So Jack went off to the low bush where Miss Hazel Nut lived in a soft green tent. Miss Hazel Nut was already peeping out.
“Miss Hazel Nut,” he called, “are you ready to come out?”
And little Miss Hazel Nut replied, “I am quite ready, Mr. Jack.”
So she dropped down and waited below the bush, while Jack went back after the other nuts.
Jack knocked once more at the chestnut house. Little Miss Chestnut opened the door so quickly that she and her sisters fell to the ground.
Then Jack knocked once more at the hickory house.
Miss Hickory Nut opened the door so quickly that her house fell apart.
And all the other nut houses opened, and all the nuts came out to see what was the matter.
The next day the children went for a walk. As they walked in the woods they spied the nuts.
“See,” they said, “the frost has opened the chestnut burrs, and all the other nuts must be out of the shucks.”