bread-bringers

Updated: May 14, 2025

Rosa and her grandmother had never told about his ceasing to buy bread, and the neighbor thought that he was still considered their very chief customer. That evening Rosa and Joseph took the long-unused path to the Zanjero's house. His wife came to the door. "Oh," she said, "it's the two little bread-bringers! No, I don't want any bread. Are you trying to get orders?"

Mary E. (Mary Ellen) Bamford - Out of the Triangle: a story of the Far East