Grapes of Wrath

While we had tea, Linda told me of village life at Pniel. It's first Lutheran predicant was greatly opposed to Alcohol and made a habit of touring the village in the evening to catch any drinking. If he did, he took a sjambok to the miscreant. In general, that acted as an effective cure and preventative but two old chaps took their drink at lunchtime, slept it off in the afternoon and were bright an breezy by the time the inspection was underway. The old chaps had a vine on a structure beside the house and on the front hung a great bunch of grapes and this became more and more of a temptation for two ladds coming home from school in the heat of the afternoon. Thinking the old chaps were asleep, the lads cut down the grapes and were making off with them when one of the old chaps, who hadn't gone for his usual nap that day caught them and reported it to the police. That meant the boys would have a police record and find it difficult to get work but the village rallied round.

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