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The Goose Girl

CHAPTER XVII
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AFTER THE VINTAGE The ducal vineyards covered some forty acres of rich hillside.

All day long the sun beat squarely upon the clustering fruit.

A low rambling building of stone covered the presses and bottling departments, and was within comparatively easy distance of the city.

During the vintage several hundred men and women found employment.

The grand duke derived a comfortable private revenue from these wines, the Tokay being scarcely inferior to that made in Hungary.


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