EATING FOR A WAGER.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1766, 20 August 1884, Page 2

EATING FOR A WAGER.

Eating for a wager is one of the forms—and it is certainly a most 1 objectionable one—in which the i American mania for betting manifests i itself. Some time ago the New York . papers were full of the gluttonous ' prowess of an individual, who had i engaged, under heavy penalties,' to eat i a brace of quails evciy day for a month. Later still, another idiot undertook to eat thirty eggs at a sitting every day for same period, and ( the.' spovting world of New York mustered in force daily at thi? appointed hour to witness the perform-, ance, But a certain Charles Pearsall, of the same city, has just achieved a feat of voracity which throws the efforts of his predecessors completely in the shade. He undertook to eat . 60 eggs at a sitting every day for a . week, and he did it; and, what is more, "did it without bringing the i slightest pressure to bear on his . appetite, or rather swallowing capacity. ■ It was, indeed, only a sense of delicacy which forbade him following Oliver ■ Twist's example and "asking for { more" on each occasion. We have heard (says St. James' Gazette) of persons having a wolf in the stomach," . but Mr Pearsall's anatomy would seem , to be a perfect menagerie of these inL convenient and expensive quadrupeds.