THE STORY OF BREAD 



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LUG! Do you know what that 

 means? It means "hang on," 

 "stick to the job," "don't give 

 up the ship," and several other 

 things worth keeping in mind. 

 To all who think they are 

 having a hard time, that the 

 world is against them, that their efforts are not 

 appreciated, the story of the persistency of the 

 harvesting machine inventors — the qualities which 

 helped to give us bread a-plenty — is dedicated. 



From the day the reaper first worked success- 

 fully in a Virginia wheat field until a farmer was 

 found who would buy one of the machines, ten 

 years elapsed. It took work and genius to make 

 the reaper; it took patience and perseverance to 

 get it adopted. In the eleventh year a reaper was 

 sold for a hundred dollars. The next year two 

 reapers were sold, then fifty, then a thousand, and 

 on and on, up and up climbed the sales. 



Constant plugging away — "Keeping everlastingly 

 at it" — ever earns its reward. 



It is an interesting story, don't you think? — I 

 mean the story of bread? In it are symphonies for 

 great orchestras, poems for all who read, and pic- 

 tures and monuments for all who see. 



But best of all, to understand the struggle more 

 than fifty centuries long, is to whet our appreciation 

 of the bread that is so cheap — and, oh, so good. 



