The Book of Household Management by Mrs. Beeton

694. THE MODE OF SLAUGHTERING SHEEP is perhaps as humane and expeditious

a process as could be adopted to attain the objects sought: the animal being laid on its side in a sort of concave stool, the butcher, while pressing the body with his knee, transfixes the throat near the angle of the jaw, passing his knife between the windpipe and bones of the neck; thus dividing the jugulars, carotids, and large vessels, the death being very rapid from such a hemorrhage. [Illustration: SIDE OF MUTTON, SHOWING THE SEVERAL JOINTS.]