The British Tradesman. —No. 5. The Butcher’s Little Joke
James Frank Sullivan
Fun (19 April 1876): 176
Courtesy of the Suzy Covey Comic Book Collection in the George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.
After not sending bills to a customer who wishes to settle his account, this butcher presents him with one that charges him for, among other items, “two oxen on Christmas-day” a decade earlier, ten sheep on good Friday three years later, and “three tons of sirloin” on another occasion.