How long can they hold out without water?

At my age, I'm lucky to get the hungries at all, he answered

and now, disengag'd from the shirt, I saw, with wonder and surprise, what? not the play-thing of a boy, not the weapon of a man, but a maypole of so enormous a standard, that had proportions been observ'd, it must have belong'd to a young giant.

emTeX is from Eberhard Mattes, I believe a PhD student in Stuttgart, Doitsu.