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And they are all welcome and it wouldn't make any difference to them if they hadn't been; they would have risked it anyway, so tempting are the shady paths and tangled arbors and wide-spreading elms and butternuts of Kennedy Square.
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.
Then cane the raw days of late October, when the crows went flying southward before the wind a noisy pirate fleet that filled the sky at times and when we all put on our mittens and went down the winding cow-paths to the grove of butternuts in the pasture. The great roof of the wilderness had turned red and faded into yellow.
The partridge comes to the orchard for buds; the rabbit comes to the garden and lawn; the crows and jays come to the ash-heap and corn-crib, the snow-buntings to the stack and to the barn-yard; the sparrows pilfer from the domestic fowls; the pine grosbeak comes down from the north and shears your maples of their buds; the fox prowls about your premises at night, and the red squirrels find your grain in the barn or steal the butternuts from your attic.
Doubtless, if butternuts were a main source of my food, and I were compelled to gnaw into them, I should learn, too, on which side my bread was buttered. The cheeks of the red and gray squirrels are made without pockets, and whatever they transport is carried in the teeth. They are more or less active all winter, but October and November are their festal months.
After a while I got started, somehow; told him I was there to ask him to appoint Ephraim Prescott to the Brampton postoffice t-told him all about Ephraim from the time he was locked in the cradle never was so hard put that I could remember. T-told him how Ephraim shook butternuts off my fathers tree for all I know.
"I've seen all the oaks, both the maples, the elms, the bass woods, all the walnuts, the butternuts, and every tree that has a substance and colour, wrought into some form or other, but never have I before seen such a wood as this! Judith, the chest itself would buy your father's freedom, or Iroquois cur'osity isn't as strong as red-skin cur'osity, in general; especially in the matter of woods."
In the blackest corner of all, Eyebright paused, fumbled a little on an almost invisible shelf with a jar which had a lid and clattered, and then handed to her friend a dark something whose smell and taste showed it to be a pickled butternut. "Wealthy keeps her pickles here," she said, "and she lets me take one now and then, because I helped to prick the butternuts when she made 'em.
There were several men dressed in butternut clothes hanging about the hotel, and Frank determined to enter into conversation with one of them, and, if possible, learn something about Abbott. An opportunity was soon offered, for one of the butternuts approached him, and inquired "Got any Northern money greenbacks?" "Some," replied Frank.
I was satisfied that not many of my little favorites would suffer. "Very well," I said, "I'll coax Mr. Jones to let Junior off to- morrow, and you can have the entire day to get your hands in. This evening you can go down to the village and buy a stock of ammunition." The boy went to his work happy and contented. "Papa, where can we dry our butternuts?" Winnie asked.
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