Vermonter's Square Meal

A Vergennes (Vt.) letter to the New York Sun says : " On Wednesday eveningawagerwas laid between William Laduke, of Vergennes, and Mesara. Forton & La Bombord, as followa : Laduke was to eat in ten hours two ponida of pork-steak, four large potatoes, onchalf of a pie, two slices of wlieat bread, eaeh one and one-quarter inches thick, one-quarter pound of butter, hulf á bushei of apples, and to drink two enps of tea. At 7 o'clock on Tlmrsday morning the gourmand began his tásk bj eating uve apples. He then ate one pound of pork-steak, two large potatoes, one slice of bread, one-quarter of a pie, one-eighth pound of butter, and drank one cup of tea. The remainder of the forenoon he spont in walking about and eating apples, of which he had devonicd twenty-three at 12 o'elock. At noon he ate one pound of pork-steak, two large potatoes, one-quarter of a pie, one slice of bread, one-eighth pound of butter, and drank two cups of tea. He was then weighed, and found to have gained seven and one-half pounds. For the next three hours he averaged abont two apples per hour. At 5 :30 p. m. he ate the last apple and won the bet with half an hour to spare. His weight when he began was 145 pounds, and at the close 153 pounds, showing a gain of 8 pouuds in ü hours. Seven and one-hulf pounds of this he acquired in the first uve hours, tlie last üve hours adding only one-half pound to his weight. The half-bushel of apples was "heaphig" measure, and numbered just sixty-five apples. Laduke is 20 years old, 5 feet 7 inches in height, and has nevor experienced a sick day in his life. He is a thin, spare man, and has always worked out for his living, usually arnong the farmers. He experienced no unusual diffieulty from his sqnare meal, and offered to bet $5 that he could eat another peck of apples the sanie evening."