The sun., 1891-07-05
UNDER THE CHESTNUT TREES.
Fun the Boys and Girls Have Playing
''Thrro In u Burr"-A Chestnut Romance.

s.Three In q Burr''-A Chestnut Romance.
! LAKEWOOD. N. j., July 3.-The prospect Of q
| large crop Of chestnuts In New Jersey was
perhaps never better than 1t Is now. Whenever
| the chestnut tree grows 1t Is one mass OF rich
Rolden-hued bloom. and no more beautiful
| landscape can now be found in all New Jersey
| than that which greets the eve on the Mon
mouth hills at sunrise. where the green and
! gold. with Just touch Of mist. commingle.
To a good many people in this State tho
chestnut crop is u means to an end. The nuts
| always bring good price, and hundreds Of
| bushels are gathered and sent to market
Families that begin their preparations for win
| ter In the huckleberry patches and pass from
thence to the cranberry Plantations. end their
out. Of door toll, so lar as the women and chill
dren are concerned. under the chestnut trees
and many boy and girl will attend the dis
trict school this winter In suit VI clothes and
with set Of books bought with the returns
from nuts aud berries gathered in the woods
while more than one mIn busi
ming Of bis success to berry picking and chest
nut gathering.
either. chestnut gathering was one Of the lead
ing autumnal pleasures OF at least one section
an ihvitatInn for boys and girls to get up
parties fer ehestaut hunting snd M f msrrymsak, max
nf s the was sss poPsar ps
Ths game; as 4 wa, va then LnoNn yss not IN; :;
boy was fond Of :three.in a burr: and. lo"k-
Ing backward; unless memory is treacherous.
three s girls and three boys three girls and TWO
eeio onS ,6ere wsqe ~ boys than
girls: When q boy found q burr with Ihiee
o Sos tsfg ne s he
lected one OF the girls and exclaimed:
9TH oIhrss s,.i IL e, one s.e burr;
And two for mel"
Sometimes the youth received his reward
chase seG around tue irees. and oHce ina in While be-
dig not get 1t at nl
But hi luck FL r. people IN
equal length is there finer woody flavor. q
rhythm made nearly, perfect or numerical
invs sum IN arth%etc would be- hard to flnd as and
YET It's solutiGn many 1resked , lad
There wa was !, one youth yho vexed m ore than
verse IL W Ksepns with his Just rights under S t ihe
law OF the chestnut woods, got evon ono
day with anarrain ,GIlts his s;s oyn which
marty byys was h ss sesd 1esnns
pa ahouah M he bis seeeton es M =" debos wiz wiz
strict imInrtiality. number OF debts wera
In this emergency his wit served him we'll.
Coming upon another hurr with three chest
nuts In II. and remembering previous failures.
he strOlled leisurely around the tree to the
the three brown nus in one OF his hands and
closing his eyes. he exclaimed pathetically:
Three Of kind.
II you were blind
For this one tlld
You'd all kiss mel"
The girls were amused. OF course. But ono
OF them, who was perhaps .rifl.' brighter and
braYor thnn the o:her two. quickly. but not
without blush-which was many times after
ward ropeuted-ln feigned voice responded:
III you will keep
lonr eyes as aep
Well give three;
And. what IL more
II kuie Or Bees
tlr bnshtnl SAID.
These verses made.
III make II iourl"
Tho maker Of the rhymes then went shyly
ard softly up to tho youth. whose eyes wers
still closed, and touched mis- cheeks with her
lips. He Immediately tuned the other cheek.
bur thu, gil walked around him In wide cir
r.turn 10 the rlace OF beg nning. She ,hen
skinpei, lightly 10 the other girls The youth.
who was III! honor, did not open his eyes until
sho hai tlme t" get mt n distance. Then he
oponed them. and. after q N ment said:
Wei. M lie,
lffoI wifo
were 10 guess
Id say It's SeM
Whol mako 1t fouri'
Bess turned a crimson hue. Her cyes even
failed o finsll. She waa fhirly caught. But she
did not own IN Then. That came lnter--sonIe
time later he ant Boss still go chestnut
ing together.