Show One Picnic Per Annum Held to Fill Normal Requirements 1 i i. i w lE E i is i Addiction Beyond This Argues More Than Heroic Courage D FAR as information is available the artist had not the author in mind when he SO S drew this picture of what happens U after the picnic The family associations suggested by bJ the limner limiter arc are not quite in line with what is commonly known known or or shall one say sap notorious concerning concerning the domestic relations of the gifted scribe who in the appended lines unburdens himself with r reference to what hat happens to the tile inveterate urbanite when the call caU of the wild gets him The juvenile third in this pictured menage is a figment of the artists artist's 8 imagination or all accounts lack Jack verity r I MV Mur T MADS Too roo rooI GUESS I S eRs v t A IS I A E. E so MA N L F. F eM CAM we W HAve TO ro tAr EAT HAM J sMI w ICHE HE I T PA We TH c EM 10 1 t NOW y S Sf f 1 I i 1 I I I VI l TAE I ETcAR I- I 4 b C 4 I 5 v i P 0 l lI lI r AFT I I Hand First Evidence of What May B Befall fall Those Who Vho Listen to Lure of the Wild By Frank Becker ys ONE picnic a year yea enough IS I Well We'll tell teU tho the world It II Is avon I If it its it's the kind wo we we used to at attend attend at at- tend as bare barefoot toot kids when the hayrack bumped for tor ton ten rocky miles to Downers Downer's grove mixing mothers mother's made home-made piccalilli with the Ice cream or the tho we wo manage to cook up nowadays when hen the homebrew busts the bottIes bottles bottles bot bot- tIes and drowns the tho floating axel of ot the tho One who has never attended a picnic can never know the horrors of such misguided ac ac- ac tion And yet perhaps everyone should attend once It will wUl teach him to avoid pitfalls In tho the fu future future tu fu- ture when hon a picnic fan fart gets him cornered It will also prove how sweet and simple are the other JOYS of ot life Being innocent and antI confiding with the passage of the years and anda a trusting soul withal the writer I I annually falls falls for th the tho picnic or or- or This year ear we wo even organized organized organized or or- one of our own showing that our our- weak and vacillating nature nature nature na na- na- na ture Is becoming even more loose and careless as time goes on But never again We e say It now with solemn hand in air in a deep and melancholy voice This last ono one nearly ruined us and there are crackers and cheese scattered from Point of ot Mountain to Dig Die Bend Also there are arc countless bottles of ot evil homebrew tasting like sour dough douCh batter that wo we used to chase around the griddle north of or 63 and acts all the same as aa T. T N. N T T. T Somewhere In the party wo we slipped on a rock while reaching for tor a cold one and fell tell In the creek much to the edification of ot a alot alot alot lot of ot grinning demon lacs standIng standing stand stand- Ing on the bank Our Sunday pants may recover but they will never look the same Wo Wc sometimes grow reminiscent and hark back to the days das when we e had only one suspender and andone andone andone one nail for a suspender button Them was tho the good old days we say with twinkle In our eyes oyes when we could beat the rest of ot the tho kids to the old swimming hole and be the tho first to shed and hit the water Of course the special picnic garb was sometimes all to the mustard but It was a to ten shot that before the day was over we would fall out of ot a tree or step In a bumblebees bumblebee's nest Wo We bear a n. demeanor as thou though h the recollection had a Do faint and elusive ta taste te but its it's tho bunk A confirmed picnicker ma may bo be able to pick the nicks out of ot himself without pain but we wo always were and always will ill bo be a ft casual |