Hickory Nuts

Jamestown Press
Jamestown, [Boone County] Indiana
Friday, 1 November 1901 page 4

Ben SMITH and Stanley HENDRICKS are very fond of hickory nuts and have been thinking how they would enjoy themselves this winter eating some of them. Ben has had a tree spotted south of town for a long while. It was not a very large tree and was loaded with nuts. Ben kept an eye on it watching to see if they were ready to gather. One day last week he concluded they were ripe. He climbed up the tree and shook each and every limb til not a nut remained on the tree and the ground was just covered. He got down and began to gather them up but happened to think he did not have anything to carry them in. He got on his bicycle and came to town and told Stanley about them. He said he had shook them off and Stanley should go gather them. So Stanley takes a sack and goes a merry clip on his wheel thinking what a bait he and Ben would have. Think of his consternation when he reached the tree to find that two women were there just picking up the last nut. Each claims the joke is on the other. Now they are casting about to see where they can buy a few.

Transcribed by: Janet ISLEY Price. "I am posting this story for others. I am not related to the subjects."