V Language points 1. Hard times: times of money shortage, unemployment and times when the poor suffer a great deal. Times, ne when plural, is used to refer to the conditions of life, the circumstances of a period characterized by certain qualities, or a period of time, more or less definite associated with certain events, circumstances, etc., e.g terrible times, bad times, prehistoric times, the good, old times. The hard times mentioned in this excerpt most robably refer to 1893, when the United States suffered from a severe and prolonged depression 2. I supposed the poor childrens mothers would make potato soup out of them out of--with(a material)/from(a material)V Language points • 1. Hard times: times of money shortage, unemployment and times when the poor suffer a great deal. Times, when plural, is used to refer to the conditions of life, the circumstances of a period characterized by certain qualities, or a period of time, more or less definite, associated with certain events, circumstances, etc., e.g., terrible times, bad times, prehistoric times, the good, old times. The hard times mentioned in this excerpt most probably refer to 1893, when the United States suffered from a severe and prolonged depression. • 2. I supposed the poor children’s mothers would make potato soup out of them. • …out of—with (a material)/from (a material)