the cat's meat man

Photogravure by Donald Macleish from Wonderful London by St John Adcock, 1927.

Slinking with lithe bodies amid the thickets of iron palings, or seated regardant upon the hillsides of front door steps, or prowling the deep ravines of basements, from tree-tops, from behind dustbins and out of first floor windows, the London cats come trotting after the cat's meat man. The pleased anticipation of milk or fish is as nothing to the ecstasy of craving for apiece of this "not of the newest" horse flesh. Mucid, and of horrid hues, in dull reds and yellows, the meat is put up in little steaks upon a skewer.