So we make our souvenir, so we focus and photograph this discoverer of
ours for the last time, and leave him, a mere dot in our foreground, and
pass to the greater picture that, has developed about him, to the story
of his Food, how the scattered Giant Children grew up day by day into a
world that was all too small for them, and how the net of Boomfood Laws
and Boomfood Conventions, which the Boomfood Commission was weaving even
then, drew closer and closer upon them with every year of their growth,
Until--




BOOK II




THE FOOD IN THE VILLAGE.



CHAPTER THE FIRST.

THE COMING OF THE FOOD.


I.

Our theme, which began so compactly in Mr. Bensington's study, has