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side of it--just like itself, While grouped around stood the pies and cakes, The good old kind like mother makes, And one and all then and there confessed That they owed their existence to Pillsbury's Best. [Illustration] I seem to trace through the distant haze My byegone life in the good old days; I see in my vision a field of wheat-- I knew I was there that the world might eat-- I drank of the showers and the morning dew; In the noonday sun I throve and grew-- Grew on the verge of a sunny crest, Just as fast as I could for Pillsbury's Best. [Illustration] And when I had grown both tall and strong The reapers came--a merry throng-- And through the fields they wend their way, Just to and fro through the livelong day. Perhaps they were rude--for they cut me dead-- But what if they did?--I kept my head And turned on my back and laughed in glee At the thought of the good, good flour I'd be. [Illustration] I know I was good, yet the day came at last When they said I'd be better if soundly thrashed. Please pardon me here--I can't dwell on this much, The subject is painful--my feelings are such. Oh my! but the straw, it flew high in the air And the chaff chaffed unceasing, but I didn't care, My laughter rang forth with increased vim and zest, My chastisement I knew--just meant Pillsbury's Best. [Illustration] And then came the time when I journeyed away To the mills where the "Roller Mills" roll all day, And all of them smiled with a happy grin And welcomed us poor little wheatlets in; Oh! the grind of life--I was grasped and seized, I really can't say I was very much pleased; But to say the least, I was much impressed, And when I got through I was Pillsbury's Best. [Illustration: The mills where the roller mills roll all day.] [Illustration] And now in the latest fashions gay In the big round world I have my say, For in this most becoming sack, Please note the hang--both front and back, I journey far from the land of my birth To feed the hungry hordes of Earth; For those who know ne'er fail to say That Pillsbury's flour o'er the world holds sway. [Illustration] To the kitchen I go--to the bakers who bake The bread and the cookies, the pies and th
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