The rugs were laid under a chestnut tree, and our first picnic luncheon spread on the buttercups and daisies.
Mr. Harrington told me to-day that she was ringleader of a party of little girls who went out to Small's Enlargement on a picnic excursion.
Mrs. Clifford wondered why her daughter should return from a picnic so eager for supper.
III JUNE On a June morning Dwight Herbert Deacon looked at the sky, and said with his manner of originating it: "How about a picnic this afternoon?
Oh, I haven't been to a picnicsince I can remember.
They might go for a sort ofpicnic to Richmond Park, and she must come back to supper.
She dragged herself downstairs and sat red-eyed through the dinner, the materials for the picnic which Winny had unpacked and spread.
Obviously some one had overheard their plan topicnic at Hunter's Rock and treated them to an unwelcome surprise.
From Lloyd's earliest recollection, Miss Allison had been the life of every party and picnic in the neighbourhood.
But, with their feet on the hot stones, their backs to the sheltering ledge of rocks, and the fire crackling in front of them, they sang and laughed and ate with a zest which no summer picnic could have inspired.
It's a thousand times nicer than a picnic in the summer, when you get so hot, and the mosquitoes and redbugs and spiders swarm all over you.
It has been the very loveliest picnic I ever went to in my whole life," declared Gay, as they turned away.
Kitty's going to have a picnic on the creek bank for her.
No; Kitty decided that no social function in the woods was properly a picnic without a fire and some kind of a mess to cook.
The ice is too thin for holiday dissipations, and this picnic was too great a weight for it.
She built several little picnic cottages far up in the hills, where she and some of her children would often go for a few days when they were at Balmoral.
Flossie, as they all came back to camp from a little picnic in the woods one day.
With a bound he jumped through the bushes and stood in the little grassy glade where the Bobbsey twins were having a sort of picnic by themselves.
In the winter no one lived on it, but in the summer it was often visited by picnic parties and by those who liked to gather the blueberries which grew so plentifully, giving the island its name.
The twins had taken their lunch and were to have a sort of picnic in the woods.
It was, as we have said, a lovely September morning, and all the members of the picnic party were in high spirits.
A picnic had been arranged to a celebrated hill about ten miles distant from Hopeworth.
One moment she is instructing him to write to a poet and thank him for a copy of verses; at another she is arranging a picnicparty in her own little garden near the Palace.
It commemorated a picnic in Scotland, in which the Queen, the Prince Consort, and Princess Alice had shared.
A picnic without singing was not to be thought of, and we requested the men to favor us with some folk-songs.
We'll take Stella and Lucy along, and have a picnic on Eagle Rock.
THE day of the picnic was hot, very hot, for June, but that did not discourage the younger picnickers at all.
At the time of the picnic it was empty, and in charge of a caretaker, who lived in a small cottage on the grounds.
The fire behaved well, as if knowing the need of haste, and the coffee was soon made, and as delicious as picnic coffee, by some apparent miracle, generally is.
It was just after that mountain picnic that Cherry had come home; on a Sunday, as it chanced, that was her eighteenth birthday, and on which Martin and his aunt were coming to dinner.
Never did picnic party, intent on a day's pleasuring, leave home in higher spirits.
Let us have a mayflower picnic tomorrow to celebrate Paddy's safe return.
We are getting up a picnic for Wednesday, you know; and I should like Norah to be with us.
We are going to a picnic with the Burtons, and the Marchioness of Upshire, and all kinds of fine people, and I was crying because I have not got a pretty dress.
The young people found the rest of their party about half a mile back, where they had chosen their picnic grounds in the neighborhood of a brook.
They used to go together to watch an occasional picnic train or election special go through the station, and they thought because they were so exactly alike they would most surely marry.
We were standing on the deck, staring miserably back over the awful miles to where somewhere in that lost north our town lay with flags fluttering, picnic baskets getting into trains and everybody out on their lawns and porches.
The young married women with babies rode in buggies, from every one of whose bulging sides flags drooped and fat baby legs and picnic baskets protruded.
There's a bit of new enclosed forest I want to look at and report on, so we are going to make a picnic of it.
It had been done picnic fashion, and the room was littered with plates, and knives and forks, and lunch baskets, and paper, and all the accompaniments of an itinerant repast.
She pointed out that she had dressed for the picnic in a brand-new frock especially built by one of the smart court dressmakers for such occasions, for which it was about as well suited (I pointed out) as a ball-dress would have been.
Mrs. MacGill, for general troublesomeness, outdid her proudest previous record; no picnic polluted by her presence could be an enjoyable occasion, but this one was frowned upon by all the Fates.
Breakfast was quiet, though mamma had borne the picnic wonderfully and Miss Evesham was brighter than usual.
Ever since I had that walk with Miss Pomeroy, she has done nothing but talk about a picnic at some beastly little village in the vicinity where there is a church that the guide-books tell the usual lies about.
Certainly that picnicwas a failure; even Miss Virginia was subdued.
We really must have that projected picnic to the old burying-ground this week.
The picnic at the old burying-ground would afford him an excellent opportunity of proposing, and if he made up his mind definitely on that point, it would make him less nervous.
At any rate, she had not been indifferent, and this thought bringing a certain consolation with it, he made his way down to the picnic party, and was soon recovering his equanimity over scones and jam.
There was a picnic of the Lower School on one of the islands in the lake, however, that Bobby and Fred were not likely to forget for a long time.
They went to the upper island, which was the biggest, in an hour and a half, and as soon as they landed they set to work to build a fire and make the picnic dinner.
It looked, for a time, as though the picnic had to be delayed.
It chanced to be a good day with Mary, and the committee of two got the promise of a big hamper of good things for the first picnic of the year.
