...ore cut, Mess No. 1, here is your meat. I saw how the bullock was going, and as the president was a slight acquaintance of mine (he carried out marketing for a butcher in Petersburg, by the name of Mr. Thompson ), I sidled up to him and said: How do you do, Tommy? He looked up, surprised that he should be thus addressed. I was green. I knew not the pomp of rank. Three years after, under the same circ...