| Show i THE STAIN OF THE WALNUT A Memory of fhe he Fragrant Woods and the Winter Fireside Kansas City Times Tho The middle of November and that yellowish brown color still sun covers your hands On your palms its Iti hue is al almost almost almost most mahogany between your our fingers its dark brown and ami around aroun and under your our nails naUs it Is light nearly yellow ellow Still you could hardly to wear off of before the first of or December or Thanksgiving at the earliest Soap and antI water and a scrubbing ng brush have no effect whatever The stain of the wal walnut walnut walnut nut sticks Anyway An way you rou rubbed it in lii thoroughly for that purpose 1 you so your our stain would be darker arker and last longer than Fatty Wil Wilsons Wilsons U sons Out In the woodshed theres a bushel basket of black walnuts Some pecans are there too and hazel nu nuts s and sand hick hickories hickories ories ones But you ou know taste the best next January s The snow is deep outside Its a foot deep dp d p anyway Just as it fell on top of the leanto you dont have to count the drifts It aint much fun fuh to bring In tn those tho big sticks of wood but Its fine when in the fireplace roar roaring roaring roarIng ing and snapping and shooting off of sparks Down on the floor in front of ot It with a flatiron between your our knees abd a hammer try some of those black walnuts O 0 the pecans are good and the hazelnuts are arc sweet and il nd the I hickories arent bad at all But the I black walnuts are hardest to crack and the hardest to get Bet the kernels out of ot and the flavor well its worth all the thc trouble And a pitcher of ot sweet cider to go along with them 1 A Day In the Fragrant Woods Remember the October day you gath gathered gathered gathered ered them Your family and the Wit Wll Sons song and the Harrisons and the Per kinses took a Saturday off oft in the woods Four minutes after breakfast the grays and the wagon were waiting The oth others others ers piled pHed in with baskets and flour sacks you took y wagon with Its solid soUd wheels Everything smelled so good in the woods The leaves crack crackled crackled crackled led and made a noise nol like mothers rs Sun Sunday Sunday Sunday day dress when you kicked them It was easy to skin up the hickory trees and give a mighty shake to the him lim limber himber ber limbs the nuts rattled down dowl and ana the girls picked them U Two or three that exactly shaken down hit Fat Fatty Fatty Fatty ty Wilson who climb very vety well wellon on the head and made him jump and yell ouch With a club you knocked the wal walnuts walnuts walnuts nuts off the lowest branches and with witha a 1 boost from Dad climbed the trees and shook down d wn the ones higher up The girls picked the hazelnuts off the bushes that was too oo easy for you to bother with And you Jou rolled In the leaves and buried each other in piles of at them and got dirty and tired and hun hungry hungry hungry gry You only opened o ened enough of the green walnuts to get your hands good and stained The rest you let dry in the tho sun on top of the woodshed Then the husks came off oft better It took all ally your y ur spare time thIle for a week eek t to carve cah caha a miniature pail pan with a n handle out o t of ofa a hazelnut shell But when you gave it to Susie Perkins P she said mid It was lots prettier than the one Fatty Wilson made for Fanny Harrison Its a pleasant pl memory m m ry JS t it Iti But the boys bos and girls of ot Jackson county didn t have much of a chance for tor the sport of going nutting this fall The nut harvest was practically a failure The late spring frosts are arc re responsible responsible responsible for the barren nUt trees To Tobe Tobe TObe be sure the early fall frosts helped a little bit by supplying an abundant crop of persimmons Every Saturday for the thelast thelast thelast last few weeks the woods south of the Evanston Golf Gall club where the trees abound have attracted many boys The trees are also plentiful near street and Cleveland avenue and in fn the vicinity vl of Dodson But persimmons sweet and juicy and as they are cant take the place of ot nuts To make things worse even paw paws halt half fruit half halt vegetable and a comfort to the juvenile palate pal te were as scarce as aa nuts this fall Even the red haws and were so few that it was hardly worth while to hunt for forthe forthe forthe the trees The winter supply of nuts will wilt come from the south this year Of Ot course the ones on s you buy in fn the stores taste pretty good But It quite the same as if ff you had gathered them your yourself yourself yourself self and stored then them away in the attic or the woodshed Its a good deal like buying popcorn from a street cart aft after after er or youve once tasted some that was popped over overa a n grate grato fire |
