Hurry." She inserted the spoon between his lips, so that its rim touched his clenched teeth; he was still reluctant.

Moreover, is reluctance was natural and characteristic, for a boy's sense of taste is as simple and as peculiar as a dog's, though, of course, altogether different from a dog's.

A boy, passing through the experimental age, may eat and drink astonishing things; but they must be of his own choosing.

His palate is tender, and, in one sense, might be called fastidious; nothing is more sensitive or more easily shocked.

A boy tastes things much more than grown people taste them: what is merely unpleasant to a man is sheer broth of hell to a boy.