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they should destine for the poor till it should be called 

 for ; and, secondly, to give an opportunity to those who 

 bought meat in their shops to throw in any odd scraps 

 or bones they might receive, and which they might not 

 think worth the trouble of carrying home. 



These odd pieces are more frequently to be met with 

 in the lots which are sold in the butchers' shops in 

 Munich than in almost any other town ; for, as the 

 price of meat is fixed by authority, the butchers have 

 a right to sell the whole carcass, the bad pieces with 

 the good, so that with each good lot there is what in 

 this country is called the zugewicht, that is to say, an 

 indifferent scrap of offal meat, or piece of bone, to 

 make up the weight ; and these refuse pieces were very 

 often thrown into the poor's tub, and after being prop- 

 erly cleaned and boiled served to make their soup much 

 more savoury and nourishing. 



In the collection of the daily donations of bread, as 

 that article is more valuable, and more easily concealed 

 and disposed of, more precautions were used to prevent 

 frauds on the parts of the servants who were sent round 

 to make the collection. 



The cart which was employed for this purpose was 

 furnished with a large wooden chest, firmly nailed down 

 upon it, and provided with a good lock and key ; and this 

 chest, which was neatly painted, and embellished with 

 an inscription, was so contrived, by means of an open- 

 ing in the top of a large vertical wooden tube fixed in 

 its lid, and made in the form of a mouse-trap, that when 

 it was locked (as it always was when it was sent round 

 for the donations of bread) a loaf of bread, or any thing 

 of that size, could be put into it ; but nothing could be 

 taken out of it by the same opening. Upon the return 



