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Updated: June 22, 2025
If the Sabbath of America is simply to be a universal loafing, picnicking, dining-out day, as it is now with all our foreign population, we shall need what they have in Europe, the gendarmes at every turn, to protect the fruit on our trees and the melons in our fields.
Now we can play picnicking here play that we are camping out, and that one of these days, when we've bagged our game, we're going home to Chicago. Now, we'll set the table;" and he began moving the dishes, pans and bundles off the pine table on to chairs and the floor. "Isn't this sweet," said Mrs. Lively, "eating in the kitchen and without a tablecloth?"
I want to go West with you, and make a home there, and when you go to China, or go to India, I want you to go because your wife has helped you because you have had happy years of working and experimenting and picnicking and planning with me! "It's all over, Wolf, that Melrose business that dream! I've said good-bye to them, and they have to me, and they know I'm never coming back!
Yet she had an uneasy instinct that calm, proud young gods and goddesses did things like this, and felt the weakness of her reasoning flush her own conscious cheek. "Teresa!" She started. Dunn was awake, and was gazing at her curiously. "I was reckoning it was the only square thing for Low to stop this promiscuous picnicking here and marry you out and out."
Most of us have a few drops, at least, of gypsy blood in us, and in this land of sunshine and the open road we all become vagabonds as far as our conventional upbringing will let us. When you know that it won't rain from May to October, and the country is full of the most lovely and picturesque spots, how can you help at least picnicking whenever you can?
But to loftier types of holiday-seekers, the benignant silences of the wilderness are put there by an all-wise Providence for the purpose of being fractured by any racket denoting care-free merriment; the louder the merrier. There is nothing so racket-breeding as a perfect day amid perfect scenery. The four revelers had paddled down into the lake, on a day's picnicking.
So there was riding, rowing, and picnicking by day, music, dancing, and plays by night; and everyone said there had not been so gay a vacation for years.
Sunday all the mill operatives were free; and then groups of women and children added themselves to the men; dinners were taken along, lending a grotesque suggestion of picnicking to the work, a suggestion contradicted by the anxious faces, the strained timbre of the voices that called from group to group. But night brought the amateur searchers straggling home with nothing to tell.
I was very much interested; and, when one o'clock came, I thought it a pity to call school and spoil so good and interesting a contest. The boys were unanimously of the same opinion. The girls were happy, picnicking under the trees. So we played cricket all the afternoon." "I think that was carrying your theory a little too far," said the professor dubiously.
There are pleasant walks, which people seldom take, in many directions, and there are drives and bridle-paths all through the dense, sad, Northern woods which still savagely clothe the greater part of the island to its further shores, where there are shelves and plateaus of rock incomparable for picnicking.
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