A butcher was lately in company with several ladies at a game of whist, when, having lost two or three rubbers, one of the ladies, addressing him, asked, " Pray, sir, what arc the stakes now V to which, evermindful of his occupation, he replied, "Madam, the best rump I cannot sell lower than tenpence half-penny a pound."
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Kumara Times, Issue 299, 8 September 1877, Page 2
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