OLAVUS. Yes, they have told me that you have to eat bark and chew resin now and then. Is that a common thing or does it happen only once in a while?
NILS. When the famine comes, you have to eat what you can get.
OLAVUS. [To MASTER STIG, who has been keeping in the background] There is something you should know, Master Stig. How was it during the last famine, when the King sent grain to be distributed here: did it go to those who needed it?
STIG. Yes, it did, although there was not enough of it.
OLAVUS. [To ANDERS] Was there not enough of it?
ANDERS. That depends on what you mean by "enough."
OLAVUS. [To MONS] Do you know what is meant by "enough," Mons Nilsson?
MONS. Oh, well, everybody knows that.
OLAVUS. [To Stig] As we now know what is meant by "enough," I ask you, Master Stig Larsson, if anybody perished from hunger during the last famine?
STIG. Man doth not live by bread only....