18 NOVEMBER 1955, Page 27

MISS TROTTER EATS HER OX

'Indeed [Miss Trotter] generally sacri- ficed an ox to hospitality every autumn, which, according to a system of her own, she ate regularly from nose to tail; and as she indulged in him only on Sundays, and with a chosen few, he feasted her half through the winter. . . . I remember her urging her neighbour Sir Thomas Lauder, not long before her death, to dine with her next ' Sundky—"For Eh! Sir Tham- mas ! we're terrible near the tail noo." '

Memorials of His Time by Henry Cockburn.

A. & C. Black, 1856.