Where would the poor make a profit out of their dead meat without me?
As to dead meat, the first sale was held on the 5th of June, when 100 carcases of beef and 72 of mutton were disposed of.
Altogether, since the importation began, a million and a quarter pounds of dead meat have been sold in Glasgow.
The sky pin-pricked with stars, the air redolent with the mushy flavour of dead ...