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Dupont and Durand, two farmers, are near neighbors. The one has an only son, the other an only daughter, and the young people are engaged for marriage. It is nutting time, and while the ... See full summary

Dupont and Durand, two farmers, are near neighbors. The one has an only son, the other an only daughter, and the young people are engaged for marriage. It is nutting time, and while the lovers spend their Sundays in the woods, their fathers are playing cards and their mothers are chatting and gossiping. We see the Dupont family making a call on neighbor Durand, and watch with interest the meeting of the lovers. The latter soon leave the old folks to themselves, and while the women engage in conversation, the men are seen playing a game of cards. It is evidently a well-contested game, for both men are deeply absorbed in the issue. Suddenly Dupont jumps to his feet and seizes the cards in Durand's hand. Counting them, he shows that Durand holds one card too many, and then, shaking his fist angrily in his neighbor's face, he calls him a cheat and a knave and rushes from the room. The old ladies, happy in their cronying, are dismayed by the appearance on the scene of the angry Dupont, who...