a fine view, halting under the trees to read together for a while, taking their simple dinner in some shady nook, and returning weary but happy to their "dear little No. 3," as she designates their house.

"It wouldn't be a picnic without a kettle and a fire; and we must have hot water to wash up with.

Dickens would compress into infinitely few days an enormous amount of sight-seeing and country enjoyment: castles, cathedrals, lunches and picnics among cherry orchards and hop-gardens.

" True enough, Phebe was as essential to any picnic as the feast, though much less obtrusively so, and Gerald watched her friend's quiet helpfulness with lazy interest.

On one of these picnics during my SSC year Juliet discovering my interest in aquarium fish promptly tried to get me to assist her in setting up an aquarium in their home.

And let me assure you, if you have not tried it, that to make the coffee and arrange the feast at a picnic like this is something quite different from being merely an ornamental.

She had chosen a site for the picnic near a bubbling brook, and had filled her glass with clear sparkling water therefrom, before seating herself to enjoy her cold chicken and bread and butter, and a slice of game-pie.

His characters all talk like a Sunday-school picnic out of the Rollo books.

Personally I should rather go to a morgue for a picnic than to Louvain as it looks to-day.

They were queerer even than the "belles" they came forand had escaped the promiscuity of the dinner-hour by turning one of their rooms into a dining-room, and picnicking therewith the Persimmon House standards, one couldn't describe it in any other way!

Gladly I would have gone off with him on an all-day picnic toward the Chinese mountains.