Thoreau Manuscript, Berg Collection, “Notes on Fruits” folder, Accession Number 264

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[XX]     3

[XX]     Nuts—

[XX]     Oct 23d 52 See where boys have gathered the

[XX]     mockernut though it has not fallen out

[XX]     of its shells — Oct. month of barberries & walnuts

[XX]     Oct 24— See boys far off on the wild side gathering

[XX]     walnuts & on the 28"

[XX]     Jan 10-53 Went a chestnutting this Pm to Smiths Grove

[XX]     with 4 ladies— I raked & we got 6 1/2 quarts

[XX]     the ground being bare & the leaves not frozen.

[XX]     I found 35 chestnuts left by a mouse (?) in his fallery

[XX]     — — — Many chestnuts are still in the burrs on the

[XX]     ground. Aunt found a twig which had ap. fallen

[XX]     prematurely with 8 small burrs all within

[XX]     the compass of 5 or 6 inches & all but one full

[XX]     of nuts.

[XX]     Jan 25-53 I still pick chestnuts— Some larger ones prove

[XX]     to contain double meats—divided as it were XXX-

[XX]     XXX as with a knife {DRAWING} each

[XX]     part having the common {DRAWING} division

[XX]     without the brown skin transverse to them.

[XX]     July 24-53 The shaggy hazel nuts now greet the eyes

[XX]     always an agreeable sight to me with which when

[XX]     a boy I used to take the stains of berries out of

[XX]     my hands & mouth—(as some eat a salad

[XX]     after a berry pudding.) These & green grapes

[XX]     are found at berry time

[XX]     Chestnut—evidently because it is packed

[XX]     in a little chest. Nuts placed in the bark—

[XX]     V Mar 7-58

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