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out the meal, to separate it. Yet there is 

 * bread enough, and to spare," as far as quan- 

 tity is concerned, wherever the wickedness, 

 the folly, or the indolence of man, does not 

 defeat or check the powers of nature, and of 

 his own skill and industry. It is a remarkable 

 fact, and one which ought to impress us with 

 sentiments of admiration and gratitude towards 

 the great and good Author of Nature, that 

 wheat, the best of grain, will grow and thrive 

 in almost any climate where vegetables consti- 

 tute the food of man. From the equator to 

 the very borders of the polar regions, this con- 

 stant friend endures the scorching beams, or 

 braves the northern blasts, and comes, a golden 

 gift, alike to the sun-burnt fainting African, and 

 the snow-wrapt Muscovite. Seeing that it 

 bears such extremes of climate, spreading from 

 zone to zone on the globe, it is not wonderful 



