Children in particular become like tightly inflated little

balloons after a feast, and as they wear no clothing, the

extraordinary rotundity is very obvious, not to say

ridiculous. We conclude therefore that unusual powers

of gormandizing, being useful, come at last to be cultivated

as praiseworthy.

By good fortune Dick and Joe Blunt happened to

have such enormous gluttons as

vis-à-vis

that the portions