The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1846-12-30
ON THE GRACES AND ANXIETIES OF
PIG DRIVING.
BY LEIGH HUNT.


From the perusal OF this article we beg leave
to warn off vulgar readers OF all denominations,
whether Of the "great vulgar or the small.'-
Warn. did we say We drive them off: for Hor-
ace tells us that they, as well pigs, are to be
so treated OBJ prOfdnum Uuigus, says he, ct
arceO. But do thou lend thine ear, gentle shade
OF Goldsmith, who ddst make thy bear leader de-
nounce everything as is low , and thou Steele
who didst humanize upon public houses andpup.
pet-shows; and Fielding, thou whom the great
Richardson, less in that matter land some others)
than thysei, did accuse of vugarity, because thou
ddst discern natural gentity in footman, and
yet was not to be taken in by the airs OF Pamela
and my lady G
The title is little startling; but style and
sentiment" as a lady said, can do ANYTHING -
Remember, then, gentle reader, that talents are
not to be despised in the humblest walks of life
we will add, nor in the muddest. The other dav
we happened to be among set OF spectators who
could not help stopping TO admire the patience
and address with which pig-driveg huddled and
cherished onward his drove of un- accommodating
elves down street in the suburbs. He was
born genius Tor man9uvre. Had he originated
in higher sphere, he would have been a gener-
al or stage manager, or at least the head of a
set OF monks. Conflicting interests were his
forte; pig headed wills, and proceedings hope
less To see the hand with which he did it -
compelling how indicative OF the space on
each side of him, and yet Of the line before him
how general, how particular, how perfect No
BARRIERS could culver about a head with more
lightness at apprehension; no cooks put up and
proportion the side Of paste with a more final
eye. The whales quoth old Chapman, speaking
OF Neptune,
The whales exulted under him, and knew their mighty
king.
ha Mrs Il mot H,,Et al.
king. Unwilling was their subsection, but ''more
in sorrow than in anger" They ere too far
gone for rage. Their case was hopeless. They
did not see why they should proceed, but thew
felt themselves bound TO do so forced, conglom-
Grated, crowded EDWARDS, irresistby impelled by
tate and Jenkins Often would they have boted
under any other master. They squeaked and
grunted as in ordinary, they sidled, they shufled,
they half stopped they turned an eye TO all the
little outlets OF escape; but in vain There they
stuck tor their very progress was sort of stick
lng,) charmed into the centre OF his sphere OF &C
ton, laying their hands together but te 30 pur-
pose; looking all as if they were Struggling their
shoulders, eschewing the tip end of the whip of
office. Much eye had they to their left leg
shrewd backward glances not little antcipa-
i've squeak, and sudden rush of avoidance It
was superhuous clatteT, and they felt it; but
pig hnds 1t more difficult than any other animal
to accommodate himself to circumstances BEING
out OF his pale, he is in the highest state OF won
derment and impotence. He is sluggish, obstin-
ate, oplnionate, and never social has no desire
OF seeing foreign parts Think OF him in mult
tude forced to travel, and wondering who it is
that drives him Judge by this of the talents OF
his driver.
We beheld man once, an inferior genius in
duclng pig into the other end of Long-lane.
Smithheld. He had got him thus far towards the
market 1t was much. His air announced sue
cess IN nine parts out of ten and hope for the re-
malnder. 1t had been happy mornings work
he had only 10 look for the termination of il and
he looked (as critic Of an exalted turn of mind
would say,) in brightness and in Joy. Then would
ne 60 to the public house, and indulge in porter
ana pleasing security. Perhaps he would not
say much at hrst, being oppressed with the great
ness OF his success but by degrees. especia,lv 81
lnterrogated, he would open, like Eneas into all
the circumstances OF his journey, and the ner;ls
that beset him. Profound would be his sai an.
tull OF tremor his middle course; high and skiIl'
tul his progress; glorious, though with ouick-
ened pulse, his triumphant entry. DeHcaia ba5
been his situation in Duckingpon row: masterlv
his turn at Bell.alley. We saw him with ~
radience of some such thought on his counter
ance. lie was Just entering Long lane A qrav.
ity came upon him as lie steered his toucbv coo-
Voy into this his last thoroughbred dog move,I
nm into little agitation darling along ;: but h..
resumed his course, not without a happy tren;ds-
ton, lowering as he was on the borders ot f.;
umPh. The pig still required care 1t was evi.
IDENTIFY pig with all the peculiar turn of mind If
his species; fellow that would not move ios,es
than he could help; irritable; retrospective
picking objections, and prone to boggle a cha
with tendency to take every path but the nrori.
er one, and with sidelong tact for the ALLEYS
He bolts
Mes off !--Evasit erupsit!
ooh !" exclaimed the man. dashinp be b.ra
against his head, lifting his knee in aoonv o.!
screaming with all the weight Of nroohen,,
which the spectators felt to be too true. q Hs,1
go up all manner Of streets %
Poor fellow we think OF him now somef,no.
driving up Duke-street and not TO be comtor,ed
In Barbican.
An officer of the Navy, writes from Tamn;co
under date OF Nov. 22d, as follows:
The people here are perfectly inoffensiye. and
anxious TO trade with us. The weather. claseos
have all fled from the city with their families
and probably not more than third OF the non
ulation was found on our landing. Great pumbers
OF the poor wretches have in consequence q, ~
blockade, been without employment, and are a.
most starving %