"Do not ask, 'For whom does the bell toll' ?"

          Death knells reverberated throughout the Land, even finding Sound among the Myths and Legends of Storybook Regimen.   No longer was Paul Bunyan revered and `paradigmed` as a "Man's Man",  it was the Legend of John Henry that supplied the Sorrow-Laden Reality of "World Ending" Catastrophe.

        As the Story 'goes' John Henry was a "Hard Drive-n Man" the Apex of Human Industry.   He was a RR Tie Spike Driver, a Toil of Unquestionable Exhaustion, yet he could work "Sun Up to Sun Down" with UNRELENTING Intensity.  No mere Mortal could Challenge his adroit Supremacy.

       One day a City-Slick Salesman ventured on Site to introduce his MACHINE, an Steam  Driven Pneumatic Hammer, he said, "Could outwork ANY Man".  All Championed John Henry as he accepted the Challenge for Hammer  Superiority.

      The Day unfolded.  John Henry was barely able to 'keep up' with City Slick but at the end of the Event John Henry had Won.  It is believed that horses will gallop until they collapse before Death.  So it was with our John Henry.

      There was a Toll.  John Henry paid it with his LIFE.

      The Machine had Won after all.

       Man could NOT Equal Machine.