Sentence:  There was good grass on the selection all the year. I'd picked up a small lot—about twenty head—of half-starved steers for next to nothing, and turned them on the run; they came on wonderfully, and my brother-in-law (Mary's sister's husband), who was running a <WSD>butchery</WSD> at Gulgong, gave me a good price for them. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  An abattoir, a slaughterhouse.