Notes and Events.
By many Boxing Day will ba ob served as a holiday on the beach. There, despite of past experience whole families will spend from daylight to dark on the shore of the oc-an and will return, if not wistr or sadder, decidedly redder* than when they went. For tanning the face a salt wind beats creation. A whole day on the shore is just a little too long.
Have picnics ? Yes, many, both by road and water. Capital fun when you have good companions every one. What is a picnic ? More properly speaking it should be picknick, as it was intended to- represent a picking or nibbling of bits, a snatch, a snack, (fee, which it will be noticed is very much like a picnic where it is impossible to get a real sufficient meal straight off.
Those picknickers who travel to the beach should post themselveg up in the language of a nautical swell, or .they or their companions may be as confounded as was the celebrated Mrs F. in the " Puins in a pleasureboat " rhyme, at the language of the sailors. " Wind fresh, indeed, I never felt the #ir so full of salt " was one ejaculation of her's at the breeze being described "fresh. 1 , The idea of a 4I bar " at sea worried the good old eoul who declared " The bar ! what, roads with, turnpikes too ? I wonder where they are !" Those in doubt can now call on pilot Seabury who will explain not only such trifles as these but the whole wondrous system of tides as well.
A very lilcely mistake was made by Mrs F. owing to th9 abbreviated manner of speaking of the crew, who spoke of a certain point of land as the Pint. The old lady says "Be steady — well, I hope they can ! but they've got a pint of drink." Teetotal drinks were apparently, unsuspected when this rbynae was written, but now each explorer can leave town loaded up with Hamer's cordials or Furrie's champagne or Gray's Easp« berry Vinegar, and though we will not say they would be any the worse for takiug any quantity, still they would not be the worse from alcoholic liquor which is the main point with total abstainers.
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Manawatu Herald, 24 December 1895, Page 3
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376Notes and Events. Manawatu Herald, 24 December 1895, Page 3
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