Your silly fellows in the provincial assemblies fancy because a man has teeth, and a stomach, and an appetite, that he knows how to eat; but eating is an art, serjeant; and military eating above all other branches of it; and I maintain a soldier can no more learn how to eat, as a soldier, the colonel meant, your honour, than he can learn to plan a campaign by going through the manual exercise.'

Hasty eating is the greatest cause of over-eating.

But this eating by formula was not the hardest trial in that first day.

By which she meant the eats would be "has-is"distinctly second class, quite possibly third.

After the eats were et the symposiarch proposed a toast: "Long Live Our Teachers!"