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Updated: May 18, 2025
You might say that I'll have only one meal all winter long. It started as soon as the beechnuts began to ripen; and it won't be ended until the last nut is gone." Jimmy Rabbit couldn't help smiling. "Anyhow, you can't be really hungry," he said. "And if you'll come with me and do just as I tell you, you'll find that Jasper Jay won't trouble you for a good, long time." "Wait a little while!"
Vaupell, though agreeing with other writers as to the injury done to the forest by most domestic animals and by half-tamed deer which he illustrates in an interesting way in his posthumous work, The Danish Woods thinks, nonetheless, that at the season when the mast is falling, swine are rather useful than otherwise to forests of beech and oak, by treading into the ground and thus sowing beechnuts and acorns, and by destroying moles and mice.
Suiting action to the word, Yank-Yank ran around the trunk of the apple-tree just above Peter's head. When he reappeared Peter had another question ready. "Do you live altogether on grubs and worms and insects and their eggs?" he asked. "I should say not!" exclaimed Yank-Yank. "I like acorns and beechnuts and certain kinds of seeds."
And as soon as the frosts came and burst open the prickly pods that covered the beechnuts he intended to lead the first nutting party of the season to the place where the beeches grew. Now, going a-nutting with a crowd is much more fun than gathering nuts alone. And Jasper usually preferred a nutting party of a dozen blue jays.
This both astonished and angered the bear, but seeing how large and formidable the stranger was, and how fearlessly he came on, Black Bruin sneaked away through the bushes into some very thick cover and bided his time. It came a few days later. He was poking under the dead leaves for beechnuts, when he noticed the herd passing at a distance.
But one would like to know who or what pipes the tune and directs the figures of the dance. In the case of the beechnuts, what is it that lies dormant in the substance of the nuts and becomes alive, under the influence of the warmth and moisture of spring, and puts out a radicle that pierces the dry leaves like an awl?
"Nay, but I did, that is, I gathered the nuts for thee, and then then feared if I offered them thou 'dst only flout me" "Oh, sure never was a poor maid so bestead with blind men well, fetch thy beechnuts." "Nay, Priscilla, but blind, blind? How then am I blind, maiden, say?" "Why, not to have discovered ere this how I dote upon beechnuts. There, get thee gone for them."
And so, likewise, did that noisy rascal, Jasper Jay. They liked beechnuts all three. And somehow they got the notion that the beech tree belonged to them and to nobody else. One fine, crisp fall day when Johnnie Green was in school, a fourth nut-lover wandered down the road, stopped right between the wheel tracks, and sniffed. It was Grunty Pig. "I smell beechnuts!" he cried with a joyful squeal.
The poplars were clear amber and the hickories russet and the oaks a deep burgundy. Lean hogs began to fill and fatten with their banqueting on beechnuts and acorns. Scattered quail came together in the conclave of the covey, and changed their summer call for the "hover" whistle. Shortly, the rains would strip the trees, and leave them naked. Then, Misery would vindicate its christener.
And I must have wood and water galore to make meat for a hundred men. Stir thyself!" "I was thinking, Priscilla why not stuff the turkeys with beechnuts? There is store of them up at our cottage." "How came they there? Doth our doughty Captain go birds-nesting and nutting in his by-times?"
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