Another of his duties was to keep a sharp look-out for light-handed customers, besides other occupations which time, as Mr. Blackley said, would teach him.

‘I can go all day hardly eating anything. Then, wham, I get this dreadful urge and in no time I’ve eaten cakesful of calories!’

However, small herbivores (mesograzers) rather than macrograzers or simulated herbivory are expected to trigger the induction of anti-herbivory defences.

to trash the rattoons of sugar cane