How Lovely Woman Selects a Piece of Meat.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1635, 15 May 1875, Page 6 (Supplement)

How Lovely Woman Selects a Piece of Meat.

Wsen a woman enters a butcher-shop to select a piece of meat for dinner! she has made up her mind to have mutton roast. Therefore, when the butcher rubs his hands and asks what she will have, she promptly replies : j ' I'll take some of that mut—' She stops there. Her eye has caught sight of a ham, and she suddenly decides to take ham. 'Is that nice ham?' she inquires. ( 'Best ham I ever saw, madam. How much?' 1 Well you can give me three p . Well, I don't know either. My husband was saying he'd like some sausage. Have you any real nice sausage?' 'Plenty, madam. Now, then, how much sausage will you have?' It's pork sausage, is it?' ' Yes, ma'am.' 'Well I suppose a pound would be enough for our small family, but—but' ' bhall I weigh a pound, madam?' ' I was just wondering if a veal potpie wouldn't suif; him better,' she answered. ' You have veal, 1 suppose ?' ' Oh, yes, madam. B ere's a splendid bit of yea good a piece as I ever saw.' ' Yes, that does look like nice veal,' she cays, lifting it up. 'Andyou'll take it?' ' Let's see!' she muses. ' V—no, I guess not. I guess I'd better take' pork-chops.' ' Nice chops—how much ?' he asks. 'One of these slices will weigh a pound, I suppose?' ' About a pound, madam.' * And it was a young hog ?' ' Quite young, madam.' ' And you'll cut the rind off ?' 'Yes, madam.' •Well.' she says, heaving a deep sigh. ' I guess you may give me some beefsteak—some that's nice, and be sure to cut all the bone out!' And she's only been half an hour coming to the point.— Detroit Free Press.