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THE STRAND MAGAZINE. 
days longer. Its defenders are already 
reduced to eating rated’ 
Although t his statement was an exaggera- 
tion., food was nevertheless becoming scarce 
in the extreme. Small morsels of decayed 
meat were fetching high prices, and the child- 
ren were going hungry to bed and waking up 
still more hungry. It was for their suffering, 
i think, that 1 felt most, for to see those who 
cannot help themselves slowly fading away 
