How to amuse yourself and others : the American girl's handy book (1887)
Beard, Lina, Beard, Adelia B. (Adelia Belle), 1857-1920 · New York : Charles Scribner's Sons · leaf 148
Corn Roast. CHAPTER XL … PICNICS, BURGOOS AND CORN-ROASTS. RACES of foreign ances-tors are apparent occa-sionally in most of us,true Americans thoughwe be. It is perhaps aspice of gypsy blood inour veins that sets ourpulses throbbing withpleasant excitementwhen, seated in an old hay-wagon, we go bumping and thump-ing down…
