Punch,  49 (1865), [199].

The Demon Butcher, or the Real Rinderpest

J T *

Genre:

Illustration, Drollery

Relevant illustrations:

wdct.

Illustrators:

J T *

Subjects:

Animal Husbandry, Disease, Nutrition, Commerce


    Shows a wealthy and obese butcher standing in his shop, his hair sticking up in the shape of devil's horns. Before him stands a small woman who, shocked at the butcher's mockery of her request for beef at fourteen pence a pound, drops her key and basket.



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