spread on long tables under the deep shade - food of every description and in an unbelie\able abundance. Then there was the Band Stand which served also as the Refreshment Stand. A dime was the usual amount allotted us for some special treat. I still see the assortment of candy displayed and remember what a problem it was to decide just how best to in\est my dime. 47 As the day wore on, patience and endurance of both Teachers and mothers was at low ebb - the exuberant spirit of the children faded. The School Picnic came to an end and with it the end of the School Year. 48 A Sunday Afternoon Drive We had no two-seated "Surrey with Fringe on Top". When George and I were children. Father arranged an extra seat in the buggy for us - the dash-board served as a back for our improvised seat and we sat facing Mother and Father as wc rode along. A particular drive I recall took us north of town. Mother called our attention to the farm on which she grew up. Her family and several of their kin and near-kin had "migrated" from points in Western Ohio to the vicinity of Marine, Illinois, in 1854, having come via the Ohio River from Cincinnati to Cairo, 111. and