"Martin" wrote in message
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On Sat, 8 Aug 2009 07:20:31 +0100, "Ophelia"
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"Christina Websell" wrote in message
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The deeds of my house say I'm not allowed to be a fellmonger or a tallow
candle maker or a manure merchant by way of business.

What? How can you bear to live in a house in which you are not allowed to
be a fellmonger????

Pah.... they are just mean!

I can keep pigs if I want to though. !!

Oh, well that is a relief


Unless Christine is telling porkies.
A fellmonger is a dead cow plucker.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fellmongery


No, I am not telling porkies, it truly does say that on my house deeds.

A fellmonger is someone who will visit farms to take away "fallen stock"
i.e. animals that have died. They usually processed them into animal food.
We had a fellmonger only two miles away from here until recently. He used
to advertise himself as "Thomas Tertius Ross, fellmonger and licensed horse
slaughterer"
You could smell his yard half a mile away.

There's no danger I'll fall foul of my deeds, it's a job I would not want if
it was the last job in the world. At a pinch I could do tallow
candle-making and as for being a manure merchant, well - lots of chicken
manure here to sell!

Tina