CYRUS HALL McCORMICK 



In the United States, he had made his appeal 

 directly to the mass of the farmers. In Europe 

 he could not do this. The vast bulk of the 

 farmers here were tenants or serfs. But it was 

 also true, he observed, that the Kings of Europe, 

 and the members of the nobility, were land- 

 owners. Here was his chance. He would be- 

 gin at the top. He would sell his Reapers to 

 the kings. 



He noticed that kings and queens were not 

 the remote and inaccessible personages that he 

 had believed them to be. Prince Albert was 

 plainly more interested in farm machinery than 

 in the Koh-i-noor. The one prize which was 

 awarded to him personally was for a model 

 cottage, in which a workingman's family might 

 live with greater comfort. And one morning, 

 while McCormick was giving attention to his 

 Reaper, the Queen and her ten-year-old son 

 (now the King of England) walked past and 

 had a view of the American Reaping machine 

 that had been so widely ridiculed and praised. 



McCormick had to hurry back to the United 



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