Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1868-09-04
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DYSPEPTIC.

never knew his name 1t might have
been large, or Willum, or Jeck; but he
had Just stuck his hay-fork beside the
vain his horses, with dropping heads,
were nuzzling the odorous cock and the
summer sun made golden network in the
spinney where stood, envious, discon-
tented, and looking on The unknown
had chosen himself a seat beneath an oak
which rose from the boundsry'hedge, and
from out clean calico bag he had pro-
duced about half of halfa-quartern loaf,
and white slab of bacon, marbled with
one thin, faint streak of pink lean. Ana
then he ate-ate tremendously-he
off punches of bread and Jumps of bacon.
Then there was snap and q grind, and
the process was repeated. Tissue manu-
factory That man ought to have been
possessed of reserve of tissue ready for
restoring any waste. His teeth would
have excited envy in dentist and as to
muscle and development, he was perfect
study.
But it was the mans eating which made
me envious-the thorough enjoyment
He seemed to be in paradise, AS for di-
gestion, should think he had never even
heard the word. AS for suffering it was
plain that he knew it not though the poor
looker-on could only groan and turn away
his head as he thought of dinner-pills
And how was this? The answer is sim
Pile. The unknown never went to
boarding-school 1 did go. He kept his
normal internal state lost mine.
But ours was not school; it was an es-
tablishment, where the head was a princi-
pal, the second in command vice, and
the ushers masters. If the unknown had
led my life, he might not have rejoiced
over his bread and bacon for to the diet
at Gradus House attribute the highland
day-mare from which suffer The living
was bad decidedly bad and how so learn
ed man as our principal could have ex-
pected our young stomachs to receive un-
resentingly the solid dumplings, the hard,
halfstewed steaks, and the tough mutton,
is mystery to this day. can only ad-
vance single theory for the piercing of
the cloud-economy. The consequences
were headaches, dullness, stupidity, salts
and SIENNA. Those were the immediate con-
sequences. the following effects were the
horrors of dyspepsia. Tine unsatisfactory
nature of our meals led us to spend every
penny of our pocket money in edibles, an
extra tip received by any boy being the
sign of a following feast. No school-boys
could ever have been so short off for balls,
bats, and stumps, pop-guns, kites, pea
shooters, tops, or marbles, as were the
denizens of Gradus House. The village
toyshop failed while the sucker business
grew into an establishment, where we in
vested our small cash in denominations,
that helped to lay the soil ready for the
seeds of indigestion sown by our worthy
principal.
believe that was a fair sample of the
class ofboys at Gradus House; for if there
were instances where young gentleman
was not quite such an eid1 rerum, l at
tribute it to a scarcity of current coin, for
they gave no credit at Creak's establish
ment. Devouring was the correct term
for remember well that in one week
munched peck of solid baking pears, save
one, which happened to be too rotten for
my by no means squeamish taste. AS to
hard and sour apples, they were always
unlimited in quantity and of all kinds,
from a little green, acid, stony pippin,
whose juice would have almost produced
carbonic acid gas from limestone, right up
through every bad variety, to hard, red,
round, Norfolk bitfins, that were in their
consistency almost like wood.
We generally begPn in the early spring
with pasture from the fields, in the shape
of sorrel; or brow sed upon the acid
leaves of the principals barberry, until
the gooseberries were large and sour
enough to take their place. As rule, we
could most of us eat a quart of unripe
gooseberries in day, nearly pint being
devoured in bed, when the dormitories
would resound with a STANCE low crunch
crunch, as if the abode of ruminants-
the monOtony being broken by an occa.
sional pop. About this time, too, we
could obtain green peas-the parching
variety and beans being preserved for win
ter stores, Now it was that apples
began to be in season with us, be it
remembered,-of course only small and
sour. Then came pears, ripe gooseberries,
plums, all of class most worthy of con-
demnation and lastly, there was vii
lainOusly, high priced, pithy, stony fruit,
with mousey skin, which we used TO buy
for luxury, and pretend to enjoy. Mrs
Creak used TO sell it to us and call 1t a
peach; but in flavor it was more like a
green almond. With the advent of winter
OF course there were oranges, figs, almonds
ana falslns, and prunes but Creak did a
wonderful trade in what they called bra.
zeel nuts, and bassylonies, horrible oily.
indigestible things those first, with shells
that would not crack even in the school
room door, and kernels that would burn
like candles. For cocoa-nuts-koker nuts
~ was Spelteu IN OTehk WlnuOW-We used
tn club, and then eat in company, RECALLING
first upon the insipid, sickly milk. alter
wards upon the hard kernels, the shells
being saved for burning upon the fifth of
November, though fireworks were not our
forte. Gluey Italian jumbles stufy, treacly
parliament, chaffy cakes, sticky jam tarts,
and tough, gummy suckers, we pur-
chased wholesale, as 10 price,
while the only sensible way in which,
as far as can recollect, we laid out our
money, was once week in roast potatoes,
which we bought Of one Dirty Jenny,
who used to come into the playground just
before tea-our pockets serving to keep
the fruit hot until bedtime. There were
times. too, when we patrionized the mufnn
baker but as a rule, dry mutfins were
voted tame, and. in cold unbuttered crum
pets, there always was a clamminess tha'
! never could get over. In very sterI
times, when remittances failed and famine
was sore in the land, the popping patel
of india-rubber used TO serve for some
thing to chew; but there / was unfortu
nate, for, mastioating in school hours,