FileTitle: Prose1543.html
Category: Humor
Type: Prose
Description: Boy Scouts and Nuts
       Two Boy Scouts went on a nature hike in the hills, picking
 hickory nuts along the way.  They soon filled their small pails, and
 started to fill their pockets and shirts.  When they could hold no more
 nuts, they started down the country road until they came across a
 cemetery.  One of the boys decided that would be a good place to stop
 and rest, and divide out the nuts.
       The two boys sat in the shade of a large oak tree and
 unloaded their pockets and buckets, dumping all of the nuts in a large
 pile.  In the process, two of them rolled away and rested near the road.
 The boys then proceeded to divide out the nuts.  "One for you, one for
 me. One for you, one for me."
        As they were doing this, a passer-by happened to hear
 them.  He looked into the cemetery but could not see the boys, as they
 were obscured by the tree.  He hesitated a moment, and then ran back to
 town.
 "Father, father," he yelled as he entered his house.
 "The cemetery!  Come quick!"
 "What's the matter?" his father asked.
 "No time to explain," the boy frantically panted.
 "Follow me!"
 The boy and his father ran up the country road, and
 stopped when they reached the cemetery.  They stopped at the side of the
 road, and all fell silent for a few moments.  Then the father asked his
 son what was wrong.
 "Do you hear that?" he whispered.
 Both people listened intently, and heard the Scouts:
 "One for me, one for you, one for me, one for you."
 The boy then blurted out, "The Devil and the Lord are dividing out
 the souls!"
 The father was skeptical but silent.  Until a few moments later,
 as the Scouts completed dividingout the nuts, and one Scout said to
 the other:

"Now as soon as we get those two nuts by the road, we'll have them all."