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The swiftest and best of the captured cruisers were fitted out with crews and added to the American vessel, until Captain Porter had under his command seven ships, carrying 80 guns and 340 men, in addition to nearly a hundred prisoners. Still more were added, and the cruise of the Essex and her companions in that part of the world became very much like a picnic.
Then they packed their baskets and went home, feeling very tired but very happy and much pleased with the picnic. That night Betty could not go to sleep for a long, long time. She lay in bed and watched the moonbeams. "I wonder," she thought, "whether the fairies will come. I wonder whether the man in the moon is looking down at them now.
"But standing stock still in the middle of the beach to listen to the adventures of Madge Morton will never help us on our way to the picnic," slyly reminded Emma Dean. "I should say it wouldn't," agreed Elfreda. "I beg your pardon. Lead on, my dear Emma." The little procession moved on again. Elfreda and Miriam brought up the rear. The comradeship between them was most sincere.
A newspaper man who arrived went into raptures over the 'Picnic, and coined the expression 'a very Parisian style of painting. It was repeated, and people no longer passed without declaring that the picture was 'very Parisian' indeed.
We had luncheon picnic fashion half-way to our journey's end, diverging from the main road to find a secluded spot where we could spread our cloth and open our hampers without fear of interruption or, to use a more sinister word, detection.
Why did Fanny Dodge and Ellen Dix dislike her, she wondered, and what could she do to win their friendship? Her troubled thoughts were interrupted by Martha, the taciturn maid. "I found this picture on the floor, Miss Lydia," said Martha; "did you drop it?" Lydia glanced at the small, unmounted photograph. It was a faded snapshot of a picnic party under a big tree.
"I've no doubt of it," Lady Muriel replied. "There's nothing a well-regulated child hates so much as regularity. I believe a really healthy boy would thoroughly enjoy Greek Grammar if only he might stand on his head to learn it! And your carpet-dinner certainly spared you one feature of a picnic, which is to me its chief drawback." "The chance of a shower?" I suggested.
Everything always does come to worry him, whenever he ought to have rest or pleasure. And Lance who was thoroughly weary and dispirited, was nearly ready to cry. 'Even when he goes out for a picnic, young ladies must needs drown themselves!
One absorbs and assimilates as in no other way. So when, at breakfast one morning, Mr. Sumner suggested a walk up to Fiesole, a picnic lunch at the top in the grounds of the old monastery, and the whole day there, coming down at sunset, his proposition met with delighted assent. It was planned that Mrs.
The pupils of Madame's school went to the picnic in the manner known as a "strawride." Miss Parmalee sat with them, her feet uncomfortably tucked under her. She was the youngest of the teachers, and could not evade the duty. Madame and Miss Acton headed the procession, sitting comfortably in a victoria driven by the colored man Sam, who was employed about the school.
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