Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1857-01-02
A Yankee in a Pork. House.

stopped at Cinciunatty tew weaks. Dre'-
full nice place they dew business there ;
bests all how they go i, on steamboats,
bust ten day and build six!
went up to the Pork haouses. Fus
thing you meet is string, 'bsout mile
long, Of big and little critters, and bags
and buckets full of scraps, tails, susouts,
ears and ribs of hogs. Foller up this line
and yeou come to a mighty large heouse,
big as all aout door, and feller steps up
to me and says he to me,
"Yeou're = stranger, s'pose !"
"Yeou due ?" says l.
"Yea-a.s," said he, ~ s'pose so;" and
up and said l was.
"Wal," said be, ''if you want to 60 over
the haouse, we'll send feller with ye."
So went with the feller, and be took
me way back daouwn stairs aout in lot
a.a.nd everlastin' sin ! yeou should jis
seen the hogs-couldn't caount 'em In
three weeks. Sech squeslin', kickin' and
goin on sech cussiu' aud hollerin', by
the fellers pokin' 'em in at one eend OF the
lot aud punchin' on 'em aout at tother
Sech smell of hogs and fat, brissels aud
ho, water, swan ten pucker, never did
eal'la,e IN, sfore!
Wal, as fast as they driv' 'em in by
droves, the fellers kept a craoWdin' 'em
Gaown towards the Pork haouse; there
two fellers kept shootin' on 'em daown,
and hull gang of the all-fredest dirty,
greasy looking fellers aout-stuck 'em,
hauled 'em daown, aud afoIe yeou could
say Sam Patch them hogs were yanked
aout of the ot-kiiled-scalded and scra-
ped. A feller with grease enough abaout
him to make barrel of saft soap, said that
when the7 hurried 'em some they killed,
scalded and scrapcd ten Thousand hogs IN
day and when they put on the steam'
twenty thousand porkers we're killed Ut
and cut up in single day!
Wal, We went into the haouse, where
they scslded the critters fast as they
brought 'em in. 1t was amazin' how the
brusselz few! Afore hog knew what 1t
vas all abaout, he was bare as punkln
q hook and tackle in bis snaut, aud up
,hey snaked him on to the next floor. l
spum, they kept slidin' and suakin' 'em
up thro' the scuttles-jest in one stream
"Let's go up and see 'em cut the hogs"
esys the feller.
Up we goes. Abaout hundred greasy
fellers we're hsck'n' on 'em up; and 1t
was dsih to particular people the way the
fat and grease .fer!' Two lchdcks-fcre
ard aft, As Uncle Jeems used to say
split the hog; one whack, by greasy tss-
Ter with an eyerastln' chunk Of sharpened
iron, and the hog was quartered-grabbed
and carried of to another block, and then
a set of savsgerous, ,lookin' chaps layed to
and cut aud skirted around hams and
shoulders were going one way, sides and
inidlin. another way wal, I'm screwed IT
the bull room didn't pear to be full OF
f,inp pork-in hams, sides, scraps and
greasy fellers-rppin' and tearin !.
Daown in another place they we're saltin'
and p.ckiu' away, like sin! paoUn IN the
other place they we're frying aout OF the
everlas,iu' biggest bilers yeou ever did see,
Ivow! Now, asked the feller if such
hurryin' hog through course Of sprouts
helped the pork any, aud he said it didn't
make any difference, he spected. lie
said they were not hurrying then, but 1t
would come in come day when ''stesm was
Up" he'd show me quick work in the pork
business-knock daown, drag aou', scrape,
Gu, up and have the hog in the barrel be-
yore he get through squeaiiH !-[From the
"Humors Of Fatconbridye," published BY
PETERSON, Philad
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