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DOWN ON THE OLD FARM BY M. O. HAMMOND With illustration by J. E. Sampson SOME remember the Arts and Letters Club Farm as the source of Gargantuan feasts of fruits and vegetables; others for their own Cincinnatus-like return to the plow, or for the natural beauty of the scene. But I fear that Ivor Lewis, Tom Greene, and other Bacchanalians will treasure chiefly the memory of the cider-press. War had come, and with it the duty of production. Likewise, there was war-time aridity, which threatened to last the rest of our lives. Then one August day someone recovered the old cider-press from the Ussher barn, and soon the fields were abandoned. The "season of mist and mellow fruitfulness" had come, and Chaucer and his descendants, down to the days of prohibition, were searched for suitable interpretations of the golden hour. A chronicler of the day said: "There was fine old sport, with apple juice spurting from the press, and drowsy, drunken wasps falling into the amber fluid, and never stinging nor dismaying the thirsty souls." An earlier poet had apparently anticipated the scene, when he wrote— "Or by a cider press with patient look, Thou watchest the last oozings, hours by hours." As 'Gus Bridle would say, the Club spirit had suddenly returned, despite all the horrors of war. It was at once decided that the revels must continue through the winter, and the glorious work of filling the kegs went on for hours. Cocktail chemists proffered recipes to preserve the precious fluid, but something went wrong. There were furtive visits to the kegs for days to come, but soon what had been but a pleasant "kick" became a battering ram; there was nothing but sour vinegar, and the best of all farm products—because it was at once so diverting and so legal—became only a memory. 40
"POTATO DIGGING AT THE: ARTS AND LETTERS CUJB FARM, <strong>TORONTO</strong>.' Painting by Herbert S. Palmer, A.R.C.A. Canadian War Memorials.
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