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"Towser!" spoke Harry Hazelton sharply. "I'm ashamed of you!" "You ought to be!" came the answer in another voice, and a surly one, at that. "Fred Ripley?" muttered Dick. "What on earth can he be doing here?" Unconsciously all of the picnickers hastened their steps. Then they came upon a truly ludicrous sight. Fred lay where he had been lying ever since ten o'clock that morning.
But presently the picnickers embarked, and, as the moon came up, and the river ebbed, the boats went back to the town and overtook others on the way, and then were pulled up stream again in the favoring eddy to make the evening's pleasure longer; at last Nan was left at her door.
"And we'd get Old Carew to give you a regular party! The men in our crowd are gentlemen from different parts of the States, and they would help us entertain," added Jim. "I think it would be a treat, Mrs. Brewster, for all of us. John and I would join the picnickers," now said Tom Latimer. "Say, would you really, Tom?" cried Jim, delightedly. "Sure thing. If Mr. and Mrs. Brewster approve."
Two of the flowers are picked Tim's father will not allow more and they are brought to help the decoration of the picnic meal. Carried thus over the shoulder of an eager, flushed child, the waratah suggests another idea: it represents exactly the thyrsus of the Bacchanals of ancient legends. The picnickers find that their appetites have gained zest from the sweet salty oysters.
"It's most like Kettle," cried Jerry, excitedly, for at Haskin's station, where the picnickers left the trolley, the hills pressed about so close that they, indeed, seemed to Jerry like her beloved mountains. "But how horrid to call a lovely place like this Haskin's!"
There may have been picnickers here during the summer, and they may have left a lot of tin cans." "But what do you want of one?" asked Nan. "I'll tell you if I find one," said her brother. "If I told you now, and we didn't pick up one, you'd be disappointed." But they were not to be, for a little later Harry, kicking about in the snow, turned up a rusty tin can. "That's it!" cried Bert.
Once more I must admit that the regulation has been sensibly devised. If admittance were allowed on Sunday, the grounds would be overrun by picnickers from Buffalo, who would cast the shells of hard-boiled eggs into the inviting Sea of Galilee; and unless the officers are willing to let anybody in, they can devise no practicable way of letting anybody out.
"Have you a doctor aboard, Charley?" the young man asked. "No," answered the conductor, who had been addressed; "my God, not one, Austen." "Back up your train," said Austen, "and stop your baggage car here. And go to the grove," he added to one of the picnickers, "and bring four or five carriage cushions. And you hold this." The man beside him took the tourniquet, as he was bid.
The sudden view of the sea from the messy, pine-covered height directly above it where we picnic; the wonderful stretch of lonely shore with the forest to the water's edge; the coloured sails in the blue distance; the freshness, the brightness, the vastness all is lost upon the picnickers, and made worse than indifferent to them, by the perpetual necessity they are under of fighting these horrid creatures.
A hundred yards and the limits of the town were passed, scattered chaparral succeeding, and then a noble grove, overflowing the bijou canon. Through this a small bright stream meandered. Park-like it was, with a kind of cockney ruralness further endorsed by the waste papers and rifled tins of picnickers.
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