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"No," said Phonny, despondingly. "I am glad of that," said Beechnut. "Glad!" said Phonny, looking up surprised, and somewhat displeased. "What are you glad for?" "For the sake of the fishes," said Beechnut. "Hoh!" said Phonny. "And the other day, when I did catch some, you said you were glad of that." "Yes," said Beechnut, "then I was glad for your sake.
"The hatches," replied Beechnut, "are a sort of scuttle-doors that cover over the square openings in the deck of a ship. They always have to put them on and fasten them down in a great storm."
"I don't see how such a little fellow as you can eat such hard things as acorns and beechnuts," protested Peter a little doubtfully. Yank-Yank laughed right out. "Sometime when I see you over in the Green Forest I'll show you," said he. "When I find a fat beechnut I take it to a little crack in a tree that will just hold it; then with this stout bill of mine I crack the shell.
They made themselves ready immediately after breakfast, and then went and sat down upon the step of the door, waiting for Beechnut to appear. Beechnut was in the barn, harnessing the horse into the wagon. Malleville sat down quietly upon the step while waiting for Beechnut. Phonny began to amuse himself by climbing up the railing of the bannisters, at the side of the stairs.
It is inclined to cling to the nut; in some cases it only partially opens and drops with the nut. =Beechnut= One of the sweetest and most delicately flavored of our native nuts is the little, triangular beechnut. The tree is common and widely distributed, but few people know anything about the nut. In Kentucky the nuts used to be plentiful, but I have seen none in New York.
"The storm drove us upon the Nova Scotia coast," said Beechnut, resuming his story. "We did not know anything about the great danger that we were in until just before the ship went ashore. When we got near the shore the sailors put down all the anchors; but they would not hold, and at length the ship struck. Then there followed a dreadful scene of consternation and confusion.
This was a request which they almost always made in similar circumstances. In all their rides and rambles Beechnut's stories were an unfailing resource, furnishing them with an inexhaustible fund of amusement sometimes, and sometimes of instruction. "Well," said Beechnut, in answer to their request, "I will tell you now about my voyage across the Atlantic Ocean."
"What was the girl's name?" asked Malleville. "The girl's?" repeated Beechnut. "Oh, her name was Arabella." "Well, go on," said Malleville. "One day," continued Beechnut, "Sligo was walking about the house, trying to find something to do. She came into the parlor. There was nobody there.
He put his money in a bag, his bag in his chest, and his chest in the hold, and it came as safe as the captain's sextant." "And the iceberg and the rainbow?" said Madeline. "Embellishment, all embellishment," said Beechnut. "Dear me!" said Phonny, "I thought it was all true." "Did you?" said Beechnut.
Grunty Pig, however, did not even give Jasper a glance. Instead, he began nosing about for another beechnut bur. For a moment or two Jasper Jay watched him. And then Jasper began to squawk. "Stop that!" he ordered. "Don't you dare to take any of our beechnuts!" "Umph!" said Grunty Pig. "I can't find any more on the ground.
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