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gal), whence it is shipped ; Bordeaux wine (bor-dd\ from 

 Bordeaux, the great wine port of France j Madeira wine, 

 from the Madeira Islands, northwest of Africa; Sherry 

 wine, from Jerez, a town in the south of Spain ; Cali- 

 fornia wines, from the State of California. 



Taking Grapes to the Wine-press. 



63. In the vintage season, or when the grapes 

 are ripe 9 men, women, and children go into the 

 vineyards and pluck off the bunches, filling 

 their boxes or baskets, which are emptied into 

 huge tubs. When these are full, they are hauled 

 in carts by oxen to the press-house, where the 



