Word: fontane
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...bottles of wine, and their girls come too, and then they go to the dance. All right, I said. So I made a big supper, and when they come already they drank a lot. Then they put whiskey in the wine. My God, yes. I said to Fontan, 'On va etre malade!' 'Oui,' il dit. Then these girls were sick, nice girls, too, all-right girls. They were sick right at the table. Fontan tried to take them by the arm and show them where they could be sick all right in the cabinet, but the fellows said no, they...
...preceding paragraph contains the acute observations of Madame Fontan on American drinkers in Wyoming. In "Wine of Wyoming," Ernest Hemingway has given a picture of a French couple who earned their living by selling homemade wine and beer at a time when prohibition agents were enforcing the law. Yet it contains some of Hemingway's more humorous lines, for he is wholly at home with these people and recognizes each trait which will amuse an American...
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