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Show WHAT AND HOW THEY ATE. Darwin gorged every now and then on plum cake. Richardson was a vegetarian and an abstainer. . , Swift lived in Dublin on a monotonous monoton-ous diet of mutton pie. s Newton often did not know whether or not he had had his dinner. Alexandre Dumas was fond of preparing pre-paring dinners for his friends. Shelley was content with bread or anything which happened to be at hand. Thackeray, though partial to French cooker', refrained from too free indulgence indul-gence in it. Byron, after fits of intemperajice in the way of liquids, lived for weeks on biscuits and soda water. "When he was abroad he purchased a goose and carried car-ried it about with him in a basketinhis traveling carriage. But when the time came for the slaughter the poet had become be-come so fond of his feathered companion compan-ion that he declined to have it killed. Toward the end of Beethoven's life the old musiciaai became a trifle particular par-ticular in his demands upon otherco-pl-e, and one time dismissed his housekeeper house-keeper and cook. He then invited a party of friends to dine with him, but the feast was such a- failure by the time that his inexperienced fingers had prepared it that he recalled the missing servant. |