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for gathering $ though by fome the vintage 

 is excepted, and, from the nicety of the 

 work, is executed by the day. Thus the 

 whole of the matter's and bailiff's care is, 

 to fee that the regular arid ftated operations 

 are all well performed, and in due feafon ; 

 In which they are much guided by cuflom, 

 which, having acquired the force of a com- 

 mon law, have been reduced to a kind of 

 code of written laws. There are provincial 

 vineyard-courts, in which all difputes be- 

 tween mafters and workmen are heard and 

 determined, without appeal; and in thefe 

 courts every operation is laid down and af- 

 certained ; the very buds to be rubbed off 

 are explained, the whole theory of the cul- 

 ture is known ; and, if a mailer profecutes 

 the vigneron for not having executed his 

 work, they at once enquire, Is it done fq 

 and fo, and by fuch a time ? which is the 

 ftandard: if it is not, the vigneron is fined. 

 When the people work by the day, the 

 hours of going out and coming home, and 

 the allowance of time for breakfaft and 

 dinner, are all determined ; from which 

 great exadnefs. every thing is known, and 

 difputes are rare, at leaf! with maflers who 



know 



