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Mr Bonser, the great dead-meat salesman, states in his evidence before a committee of the House of Commons, "that there are no others that know the beasts for the London market equal to the Aberdeen butchers, and from no other place does it arrive in the same condition; and this may be owing to the cold climate."
And my back's that bad I do suffer with my back something cruel." "Where has he gone, then?" "Oh, beer-bumming. He goes off every day, and comes in every night after closing time, shikkered up." "I've never seen him before," ventured Marcella. "He's a lad, Bob is. We had a bonser hotel once, kid a tied house, you know. He was manager, on'y he drunk us out of it.
"Next time's yous happen along, I'll have a bonser hotel," he said, and leading Marcella outside showed her, under the shade of a tree, a cache of dozens of eggs laid by the hens that ran wild, and buried in the earth; half a sheep wrapped in canvas, surrounded by great clouds of flies gave evidence that it had been long dead. "Help yourself, missus. We'll all kip together.
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