Millard County Chronicle | 1913-02-20 | Page 5 | Poet's Hearty Appetite.

- i P-set's Hesrty Appetite. I The Ix-ndon Daily Chronicle re- minds us that Victor Hugo's powers i of digestion were of no ordinary call- ber. In some reminiscences contrlbut- , ed to Le Temps M. Edouard Lockroy relates that tba poet when served with crayfish Invariably ate them whole, aw allowing tbe claws and hell with great gusto. Oranges were I dealt with In the same way, the peel i being eaten with as much relish as the fruit A dinner psrty at Hugo's I was a trjln ordeal for people of normal appetite. "On one occasion." writes M. Lockroy, "we were fed for three houre without Intermission After Aft-er forty minutes respite In the draw- log room we were msrebed back to partake of pastry and sympa."