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Updated: June 23, 2025

He gets a pot o' gruel, or a saucer o' porridge, or a hunch o' bread with a mite o' cheese." Lionel looked at the man. "You cannot eat plain bread now, can you, Grind?" "All this day, sir, I shan't eat nothing; I couldn't swallow it," he answered. "After the fever and the shaking's gone, then I could eat, but not bread; it seems too dry for the throat, and it sticks in it.

Mrs. Henry Wood - Verner's Pride