His style of tissue was not fixed in northern bay and fjord and English and Norman forests, and his ancestors transmitted to him a self-denying stomach.

He can live in the city upon thirty-five cents a day, and clasp his hands across his abdomen and say, with the thankful, "I have dined." Not so the man of Harlson's type, and of his size.

The sum of two dollars and fifty cents, the young man found, would not feed and clothe him for a week.
He was a boy still, in the freshness of his appetite, yet his demands in quantity were manly, to a certainty.

Six feet of maul-swinging humanity had eaten much, even in midsummer.

That same six feet required more now, when the temperature was low and the system needed carbon.