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5th. Arrange for a little musical, dramatic or other entertainment, 

 such as may be at your command. 



6th. Make the picnic dinner a prominent feature of each monthly 

 or quarterly session, and invite all the friends of the society and 

 their children to the festival. 



This is substantially the programme carried out with variations, 

 by the Brown County Society for the last two years, with results 

 such as have been briefly hinted at in the preceding part of this 

 paper. I conclude by repeating a counsel found in the good book, 

 " Go thou and do likewise." And thus doing, I pledge you that 

 Jack will stand up before you neither a " dull boy " nor a " mere 

 toy," but a smart, enterprising and useful young fellow. 



Mr. Kellogg — It made me feel bad to hear what a wonderful 

 time Thoreau had, and to think what he might have done if he had 

 only looked around. It might have prolonged his life and made 

 him so much more useful, if he had only just found the right kind 

 of an old maid to share life with him. 



Mr. Field — I do not think I can add anything to what I have 

 already heard. I have listened with a good deal of pleasure to the 

 papers that have been read. I regret exceedingly that so few of 

 the ladies we expected here were present. The reading of their 

 own papers gives them a better effect. We get the best sense from 

 them; better than we do when they are read by another person, 

 however well read, as they have been this afternoon. I symypa- 

 thize to some extent with my friend Kellogg in relation to this 

 young gentleman we heard so much about, and so very pleasantly 

 read of by Mrs. Lewis of this city, and certainly there are many 

 thoughts in that paper that are of interest to us all; many lessons 

 were there taught, and especially, that we need but little in this 

 life to make us happy, but little expenditure for food or clothing 

 or shelter; and yet she tells us that he was supremely happy. No, 

 I will take that back; said that he was happy, that he enjoyed 

 all these things in nature and that he was happy; and I think she 

 stated in the latter clause of her paper that he was true to himself, 

 true to his country, and true to his God. I could hardly reconcile 

 that with the first clause, or nearly so, of her paper, where she 

 said he was unmarried. I think that is hardly possible, and yet he 

 might, perhaps, have enjoyed life reasonably well, but to say that 



