Blue-grass blade., 1891-01-10

: the mill and my wife and childre
|. fed in the grapes.
e The prcttiest wine YOU ever saw
Il ran out in q stream almost rs hi,
y as that of an average pump.
$ sampled it with the big tin cup. |
9 was just royal. AS harmless a
: right new cider. but the best taste,
( thing | ever swallowed.
, / drank it without sugar ant
, with sugar in all conccivabl,
proportions, and every body on tb,
place, old and young, white anc
black, had just as much of it a.
they wanted to swallow.
i Until that time suppose that
in all my lie before / had never
drunk more than gallon of wine,
I got it all nicely made and
stored it away in the cellar.
1t wasn't very long before l
wanted to see if It was getting to
be sure enough wine, and 1 went
and got nice hemp stalk, and
stuck an end of it through the
bung hole, and the other In my
mouth.
| went to work at some other
job, but | noticed every day the
disposition in me to watch with
great accuracy the transition from
grape juice to wine.
1 discovered after few weeks
that | could not suck at that hemp
stalk just as long as / wanted to
without disposition to get out in.
to the field as soon as practicable
lest my wife and children might
notice something peculiar in my
walk.
1t was beginning to get along to
that stage when | felt that | could
not fool myself much longer, by
calling it grape juice, when my new
neighDor rode up as have said.
1 was pretty hot aud thirsty
when he got there, and he was
about the same.
L told him about the "grape
juice" l had been drinking. 1
filled pitcher about half full OF
ice and then went down in the eel
lar and filled it brim full of wine,
and my wife brougt in some cake.
She had drunk grape juice
at her fathers until it was no rarity
to her, and she had not tasted it for
weeks, ami didn't taste it at the
time we are speaking of. |
My new neighbor liked it. We
didn't fool away any time on wine
glasses; there was not such thing
As a wine glass on the place. We
had my wite's best tumblers-these
little straight up and down fellows,
about as thick as an egg shell, with
4 little vine around the top, and
holding more, for their looks, than
on earth.
My neighbor drank his down,
md looked like he was sorry to see
he bottom of the tumbler, but he
started to set it on a pier table, in
he most approved and temper
tie style.
l told him it was nothing but
grape juice with ice melted in it,
nd that be could drink it just like
water, with impunity, and / filed
Up again tor both of us. :
Before | got to the middle ofthe {
econd glass l telt very peculiar. l
'ut by no means disagreeable, sem
ations about my head; but l knew /
was nothing like inebriety, be-
ause noticed that my end of the G
was thoroughly dig !
flied and that my neighoor, 50 far h
rom falling into any undue leviry,
'as, like myself, rather inclined to {
haie off into moralizations, and
of the congratulations u
f the transmutations of social |
radations.
l knew that ordinarily my repu- s,
ltion was among my neighbors b
rat | was combative and in-
lined to logomachy. But l felt fl
ow for the first time in my life l
nd neigAber that saw and under s;
God anything and everything just b
Ike did, and just felt like had "
regular treasure, aud he evidently Ell
1t the same way. it
| felt peculiar but l was not GO 81
g to admit that l was under the s.
huence ofan intoxicating stimu- W
mt, the first time my ncighbor ii
ger called to see me, and purely II
II the purpose Of showing him OF
at was not in fix of that kind, a,
filled up his glass and mine the l
ird time, and we began on them. 81
We got away beyOndthe Damon L
ID Pythias congruviality, and ii
ere getting stuck together in a "
nc ola Samese twin arrange II
ent so tight the word tight is not p
led in any jocular sense-that it W
gan to look like the difficulty
rs going to be to get ourselves pl
parated before my wife would Il
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