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It is no joke for these children, who have to leave their little beds, frequently under the tiles, at 5 or 6 a.m., or earlier, summer and winter, to gulp down some hot coffee, or what is conveniently called so, to swallow a huge piece of the well-known Dutch 'Roggebrood, or rye-bread, and then to hurry, in their wooden shoes, through the quiet streets of the town to their place of work.
I don't think I've ever been really hungry before in my life." He opened the bottle with the corkscrew on his pocket-knife and watched her munching hungrily at the rye-bread. "Half the pleasure in life, after all, is wanting a thing and getting it," he observed. "How can you want anything if you've already got it?" "I can't," she mumbled, her mouth full, "unless perhaps it's this bread."
They could hear voices outside, with occasional exclamations of surprise, and now and then a peal of laughter. At length the door was unlocked, and the gaoler's man came in with four trenchers, piled on each other, on each of which was laid a slice of rye-bread and a piece of cheese. He served out one to each prisoner. "Want your appetites sharpened?" said he with a sarcastic laugh.
"The humble teetotum, made of a crust of rye-bread transfixed by a twig, silently spinning on the cover of a school-book, will give a correct enough image of the earth, which retains unmoved its original impulse, and travels along a great circle, at the same time turning on itself.
The poor wretches had a miserable hovel of an inn to their own part on the western outskirts of the Chase, a place by the sign of the Hand and Hatchet, where they ate their rye-bread and drank their sour Clink, when they could muster coppers enough for a twopenny carouse.
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