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Charlie, the baby, as he is called, now almost three years old, has donned his new red flannel dress, and white apron, in honor of the day. James is cracking butternuts in one corner, and a well-heaped milk-pan is the trophy of his persevering toil.
Behold the clouds of pollen from the blooming pines and from the grasses in the meadow. She is less parsimonious with her winged seeds, such as of the maple and the elm, than with her heavy nuts butternuts, hickory-nuts, acorns, beechnuts, and so on. All these depend upon the agency of the birds and squirrels to scatter them.
Supper over and the dishes out of the way we gathered about the stove with cider and butternuts. 'Well, said Hope, 'I've got some news to tell you this boy is the best scholar of his age in this county. 'Thet so? said David. Uncle Eb stopped his hmnmer that was lifted to crack a butternut and pulled his chair close to Hope's.
I had been in sympathy with the artist, and had enjoyed his work in the same spirit in which it had been wrought. Now, however, with these unhappy butternuts in my eye, I began to look, not at the forest, but at the trees, and I found that the spared butternuts were in no sense exceptional. All the trees were deformed.
One of the best things in farming is gathering the chestnuts, hickory-nuts, butternuts, and even beechnuts, in the late fall, after the frosts have cracked the husks and the high winds have shaken them, and the colored leaves have strewn the ground. On a bright October day, when the air is full of golden sunshine, there is nothing quite so exhilarating as going nutting.
There are many kinds of nuts, too filberts, with rough prickly husks, walnuts, butternuts, and hickory-nuts; these last are large trees, the nuts of which are very nice to eat, and the wood very fine for cabinet-work, and for firewood; the bark is used for dyeing. Now, my dear, I think you must be quite tired with hearing so much about Canadian fruits."
Fleda drew a long breath, and gave a hard look at the distant wagon where her butternuts were going in by handfuls. She said no more. It was but a few fields further on that the old gentleman came to a sudden stop again. "Ain't there some of my sheep over yonder there, Fleda, along with Squire Thornton's?"
A drunken fellow sat down by him, and bought a cent's worth of his butternuts, and inquired what he would sell out to him for. The old man made an estimate, though evidently in jest, and then reckoned his box, measures, meats, and what little maple sugar he had, at four dollars. He had a very quiet manner, and expressed an intention of going to the Commencement at Williamstown to-morrow.
"Yet, worth speaking of," said my wife; "but it must come, I suppose." "We won't go half-way to meet it, Winifred." When the meal was over, Junior went out on the porch and returned with a mysterious sack. "Butternuts!" he ejaculated. Junior was winning his way truly, and in the children's eyes was already a good genius, as his father was in mine.
It happened that one day when Frisky came across Mr. Crow in the woods, something reminded Mr. Crow that he knew where there were plenty of butternuts just waiting to be eaten. "Is that so?" Frisky exclaimed. "Have you had some of them?" "No! I don't care for butternuts," Mr. Crow said, with a slight cough. "I've always considered them bad for my throat. I've made it a rule never to eat them.
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