Nuts of various kinds, being charged with carbon and oil,
Nuts of various kinds, being charged with carbon and oil, are highly nutritious, but on account of this oil abounding, they are not readily digested by some persons. In Southern Europe, the Chestnut is a staple article of food, The title “nut” signifies a hard round lump, from _nodus_, a knot.
Leigh Hunt wrote meaningly of the “inexorably hard cocoa nut– milky at heart.” In Devonshire a plentiful crop of hazel nuts is believed to portend an unhealthy year:–
“Many nits (nuts) Many pits (graves).”
When eating almonds and raisins at dessert we get the nitrogenous food of the nuts with the saccharine nourishment of the grapes.
