TWENTY DINNERS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 27 September 1927, Page 7

TWENTY DINNERS.

HUGE DOCK FEAST. THEN HAD BREAKFAST. LONDON, Sept. 20. Henry Bullion, a London .docker, weighing 14 .stone, rose from his breakfast, consisting of six eggs and rashers of bacon, to meet an eager and awed representative of the “Evening “Did I eat twenty dinners last night?” he said. • “Yes—and did I enjoy my breakfast? Yes, the rashers were a bit thin, but I have put my wife wise about that.” Bullion ate the dinner® because a customer told the landlord at an East End docldand hostelry, where ample dinners at Is 6d each are provided, that he knew a man who could eat twenty of them. The landlord said, “Bring him along.” Bullion arrived at 7 p.m., a little late because) he had lingered oyer tea. He sat at a long table on which there was, apparently, an endless line of plates of steak pudding, potatoes, cabbage and gravy. He ate the first six dinners lake a flapper disposing of ice-cream. After the tenth he paused to breathe, amid the cheers of crowds who had arrived from the local music haill to witness the feat. After the seventeenth he slowed down, but recovered after a lons drink, and finished the twentieth dinner at 9 P- m - _