 | 1826 - 918 страници
...butchers are fully as knowing as our own; for they make a few slashes to show the fat, blow tip the meat, and sometimes even stick a little sheep's wool on a leg of goats' flesh, to make it pass with the ignorant for mutton. When a fat bull is brought to market to... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1826 - 624 страници
...carcass is fat. The native butchers are fully as knowing as our own, for they make a few slashes to show the fat, blow up meat, and sometimes even stick a...bull is brought to market to be killed, its horns are died red with benua ; drummers attend, a mob soon collects, the news of the animal's size and fatness... | |
 | 1826 - 626 страници
...carcass is fat. The native .butchers are fully as knowing as our own, for they make a few slashes to show the fat, blow up meat, and sometimes even stick a...make it pass with the ignorant for mutton. When a fat hull is brought to market to be killed, its horns are died 'red with henna y drummers attend, a mob... | |
 | Robert Maxwell Macbrair - 1861 - 496 страници
...butchers of the market are said to practise all manner of tricks with their meat ; and even to stick sheep's wool on a leg of goat's flesh, to make it pass for mutton. Near the shambles are cook-shops in the open air ; consisting of a fire, before which a... | |
 | Robert Maxwell Macbrair - 1861 - 470 страници
...butchers of the market are said to practise all manner of tricks with their meat ; and even to stick sheep's wool on a leg of goat's flesh, to make it pass for mutton. Near the shambles are cook-shops in the open air; consisting of a fire, before which a... | |
 | William Henry Giles Kingston - 1874 - 560 страници
...were numerous, and understood showing off animals to the best advantage. Sometimes they even stuck a little sheep's wool on a leg of goat's flesh, to make it pass for mutton. When a fat bull was brought to the market to be killed, its horns were dyed red with henna,... | |
 | William Henry Giles Kingston, Charles Rathbone Low - 1890 - 548 страници
...were numerous, and understood showing off animals to the best advantage. Sometimes they even stuck a little sheep's wool on a leg of goat's flesh, to make it pass for mutton. When a fat bull was brought to the market to be killed, its horns were dyed red with henna,... | |
 | 1826 - 518 страници
...butchers are fully as knowing as our own ; for they make a few slashes to show the fat, blow up the meat, and sometimes even stick a little sheep's wool...of the animal's size and fatness spreads, and all ran to buy. The colouring of the horns is effected by applying the green leaves of the henna tree,... | |
 | 1826 - 488 страници
...butchers are fully as knowing as our own ; for they make a few slashes to show the fat, blow up the meat, and sometimes even stick a little sheep's wool on a leg of goal's ilesh, to make it pass with the ignorant for mutton. When a fat bull is brought to market to... | |
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The native butchers are fully as knowing as our own, for they make a few slashes to show the fat, blow up meat, and sometimes even stick a little sheep's wool on a leg of goat's flesh, to make it pass with the ignorant for mutton. 