How Mr Tig got Lean again.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3975, 24 September 1881, Page 2

How Mr Tig got Lean again.

Talking of lies ; the following is a true example of Yankee romance. Mr James Tig was a wealthy trader, who by years of plodding, had made for himself a fortune. He retired to a suburb of the classic city of Ohio, and with the "wife of his buzzom," hoped to enjoy his declining years iv peace and quietness. He had been quietly residing in his handsome villa for some few weeks, when he became eonseiouu that his health was bocomiug gradually impaired. He fell away rapidly, and in the course of three months had lost three stone in solid flesh. Being impressed with the idea that he did not take sufficient animal nutriment, he augmeuted his diurnal meals until the amount he consumed was something terrible. But this only made mutters worse! He grew frliiuucr uud Lbiuntr every day. At lust,

be was almost in despair; and surmising that bis decease was not far off, ordered his coffin. The undertaker, however, being somewhat of an ■ apothecary, told him he should abstain altogether from food. He clutched at this idea, like a drowning man does at a straw. Behold the result! He gradually increased in weight until he far surpassed his most corpulent days! He strove to remedy this, but iv vain. He grew more and more corpulent every day I The apothecary was again called into requisition, and now'suggested that he should resume his appetite, and eat just in proportion to his increasing corpulence. He acted on this advice, and now it take forty one provision trains daily to keep him at a decent standard of grossness. He is now spoken of as the man who has to consume enormously, in order to obviate the expense of a more capacious villa.