Dentatus I have been called, among other unsavory jests.

Doublemeal is another name which my acquaintance have palmed upon me, for an innocent piece of policy which I put in practice for some time without being found out; which was--going the round of my friends, beginning with the most primitive feeders among them, who take their dinner about one o'clock, and so successively dropping in upon the next and the next, till by the time I got among my more fashionable intimates, whose hour was six or seven, I have nearly made up the body of a just and complete meal (as I reckon it), without taking more than one dinner (as they account of dinners) at one person's house.

Since I have been found out, I endeavor to make up by a damper, as I call it, at home, before I go out.

But, alas! with me, increase of appetite truly grows by what it feeds on.

What is peculiarly offensive to me at those dinner-parties is, the senseless custom of cheese, and the dessert afterwards.