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Tonight, we'll read about the history of bread making in Europe and America

from The History of Bread,

written by John Ashton and published in 1905.

The text mentions Visigoths, which were an early Germanic people, and part of the larger political entity

of the Goths within the Roman Empire. Let's get cozy. Close your eyes.

eyes.

relax your body into the softness of your bed.

Now, take a few deep breaths.

In the northern countries and many fields of the Visigoths.

On that part that lies southward, barley is ripe and moan and 36 days from the date of sewing, that is, from the end of June to the middle of August, and sometime

sooner and other grains sown in the beginning of May is reaped in the middle of August

by the mutual help of the countrymen, not with any great pains, but with alacrity and willing minds, less

cold wind should blow upon it and blast the grain.

And they desire no other reward for their daily labor than a merry feast at night, where the young people of both sexes by reason of their faithful

labors in the field, by the judgment, consent, and permission of their provident parents are made choice of for to be married.

The farther north you go, the less wheat is grown, but there is more towards the south.

The Swedes having plenty of wheat wheat but more rye. But the goths, both east and west, who

feed on barley and oats, having an infinite abundance given them by the mercy of God.

Yet there is use made of all these sorts of grain in both places.

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