The bread is exhausted." "We still have oxen and horses." "We shall come to them day after to-morrow.

It was determined: Two pounds with the bones to every four persons.

Bread gone, cows gone, milk gone.

And what will happen then?
Mothers, infants, sick people! And our Bessie!" The burgomaster pressed his hands on his temples and groaned aloud.

But Maria said: "Courage, Peter, courage.