CHAPTER IX 



HE vintage is, as they say 

 here, an affare serio, and, 

 like all affairs, it may be 

 good or bad or indifferent. 

 Some years ago the gross 

 yield was less and less 

 evenly distributed. The 

 diseases, if not fewer, were 

 more confined to the vineyards badly cultivated, 



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