"He asked me where the bread and butter were, so I said should I cut him a piece.

But he wouldn't let me do it.

I gave him a knife and he took it for himself, in the pantry." "I say, Bricknell," said Lilly at breakfast time, "why do you eat so much bread ?" "I've got to feed up.

I've been starved during this damned war." "But hunks of bread won't feed you up." "Gives the stomach something to work at, and prevents it grinding on the nerves," said Jim.
"But surely you don't want to keep your stomach always full and heavy." "I do, my boy.

I do.