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Updated: May 18, 2025
I think with longing and delight of the myriads of wild pigeons that used to come every two or three years covering the sky for a day or two, and making the naked spring woods gay and festive with their soft voices and fluttering blue wings. I have seen thousands of them go through a beech wood, like a blue wave, picking up the sprouting beechnuts.
Coming upon a bed of wake-robins, which covered the forest floor with their spotted leaves, he stopped to dig up a few of the peppery roots. Washing them in a near-by stream, he devoured them, blinking his eyes comically over an unusually hot one. Then he wandered on in search of beechnuts, his appetite only made keener by this peppery salad.
And though Jasper took his full share of Farmer Green's strawberries, currants and blackberries, he did him no small service by devouring moths that would have harmed the grapes. But in the fall Jasper scorned almost any food except nuts, which he liked more than anything else that is, if their shells were not too thick. Beechnuts and chestnuts and acorns suited him well.
Boarding the West Shore train, laden with fruit and beechnuts and pleasant memories, we return to the city's roar and whirl, dreaming still of the calls of chickadees in the bare woods and of quiet hours before the fire at Slabsides. There has always been a haunting suggestiveness to me about the expression Rue du Temps Perdu the Street of Lost Time.
And as soon as his back was turned, Sandy Chipmunk reached down under the table and pulled an ear of corn out of the big basket. "They're butternuts," Uncle Sammy said. "And they're the same price as the beechnuts." "Give me one handful," Sandy said. "Give you a handful " Uncle Sammy snapped. But Sandy Chipmunk smiled at him. "I mean, sell me a handful," he explained.
And I hope there'll be a raging wind to-night that will rob it of every bur it has.... I'd uproot the beech," he added, "if I didn't like beechnuts so much." "Well, you are an odd one," said Frisky Squirrel. "If everybody was as odd as I am there'd be fewer Jasper Jays in the world," Grunty Pig declared.
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.
We have meat in abundance, and have flour to last for some time, for both we and the Gauls eat but little bread; besides, if pushed, we can do as the peasants do, pound up acorns and beechnuts and make a sort of bread of them." "Very well, Beric, I will go down tomorrow."
The joists of the house were thickly hung with the small delicious hams of the country hams made from young and tender hogs, which had lived and fattened upon the acorns, fragrant hickory-nuts and dainty beechnuts of the abundant "mast" of the forest, until the were saturated with their delicate, nutty flavor.
So I suppose I shall have to obey him," Grunty muttered half under his breath. "Don't mumble! Speak up!" cried Jasper Jay. "If you have any excuses to make, let's hear them!" While Jasper Jay, in the beech tree, waited for Grunty Pig, on the ground, to speak up and make his excuses for taking beechnuts, a bur dropped from a twig and landed right in front of Grunty's nose. He fell upon it greedily.
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