You said, you will recollect, that one resident had accused me of having cheated at cards, and that another party had called me a 'tooth butcher,' and had declared I could not fix the teeth of her little dog.
"The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories"
Charles Weathers Bump
The only thing which was much cheaper then than now was butcher meat, mutton being only 2d.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
Except butcher-meat and house-rent, every other element of the working man's expenditure is cheaper, and butcher-meat was fifty years ago hardly an element of his expenditure at all, and the kind of house he then occupied was much inferior, as a rule, to what he occupies now, bad as the latter may in many cases be.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae