store-porter

Updated: July 15, 2026

I remember one time in particular, he came over to my office and inquired for me, when, on the store-porter telling him I had just gone out, he said, "Tell him when he comes back, to take the calomel and jalap down to my house, and treat those Paisley bodies with a dose apiece." "What! all of them, sir?" "Yes, to be sure; they are but just arrived, and have got as fat as pigs on the voyage.

Samuel Strickland - Twenty-Seven Years in Canada West: The Experience of an Early Settler (Volume I)