Nor was food so scarce and costly that throwing away a few bread crumbs could be considered sabotage.
"The Foreign Hand Tie"
Gordon Randall Garrett
The bowl of water, and the cloth from which she had torn strips to bind his head she carried away, and the glass from which he had taken his milk, she washed, and even the crumbs of bread which had fallen to the floor she picked up one by one, so that not a trace remained.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
Taking a few of our last bread crumbs, we went out to give it food.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook