CHEAP MEAT.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 103, 2 May 1908, Page 6

CHEAP MEAT.

1 A landlady who eked out a scanty income by letting apartments to single gentlemen, entered a shop and asked the butcher the price of a piece of the best end of a rieck of ■ mutton, from which those succulent morsels called ." cutlets " are generally sliced.', / , * : : "Elevenpence a pound, ma'am." 1 "Elevenpence! That's very dear." ' "So it may be," replied the batcher, " but if you take the whole neck you can have it at sevenperice a pound." "What does it weigh?" inquired the lady. ~ , | ; The obliging butcher placed the meat in the'scales, and informed his customer that it weighed ten pounds, and at 7d per pound it would come to 5s lOd. .■£■•*,£■.;'■•-. ■.;....,- - .:■.-.•-

"Now; Mr; Scales, would you mind putting your knife through there and weighing'that piece for me?" "Certainly, ma'am; just six pounds." ■' ■•".■•• -.'j

j "Thaflk yo.u very much. Now will iyou kindly book that to my lodger at ■elevenpence, which will be five-and-six, and then if I give you fourpence •it will be all right, won't it?" And ' she smilingly toddled away with four j pounds, which cost her Id a pound, ■ while the butcher stood gazing silently at the ceiling, trying to discover how it was done.

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