1.“Oh，I’m so hungry！”cried Johnnie，running into the house.“Please give me some bread and butter！”“I am just baking the bread；you must wait a few minutes，”said his mother.
2.Johnnie waited about two minutes，and then asked if the bread was ready.
“No，”answered his mother；“not quite ready yet.”“It takes a long time to make a slice ofbread，”said hungry Johnnie，with sigh .
3.“Perhaps you don‘t know，Johnnie，how long it does take，”said his mother “The loaf which I am baking was really begun in thespring.”Johnnie opened his eyes widewhen heheard this.“It was being got ready all through the summer and autumn.”
4.Johnnie was glad that autumn was past now，for it would have been hard for a hungry little boy to wait all that time.
5.“The farmer dropped the seeds into the ground in April，but he could not make them grow，”said his mother.“All the men in the world could notmake a graingrow.
6.”The farmer only drops the wheat into the ground and covers it up.Then come the rain and the sunshine，and the wheat springs up.Through May and June，and July and August，itis growing.The stalks get longer and the ears begin to appear .
7.“At first the little grains are quite soft and green，but they soon become hard and round.The green colour changes into a rich yellow，and the wheat is ready to be cut down.
8.”Then the farmer takes the grain from the straw in his threshing-mill，and sends it to the flour-mill to be ground into flour.All this must be done before I can begin baking the bread for you.“9.By this time Johnnie had almost forgotten that he was hungry.He was no longer in a hurry.He was thinking.
10.”Well，“he said at last，“I did not think of that before.But I am very glad the farmer began making that loaf so long ago，for I should not like to wait a whole year now.”
GRAMMAR EXERCISE
1.Point out the first twelve nouns in the lesson.
2.Give common nouns in place of the proper nouns in the lesson.