(A). An uncouth rustic, supposed to eat no meat but bacon. I
myself knew a most respectable day-labourer, who had saved up enough
money to keep himself in old age, who told me he never saw or touched
any meat in his cottage but bacon, except once a year, and that was on
club-day (1879). He never ate rabbit, game, chicken, or duck.
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