[204] Peddlers.
[205] "Has been," an atrocious solecism for "were."
[206] To a miraculous extent.
[207] "Put to it," i.e., hard pressed.
[208] There are numerous references in the Hebrew Scriptures to parched corn as an article of food (see, among others, Lev. xxiii. 14, Ruth ii. 14, 2 Sam. xvii. 28).
[209] Supply "(1)."
[210] Soon.
[211] Substitute "would."
[212] Whom.
[213] Familiar intercourse.