. Illustrated history of the Union Stockyards; sketch-book of familiar faces and places at the yards. States except to Boston, New York orPhiladelphia. Thirty per cent represents the New Yorkstyle and twenty the Boston, while ten will cover allother fashions. There is a Baltimore style of dressinglambs, but it is little heeded by the western killers,and the shipping lamb is sent in its place. The realBaltimore lamb is dressed with one set across the back, 114 ILLUSTRATED HISTORY like the Boston lamb, only the ribs are uncut and thethick end of the caul is around the hind legs. Custom, fashion
. Illustrated history of the Union Stockyards; sketch-book of familiar faces and places at the yards. States except to Boston, New York orPhiladelphia. Thirty per cent represents the New Yorkstyle and twenty the Boston, while ten will cover allother fashions. There is a Baltimore style of dressinglambs, but it is little heeded by the western killers,and the shipping lamb is sent in its place. The realBaltimore lamb is dressed with one set across the back, 114 ILLUSTRATED HISTORY like the Boston lamb, only the ribs are uncut and thethick end of the caul is around the hind legs. Custom, fashion and fancy have established all thesestyles in the matter of dressing lamb and mutton, andthere appears to be no other reason for them, but theyare none the less carefully observed by the shippers, whofind it to their interest to observe the idiosyncrasies ofthe consumer. BILL. Andy Riley and Tim Gleason are partners in the sheepbusiness at the stock3^ards, and owing to a curious sortof tripartite agreement they have with their silent part-ner, they are likely to remain so as long as he is suffi-. MIXING UP WITH THE ^PUSH. ciently able-bodied to follow his present occupation ofseparating the sheep from the goats. For this curi-ous individual will not follow either of his co-partnersunless the other is along. Bill is an immense, white Cotswold sheep, weigh-ing about 200 pounds, and of very forbidding visage 115 116 ILLUSTRATED HISTORY and haughty demeanor. No liberties may be taken withhis dignityship, and the slickest oon man of them allcould make no headway with Bill, for nothing could in-duce him to acknowledge any friend from the coun-try, however winning, for he will not make friendswith any one. It is his duty to assist his masters in
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