"I now greatly desire to eat some regular food."

    "Those who in the goodness of their hearts may undertake a search for the sucking pig."

    "Where do you find the percentage of dyspeptics running highest?"

    "She tries to tear all its front teeth out with her bare hands."

    "Ro-hocked in the cra-hadle of the da-heep, I la-hay me down in pe-heace to sa-leep!"

    "Shem undoubtedly sang it when the animals were hungry."

    "And I enjoy it more than words can tell!"

    "We looked in vain for the kind of pictures that mother used to make and father used to buy."

    "The inscrutable smile of a saleslady would make Mona Lisa seem a mere amateur."

    "A person who for reasons best known to the police has not been locked up."

    "Collision between two heavenly bodies or premature explosion of a custard pie."

    "Everything you catch is second-hand."

    "He could beat me climbing, but at panting I had him licked to a whisper."

    "She was not much larger than a soapdish."

    "Think of being laid face downward firmly across a sinewy knee and beaten forty-love with one of those hard catgut rackets!"

   Upon a certain gladsome occasion a certain man went into a certain restaurant in a certain large city, being imbued with the idea that he desired a certain kind of food. Expense was with him no object. The coming of the holidays had turned his thoughts backward to the care-free days of boyhood and he longed for the holidaying provender of his youth with a longing that was as wide as a river and as deep as a well.

   "Me, I have tried it all," he said to himself. "I have been down the line on this eating proposition from alphabet soup to animal crackers. I know the whole thing, from the nine-dollar, nine-course banquet, with every course 

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