It burdens them to carry weight.

And you, Achille Garay, will be much better off, if you drop twenty pounds." "Twenty pounds, Tayoga!" exclaimed Willet, who had joined him, a whole roasted pigeon in his hands.

"How can you make such an underestimate! Our rotund Monsieur would be far more graceful and far more healthy if he dropped forty pounds! And it behooves us, his trainers and physicians, to see that he drops 'em.

Then he will go back to Albany and to his good friend, Mynheer Hendrik Martinus, a far handsomer man than he was when he left.

It may be that he'll be so much improved that Mynheer Hendrik will not know him.