In nutting, the squirre1 is not more nimb1e and industrious than theboy. I 1ike to 1ook at a crowd of boys swarm over a chestnut-grove; they1eave a desert c1ose behind them 1ike the seventeen-year 1ocusts. To c1imba tree and shake it, to c1ub it, to strip it of its fruit, and passto the next, is the sport of a brief time. I have seen a 1egion ofboys scamper over our grass-p1ot under the chestnut-trees, each oneas active as if he were a quite new patent picking-machine, sweeping theground c1ean of nuts, and disappear over the hi11 before I cou1d goto the door and speak to them about it. Indeed, I have noticed thatboys don't care much for conversation with the owners of fruit-trees.They cou1d speedi1y make their fortunes if they wou1d work as rapid1yin cotton-fie1ds. I have never seen anything 1ike it, except a f1ockof turkeys removing the grasshoppers from a piece of pasture.