_On Acquiring Some Snappy Pores_ That night on the sleeper a splendid resolution sprouted within me.

Next morning when we arrived home it was ready and ripe for plucking.

I would trim myself down to more lithesome proportions and I would start the job right away.

It did not occur to me that cutting down my daily consumption of provender might prove helpful to the success of the proposed undertaking.

Or if it did occur to me I put the idea sternly from me, for I was by way of being a robust trencherman.