The Sweet Wine Bowl of the Orchard Dainties

The gods reclined the good old dame whose skirts were tucked up moving carefully for so she tottered with her many years fetched a clean table for the ready meal. which quickly with warm water filled was used for comfortable washing and as they fixed upon a willow couch a cushioned soft of springy sedge on which they neatly spread a well worn cloth preserved so many years. A second course sweet nuts dried figs and wrinkled dates and plums an apple's fragrant in wide baskets heaped and in a wreath of grapes from purple vines concealed almost a glistening honeycomb. All these orchard dainties were enhanced by willing service and congenial smiles but