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 �And We Thought We Were Cold and Starving!

��Crowds surround the bulletin boards to read the announce- ments which are posted up concerning the sugar shortage

��Firewood was so scarce, that enterprising street vendors sold it by weight to the poor at much enhanced prices

��With coal at eighty dollars a ton, the poor people in Paris searched every refuse pile for bits of the precious fuel

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