At a recent festival, a boy, who did not get a fair chance at the edibles, said some of the voracious visitors had been starving themselves for so long, in anticipation of the feast, that they were hollow all the way down, for he could hear the first mouthful they swallowed strike on the bottoms of their boots.
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Evening Star, Issue 3140, 13 March 1873, Page 2
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58Untitled Evening Star, Issue 3140, 13 March 1873, Page 2
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