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Updated: June 5, 2025
A soldier pointed out to the king a billhook which he had seized on the person of the vagabond. "Do you recognize this weapon?" demanded the king. "Yes; 'tis my billhook; I am a vine-dresser." "And do you recognize this man as your companion?" added Louis XI., pointing to the other prisoner. "No, I do not know him."
He then gave up all other business but that of the vine-dresser. "One day, in the autumn, a few years ago, I overtook the old man on horseback, on his way to town. After wishing me a cheery good-morning, he said, "'I am on my way to town, to sell your father my wine. "'He will be glad to get it; he is buying wine, and yours is made so carefully that he will be glad to have it.
No matter where you are in the country, however solitary you may think yourself, you are certain to be the focus of the two eyes of a country bumpkin; a laborer rests on his hoe, a vine-dresser straightens his bent back, a little goat-girl, or shepherdess, or milkmaid climbs a willow to stare at you.
We see on every hand how hard it is to get away from the ideas we have inherited or in which we have lived a long time. When truth, like a vine-dresser, has attempted to trim off these unnecessary and injurious accretions, it has always raised the hue and cry that the foundations of truth were being destroyed.
'That must come, said he, 'from the hearth of some shepherd or vine-dresser it will guide us to some hospitable retreat. Wilt thou stay here, while I yet no that would be to leave thee to danger. 'I will go with you cheerfully, said Ione. 'Open as the space seems, it is better than the treacherous shelter of these boughs.
Raoul Gaillard, who still lived at the Hôtel de Bordeaux, and entertained his friends Denis Lamotte, the vine-dresser of Saint-Leu and Massignon, farmer of Saint-Lubin there, had discovered that Massignon leased some land from Macheret, the First Consul's coachman, and had determined at all hazards to make this man's acquaintance.
The labourer will leave his plough at a word, and the vine-dresser his harvest, and the artisan his shop France will pour out the youth of all her villages, to seize upon the delights of the tropics, and the wealth of the savages, as they are represented by the emigrants who will not take me for a friend, but eat their own hearts far away, with hatred and jealousy.
And yet the vine-dresser does this, the sprigs being slender and weak; and we, to favor a bitch, take from her many of her new-born puppies, whilst they are yet blind.
The high-priest, robed in a sacrificial dress, with flowing beard, and head crowned with the vine, stood foremost, chanting in honor of the craft, of the vine-dresser. His song also contained a few apposite allusions to the smiling blushing candidates.
Thou shalt not be over wearied with waiting; one year and then. Barren fig-tree, dost thou hear what a striving there is between the vine-dresser and the husbandman, for thy life? 'Cut it down, says one; 'Lord, spare it, saith the other. It is a cumber-ground, saith the Father; one year longer, prays the Son. 'Let it alone this year also. Till I shall dig about it, and dung it.
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