Sunday, September 4, 2011

A Pic-nic

"A Traveller in Italy writes Obtaining refreshments when travelling is always attended with difficulty and discontent even by rail but always on Italian roads by diligence or vetturino it becomes most serious I send you my experience as it nay bo useful Before leaving London I had an ordinary picnic basket made of wicker work in this was a tin box big enough for a chicken a bottle of wine tumbler knives and forks and a tea making apparatus the whole very co npact about 12 inches by 9 inches and 6 inches deep not at all too large to carry over one's shoulder Whore I slept before retiring Iordered a chicken to be ready cold the next morning and with this wine and bread a very fair dinner may be made on the road certainly immensely superior to the dirty greasy mutton cutlets which are the usual fare obtainable at short notice at a wayeide inn" From The Journal of the Society of Arts, Volume 12, 1864

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" In the first place wc had all cut the very thoughts of a regular dinner and were to perpetrate some curious compound between an al fresco picnic banquet of ham sandwiches and biscuits and threats of bottled ale and lemonade in a garden overlooking the Heath" From Eliza Cook's journal 1853

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"The Fourth of July On the open lawn under the shadow of a group of trees is a picnic table spread with fruit flowers decanters of wine &c " From The Liberty bell 1858

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"As their baskets were of nuts and cake And fruits a picnic treat to make" From The Children's Picture Gallery & Story Teller 1854

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