Earnest spectacled young men
devoured it on the steps of the National Liberal Club. A
bishop who did not believe in a future state preached
against the poster, and a peer's daughter died from eating
too much of the compound. A further advertisement was
obtained when an infantry regiment mutinied and shot its
officers rather than eat the nauseous mess; fortunately,
Lord Birrell of Blatherstone, who was War Minister at the
moment, saved the situation by his happy epigram, that
``Discipline to be effective must be optional.''
Filboid Studge had become a household word, but Dullamy
wisely realized that it was not necessarily the last word in
breakfast dietary; its supremacy would be challenged as soon
as some yet more unpalatable food should be put on the
market. There might even be a reaction in favour of
something tasty and appetizing, and the Puritan austerity of
the moment might be banished from domestic cookery. At an
opportune moment, therefore, he sold out his interests in
the article which had brought him in colossal wealth at a
critical juncture, and placed his financial reputation
beyond the reach of cavil.
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