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eat, it is not because they have no appetite. What 

 they want, then, is not food, but an appetite for 

 food. They want one thing, but seek another. 

 The stomach " asks for an egg, and they give it a 

 stone." Let them use the necessary and natural 

 means to procure an appetite, and they will require 

 no other provocative: but they are "corrupt! 

 judices," and " male verum examinent." 



" Leporem sectatus, equove 



Lassus ab indomito ; vel si Romans fatigat 

 Militia assuetum grsecari ; seu pila velox, 

 Molliter austerum studio fallente laborem, 

 Seu te discus agit ; pete cedentem aera disco. 

 Cum labor extuderit fastidia, siccus, inanis, 

 Sperne cibum vilem ; * * * * 

 ***** cum sale panis 

 Latrantem stomachum bene leniet. * * 



* * * * Tu pulmentaria quaere 

 SUDANDO." 



Let me say a word or two on the subject of 

 hunger. In the upper and middle ranks of life, I 

 believe that true, genuine, honest, schoolboy hun- 

 ger is almost wholly unknown. Is this because 

 hunger is a feeling not proper to men as well as 

 boys ? Ask the shipwrecked sailor. No : it is 

 because here also, as in the instance of disrelith 



