[Illustration: "Sugar it is, then!"]

The Story of Sugar

BY

SARA WARE BASSETT

Author of

"The Story of Lumber"
"The Story of Wool"
"The Story of Leather"
"The Story of Glass"


ILLUSTRATED BY C. P. GRAY


_To my cousin_
_William Pittman Huxley_
_this book is affectionately inscribed_


It gives me much pleasure to acknowledge the courtesy of the
American Sugar Refining Company, and also the kindness of Senator
Truman G. Palmer, of Washington, D. C.

S. W. B.