This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1922. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... THE MEMOIRS OF BER OF BOLECHOW. .... At1 the same time he2 was carrying on a trade in Hungarian wine. He ordered a suitable cellar to be excavated and built for preserving wines. Every year he sold these wines at a considerable price to the nobles, who lived on their estates near Bolechow; and he made a fortune. And there I was born, as stated before on p. . .3 As the soil of the estates, which were situated in the mountains, was not capable of producing fruit, my father was induced to commence another business with the peasants, the serfs of his tenantry. He made an agreement with the leaseholder of the salt-springs at Bolechow to furnish him with timber from the forest. A cartload of timber delivered at the salt-springs was exchanged for a barrel of salt of good quality, This was carried on during the whole of the winter, and many barrels of salt were collected in this way. When summer came, and the fruit of the fields began to ripen, the serfs from the villages took their carts and loaded every cart with ten barrels of salt, and went into the district of Podolia, where they exchanged the salt for corn, that is to say, one barrel of salt for one barrel of corn, and sometimes for one-anda-half or even two barrels of corn. From this corn liquors were distilled, which were bought and carried into Hungary in great quantities, and the profit realised on this transaction amounted to a nice sum of money, in addition to that from the Hungarian wine trade. In this way my father became affluent and was highly respected; this went 1 The Manuscript as we have it begins with the word "villages", which is evidently the end of a sentence. Refers to the author's father. J Not preserved. on for six years. There I was born, and my brother Seeb Wolf, be his memory for a blessing...
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