Boston Post, Massachusetts, April 1, 1916
If the butcher sends up a piece of tough streak just before dinner time one may overcome one’s annoyance by holding one’s head over the gas stove and inhaling several deep breaths of gas.
Butcher shop, Ottawa, 1961
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, April 26, 1896
The Sydney Morning Herald, Australia, December 16, 1845
A person of the name of Greenwood, sad to be a seaman belonging to H.M.S. Fly, has been convicted of a felony. The seamen wish to state that he was shipped at Sydney as a butcher, and is not a seaman.
Butcher shop in Bosnia, 1895