poor-loaves

Updated: July 25, 2025

'I was brought up a Baptist, he said, 'and I'd go back to 'em now, if I didn't know how they'd all crow about it; and they're a poor lot at Little Bethel, too, not a penny-piece among 'em. 'When we get into the church, he continued, 'you give a look left of the chancel, close by the door where the shelf is with the poor-loaves.

F. Anstey - The Giant's Robe