"The Eating Match."

A typically outrageous story told by Uncle Silas, interrupted by comments from his "housekeeper" ("a very tart old stick of rhubarb"), involving a boastful and large man challenged by Silas to an eating contest. Silas wins by secreting most of his food in a bag; the loser's swollen belly was so severe that they "had to keep butterin' on it for two more days." In Evening Standard (August 15, 1956), Sugar for the Horse (1957).

ID: 
b231
Title: 
"The Eating Match."
Genre: 
Story
Page Count: 
8
Word Count: 
ca. 2300
Publisher: 
Evening Standard
Year of Publication: 
1956
Document Type: 
Comic Fiction
First-Person Narratives
Uncle Silas Stories