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Each sample — raspberry, plum, sour cherry, Williams pear, quince, hazelnut — offered a full harvest season condensed into a moment.

Black Forest kirschwasser and Williams pear are some of its best-known schnapps.

The French and Swiss are particularly fond of pear brandy, often calling it Poire Williams, as the pear known as Bartlett here in the States is called the Williams pear in Europe.

Old Hannah likewise had a weakness, but it was not for that unpleasant-looking curly mollusc which has to be wriggled out with a pin, but, as she expressed it, “a big mellow Williams pear with a maddick in it.”