# Household words, No. 6, May 4, 1850

Author: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 [Editor]

Genre: English literature -- Periodicals

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78170

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Household+words%2C+No.+6%2C+May+4%2C+1850+Dickens&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

It was with singular pride that Mr. Thomas Bovington of Long Hornets, Bucks, viewed his first ‘lot’ of fat bullocks as they filed their way out of his stock-yard towards the nearest Station of the North Western Railway. They were so sleek, so well fed, and so well behaved, that they turned out of their stalls with the solemn sobriety of animals attending their own funeral. Except a few capers cut by a lively West Highlander, they sauntered along like beasts who had never had a care in their lives. For how were they to know that the tips of their horns pointed to that bourne from whence few bovine travellers return—Smithfield? Smithfield, the Heart of Mid-London, the flower of the capital—...

## Chapters

- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/household-words-no-6-may-4-1850-78170/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/household-words-no-6-may-4-1850-78170/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/household-words-no-6-may-4-1850-78170/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/household-words-no-6-may-4-1850-78170/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/household-words-no-6-may-4-1850-78170/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/household-words-no-6-may-4-1850-78170/chapters/6/index.md)