And We Thought 

 We Were Cold 

 and Starving! 



Crowds surround the bulletin 

 boards to read the announce- 

 ments which are posted up 

 concerning the sugar shortage 



Firewood was so scarce, that 

 enterprising street vendors 

 sold it by weight to the 

 poor at much enhanced prices 



With coal at eighty dollars a 

 ton, the poor people in Paris 

 searched every refuse pile 

 for bits of the precious fuel 



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