1000 pounds which I exhibited there was stuffed out with pillers
and cushions, which he said one very hot day in July, "Oh bother,
I can't stand this," and commenced pullin the pillers out from
under his weskit, and heavin 'em at the audience. I never saw a
man lose flesh so fast in my life. The audience said I was a
pretty man to come chiselin my own townsmen in that way. I said,
"Do not be angry, feller-citizens. I exhibited him simply as a
work of art. I simply wished to show you that a man could grow
fat without the aid of cod-liver oil." But they wouldn't listen
to me. They are a low and grovelin set of peple, who excite a
feelin of loathin in every brest where lorfty emotions and
original idees have a bidin place.

I stopped at Leamington a few minits on my way to Stratford onto
the Avon, and a very beautiful town it is. I went into a shoe
shop to make a purchis, and as I entered I saw over the door
those dear familiar words, "By Appintment: H.R.H.;" and I said
to the man, "Squire, excuse me, but this is too much. I have
seen in London four hundred boot and shoe shops by Appintment:
H.R.H.; and now YOU'RE at it. It is simply onpossible that the
Prince can wear 400 pairs of boots. Don't tell me," I said, in a
voice choked with emotion--"Oh, do not tell me that you also make
boots for him. Say slippers--say that you mend a boot now and
then for him; but do not tell me that you make 'em reg'lar for
him."

The man smilt, and said I didn't understand these things. He
said I perhaps had not noticed in London that dealers in all
sorts of articles was By Appintment. I said, "Oh, HADN'T I?"
Then a sudden thought flasht over me. "I have it!" I said.