Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 85
ple words. Yours truly, S. B. H. CHESTNUTS WITHOUT BURRS. One of my young friends,—a city boy whospends his summer on a fine farm among the Cats-kills,— sends a picking from a curious chestnut-tree in the village of Free-hold, N. Y., not farfrom Bagley Farm.It is a chestnutwithout burrs.The… … shakes them down into their prison cell, specimen that Amos sends are huddled to- bunches of three or covered only with a soft burr or husk ever envelops Amos says. The nuts grow to size, ripen, and renew themselves year, and are as good to eat had been encased all summer in the warm, prickly…
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