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annoys me, because I have not got through my narra- 

 tion on the subject I am writing, and if you do not 

 believe it is useless for me to waste so much paper, at 

 all events I will finish to scribble this page. Noah, 

 also, somewhat belonged to our fraternity, however, he 

 was more a specialist, he grew grape vines, as many 

 of you only grow roses or carnations, every one has 

 his hobbies. His hobby was what to-day we call 

 wnophilist, in plain English, a grape grower, not table 

 grapes, but varieties of grapes to make wine oinos. 

 He was a good old man, but some of his contempora- 

 ries, likely jealous of his successes in grape culture, 

 said he was still more fond of the juice of the grape, 

 than of the cultivation of it, and besides that he had 

 another hobby, more scientific, but no better if not 

 studied with moderation and judgment. He studied 

 the laws of "gravitation" and with such zeal that 

 often he was found lying on the ground, trying to take 

 his centre of gravity. I do not know if he ever wrote 

 anything about that science gravitation. All 1 know 

 is that he taught our ancestors to cultivate the grape, 

 and that alone deserves his name to go to posterity, and 

 the gratitude of all those thousands of people who 

 grow the grape on a large scale. 



But where gardeners have been famous it is from the 

 decline, the fall of the Koman empire. During the 



