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In fact, one of the first and abiding impressions of Bordeaux is that it is a great place for things to eat oysters from Marennes, lobsters and langoustes, pears big as cantaloupes, pomegranates, mushrooms the little ones and the big cepes of Bordeaux yellow dates just up from Tunis.
Colonel Sommerton was preparing a speech for the occasion. The manuscript of it lay on the desk in his library. About this time it was near September 1st and the watermelons and cantaloupes were in their glory the Colonel was called away to a distant town for a few days. In his absence Tom Bannister chanced to visit Sommerton Place.
"Ah," said Schmidt, "what color!" and he stood quite wrapped in the joy it gave him looking at the piles of fruit, where the level morning sunlight, broken by the moving crowd, fell on great heaps of dark-green watermelons and rough cantaloupes, and warmed the wealth of peaches piled on trays backed by red rows of what were then called love-apples, and are now known as tomatoes; while below the royal yellow of vast overgrown pumpkins seemed to have set the long summer sunshine in their golden tints.
Him I visited every morning to buy for my breakfast one of those Spanish melons which they have everywhere in England, and which put our native cantaloupes to shame; and we always fell into a little talk over our transaction of fourpence or sixpence, as the case might be. After I had confided that I was an American, he said one day, "Ah, the Americans are clever people."
"The last week in May he planted cantaloupes between the bean rows, which, when marketed in July, will make four crops from the same land in one year's time. The cantaloupes will be good for 250 crates to the acre, and the price will run from $1 to $1.50 per crate.
Two splendid ripe cantaloupes, several fine bunches of grapes, and some pears are devoured immediately, with a reckless disregard of consequences, justifiable only on the grounds of semi-starvation and a temporary barbarism born of surrounding circumstances.
It is astonishing how many cantaloupes will grow on a plot of ground seventy-four feet long by nineteen feet wide. On the 16th of September we counted nine hundred and fifty-four melons, many of them large and nearly all of them yellow and finely ripened! They had matured in ninety days. In fact, the crop proved an "embarrassment of riches."
"But a dollar is a dollar anywhere, North, South, or West whether you're buying codfish, goober peas, or Rocky Ford cantaloupes. Now, I've been looking over your November number. I see one here on your desk. You don't mind running over it with me? "Well, your leading article is all right. A good write-up of the cotton-belt with plenty of photographs is a winner any time.
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