Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1868-10-22

H0ggy regards snakes as dellcacy,
and makes No distinction between
the harmless and the poisonous sort.
When / came to Mac a-cheek, the
valley abounded in copperheads and
rattlesnakes. The hogs have cleared
them out. 1t is amusing to watch
Mr.. Hog at this sort of a meal
When he first sees the snake he
makes after it on lively trot. His
expressive countenance says plainly,
"Here is the first delicacy of the sea-
son." He takes the indignant snake
about the middle, and with his fore
hoof placed artistically on the back
of the snake, he commences eating
in the most deliberate and business
like manner The snake remon-
strates; he strikes wickedly at the
gourmand. Hoggy winks and grunts,
and continues his meal until Mrs.
Ewes first lover and last domestic
trouble has disappeared.
insist upon it, although frequent
ly laughed at for my opinion, that
the hog has very expressive eoun-
tenance; at least. it is equal to all the
emotions and mental processes to
which piggy is subjected. If one
will study it, he will find an intense
seriousness, and an eye to business,
as it were. He looks up from under
his ears with all expression that
says: "Come, now, no nonsense. -
l doubt whether a hog is capable of
joke. 1t is the hog trait, shared
with some of our good nelghbers, to
be incapable of fun. A drunken
hog, however, is very entertaining
l once saw a pen full in this condi-
ton. The distiller had, through
mistake, turned out a quantity OF
whisky. The hogs drank, as all hogs
do, to excess, and acted very like
their more dignifed and pretentious
superiors. They were very frisky,
noisy and senseless. They would
lean against each other and squeal
Then they would run, and, striking
root or stone, would turn sommer,
saults, in the most comical manner
l observed one old fellow leaning, in
silence, against the fence. He had
an intensely solemn expression
'..Look at that old cuss," cried the
distiller, "a lettin' on he amt
drunk"
The same distlller was troubled
by poor wretch who, hanging
about the distillery would steal
enough whisky to get dead drunk
on. One day the distiller found him
in this condition, and, exaspera:ed
beyond endurance, rolled the poor
creature out, and pouring bucket of
slop over him called up the hogs
The hungry swine went to work,
eating the slop off the clothes. The
poer fellow, unable to help himself,
but aware that "the hogs were in the
garden" would feebly wave his hand
and mutter, "shoc, shoe, thick 'em,
towser, thick 'em" The hogs, un-
mindful of the remonstrance, would
insert their snouts under the help.
less inebriate, and turn him over
with stop" really comical. They
ate off his clothes, and were proceed
ing to take bites out OF his body,
when the distiller interfered and
saved his victim.
Even after, those hogs would take
after the drunken fellow the moment
he appeared in sight. The strangest
part of it, however, is the fact that
other swine also took it up and also
chased the drunken man. 1t seemed
as if the distiller's hogs had narrated
the circumstance to the other hogs,
and they had talked the thing over.
could fill volume with this in
teresting subject, but knowing the
claims that political swine have on
your columns, forbear. d. P.