The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-05-01
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CHARLES PEARSALL,
FISH,
Fulton Market.

Inc 'FRONT.' StreeG potato ineTCudul
glanced at the card and instantly ev-
pressed his absorbing ambition to put
up the money that the young man with
the alluring smile was no match for
anything like sixty consecutive eggs for
even one day.
In Just five minutes afterward the DO
tato merchant was accommodated and
ten crisp new five-Gollar notes were
nesting in the pocket of John Ross
as stakeholder. The potato merchant
and the man with the rel mustache
each put up five of the bills. The
Young man with the alluring SIN le
then sat down and tossed off another
cup of co Zee and ate up three,
quarter sections of Putnam County
mince pie.
The next dar, which was Monday,
he slowed away his first installment OF
three score eggs, and followed it up on
the succeeding days with an ease and
freedom from stomach ache that rem
dered Fulton M"rket fish, flesh, fowl
and fruit dealers speechless with aston
ishment.
At half-past four o'clock Yesterday
afternoon the young man with the al
Turing smile sauntered into the restau-
taurant to conquer his last inStallment.
Nine hours previously he had eaten
thirty fresh-boiled eggs, a small steak
and cup of coffee.
Carver H. c. Mcdonald, who has a
black muStache, counted out thirty eggs
and slid them carefully onto hanging
scale, the index of which flew round to
the figures indicating three and three
quarter pounds. Then he observed,
with an expert accuracy, that the eggs
represented the equivalent of thity-six
pounds of beef, and slid them into a
big pot of boiling water, out of which
they were fished after the expiration OF
two and half minutes. Four big
soda-water glasses, holding pint each.
were ranged on the table. and three
wa ters cracked the steaming shells OF
the eggs and emptied their contents
into the glasses. They filled the four tc
the brim.
Young Pearsall peeled off his over
coat, wiped his mouth with napkin
without etfacing the alluring smile and,
rolling up his cuffs. stirred the soft eggs
with fork and started in TO make time.
He drank the eggs as he did his coffee,
at gulp. The first glassfull disap-
cared in Just five seconds. There was
nothing of the second after seven sec
onds The third had slid down his
throat in eight seconds, and at the ex-
Diration of six seconds more there was
nothing at all on the table but aquartcr
If q pound of demo allied egg-shells.
Then young Pearsall lit good cigar
and putfed at it with conscious pride.
Between the puffs he said:
al have felt no distress after this task.
[ sleep without much difficulty and
have not yet seen the ghosts of my an
cestors in my dreams. L don't expect
to. will eat sixty more eggs to-mor-
row to prove this feat is genuine one.
[ first found that | could eat more than
one egg when twelve years old. | am
/. New Yorker and have got 3 good
square metropolitan appetite. 1t takes
in other things besides eggs. Two
years ago / ate two twist loaveS OF
bread and drank half a gallon of coffee,
and had to find another boarding house.
will be twenty-five years old next
July. Yes, | expect to live until then.
| an five feet seven and one-half inches
high, and l weigh 147 pounds, and an
unmarried. 1 don't get married be
au,e | might eat my wife out of house
and home. | have bet fifteen dollars to
zen dol ars that | will eat forty eggs at
sitting to- o-morrow."
When the cigar was smoked the
Young man sat down with his smile and
silently ate large piece of pie anr
drank cup of tea. Another young
nan, with light spring overcoat, ga,ed
1t him awhile and then exploded thus
.sIll bet one hundred dollars to
;eventy-five dollars that can fetch a
man here to-mo row who will eat six
iozen bard-boiled eggs at one sitting" y"
The young man with the alluring
mile gazed moment at the speaker.
Who is somewhat indi ferently spoken
# as Paddy" winked his off eye,
Dyed with his gold scarf-pin, and
merely remarked:
Perhaps you might ike to try me on
Die, too. can eat pie, 1 can L can
make a record on it. 1 can"
"Say no MORE" shouted an admiring
pectator with a bay-window waist.
say no more; Barnum wants yonrighi
| lf.n
The young man then went away with
rs alluring smile, followed by the
mall boys of Fulton market-M 7
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