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of the wonderful taste of the merkle and egg dish.
He was so distracted that he was unable to install the phone and had to call for help, but he asked if he could come back in April to gather merkles. I assured him that he could and that I looked forward to his return, hoping that the phones would be working by then.
In the course of the fall and winter, I made discreet inquiries among neighbors about merkles. I raised the topic in the country store and at social gatherings.
Nearly everyone I addressed on the topic said that they knew about merkles and that there were merkles in the area. Some said they had eaten them and found them good. A few admitted having collected (one does not harvest) merkles but everyone seemed evasive as to just when and where one might find the merkle.
Why Merkle?
I made more scientific and scholarly inquiries, learning that the mushroom my telephone man had introduced me to was commonly known as a “morel”, that it is edible, and grows in Europe and in North America, and possibly on other continents. I then tried to find out why it was called a “merkle” in Rappahannock County, whereas in most of the world, in so far as I could find out, it was called a "morel”.
According to experts, it was called “morel” because its dark brown color was similar to the complexion of Moors. I speculated that persons unfamiliar with this
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