Baby Goes A-Nutting. 
some erratic autumn when the chills and rather fhan the sport of the man. It has 
fever are belated, when Septembenloiters no agfte rivalries, no headlines in the 
in summer’s lap, and when the woods newfgpapers, no score cards, no records. 
change their tints, not by the forcing proc- Byf it owns its muscle training in the 
ess of frost, but by natural ripenif. gymnasium of the tree top, its self-culture 
The chestnut burrs and the tough cases O& An the wisdom of the forest, its minor 
the walnut brown but do not burst. Then epics, its wealth of memories. The old 
in mid-October and in the mist of the I ut-gatherer may dwell in the thick homes 
o{ men, yet, as each autumn barters its 
greenery for old gold aad the red maples 
hang heavy, each burr open, the nyts full sign from hil to hill he hears again the 
ripe and falling at the gentlest toxtch. partridge drum in the wood, listens to the 
In the lexicon of athletics nytting has rustle o{ the leaf.and sees the harvest of 
chestnut ynd hickory drooping to its fall. 
