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Show Tiny Tlm'a Appetite, In the "Christmas Carol" Mr. Webster , provided a real goose and a real plum pud-1 ding, wliich were served smoking hot for Mrs. Cratchit and the seven little Cratchits, of course including Tiny Tim. The children always had enormous portions por-tions given them, and all ate heartily every night; but what really troubled me was tho conduct of the httlo girl who played Tiny Tim. The child's appetite appalled me. I could not help noticing tho extraordinary rapidity with wliich ' she consumed what I gave her, and she ; looked so wan and thin, and so pitiful, that her face used positively to haunt me. We watched as well as we could, I and the moment Tiny Tim was seated and began to eat we observed a curious shufiling movement at tho stage fireplace, and every tiling that I had given her goose and potatoes and apple sauce disappeared dis-appeared behind the sham stove, the child pretending to eat as hearty as ever from the empty plate. When tho performance per-formance was over Mrs. Mellon and myself my-self asked the little g!l what became of the food she did not eat, and, after a httlo hesitation, frightened lest she should get into trouble, which we assured her could not happen, she confessed that her little 6ister (I should mention that they were tho children of one of tho scene shifters) waited on the other side of tho stage fireplace for the supplies, and that the whole family enjoyed a' hearty supper every night out of the plentiful portions to wliich I, as Bob, had assisted Tiny Tim. Toole's Reminiscences. Reminis-cences. ' j |