he best thing to do is to stay put! The Germans are capable of herding the entire population of Holland into Germany, where they'll all die.""Of course we'll stay here. This is the safest place.We'll try to talk Kleiman and his family into coming here to live with us. We'll somehow get hold of a bag of wood shavings, so we can sleep on the floor. Let's ask Miep and Kleiman to bring some blankets, just in case. And we'll order some extra cereal grains to supplement the sixty-five pounds we already have. Jan can try to find some more beans. At the moment we've got about sixty-five pounds of beans and ten pounds of split peas. And don't forget the fifty cans of vegetables.""What about the rest, Mother? Give us the latest figures.' ,"Ten cans of fish, forty cans of milk, twenty pounds of powdered milk, three bottles of oil, four crocks of butter, four jars of meat, two big jars of strawberries, two jars of raspberries, twenty jars of tomatoes, ten pounds of oatmeal, nine pounds of rice.That's it."Our provisions are holding out fairly well. All the same, we have to feed the office staff, which means dipping into our stock every week, so it's not as much as it seems. We have enough coal and firewood, candles too."Let's all make little moneybags to hide in our clothes so we can take our money with us if we need to leave here.""We can make lists of what to take first in case we have to run for it, and pack our knapsacks in advance.""When the time comes, we'll put two people on the lookout, one in the loft at the front of the house and one in the back.""Hey, what's the use of so much food if there isn't any water, gas or electricity?""We'll have to cook on the wood stove. Filter the water and boil it. We should clean some big jugs and fill them with water. We can also store water in the three kettles we use for canning, and in the washtub.""Besides, we still have about two hundred and thirty pounds of winter potatoes in the spice storeroom."All day long that's all I hear. In
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