11.   The Internet is rife with Web sites of vampires who say they cannot survive without drinking blood, whether obtained from carefully screened human donors or the local butcher.

12.   The local butchers had trimmed the bone section and wrapped it back into the roast to enhance flavor and juiciness.

13.   Twenty years ago, say, the local butcher might know that Mrs. Jones bought a ham every Saturday.

14.   We used New Zealand lamb, a nearly identical substitute available at Whole Foods Market and from some local butchers.

15.   When moose are killed on the road, game wardens, alerted to the accidents by the state police, dress and deliver moose meat to local butchers.

16.   When one local butcher refused, he was killed in his shop, his head severed and then used for target practice in the town square.

17.   It was finally reported in the tiny paper Samovar, which is distributed free in local butcher shops.

18.   Local butchers welcomed the report.

19.   Then he remembered those sausages, redolent with garlic and pepper, made by local Polish butcher Thaddeus Piekutowski.