Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 174, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1920 — Spilling the Chestnuts. [ARTICLE]

Spilling the Chestnuts.

One Sunday in the late fall I task my sweetheart to the country to call ou one of her cousins, who owned a farm on which were some chestnut trees. During the afternoon, we gathered chestnuts, filling everything that would hold chestnuts, even to my overcoat pockets. That night wo all drove to a neighboring village to church. I was holding say overcoat on my lap whoa the andleimeoreea during the prayer service. The preacher had just begun Ma prayer when a noise like a Lewis machine gun broke upon our ears. la arising, I had taken held of the overcoat, turning It upside down and spilling the chestnuts, which rolled towvußj r tho pulpit amid the giggles ad the younger couples, and to my attar horror. Is it any wonder I was afterwardr called “Chestnuts’’ in that es»> munltyl—Chicago Tribune.