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THE breakfast menu was porridge, toasted bacon, scones, and coffee, quite excellently handled. Holland came again for the porridge, he begged to be favored with a little more bacon.
"That's the curse of strong drink," commented the editor with ironical compassion, "it robs a man of appetite for wholesome fare."