Sublime

An ox or cockerel slaughtered at the end of its useful life was thus thought to be indigestible unless in the frenzy of fury the blood were to once again rush around its body, softening and moistening its flesh. By baiting an old beast, people believed themselves to be making the most of the resources God had given them. There was even a system of

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The Wasichus did not kill them to eat; they killed them for the metal that makes them crazy, and they took only the hides to sell. Sometimes they did not even take the hides, only the tongues; and I have heard that fire-boats came down the Missouri River loaded with dried bison tongues. You can see that the men who did this were crazy. Sometimes th

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Where the evidence survives it becomes clear that two-thirds of apprenticeships failed and were terminated before a lad could reach the end of his indentures and become a freeman of the city, able to join the guild as a full independent member. William Porkar from Horfield must have tried the patience of both masters and parents, for between 1549 a

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