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of mankind sinned, one of the angels expelled them from paradise. When Adam ran past the vine, he realised that he would have to live without it and its fruits from now on. He quickly pulled it out and ran to the door with it. The door instantly shut behind him and his wife. He lost paradise forever, but he brought some comfort out with him, a comfort which eases and drives away all the troubles and woes of our earthly life.

Wine is learned. It helps people come up with things they would never even dream of when sober. When sitting with a goblet of wine, Slovene people know how to speak Croatian, German, Italian, they are able to discuss the humorous and mysterious words of the Bible and solve difficult mathematical problems. Noah's mind also became strangely clear and sharp when he made his first wine. When thinking of a way to improve and ease his hard life, he invented letters and writing, which was completely unknown to people at the time. Because he was happy and excited, he wanted to try out his new art and write this sentence: Methinks today is a good day. He used the road instead of paper, dust instead of ink and his legs instead of a pen. He went four paces forward, then two somewhat to the side and back and then again two slightly to the right and forward and then finally four paces straight back. That's how he drew a perfectly accurate first letter of his sentence, the capital M. His famous invention left a trace and is still remembered. Nowadays, drunks still write the capital M on the roads. This is the oldest letter of them all and the only one for which there is no doubt who invented it and who first put it down.

Christ and St. Peter came to a poor farmer during one hot summer day and asked if he could give them something. The merciful man told them: "We cannot give you bread or any other food because we don't have any ourselves, but I shall bring you a glass of water from the home well, so you can quench your thirst, which is worse than being hungry." In return, Christ blessed his well and changed the water into the finest wine. The poor man made a tavern and started becoming rich. Christ and St. Peter visited him again disguised as old pilgrims and asked him for a sip of wine. But the tavern-keeper had become haughty because of the money and he gave no charity to poor people, so he yelled at the two pilgrims: "If you're thirsty, drink from that puddle there." Christ recanted his blessing and the wine changed into bad water, which disgusted people and animals. The hard-hearted farmer became poorer than before because he didn't even have good water on his land. That's when Christ uttered the sharp words that any tavern which would not be merciful towards the poor would run out of luck. There's nothing more valuable to a feeble old man and a sick poor man than some good wine. Whoever serves this to them, can hope for God's mercy in this world and the next.

People built a beautiful church and said contentedly: "From now on we will worship God in this place." The devil built a tavern besides the church and said: "And here you shall worship me."