Only the previous day the corpse of an old man had been found lying on the plaster in a lonely room.

Starvation must have killed him quite a week previously, yet he would still have been stretched there if the odour of his remains had not attracted the attention of neighbours.
"If one only had something to eat things wouldn't be so bad!" continued Giacinta.

"But it's dreadful when there's a baby to suckle and one gets no food, for after a while one has no milk.

This little fellow wants his titty and gets angry with me because I can't give him any.

But it isn't my fault.