"I have an instinctive fondness for meals.

I knew the travelling show' business was a hungry game but I never reckoned on starvation as a means of earning a livelihood." "Oh.

'tisn't all bad," said Bonypart eagerly.

"There's th' Missin' Link, fer instance; he a glutton.

Blime, th' food that Missin' Link gets makes me lose all patience, an' sometimes I'd like t' get right up from my chair, an' bite him.