Beechnuts were forgotten, but he made a satisfying meal on fresh-water clams and several big, juicy tadpoles before he turned his face toward the home tree.
The leaves drifted to the ground where they spread a rustling carpet, hiding the sweet three-cornered beechnuts upon which squirrels and raccoons waxed fat and contented.
We have lots of hickory nuts, butternuts, hazelnuts and beechnuts growing wild here and Champlain says in his narrative that there were lots of fine chestnuts growing here 300 years ago.
Butternuts, black walnuts and beechnuts also offer a fertile field for experiment.
From time to time beechnuts had come showering down upon them.
In fact most kinds of fruit taste good to me, not to mention beechnuts and acorns when there is no fruit.
I like acorns and beechnuts and certain kinds of seeds.
As beechnuts are plentiful this year, nut-fed turkeys should be a feature of the Thanksgiving markets, though no one seems to have made a classification of this kind.
When picked at the right time and hidden in a hay-mow for a few weeks they used to be as delicious to a predatory small boy as hoarded beechnuts to a red squirrel.
Flocks sometimes wander miles from home in quest of grasshoppers in the summer time, and of beechnuts in the fall.
Walnuts and chestnuts are carefully protected as a rule, for they have a market value, but beechnuts and hickory nuts are free for all.
There were places where the black squirrels had been hunting for beechnuts so industriously that it looked as if a drove of pigs had been rooting around.
A little later the beechnuts came down from the sky, and he feasted more luxuriously than ever.
The Fawn was weaned early in the autumn; though he still ran with his mother, and she showed him what herbs and leaves were pleasantest to the taste and best for building up bone and muscle, and where the beechnuts were most plentiful.
Food was plenty; everywhere the beechnuts were dropping on the dry leaves; the autumn sunshine was warm and mellow; the woods were gay with scarlet and gold and brown, and the very taste of the air was enough to make one happy.
An hour later, as the Buck was nosing for beechnuts in the snow, a rifle cracked and a bullet went zipping by and carried off the very tip of his left antler.
There will be splendid crops of beechnuts and grapes this fall.
We know that beechnuts have a rich, delicate flavor that offsets the disadvantages of their small size and the difficulty of opening their thin but leathery shells.
Beechnuts are light enough to profit, to some extent, by a high wind.
And every one knows there's no better food than beechnuts to last through the winter.
But just think of all the beechnuts you have," Mr. Crow reminded him.
Don't you know that thesebeechnuts belong to me and Jasper Jay and Johnnie Green?
Woodpeckers and blue jays place beechnuts and small acorns in the crevices of bark on standing trees.
Boarding the West Shore train, laden with fruit and beechnuts and pleasant memories, we return to the city's roar and whirl, dreaming still of the calls of chickadees in the bare woods and of quiet hours before the fire at Slabsides.
Towering high over the slough, touching branches across it as though they were shaking hands, the beech twigs rattled dryly as the wind shook them and beechnuts pattered in the leaves or made tiny splashes in the slough.
A family of skunks had come to share the bounty, and a little coon that hadn't yet learned the proper technique of harvesting beechnuts made up in enthusiasm what he lacked in skill.
At least a gallon of beechnuts were packed in so tightly that it was necessary to pry the first ones loose.
When frost opened the pods and wind rattled the branches of beech trees, the sound of beechnuts pattering into dry leaves was not unlike the sound of a violent rain.
The beechnuts received were but 4 in number and were pretty good although too small to be of horticultural value.
These are chiefly black walnuts, hickory nuts, and butternuts, although it is probable that several hundred tons of beechnuts which annually go ungathered should be included.
In European countries beechnuts are highly valued as a source of salad oil.
Under the headings black walnuts, hickories, chestnuts, butternuts and beechnuts will be found an abstract of the awards of prizes awarded each.
So far as known to the writer beechnuts in this country are not gathered in quantity.
Considerable is noted later on the likelihood of getting larger beechnuts and a way is suggested to get them.
There is a market for all the beechnutsyou can gather.
Do you know why it takes so much longer to gather a pint of beechnuts than the same amount of hazel-nuts?
They fit so snugly that your pint measure of beechnuts is almost solid nuts.
As we have no beechnuts we have no bears, so I have not set my bear traps.
We have no beechnuts this season and most of the fur bearing animals have migrated south of here where there are chestnuts, acorns and hickory nuts.
The beechnuts have very sharp points, and the chipmunk bites these carefully off before it attempts to pack the nuts away in its mouth.
Here again they called a halt, and tying up the dogs, lay down upon the dry, brown leaves, lazily eating the beechnuts and discussing their prospects of meeting the bear, and their plans for dealing with him.
He had a fewbeechnuts near by, and when the weather was very stormy indeed he ate some of these.
He wanted to see that Red Squirrel when he found the beechnuts gone.
He could smell the beechnuts inside, and it made him hungry to think how good they would taste.
Oh," answered the Deer Mouse with a careless whisk of his tail, "I had some beechnuts there until I moved them.
All night long the Deer Mouse carried beechnuts from the old hiding-place to a new one.
The difference in cost of production should makebeechnuts worth several times as much as corn.
A bushel of beechnuts that can be used in this way replace at least a bushel of corn.
While the leaves are still green on the trees, the Redheads discover the beechnuts and go to work.
Beechnuts are such a large part of the fall and winter food of the Redheads in some localities, that, like the gray squirrels, the birds are common in good beechnut winters and absent in others.
But though it is over twenty years since the storing of grasshoppers was recorded and twelve since the practice of laying up beechnuts was observed, very little seems to have been learned of the habit since these records were made.
Lately it has been discovered that they not only eat beechnuts all the fall, but store them up for winter use.
And he watched anxiously while Reddy Woodpecker broke open more beechnuts with his strong bill and greedily ate the sweet meats.
I think I've eaten enough so I can manage to stay away from the beechnuts a short time," he said with a sigh.
His mind was too busy thinking of beechnuts to pay much attention to anything else.
And as soon as the frosts came and burst open the prickly pods that covered the beechnuts he intended to lead the first nutting party of the season to the place where the beeches grew.
It started as soon as the beechnuts began to ripen; and it won't be ended until the last nut is gone.
Beechnuts and chestnuts and acorns suited him well.
When I begin to eat beechnuts I never want to stop.
You're sure to find plenty of beechnuts over there next fall.
He set to work again to gather beechnuts enough to last him all winter and never once stopped to dash at Reddy Woodpecker nor even look at him.
Well, maybe there aren't as many beechnuts as I thought.
I told you you might eat as many nuts as you pleased, if only you wouldn't mention beechnuts to Jasper Jay.
I'll gather as many beechnuts as I can; because when they're all gone there won't be anything to quarrel about.
Now that Frisky Squirrel knew Reddy Woodpecker ate beechnuts he was more determined than ever to catch him.
Soon he beheld Reddy stowing beechnuts away in a hole in an old stump.
Perhaps you expect to leave for the South before the beechnuts are ripe," Frisky Squirrel suggested hopefully.
Beechnuts must be protected against mice and rabbits as these species of rodents are very fond of bark and young growth of these trees and I have every reason to believe that deer are in the same category.
However, I know of no nursery in which beechnuts are propagated in this way.
Chestnuts, beechnuts and acorns require more care when they are to be stored, for their viability is very sensitive to dryness.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "beechnuts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
