Show Spilling the Chestnuts One Sunday un ny In the late fall I took my sweetheart to the country to call callon callon callon on one of her cousins who owned a farm on which were some chestnut trees During the afternoon we gathered gathered gath gatli- ered chestnuts filling everything C that would hold chestnuts even to m my overcoat o pockets That night we all drove to a neighboring neighboring neigh neigh- boring village to church I was holdIng holding hold hold- Ing my overcoat on m my lap when the audience arose during the prayer praet service The preacher had Just begun begin Ills his prayer when a noise lIk like a n Lewis machine gun broke upon our ears In Tn arising I had taken hol hold of the overcoat turning It upside down and spilling the chestnuts which rolled toward toward toward to to- ward tho the pulpit amid the giggles of ot the y yun younger singer er couples and to my utter horror borror Is It an any wonder I was afterwards afterwards after atter- wards caU called d Chestnuts In that community com com- Chicago Chicago Tribune |