Boy Almighty by Frederick Manfred

Author:Frederick Manfred
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bison Books
Published: 2021-10-24T00:00:00+00:00

But Eric continued to ponder the idea. He reflected on the ways of his life on Hickory street a year ago. He had been downright poor. Even had he wanted, he could not have bought a dime’s worth of greens. And when he had a little money …

Suddenly it came to him that he had had wretched eating habits even before he had lost his job. Ever since he had left the farm, he had eaten but a doughnut and a cup of coffee for breakfast; mosttimes only a cup of coffee for lunch; a hurried dinner in the evening … sometimes no dinner at all when he had found a book he wanted to own. And always cigarettes. Back there on the farm Ma Memme had always laden the family table with heaps of raw lettuce, cucumbers, radishes, cabbage, beans, and peas. Why, holy Moses, his belly was adapted to a menu of fresh greens after all.

The next morning, when Miss Mitchell made her rounds to collect statistics and complaints, Eric asked to see the dietician, Miss Twill.

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