When I feel in bad humour I read some of that stuff and laugh." He leaned over to press a button under the table, "One of my little electrical arrangements," he explained.

"That will bring our breakfast.

To use a popular expression of the uninformed, I'm as hungry as a bear.

As a matter of fact, you know, a bear is the lightest eater of all brute creation for his size, strength, and fat supply.

That row of naturalists over there have made him out a pig.