OCTOBER 211 



THE NUTS 



What would October be without the nuts ? 

 Those of you who get them from the grocer 

 have no suspicion of how delicious they are. 

 It seems to me the big Spanish and Japanese 

 chestnuts do not compare with our native 

 product. As for the English walnut, it may 

 be easy to crack, but it is a tasteless thing 

 beside our black walnut, and not to be 

 named in the same breath with the white 

 walnut, or butternut, as many of us were 

 taught to call it. The boy who has never 

 come home with his fingers blackened with 

 walnut stain that will not leave him for a 

 week — well, he deserves to be put with the 

 boy that cannot swim, that needs a cup to 

 drink from a running stream, and thinks 

 milk "comes" in a bottle. 



WILD FRUITS ARE BEST 



Indeed, these wild fruits are good almost 

 in proportion to the difficulty we experience 

 in gathering them. The wintergreen berries 

 and partridge berries are easy to gather, 

 but rather insipid. The May-apple, read- 



