Paul's, and I should be as glad of your nurseryman and poulterer as you could be.
"Thank you; but there is no escaping these little vexations, Mary, live where we may; and when you are settled in town and I come to see you, I dare say I shall find you with yours, in spite of the nurseryman and the poulterer, perhaps on their very account.
From this shop she went to a butcher's, a grocer's, and a
poulterer's, till at last the porter exclaimed in despair, "My good lady, if you had only told me you were going to buy enough provisions to stock a town, I would have brought a horse, or rather a camel." The lady laughed, and told him she had not finished yet, but after choosing various kinds of scents and spices from a druggist's store, she halted before a magnificent palace, at the door of which she knocked gently.
The gamekeeper having exerted as much diligence in quest of the lost goods, as if he had hoped to find them, desired Mr Jones to recollect if he had been in no other place: "For sure," said he, "if you had lost them here so lately, the things must have been here still; for this is a very unlikely place for any one to pass by." And indeed it was by great accident that he himself had passed through that field, in order to lay wires for hares, with which he was to supply a
poulterer at Bath the next morning.
When Tess had occupied herself about an hour the next morning in altering and improving the arrangements, according to her skilled ideas as the daughter of a professed
poulterer, the door in the wall opened and a servant in white cap and apron entered.
A single basket made of moss, once containing plovers' eggs, held all that the
poulterer had to say to the rabble.
(I don't think it beneath me to sell the game killed on my estate to the
poulterer.) What was it she wanted to buy?
Poulterers' and grocers' trades became a splendid joke; a glorious pageant, with which it was next to impossible to believe that such dull principles as bargain and sale had anything to do.
The first comes from John Gifford Jnr "Fishmonger,
Poulterer and Licensed Dealer in Game" of Tudor Square in Tenby and is dated November 9, 1895.
They are not from the turkey I find cooped up in crates round the corner at the local
poulterer. They are not even from the Wild Turkey common across much of the United States and Mexico.
The Macsweens have been in the butchery business since Charlie and Jean - Jo and James's paternal grandparents - met in William Orr & Sons, a legendary Edinburgh butcher's,
poulterer's and game dealer's, in the 1940s.