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Going to use Jude is he, to pull his chestnuts out of the fire?" Then Jared strode forward with arm upraised as if to strike and, by so doing, again command the situation. In like manner had he downed and controlled Joyce's mother. But he paused before the pale undaunted girl.
Here and there, amid the tufts of grass, lay the husks of last autumn's chestnuts. Sylvia slowly followed the little zigzag way which cut across the wood, and then, desiring to sit down for awhile, she struck off to the right, towards a spot where she saw that the brambles and the undergrowth had been cleared away.
The five cells found within are of a silken white colour, each filled with an oval-shaped mass of cream-coloured pulp containing several seeds of the size of chestnuts. The pulp forms the edible portion of the fruit, and its consistence and flavour are both difficult to be described. Mr Wallace, the celebrated hunter naturalist, thus quaintly describes it:
To-day, while she sewed for him, he would have to stay in. That was a pity, for it is such fun out in a storm. By night, though, all would be finished. "And that is good!" exclaimed Ivra. "For to-night the Tree Man has asked us to a party. We're going to roast chestnuts and play games, and there's to be a surprise, too. The Tree Girl called it all out to me as I passed just now.
After the Boss came along certain Things without souls, but of many minds, and found more chinks in the Constitution: bigger chinks, for the Things were bigger, and they stole more chestnuts. But I am getting far ahead of my love-story and of my book. The reader is warned that this first love-story will, in a few chapters, come to an end: and not to a happy end otherwise there would be no book.
There was a moment of silence and one of the masked cadets stepped to the front. "Prisoner, are you prepared to meet your doom?" was the question put in a harsh voice. "Oh, chestnuts!" cried Dick. "I went through that long ago, when I first came to Putnam Hall." "Bow to your superiors," said another voice. "Where are the superiors?" asked Dick innocently. "I don't see 'em."
Young nut trees should be planted in the enclosure, and when these are not bearing, mast and chestnuts should be thrown in to the dormice, for that is what makes them fat. Roomy cages should be provided for them in which to rear their young. Little water is necessary, for dormice do not require much water, but on the contrary affect dry places.
Our two little chestnuts, which had brought us right through from Chakhoti to Srinagar a distance of about seventy-eight miles in two days, were as lively and fit as possible, and playfully nibbled at each other's noses as they were walked off to their well-earned rest.
Through the mist the dawn broke pearly gray at first and then iridescent; and, when the first sunrays penetrated the white haze and gilded every leaf-edge, turning the tree-tops to gold and making every waterdrop a diamond, no lovelier morning could be imagined. The trees about and above us were mostly beeches, with many chestnuts and a few plane-trees and poplars.
Kantaro was, it happens, a mollycoddle. Nevertheless he had the temerity to come over the fence to our yard and steal my chestnuts. One certain evening I hid myself behind a folding-gate of the fence and caught him in the act. Having his retreat cut off he grappled with me in desperation. He was about two years older than I, and, though weak-kneed, was physically the stronger.
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