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The New Gate was shut by the time they reached it, and their explanation that they were belated after a nutting expedition would not have served them, had not Stephen produced the sum of twopence which softened the surliness of the guard.
Jack did not dislike this part of the business, and generally after he had delivered his parcel, wasted good part of the day in nutting, playing at fives, or dropping in at the public house: any thing was better to Jack than going to church.
Still, one day Aimee suggested a nutting expedition another day they gave little Roger the unheard-of pleasure of tea out-of-doors there was something else agreeable for a third; and it was Roger who arranged all these simple pleasures such as he knew Molly would enjoy. But to her he only appeared as the ready forwarder of Aimee's devices.
She knew the precise hour of a Monday morning at which the family washings were hung out, and which was the cleanest. It was she who made truancy an impossible risk, for no matter in what out-of-the-way place one might go nutting or swimming, Granny Long was sure to see, and report to the schoolmistress.
Week after week they were to be met in the lanes and meadows now gleaning in the wake of the harvest-wain, with Fanny and Mary, for the benefit of widow Rye; now blackberry gathering in the fields; now nutting in the hedgerows. The quarterly term came round, and no notice that he might look out for another tenant reached Mr Rowland.
"I should worry," said Denver and, whipping out the gun, he made the motions of fanning the hammer. "Now, now," reproved Diffenderfer drawing back in a panic; and then he laughed, but nervously. "Well, what do you want to show me?" demanded Denver bluntly. "Hurry up now I hear somebody coming." "Oh, nutting come again!" exclaimed the Professor apprehensively.
There was a yearly nutting excursion in October to Esterbrook farm where there were tall chestnut trees, flying squirrels and plenty of wood for a bonfire. May-day was usually celebrated at Conantum, a pine-clad hill on the south side of Fairhaven Bay, opposite the cliffs.
Love will make you show your heart one day, and then the rough burr will fall off." "Frost opens chestnut burrs, ma'am, and it takes a good shake to bring them down. Boys go nutting, and I don't care to be bagged by them," returned Jo, pasting away at the kite which no wind that blows would ever carry up, for Daisy had tied herself on as a bob.
James Nutting wounded in the same way, but not seriously; which was the only loss sustained during the engagement of more than one hour's duration. A number of Indians were wounded and carried off the field. Capt.
If they were as domestic and plentiful as robins, they would render us immense service. A colony of jays would soon destroy all the tent-caterpillars on your place, and many other pests. In Indiana they will build in the shrubbery around dwellings, but we usually hear their cries from mountain-sides and distant groves. Pleasant memories of rambles and nutting excursions they always awaken.
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