I stole some bread, cheese and big meat pie, hoping that, as there was a lot of food

[svidrigaylov]

I stole some bread, cheese and big meat pie, hoping that, as there was a lot of food ready for christmas, nobody would notice what was missing.

I stole some bread, cheese and big meat pie, hoping that, as there was a lot of ready food for christmas, nobody would notice what was missing.


Which one is accurate? Why?

(Charles Dickens, Great Expectations)

 

[jutfrank]

I don't think you mean to ask which one is accurate—it's the first that is the accurate excerpt.

a lot of food ready for Christmas

The blue part tells us something about the food: The food was ready for Christmas. That means that somebody had prepared it in order for it to be eaten at Christmas.

 

[Rover_KE]

Did Dickens really fail to write '... a big meat pie' and fail to capitalise 'Christmas'?