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CHAPTER VII
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Her waist measures 61 inches in circumference and her neck 22 inches.

The same paper says that on one of the quays of Paris may be seen a wine-shop keeper with whom this Pennsylvania girl could not compare.

It is said that this curiosity of the Notre-Dame quarter uses three large chairs while sitting behind her specially constructed bar.

There is another Paris report of a man living in Switzerland who weighs more than 40 stone (560 pounds) and eats five times as much as an ordinary person.

When traveling he finds the greatest difficulty in entering an ordinary railway carriage, and as a rule contents himself in the luggage van.


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