Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1865-11-16

There was nothing to do now, how.
ever, but to put him back in the pen
As he had grown, porker had develop.
ed very ugly expression of counte.
nance, and as | looked at him now,
with his tnshes protruding in a most
vlllalnous way, | confess he was not q
cheerful sight for a timid man. How.
ever, ] got big stick and went at
him with loud "shoos and extrava-
giant Furnishings of my weapon. He
eyed me quietly out of his vicious little
optics, and wfisked his curly tail de
family. l soon found there was nc
driving him back to his pen. He dodg
ed me in the most exasperatinc man
ner. He doubled and twisted in a way
to set at naught all my calculations
| was no match for him. Jones came
out while l was exercising myself
with the porker, and laughed at me
over the fence. ... ...- ....
You don't so at it in the right way,
Dobb," said he.
Perhaps you'd like to try it your
self, Mr.. JONES'" l said, with some dig
nifty of manner and a very red face.
Take him by the tail,' said Jones
calmly, in reply. "Get his nose aimed
toward the pen, and then pull his tail.
The more you pull one way the more
he'll pull the other, and he'll be in the
pen before you know it." r....
Susan, who was standing on the
back steps looking at me, laughed so
heartily at this, that felt quite good
humored again, and asked Jones to
come over and give us the benefit of
his superior wisdom. After a little
more banter, and the handing of
splendid cluster of Isabellas to Susan.
he climbed the fence.
"Now Dobb," said Jones, "we'll
form line-you and / and Mrs. Dobb
and the servant girl" ........
al beg to be excused, Mr.. Jones.n
laughed Susan, with timid glance at
the porker.
my dear madam said Jones, gal
lantly, there's no danger at all. ]
am quite in earnest, assure you. 1t
is pigs nature to yield to overwhelm-
ing numbers. We have only to form
line and close down upon him in a
sort OF a crescent, and he will give up
the struggle at once, as you will see. +"
So it was undertaken. Porker stood
by the fence, eying US with deep ex-
preston of interest. We down upon
him he wheeled about, snorted, and
then made a dive at us, or rather at me,
and whish he went right between
my legs, SO that sprawled on the
ground most ungracefully. Susan and
the servant girl ran screaming into
the house, and Jones was over his
fence in no time.
The result of it was. we sent for Pc
ter. 1t had now grown somewhat
dark, but Peter made short work of
the job. He got rope, and took in
his other hand the big stick had been
fourishing; then he went up to pork
er, fetched him one tremendous blow
over the proboscis, and while poor pig
gy was staggering and seeing a mil
lion stars, slipped the rope over one of
his hind legs, and had him into the pen
in a trice.
" Peter" said / after that, you may
come round tomorrow, if you are not
engaged, and gather what's left of the
vegetables"
He did so. There was a good deal
left, after all. Porker's havoc was
greater in appearance than in reality.
Peter stored the cellar with abundance
among other things, with nice lot
Of very superior beans in the soft pods,
which lay there till they got mouldy,
and were fit for nothing but swill.
remember, as if it were but yester-
day, the morning those beans were fed
to our pig. was going out of town
to be gone three days, on business of
Importance. l saw a supply of the
mouldy beans fed to the porker, and
then departed. To say that l did
not think of my pig while l was away
would be to state an untruth. did
think of him. Though lost to sight he
was to memory dear.
am seldom away from home, and
consequently | am missed when l am
away-and my welcome on returning
is wont to be of the most affectionate
description. But ON this occasion,
greatly to my surprise, Susan was not
in the front hall to greet me. ! wa
ded through the children into the back
part Of the house, where Susan was.
| fancied she looked at me with half
Frightened air, but took her fondly to
my arms, and was about imprinting a
rapturous kiss on her lips when my
eye chanced to GO out the window, and
| suspended the kiss midway of deliv-
cry. The door Of the pig-pen stood
wide open, and there was peculiar
aspect of desolation about it.
Where's our porker?" I asked,
postponing the kiss pro tempore.
"Our porker," said Mrs. Dobb, grave
ly sis in his grave"
"Good Heavens I" cried, "dead ! "
and Immediately went out to look at
his deserted abode.
was quite calm by dinner-time,
and informed Susan that was ready
to hear the particulars of the sad
event.
"Well, James," she commenced,
"you know you directed those beans
to be fed to him."
o"Oh, that's it! thought it would
be laid at my door in some manner, not
withstanding. the little circumstance
that was over two hundred miles
away. Well, proceed"
So the girl gave him beans for din
ner, and beans for supper, and the next
morning she went out with some more,
and then heard her scream. went
out, aud there he was-swelled up
oh, dreadfully-twice as large as life,
dear-and lying on his side and kick
ing his legs family. Neighbor Jones
looked over the fence and asked what
the matter was"
with bunch Of lsabellas, doubt
less"
"And when we told him he came
over to see the pig, and said pooh, he
wasn't dead that he knew what the
matter was with the pig bloat ID
stomach he could cure him. Have