salter's

A week after he had gone I found that he had put it there with a shot-gun -- an old "salter's" trick, but new to me at the time.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, October 27, 1920 Various 1898

“It was the books I read last year, at the black salter's.

From Canal Boy to President Alger, Horatio, 1832-1899 1881

"It was the books I read last year, at the black salter's.

From Canal Boy to President Or the Boyhood and Manhood of James A. Garfield Horatio Alger 1865