Ribald Classic: Two Tales: Ripe Pears And A Legal Affair
April, 1973
There was a young man named Jeannot who kept an orchard near our town. It was small, but it lay in the fertile land between the convent and the river and it produced premium fruit. With the help of one boy and a few pickers in harvest time, Jeannot managed to have a marvelous crop each year---but this was because he spent most of his waking time nurturing, fertilizing, watering, pruning and worrying about frost or blight. The pride of his orchard was a great pear tree that bore the most succulen...
