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In the passage “nail soup” this man is wandering around near a cottage and he has no food or shelter. He comes across this cottage where a camp fire is burning where a woman is right next to it. The man walks up ask if he can spend a night just so he doesn’t freeze in the coldness of the night. Women at first doesn’t let the man have some shelter than she found some heart. The man asked for food, the women didn’t have any. So the man asked for a pot and he fills it up with water and he takes out a needle and puts it in the water. Then he stirs with a porridge stick. Then he adds a little bit of flower and stirs. Then he was done and the man and women ate the nail soup.
In the poem “stone soup” the soldiers are starving and they have no food

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