A BOY WITH AN APPETITE.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1260, 23 April 1896, Page 32

A BOY WITH AN APPETITE.

A large number of people assembled in Woods’" blacksmith’s shop laM week to witness a- lad named Robert Lpton cat a ]< g t-f mutton. The feat was to be accomplished for a, wager, but the second party wit lidi'.i wing—as he preferred roast iowls to jiij -i i; j;.ii mutton—the boy undertook to cat the nic.it nevertheless, so that his reputation might not sillier. The leg of mutton Weighed 1 —lb, and the bone on being we-1 ed after was found to be 111 b, there being thus 10.Ub of meat. The meat, having been cooked, was brought to the shop, and after it was allowed to cool tho boy started on Ids task. He munched away in a slow manner for an hour and thirty - live minutes, at the end of which period there only remained a few pieces of M. Upton also drank three

pints of lemonade and consumed a quantity

of bread. Beyond expressing an opinion that the meat was “ bloomin’ tough,” and that his j jaws were aching, while lie showed a dej eidcil increase in width afler his task,

1 Upton said he felt no worse for his oxperij once. A collection was taken up on tho boy's behalf.