Word: picnicers
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...hours later I had strolled down to the pier, and was watching the little yachts and row-boats gayly starting out with their loads of fishing and picnic parties, when father and daughter came walking down from the hotel together. Mr. Carlin passed me with the barest recognition, but Bertha withdrew her arm from his and stopped short to speak with me. He made no remark but addressed himself to the old skipper of the Rosa, a dainty little yacht, some twenty-four feet or so from stem to stern, and asked him if his boat were yet engaged...
...that you need do in vacation is to read a few novels, and to start a flow of language by delivering a Fourth-of-July oration, or an address at a Sunday-school picnic. In the future, however, English VI. will render even this unnecessary...
Everybody, it seemed, had a picnic in the rooms, and I went over to Mr. Mattes's tavern and got a few corn-cakes, and went into a room to eat my lunch. A tall young man with light hair was very kind to me and showed me the way out, - which I knew, having just come in, but I suppose he did not understand...