cat's-meat

'My, Alison, you're just cat's-meat to that little savage!

Summer Term At St Clare's Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1967

Each basket holds forty or fifty of these pound packages, and is pretty heavy for the cat's-meat man to carry.

Harper's Young People, March 16, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various

Many stray cats watch for the coming of the cat's-meat man, for they know that he will befriend them, and many a tidbit does he give to some lean hungry creature as he merrily trudges along through the winter snow-drifts.

Harper's Young People, March 16, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various

In one corner of Fulton Market in New York city is the snug little stall of the cat's-meat man.

Harper's Young People, March 16, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various

The gentleman promised to do so, and has ever since kept his promise by giving Carlo a good home in his store, and paying the cat's-meat man to feed him every day.

Harper's Young People, March 16, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various

At certain corners the cat's-meat man is met by one of his assistants, with whom he exchanges his empty basket for a full one.

Harper's Young People, March 16, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various

Oh, it on'y means he's likely to do well in the cat's-meat line.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 17, 1891 Various

Once a week -- on Thursdays -- the cat's-meat man cuts up fish instead of meat; for on Fridays all his cats have a meal of fish, of which they are very fond, and which is very good for them.

Harper's Young People, March 16, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various

For this reason the cats are highly prized and well cared for in this part of the city, and the cat's-meat man finds plenty of work to do in feeding them.

Harper's Young People, March 16, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various

Bright and early in the morning, soon after sunrise, the cat's-meat man begins to feed his cats, starting out from the market with a big basket of meat on his shoulder, and threading his way through the crooked streets and lanes of the lower part of the city to the homes of his little customers.

Harper's Young People, March 16, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various