Excerpt from Confessions of a Clarionet Player: And Other Tales

When my uncle Stavolo purchased his fifteenth arpent of vines at the sale of the effects of old Hans Aden Fischer, in the year of grace 1840, and paid a thousand crowns hard cash for it to Bischof the notary, the whole village of Eckerswir was filled with surprise and admiration. Several people proposed to confer the highest civic honours on him, to appoint him burgomaster, or member of the municipal council, but others, more judicious, maintained that the place of sworn taster would be more in his line, seeing there was not in the whole country side a better judge of wines than Uncle Stavolo. He himself, however, attached but little value to these distinctions, and modestly replied -

"Leave me alone with, your situations of burgomaster and municipal councillor.

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