And he added with his indulgent, cheerful air: "If you are afraid for the end of the month, my girl, tell the butcher to send my bill apart.

For these reasons, I resolve to fight the butcher.

A full description of these priceless relics will shortly appear in The Penman, together with a life and portrait of Sarah Timmins, who married a pork butcher in Liphook and died in 1848.

GRAFTON, C. W. The rope began to hang the butcher.

Then he did likewise with the oxen in the second, the third, and the fourth wagons, and, turning about, went on his way, and left the wonder-stricken butchers staring after him, speechless, in the street.

And I'm going to know the butcher that kills my animals, that have been petted like children.

" "Now, beshrew his heart," quoth jolly Robin, "that would deny a butcher.

Once it fell to the thin bowman and despised butcher to provide the table with flesh and fowl; now, at enormous expense, the rich man plays the poulterer for himself, and statesmen seek the strenuous life in the slaughter of a scarcely edible rhinoceros.

The Vicomte, with an air of amused contempt, was choosing a steak for his dinner, using his gold-ferruled walking-stick to direct the butcher how to cut it out, while his servant stood ready with a plate.

"And, at the same time, we encourage our butchers to be really butchers and to glory in it.

" "Bless your heart and liver, sir!" exclaimed the butcher, "he's ten times too much of a gentleman to do a kindness to.

No critic's verdict should, of right, stand good, They are excepted all, as men of blood; And the same law shall shield him from their fury, Which has excluded butchers from a jury.

Once we had exhausted the butcher and the baker and the small groceries, there was not much to buy.

Now a member of that honourable calling is sitting on this jury" "You let me alone," growled the butcher.

Only, I heard a butcher in the market-place whisper something about a change of ministry.

By noon he had interviewed the butcher, the cobbler, the milkman, and the maker of candlesticks, but they treated him no better than the tailor had done, and as he was feeling tired he went and sat down under a tree.

It seemed to me like inviting a butcher to lecture on vegetarianism.

The captain, seeing this, knocked the butcher flat upon the deck with a handspike.

"I launched my butcher this morning and I haven't bolted the"

When the suggestion reached the minister's ears, he, knowing the butcher, and believing the builder, was inclined to institute investigations; but as such a course was not likely to lead the butcher to repentance, he resolved instead to consult with him how his premises might be included in the defense.

For instance, I don't like the butcher with whom I have been doing business; I take away my trade.

So, though I loathe thee, butcher, I must buy The tokens of thy heartless usury.

There, as he rambled along the sunlit road, he met a lusty young butcher driving a fine mare and riding in a stout new cart, all hung about with meat.

He did so, with great courage, when showing ourselves to the savages we give a great shout, and made directly to the poor victim, who would have been sacrificed, had not our first fire obliged the butchers, with three others, to jump into a canoe.

How much do you owe the butcher?"