Chapter 7
The famous account of growing barley and discovering it providentially sprouted from shaken-out husks; later his lengthy bread-making process.
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From Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Crusoe's painstaking accounts of making bread, pottery, furniture, and clothing constitute the novel's celebrated documentation of the dignity of labor and homo economicus.
Chapter 8
Crusoe's experiments making earthenware pots, eventually achieving fired vessels; his pride in the slow accumulation of competence.
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