The 3rd of August, I found the grapes I had hung up perfectly dried, and, indeed, were excellent good raisins of the sun; so I began to take them down from the trees, and it was very happy that I did so, for the rains which followed would have spoiled them, and I had lost the best part of my winter food; for I had above two hundred large bunches of them.
Oggi ho trovato perfettamente secchi i grappoli d’uva che aveva appiccati alle piante, eccellentemente soleggiati ed ottimi da vero al gusto. Mi diedi pertanto a spiccarli dagli alberi, e buon per me l’aver fatto così; altrimenti le piogge che sopraggiunsero me gli avrebbero mandati a male e con essi la migliore mia provvigione del verno, perchè ne ebbi una scorta di dugento grappoli.