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Updated: May 9, 2025
Kendall took up with the teetotal craze. For his glebe contains a lordly orchard, and it used to be a treat to watch him, his greenish third-best coat stuck all over with apple-pips and shreds of pomace, as he helped to work the press at the great annual cider-making. But I agree with their son, Master Dick, that "it's rough on the guests."
Fitzpiers followed the direction of her eyes, and said he did not recognize anybody. "Why, Mr. Winterborne there he is, cider-making. He combines that with his other business, you know." "Oh that fellow," said Fitzpiers, his curiosity becoming extinct. She, reproachfully: "What, call Mr. Winterborne a fellow, Edgar?
He rose upon her memory as the fruit-god and the wood-god in alternation; sometimes leafy, and smeared with green lichen, as she had seen him among the sappy boughs of the plantations; sometimes cider-stained, and with apple-pips in the hair of his arms, as she had met him on his return from cider-making in White Hart Vale, with his vats and presses beside him.
But though she bullied him, she looked up to him as well. His occupations commanded her respect. He was the god of the orchards and of the cider-making; he presided at all the functions of the farm year. He was a perfect calendar besides of country sports in their season. He swept the ice pools in the meadow for winter sliding, after his day's work was done.
During the autumn he had a misfortune, for, with two other members of the 'Red Hand, he was caught stealing apples at the time of cider-making. Three strokes of a birch rod fell on each revolutionary, and not Ernest Churchouse nor his mother could console Abel for this reverse.
He was likely to return to Hintock when the cider-making season came round, his apparatus being stored there, and travel with his mill and press from village to village. The narrow interval that stood before the day diminished yet.
'Then if so be you really wouldn't mind, we'll wring down this last filling to let it drain all night? 'Not at all. I like to see you. 'We are only just grinding down the early pickthongs and griffins, continued the farmer, in a half-apologetic tone for detaining by his cider-making any well-dressed woman.
At night he travelled as far as his weakened condition would allow He often found unfermented cider at the presses, for it was cider-making time. After several days of this wandering life he sought refuge in a barn, where he was found by a cross old man, who refused to do anything for him. He says that in the course of his wanderings he uniformly found women kind and helpful.
The cider-making of New England is far more picturesque; the great heap of golden or rosy apples under the trees, and the cider-mill worked by a circumgyratory horse, and all agush with sweet juice.
A press under a tree still dripped with the juices of yesterday's cider-making. The bees and flies buzzed lazily about it. There was no one but the girl in sight. Some distance to the left was a red brick house, separated from the orchard by a low stone fence and the length of the kitchen garden. It had a big, white colonnaded balcony in front and a smaller veranda in the rear.
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