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20 each of them have a mouthful; but they had scarce helped themselves round before Joe's plate is empty, who began to whet his knife for a second trial; he hawls the dish to him, and round he goes again with another slice, very little inferior to his first, which surprized them all more than he had done before; but one of his companions asking him, if he would not help himself to some greens or carrots, he replied, they are too windy, and only serve to blow up the stomach, there's no substance in them: With that the drawer ran down stairs to his master as hard as he could drive—Egad, sir, says he, there's a man above stairs, that has eat above half the buttock of beef himself already, and there is not above a pound and an half of it left in the dish: he pitches it into his mouth as tho' he was filling an oven. Zounds, quoth the master, send up the breast of veal as fast as you can for your life, and I'll bring down what's left; so away he runs up stairs, to take a view of his new cormorant, but by that time he came up stairs, he had cleared up