“Was the bread—and the milk—and the sugar, the same that the rest of your household used?”
“In course it were, sir. My other children ate plenty of it. Their appetites didn’t fail ’em.”
“Where did you get the warm water from that you say you soaked the bread in?”
“Out o’ the tea-kettle, sir. The water was the same that I biled for our tea morning and night.”
“The deceased children, then, had absolutely no food given to them apart from what you had yourselves?”
“Not a scrap, sir. Not a drop.”
“Except the pills.”
“Excepting them, in course, sir. None o’ the rest of us wanted physic.”
“Where did you procure these pills?”