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THE GUIDE T< ) X VTURE 



\ BEARING, SIX YEAR OLD TREE. 



OF PROLIFIC AND PROFITABLE GROWTH. 



A TRIM AND TASTY TREE. 



had ever seen. Putting his head out 

 of the window he was still further in- 

 terested to see the ground strewn with 

 nuts, for it was fall. And with no 

 thought of sin in his heart, he pro- 

 ceeded to investigate still farther. 



He made his way out doors ana 

 poked around among the nuts that lay 

 on the ground. The story does not re- 

 cord whether his host invited him to 

 try the nuts or not. Probably he did. 

 At any rate my father was much smit- 

 ten with the quality and flavor of this 

 new nut and the appearance and dig- 

 nity of the tree which bore them. 



A neighbor was returning to Lock- 

 port before my father, so he gathered 

 a few quarts of the nuts, put them in a 

 handbag and got the neighbor to take 

 them along and deliver them to the 

 Pomeroy family. 



Well, to make a long story short, the 

 handbag had a hole in one corner, the 

 neighbor had many children, the chil- 

 dren found the hole, found the nuts — 

 there was but one possible finish to 

 the story. 



