C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Butcher

The butcher in his killing clothes.

Walt Whitman.

Whoe’er has gone thro’ London street,
Has seen a butcher gazing at his meat,
And how he keeps
Gloating upon a sheep’s
Of bullock’s personals, as if his own;
How he admires his halves
And quarters—and his calves,
As if in truth upon his own legs grown.

Hood.

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