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Updated: June 18, 2025
"You, Francois, who every year eat such quantities of shell-bark nuts, and pecans, and red mulberries, too! you who suck persimmons like a 'possum! no use, eh?" "Well, that's true enough," rejoined Francois, "but still we do not cultivate these trees for their fruits we find them in the woods, growing naturally." "Because," interrupted Lucien, "we have the advantage of the Indians.
Dinner: Pecans, two stewed succulent vegetables, salad of lettuce, tomatoes and cucumbers, dressing. Breakfast: Peaches, cottage cheese. Lunch: Baked potatoes, butter, lettuce. Dinner: Fresh fish baked, liberal helping of one, two or three of the raw salad vegetables. Breakfast: Shredded wheat or puffed wheat sprinkled with melted butter, glass of milk. Lunch: Watermelon.
Place on top a mass of whipped cream, already sweetened and flavored then a single strawberry, sprinkle with shelled pecans. Make a rich custard of four eggs, one cup of granulated sugar and one quart of milk to which has been added one teaspoon of cornstarch. Let this cook in double boiler, stirring constantly, until the custard is very thick. Cool.
Before dark they found a stream about a foot deep running over sand between banks seven or eight feet high toward the Rio Grande. A mile further on a small grove of myrtle oaks and pecans grew on its left bank, and there they made their camp. Feeling that they must rely upon their valor and watchfulness, and not upon secrecy, they built a fire, and ate a good supper.
From this they emerged to a more wooded region and made an early camp on the edge of a grove of ash trees bordering a small stream where pecans grew thick. Shortly after daybreak they were jogging on at a walk-trot, the road gait of the Southwest, into the treeless country of the prairie. They nooned at an arroyo seco, and after they had eaten took a siesta during the heat of the day.
The abandoned fields, furthermore, contributed dewberries, blackberries, wild strawberries and wild plums in summer, and persimmons in autumn, when the forest also yielded its muscadines, fox grapes, hickory nuts, walnuts, chestnuts and chinquapins, and along the Gulf coast pecans.
Phyllis's home was a roomy wooden house, spreading wide, as every thing does in Texas, with doors and windows standing open, and deep piazzas on every side. Behind it was a grove of the kingly magnolia, in front the vast shadows of the grand pecans.
De nex' day he come walkin' down to de slabe-pen, a-purtendin' to be a planter, and a-axin' de price ob de niggers. When dey tole him I was Vina's husband, he says, 'Why, he's too ole to be anybody's husband: I don't believe he's got a toof in his head. 'Yes I has, massa, says I: 'I'se got t'ree left, and can chaw hoecake powerful, but I don't crack no pecans in my mouf.
It was October, and the pecans, they noticed, were already falling, as they passed through splendid groves of this timber, several times dismounting to fill their pockets with nuts. Tiburcio frequently called attention to fresh deer tracks near the creek bottom, and shortly afterward the first game of the day was sighted.
Glossy leaves of the live-oak made the forest spaces vague with shadows; bright birds like flame hopped in and out and hid in the hanging moss, whistling clearly; groves of pecans and walnuts along the river hung ropy with long streamers of the purple muscadines.
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