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Show WHAT AND HOW THEY AT!L Darwin gorged every now end ti?: on plum cake. Iaehardson was a vegetarian anis: abstainer. r Swift lived in Dublin on a pic-rt-'.-ti;-ous diet of mutton pie. Newton often did not know who: or not he had had his dinner. Alexandre Dumas was fond of preparing pre-paring dinners for his friends. Shelley was content with bread o: anything which happened to lie at har.d Thackeray, though partial to French cookery, refrained from tuj free icd-:l-gence in it. Byron, after fits of intemperance ir he way of liejt'.ids, lived tor weeks et, t iseuits and soda water. When hew.;-tbrotid hew.;-tbrotid he pereh.-.seel a g."H-,- pre1 i-.tr-ied it about with him in i i..ket inke ,ravelir.g earrhige. Hut when the ti:a came for tin- slaughter the - t t haub.-eome haub.-eome so fotul of his lea -.1. en-el companion compan-ion that he declined to have it kiilei. Toward the end of Beethoven's llf. the old musician became a rrit'.e particular par-ticular in his demands r.pon other people1, peo-ple1, ar.d otic lime dbreed his h.-;i-e keeper ar.d cook. He then ir.vieriii party of friends to elite' with .: ;,. . -'. the feast was such n failure by ;hf time that his inexperienced lingers had prepared it that ho recalled t he missir.-: servant. |