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at a fair, when they'll go to the cook-shops and stuff themselves 

 with all they'll hold of it ; and if you could see them, you'd say 

 they did not know what it was or what was to be done with it 

 cutting it into great mouthfuls and gobbling it down without any 

 chewing, like as a fowl does barleycorns, till it chokes him." 



