'Scraps' in the Bible

"Be it so, Sir," she said, "for even the dogs eat the scraps which fall from their masters' tables."

"True, Sir," she replied, "and yet the dogs under the table eat the children's scraps."

covered with sores and longing to make a full meal off the scraps flung on the floor from the rich man's table. Nay, the dogs, too, used to come and lick his sores.