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Simon's wife had everything ready early that day. She had cut wood, brought water, fed the children, eaten her own meal, and now she sat thinking. She wondered when she ought to make bread: now or tomorrow? There was still a large piece left.
-"If Simon has had some dinner in town," thought she, "and does not eat much for supper, the bread will last out another day."