You see, my children, when the corn is ripe it must be cut; when the wine is drawn it must be drunk.


Lettres de mon moulin (1869; repr. Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, 1882) p. 112;


You see, my children, when the corn is ripe it must be cut; when the wine is drawn it must be drunk.

You see, my children, when the corn is ripe it must be cut; when the wine is drawn it must be drunk.

You see, my children, when the corn is ripe it must be cut; when the wine is drawn it must be drunk.

You see, my children, when the corn is ripe it must be cut; when the wine is drawn it must be drunk.