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Stop, this is indecent—let us be calm—our action was like the proceeding of the denuder of well-sustained and thriving pigs, he who deprives them of their extreme obesive selvage—vulgo, “we cut it fat.”

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 21, 1841 by Various