"I have done it, and I am going to do it again, every fourth night, and there is the milk and bread at the foot of the wall, ready for you to haul up as soon as it gets dark." "It ought to be fairly divided," the tanner said.
"It will be fairly divided, between our children," John said; "but nobody else will get a drop or a crumb.

I have risked my life to get it for them.

If other people want to get it, let them do the same.

Besides, as I told you, Captain Davenant and his son both procured it for me for the sake of the children, and them only, and I should be breaking faith with them if any others touched it, save those for whom it was given me.

It is little enough among eighteen children for four days--a pound of bread and a little over a pint of milk, each.