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Monday, March 11, 2024

A Loaf of Bread

        ''One day in a baker's shop,'' said daddy, ''appeared a very small-sized loaf of bread.
       ''A little girl named Lucy was shopping with her grandmother.
       '' 'Oh, look,' said Lucy, 'look at the tiny loaf of bread.'
       ''Now the loaf of bread would have smiled, only loaves of bread can't smile and if they should laugh they would crumble, so the loaf of bread kept a perfectly straight face.
       '' 'I thought I'd be noticed by a child,' said the small loaf of bread. 
       '' 'You won't last as long as we will,' said a larger loaf of bread
       '' 'Oh, who cares about the size,' said the small loaf.
       '' 'Of course you don't,' said another larger loaf.
       '' 'Now, now,' said the small loaf, 'don't be mean and unkind to your little friend and relative, the small loaf of bread. I'm the only small one here, though I heard the baker say if folks liked me the size I am and if mothers bought me for their children he'd make a lot like me.'
       '''We didn't mean to be unkind or mean,' said the larger loaves, 'only we are a little envious. We've been the same size always. We have to follow our relatives who are baked ahead of us and are sold ahead of us. We always have to follow their example.
       '' 'But you have been made differently. You have been made a small size. You're cunning and different. You are just like us in taste and shape and kind, but smaller in size and that makes you very interesting.'
       '''Hush,'' said the small loaf of bread, ''I am being bought. Hush!'' And off went the little tiny loaf, in a paper bag, carried by Lucy. Just as soon as it got home, having been carried all the way, for Lucy knew it couldn't walk or run home, a nice fat crust was cut off and Lucy ate it with joy. 
       '' 'My nice little baby loaf of bread,' she said, 'you are so cunning and so good to eat!'' And the loaf of bread was glad it had been made so tiny and cunning and yet so good.'' 
 
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