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I reckon the company'd like to go along and set on the grass, and pee-ruse nature for a little while, and eat up what's left in them lunch-baskets." Ten minutes later the Smyrna Ancients and Honorables took their departure down the street bordered by the elms. Hiram Look and Cap'n Aaron Sproul swayed comfortably on Imogene's broad back.
In fifteen minutes I sounded recall, and we all emerged, lank Mr. Jones now making, in very truth, an ideal scarecrow. Bobsey's dry garments were brought, and half an hour later we were all clothed, and, as Mr. Jones remarked, "For a wonder, in our right minds." The onslaught then made on the lunch-baskets was never surpassed, even at that place of hungry excursionists.
Wouldn't let them have his house at any price. He is just riding to the country and can't help us now. Now I'm to see Major C., who sent the order." Next came an officer, banged at the door till tired, and walked away. Then the orderly came again and beat the door same result. Next, four officers with bundles and lunch-baskets, followed by a wagon-load of furniture.
The picnic day dawned at last, clear, cloudless and warm but not too hot, for the desert summer was not fairly upon them yet; and with lunch-baskets and buckets on their arms, and faces wreathed with expectant smiles, the thirty children gathered around the low schoolhouse impatiently waiting for the teams. Both of Carrie's parents, Susie's mother, Dr.
Six fine dressing-cases arrived, and were hung upon the walls; four smelling-bottles one for each nostril; bed-socks, rigolettes, afghans, lunch-baskets, pocket-flasks, guide-books, needle-cases, bouquets in stacks, and a great cake with their names on top in red and blue letters three inches long.
Now, with the eyes of the hungry multitude on him, he unlocked the doors and disclosed an interior packed full of individual lunch-baskets. His men cheered lustily and formed in line. Foreman Look gazed on his cohorts with pride and fondness. "Gents," he said, in a clarion voice that took all the bystanders into his confidence, "you're never goin' to make any mistake in followin' me.
Soon the spot was deserted, and the squirrels came down from the trees to retake possession of their old haunts, to scamper across the platform, to sniff at the fallen rose-petals of the bouquets, and to nibble the crumbs of cake and bread dropped from the lunch-baskets. The next outing for the people of Buck Creek neighborhood was the county fair, which occurred in September.
You can make up lunch-baskets for fishing or tramping trips, or you can sew tapes on the old pants for "uniforms." It does not matter so much what you do, so long as you do as much as you can, and, above all, if you show an "interest."
There are always a plenty of the denizens of the place, in slovenly dresses and slouched hats, hands in pockets, and puffing cigarettes, who do the heavy standing-round business. Stray dogs hang about the car-wheels and track to pick up the crumbs which passengers throw away from their lunch-baskets.
After the sermon was over, the congregation rose to get their lunch-baskets, which had been left in their vehicles. "Mighty poky business so far," Westerfelt heard Jennie Wynn say, as she and Hansard went out ahead of him; "wait until after dinner, they'll get limbered up by that time."
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