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I picked up a copy of it at Verona when I was a boy, and learned a good deal of it by heart, by way of helping myself with the language. I remember some of it to this day: "'Voi, donne, e Cavalier del bel paese A cui propizio il ciel tanto concesse Di bene, udite il mio cantare, &c., &c. "I wonder, now, whether this is a redstreak."
Is this of the celebrated 'redstreak' variety, I wonder, that Phillips praises so in his poem on cider." "A poem on cider!" "Yes, I tell you, a poem on cider, and as long as 'Paradise Lost. It has some very fine passages in it, and has actually been translated into Italian.
There was a little strip of a medder-lot, and an orchard up on the mountain, where we used to make redstreak cider that beat the Dutch; but we hadn't pastur' land enough to keep more'n two cows, and altogether I knew 'twasn't any use to think of bringin' a family on to't.
Codlin; no better, and fairer Fruit in the World; yet the Tree suffers the same Distemper, as the Pearmains, or rather worse; the Trees always dying before they come to their Growth. The Redstreak thrives very well. Long-stalk is a large Apple, with a long Stalk, and makes good Summer Cider.
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