Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1849-05-12
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THE LOST DINNER.
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OF all the, plaques with which old NICK
has attempted 10 disturb the quiet OF TINS oies-
sed world, l think there is none equal 10 the
disposition which half the community have
for tormenting fat people. ! can speak feel
ingly on this point, for am siat man myself
Your lean fellows live in quiet, nobody think
Of pokiny fun at them, or josiling them in
the street, or squeezing them in crowd, or
a stage coach, or box at 1.-THE theatre. They
slip through the common rubs and crosses of
life as easily as a snake thro the bushes.
A. starveling has an immunity against all tri-
bulation; but a fat man--ihere is no mercy
for him he is 10 butt for all the Jokes that
are current; there is no sharp shooting but
hits him. He is TOO prominent mark to
escape. The lean ones envy his goodly size
and revenge themselves the only way they
can, by ridiculing what they would fain par
tcipate in, but find it beyond their reach,
as the fox turned up his right.honorable snoui
at certain grapes.
Who would not be fai il he could? 1t is
sheer malice and envy that would set the
world against fat people, who, generally
speaking, are the most useful and good hu.
incurred of the community: fruges c0Rstumere
natl, they keep the markets up and make
trade flourish. II to be fat is 10 be hated,
e,rs E,ls,,H thor ro phor,nb', la,r L;ra
10 be loved. hate lean folks, they make
me think of famine; and short commons
are an abomination unto men of any coud-
tion. But let me come TO the point and the
point of the matter is, that make it "a point
never to refuse an invitation todinner. Now
1 received an invitation to one last week, the
most magnificent dinner that has been eaten
in the city these fifty years. The very men,
tion of the dishes makes my mouth wafer
Alderman Go6ble, who gave the dinner,
knows how 10 create an appetite in his guests
by specification OF his tit-bis | need not
stop now to recapitulate the niceties which
the worthy Alderman had promised and
with which RECALLED my Imagination for a
week in anticipation of the feast Suffice it
to say, it was meal fit for a eourmand, and
lghad raised an appetite fit to do justice 10 ii.
Oh We demons of disappointment How
could ye serve me such a trick as to balk me
of that dinner.
For as my i'll luck would have il, happen
to live just now about ten miles from Boston.
There is no difficulty, one would think. in
jumping into the Stage and posting 10 town,
and that is true enough in the case of ordina-
ry folks but see what piagues beset Il fat
man had bespoke my passage, and was
the first TO get into the stage, when disa.
greement arose about the space which oc.
cupied in the vehicle The driver asserted
that had taken but one seat, and all the
others in the coatch were engaged before ne
Nova he undertook to prove by regular ad
measurement, that my immense rotundtv o.
corporation, as he was pleased 10 call it, oc
cupied at least space enough for fonr, h,
maintained that all the others should sea
themselves first, and then might re, in if
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