[
  {
    "title": "Picnic-time",
    "author": "Eugene Field",
    "lines": [
      "It's June ag'in, an' in my soul I feel the fillin' joy",
      "That's sure to come this time o' year to every little boy;",
      "For, every June, the Sunday-schools at picnics may be seen,",
      "Where \"fields beyont the swellin' floods stand dressed in livin' green\";",
      "Where little girls are skeered to death with spiders, bugs, and ants,",
      "An' little boys get grass-stains on their go-to meetin' pants.",
      "It's June ag'in, an' with it all what happiness is mine -",
      "There's goin' to be a picnic, an' I'm goin' to jine!",
      "",
      "One year I jined the Baptists, an' goodness! how it rained!",
      "(But grampa says that that's the way \"baptizo\" is explained.)",
      "And once I jined the 'Piscopils an' had a heap o' fun -",
      "But the boss of all the picnics was the Presbyteriun!",
      "They had so many puddin's, sallids, sandwidges, an' pies,",
      "That a feller wisht his stummick was as hungry as his eyes!",
      "Oh, yes, the eatin' Presbyteriuns give yer is so fine",
      "That when they have a picnic, you bet I'm goin' to jine!",
      "",
      "But at this time the Methodists have special claims on me,",
      "For they're goin' to give a picnic on the 21st, D. V.;",
      "Why should a liberal universalist like me object",
      "To share the joys of fellowship with every friendly sect?",
      "However het'rodox their articles of faith elsewise may be,",
      "Their doctrine of fried chick'n is a savin' grace to me!",
      "So on the 21st of June, the weather bein' fine,",
      "They're goin' to give a picnic, and I'm goin' to jine!"
    ],
    "linecount": "24"
  }
]