THE BUTCHER’S BILL.
HOW TWO WOMEN TRIED TO LIVE ON THE CHEAP. * For many persons in all countries the butcher’s bill is an inconvenience, but few have Hit upon an expedient for burking it that can at all Compare with one adopted by two ingenious women at Strasburg named Schneider. These ladies conceived the idea of converting the pampered poodles and other canine pets of the city into table dainties, and acted upon it with such energy that complaints were soon pouring into the police station from all sides. Unfortunately, the ladies had not wholly escaped, as the best of ladies seldom do, the observation of other ladies of the neighbourhood, and this led to maltfjoW gossip, which resulted in an objectionable visit by police officers.
In tho house a newly-slaughtered pet was discovered, with his skin as a piece de conviction.
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Northland Age, Volume 2, Issue 50, 17 July 1906, Page 2
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