Its the past tense for tread. tread- to walk in a specific way
This can be different for each person you ask
one reason is you can play the book out how you want to, imagine the characters your way, what the place looks like, etc. With a movie that is taken away from you. You are told how everything looks, and the movie/TV van leave out many stuff from the book
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i just read the entire story and the only mention of a sandwich says "you can't really make a meal of paste, or put it on bread for a sandwich, but sometimes i'd scoop a few spoonfuls..." (Not Poor...). so i would like to say the answer is paste but it says he DOESNT use it for a sandwich. is that definitely the exact question?