"The Eating Match."

A typically outrageous story told by Uncle Silas, interrupted by comments from his "housekeeper" ("a very tart old stick of rhubarb"), involving a boastful and large man challenged by Silas to an eating contest.

Silas wins by secreting most of his food in a bag; the loser's swollen belly was so severe that they "had to keep butterin' on it for two more days."

Published in:

• The Evening Standard (August 15, 1956)
• Sugar for the Horse (1957)
• The Complete My Uncle Silas Stories (Bloomsbury ebook, 2016)