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stone wall yonder, and entered the woods beneath that 

 group of chestnuts. Two of us acted as outposts on 

 picket guard ; and another, young Teddy Shoopegg by 

 name, the best climber in the village, did the shaking. 

 He prided himself on being able to " shin up any tree 

 in the caounty," and after he had once got up among 

 those chestnut-trees we stood from under, and in a 

 very short space of time no single burr was left 

 among their branches. There were five busy pairs 

 of hands beneath those trees, I can tell you, for each 

 one of us fully realized the necessity of 

 most of his time, not knowing how soon the 

 cry from our outposts might put us all to headlong 

 flight ; for the alarm, " Turney's coming !" was enough 

 to lift the hair of any boy in town. 



But luck seemed to favor us on that day ; we 



"cleaned out" six big chestnut-trees, 



and then turned our attention to 



the hickories. There was a 



splendid tall shagbark close 



iy. by, with branches fairly 



loaded with the 



making the 



A TOINTED REMINDER. 



