[PW] short story STUMPER

[Ellen Cousins]

Try this:

His Father’s Earth
Thomas Wolfe

...They ate big steaks for breakfast, hot from the pan and lashed with 
onions, they ate whole melons, crammed with the ripeness of the deep 
pink meat, rashers of bacon, and great platters of fried eggs, or eggs 
scrambled with calves’ brains, they helped themselves from pyramids of 
fruit piled up at intervals on the table—plums, peaches, apples, 
cherries, grapes, oranges, and bananas—they had great pitchers of thick 
cream to pour on everything, and they washed their hunger down with pint 
mugs of strong deep-savored coffee...

http://nexuslearning.net/books/Elements_of_Lit_Course5/His_Father's_Earth1-6.htm

The full description is indeed memorable.

Ellen C.

Sarah Kostin wrote:
> PLEASE EXCUSE ANY CROSS POSTINGS
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> I have exhausted my searching, can anyone please help?
> 
> I have a patron who remembers reading a short story in his undergrad 
> program at Wisconsin in the 1950s.  The story is a descriptive narrative 
> about a circus crew eating breakfast. The crew were big men who ate 
> "sputtering rashes of bacon" and drank steaming coffee. It was written 
> by an American man who may have been described as a "giant of a man" 
> (perhaps T.S Eliot or O.Henry?). It was written somewhere in between 
> 1900-1950.
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help or any clues on this!
>