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had been cleared away, and the first fire had been lighted in the new firepla

've voted you to be of that age-can ask

n and tell me all about it. As I understand, you have frequently spent from a w

" answered the boy, who, having laid aside

een animal food exclusi

food salt to season it with, but as for bread or potatoes, or anyt

d health. You had no starchy food for from a week to two weeks at a time on each of these

Tom Ridsdale had a mighty keen reli

imal like me, when living night and day in the open air and taking a great deal of exercise, can eat pretty much anything he pleases that we commonly recognize as food, or rather anything of that kind that he can get-without much danger of injuring himself. No, I don't know so

man is essentially a carnivorous, or meat-eating animal, and second, that while starchy foods are desirable as a part of his diet, they are not absolutely necessary to him, except at compara

ry calf. Yet, neither horses nor cows eat any animal

ans have observed that behind almost every case of obstinate, low fevers and that sort of debilitated disease, there is a history of underfeeding, and particularly of an insufficient use of meat, whether as a matter of necessity, or merely as a matter of ch

ng Virginians do-in the doctrines of the vegetarians?" ask

onsider the doctrines of the vegetarians when they a

o you mean?

ago. There were only fifty-seven of them present, I believe, and yet they managed to split their congress up

eir differenc

ate milk biscuit and butter crackers. This second group looked with favor upon all fruits and vegetables, but here a third group took issue with them, contending that only those vegetables should be eaten which grow above ground, and utterly rejecting the thought of eating potatoes, parsnips, beets, turnips, onions, carrots, ra

t circuses th

stand," the Do

peanuts? And about three-fourths of all the peanuts

le.' Patent medicines are often advertised as 'purely vegetable,' as if that settled the question of their har

as apple-butter itself is. And there are others, such as morphine, stramonium, and nux vomica and worst of all hydrocyanic acid, commonly called prussic acid. That is so deadly that i

y, and I'm going to declare war on the Doctor if he doesn't let me have some light th

, going to Tom's bed and examining and redres

nimal a little while ago. I never yet saw wounds heal in the way they are doing on

ing out of bed. "My clamor is for pork.

d to hang the shoat before the great fire

ty pounds, and that isn't much to divide b

oast the gentleman whole, and I for one volunteer to sit down before him and baste him so that

ith from outside the cabin, where he w

rd, outdoor work of tree felling that it would bring with it. With a great glowing blaze in the fireplace, which each sentin