The Man Who Liked to Eat (Stories for my Advanced English Class)

The Man Who Ate and Ate

There once was a man who liked to eat. He ate and ate and ate and ate. Until finally, his stomach swelled like a whale, and his face looked like a watermelon. He would have kept eating, but the town ran out of food. No one in the town could eat anymore because the man had eaten up all their food, so they kicked him out of town.

They sent him away, and as he left they could hear him walking, and it sounded like, "Glup! Glup!"

He was so very fat that he couldn't walk too far, so he stopped at the next town over, which was about 400 yards away. In the next town, people were preparing a massive feast. The aroma was wafting through the air. The man who ate too much could not resist coming over and asking for a bit to eat.

The people in the town were friendly, so they offered food willingly. The man ate and ate and ate and ate. First, he ate the hundred potatoes they had laid at. Then, he ate the giant turkey. He ate and ate and ate, until he had gobbled down the town's feast, the town's food,and the town dog.
Then, the man laid down. All the people in the town cried out in frustration that their food was gone, but the man did not hear, for he was dead.

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