He had swallowed it almost before he knew, and felt at first as if he could eat another, but after a drink of water from a well by the road-side, found that he had had enough, and strode on his way, as strong and able as if he had had coffee and eggs and a cutlet, and a dozen things besides.
He was passing the outskirts of the large manufacturing town he had seen in the distance, leaving it on one hand, when he became again aware of the approach of hunger.

One of the distinguishing features of Cosmo's character, was a sort of childlike boldness towards his fellow-men; and coming presently to a villa with a smooth-shaven lawn, and seeing a man leaning over the gate that opened from the road, he went up to him and said, "Do you happen to have anything you want done about the place, sir?
I want my dinner and have no money." The man, one with whom the world seemed to have gone to his wish, looked him all over.
"A fellow like you ought to be ashamed to beg," he said.
"That is precisely what I was not doing," returned Cosmo, "-- except as everybody more or less must be a beggar.

It is one thing to beg for work, and another to beg for food.

I didn't ask you to make a job for me; I asked if there was any work about the place you wanted done.

Good morning, sir." He turned, and the second time that day was stopped as he went.
"I say!--if you can be as sharp with your work min' as you are with your tongue, I don't care if I give you a job.