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"We are Christians also," said one; "and have a right to eat

bread as well as other people:" so saying, he took a loaf and bit

it; the rest followed his example; and it is unnecessary to add,

that in a few moments the contents of the basket had disappeared.

Those who had not been able to secure any for themselves were

irritated at the sight of their neighbours' gains, and animated

by the facility of the enterprise, went in search of other boys

with baskets; as many, therefore, as they met were stopped and

plundered. Still the number who remained unsatisfied was beyond

comparison the greatest, and even the gainers were only

stimulated by their success to ampler enterprises; so that

simultaneously there was a shout from the crowd of "To the

bake-house! to the bake-house!"