1876 Facts About Sherry by Henry Vizetelly

Facts about Sherry.

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false movement, and always to pile up their spoons as full as possible, until the once overflowing howl was utterly void. The vintagers at Torre Breva managed to get through 3601hs. of bread daily, which had to be fetched from San Lucar, besides 61bs. or 71bs. of grapes per head, equivalent in the whole to upwards of twelve butts of mosto. As,unlike Brillat-Savarin, they took their wine in the form of pills, none other was allowed them, and as onion soup is not particularly provocative of garruUty,the meal passed off in comparative silence. Appetite appeased, the men puffed away at their cigarettes, and then proceeded to unroll the esteras hanging on their respective pegs and stretch themselves full length upon them,soon to be over come by sleep, which—with the thermometer at 90°—wrapped them round about, as their compatriot Sancho Panza has it,like a warm cloalr.

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