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The Vineyard II iri' PITIES (Continued from piige 41) its embrasured windows through the poplars, remembered the glory of Regolberg. It had cellars cut into the limestone of the hillside, a dungeon full of eobwebbed vats, a bottling-rooni, now thick with dust, baking chambers for Madeira, and a floor where the estate now made its small parcels of wine. At the end of its pomace yard were the coach house and stables. 1 lector turned the ponies loose, flung them an armful of hay, and went on to the house with Alda. She walked in her loose, coltish gait, singing her endless ing, Clairette, Clairette, come on, The hardest work is inc.

Cleve trailed up to the porch at the same time, the dogs, sag-headed, behind him. Good eartli it was in tin ission field, dark, rich, and spongy. Perhaps too rich, she 1 11 ie cuttinds she had to cut hack heavily, lopping off the four top huds, so they wouldn't run to cane. "You got some rabbits?" I lector called to him. "I'm hungry tonight.

I could eat ten rabbits, per Bacco!" Alda slid a pot over the fire and heated up a stew. She spread out plates, three-pronged forks and tumblers, and they dined on oilcloth by the glow of a lamp like a red cannon-ball. Usually Port dined with them, but he was late tonight. I lector speared another lump of meat from the pot. It was turkey.

Alxnit fifty turkeys led a wild life on Montino, battening on grapes, pomace, and pinenuts on the hillside. They hatched eggs, and roosted in the hay-loft of the old stable, which was a sort of self-replenishing meat larder. "What we go to have," said I lector, "is more rabbit. Seems like we get nothing but turkey. Cleve did you catch that rabbit?" "I le ran too fast.

Faster'n the pups. I want to have a gun." "Wait till you're ten," said Alda. "Give you a shotgun now, and there wouldn't be a dog or anylxxly alive on the place." "I lector had a gun hen he as five," said Cleve. "Wing told me." "It as an air rifle," I lector said, ellxm on table, paring an apple. "Only gtxxJ for rats.

They used to go to the winery to keep arm. The room where baked Madeira in winter as crackety hot. Sometimes the rats got smothered." "There was a gun in the Bee I live window," Cleve persisted. "Wing and I went there to buy a bell to tie on Mike's neck. To scare off coyotes.

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