_Regarding Liver-Eating Watkins and Others_ It was after I had moved to New York and had taken a desk job that I detected myself in the act, as it were, of plumping out.

Cognizant of the fact, as I was, I nevertheless took no curative or corrective measures in the way of revising my diet.

I was content to make excuses inwardly.

I said to myself that I came of a breed whose members in their mature years were inclined to broaden noticeably.

I said to myself that I was not getting the amount of exercise that once I had; that my occupation was now more sedentary, and therefore it stood to reason that I should take on a little flesh here and there over my frame.