The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-10-16
A Mao-a-oheek Letter.
Correspondence Cincinnati Gommercial.l
IN LII, NJ ns

Adam" said Jones, as soon as he could re-
cover breath, when he called that beast d
hog.
Surprising" l responded, sitting on {
stump, and tanning myself with my hat
that said Adam understood the English
language, and so designated the miserable
brute"
We had been chasing beast OF sow fol-
nearly two hours. She was a widows sow,
and could not, therefore, beimpounded. She
seemed fully awbre of this apd, beirg hal
starved, took liberties with The neighbors
enclosures No gate-esn arrest her tresp1s-
sing, no feuce turn. She will insert her long
nose under gate and hoistit It off its hinges
in twinkle, and she can climb like dog
She will scramble up one side of a fence and
then tumble over the other, with grunt in
dicative Of disgust at the shock and triumph
over the obstacle.
She is known to the whole country side as
the widows SOW. She is of the aboriginal
wood specie, known popularly as slab sides,
or saw-bsck-tall, long legged and thin her
ears have been eaten close to her head, aud
her tail has been burned oil by free ackers,
attached thereto by wrathful boys, made des-
perate by -EhiPpings inflicted for Lifting the
beast get into theS" garden sass She rs,
Therefore, Iron clad, and offe.s no hold fora
dog. <Sherecognizeszthi this fact and makes a
fight pluckily snd to some purpose. So long
! asshe keeps her head to the enemy she is safe.
This is not common to hogs, but is shared
by bulls and armies, as l learned once from
| the late lamented" Mr. Lincoln.
called on him in company with the Hon.
/ Reverdy johnson. We found the elongated
embodiment of shrewd loyalty busy with a
great quantity of maps before him.
we are trying, gentlemen, to get McClel-
Ian from off the James" he said pointing to
the maps, aand do you know that two armies,
opposed to each other, are jest like two bulls
/ fighting. As long IS they keep their heads
together there is no harm done but the mo-
ment one attempts to turn, the other rips up
his behind"
/ have somewhat AMENDED the remark, but
it was 10 words to tiat effect 50 gro'esque
| and amusing, coming from the Pref 'entof
the United States, that we laughed for weeks
after. Indeed, can't help laughing now,
although Booth, the actor, turned our rear
| ing farce into a dreadful tragedy.
But to return to our bacon. Although
Democratic politicians have made the hog
well known, it was once the emblem of the
party. III feel to say,' as my, gifted friend /,
| the Rt. Ret. Maxwell, P. g., would ,sxpress
/
| is considered, for example, a filthy beast !;
when, as the fact is, he is the neatest crea-
ture, naturally, in animated nature.- Poor
hoggy is troubled with fiess, and has way
OF getting rid of them, that gave rise to the
SANDER, respecting his proclivity of dirt.
Hoggy rolls in the mud. The flea finds itself
plastered up. Soon as the mud is dry hOggy
Tubs off mud and flea together. '' Viola, /"
as the Chief Justice wrote on card, when
a certain other hog got clear Of his Aess in a
like manner Z - ~ -Ess st - q
r Give your hog a clean pen, with plenty
Of fresh, water TO wash in. and he will put to
shame the. neatest house-keepsr, and be
shining example to Sam Cary, and other
men beasts who seek to wallow without the
excuse of fleas.
Again, he is charged with being vora-
ciOus feeder, and not nice as to bis food.
But We must remember, Ike Cardinal Wool
sey, he is beast ''of unbuunded stomach, I"
and not always square meal to fill it with.
Consult hoggy's nature, and feed him well,
and you will find him as nice as III most ac-
cOmplished epicure that rfrequents the St.
Nicholas. Every one, a naturalist mean,
! who has eyes looking out of his heart, as
we'll as brain, who has watched pig in an
orchard, realizes this. at first the animal
gorges himself with fruit; after time he
gets chOicy, listens for the newly dropped
fruit, and has a favorite tree.
The strangest fact connected with subject
is bis taste forsnakes. JHoggy regards snakes
as delicacy, and makes 30 distinction be-
tween the harmless and the poisonous sort.
When1 fTstcame to Mac a. cheek, tie val
ley aboundsd 10 eoPPetheads and fstaes
snakes. The hogs have cleared them out.
1t is amusing to watch Mr.. Hog at this sort
Of meal. When he first sees the snake he
makes after it oa a lively trot. His express
sive countenance says plainly, "Here is the
first delic7cy of the season." He takes the
indignant snake about the middle, and with
bis fore -hoof placed artistically on the back
of the snake, be commences eating in the
most deliberate and business like manner,
The snake demonstrates; he strikes wicked
ly at the gourmand. Hoggy wink" and
gVunts, and continues his meal until Mrs.
Ewes first lover and last domestic trouble
has disappeared. a-.r--.
Iinsist upon it, although frequently laugh
ed at for my opinion, that the hog has very
expressive countenance; at least it is equal
to all the emotions and mental processes to
which piggy is subjected. If one will study
it; be will find an intense seriousness, and
an eye to business, as it were. He looks up
from under his ears with an expression that
says, "OOme, now, no nonsense" l doubt
whether hog is capable of joke. 1t is the
hog trait, shared with some of our good
ne ghbOrs, to be incapable of fun. A drunken
hog, however, is very entertaining. once
saw a penful in this condition. The distil
Ter had, through mistake, turned out a7quan-
tity of whisky. The hogs drank, as all hogs
d. a. A1,a.-
dig1ified and pretetious superiors. They
were very frisky, noisy and seDse!ess. They
would lean against each other and squeal.
Then they would run, and, striking root or
stone would turn summersaults, in the most
comical manner. observed one old fellow
leaning, 10 silence, against the fence. He
had an intensely solemn expression. "Look
at that old cuss," cried the distiler, 'a leItin'
on he amt drunk"
The same distiller was troubled by poor
wretch who, hanging about the d's'iiics,'
would stenl enough whisky to get deSd
drunk on. One day The distiler found him
in this condition, and, exasperated 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 poor fell
1OWs uudDlo W HSl ulusell, Dus dWdIo btldb
the hogs were in the garden,1 would feebly
wave his had and mutter, shoe, shoe, thick
'em, towser, thick en- The hogs, unmind-
ful,of the remonstrance, would insert their
snouts under the helpless inebriate, and turn
him over with flop really conical. They
ate off his clothes, ard were proceeding 10
take bites out of his body, when the distlller
interfered and saved his victim. sS
Evnr oftpr 1fhOso- hOOrl rUOuld ia kp aftorthp
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 distller's hogs had narrated the
circumstance torthe other hogs, and they had
talked the thing over.
could fill volume with this interesting
subject, but knowing the claims that politi-
cal swine have on your columns, l fOrbaar.
DIP.