FACTS CULLED AT RIVERTON ON BOXING DAY.

Otago Witness, Issue 2812, 5 February 1908, Page 85

FACTS CULLED AT RIVERTON ON BOXING DAY.

Br Oxe Who Was Thehe. That the weather was all that could bs de=ned and a little more so. Witness the beautiful flush on the faces of the picnickers as they letuined home. That the tea at the picnic was a standing joke. Fact! It stood for iilf an hour befoie anyone suggested milking the cow? That a piominent member of the Invercargill Club showed iis a capital way of how not to get into a i ail way tivtck. That if our members do not set the Thames on fire, at least three of them had something to do with setting on file a, photographer's- shop. Apply to D.Y.K. lor the pi oof (of the photo, of couise). That some gorse tried to puck, but was promptly sat upon, which is another pioof of the old adage that "if you grasp a nettle fiimly it will not sting. ' Tbat the wind made it impeiative for -the picnickers to sit close on thij load home. That at least two people demonstrated the appropriateness of the noins de plume they possess. That othei people besides the Duneclin secretary hide 'their light under a Irashel until a picnic arrive". That the gams of "twos and thiees" was cariied out m quite a novel way. Future picnic committees might m«ke a note of this (with a view to pie'-ention). That one of oiu fair membeis constantly cighed for "other t.mes. other picnics." which weie indeed "not lost but gone befoie " That we can all tiuthfully say . that for onco we had complexions o£ — well, if not "cream and ro<=es," at least "roses ard cieam" . "ices" the day of the picnic and "cipam" the day after. That iliss Bobbie declared it to be her u"ht to supply notes of this picnic (to avoid exaggerations) Said young lady was disccveied on the return journey =ou;ewheie between Riverton and Imercaisi'l, and wa=piomptly lescued by hei lejoicing comrade That a certain person penous-lv piomised to wute a repent of the- picnic, whitn a= \c. we have not seen.