Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-12-01

way, | confess it was not a cheerful sight
for timid man. However, / got big
stick aud went at him with loud "shoos"
and extravagant hourishes of my weap-
on. He eyed me quietly out of his vic
ious little optics, and whisked his tail
defantly. i soon found there was no
driving him back to his pen. He lodged
me in the most exasperating manner.
He doubled and twisted in way to set
at naught all my calculations. was
no match for him. Jones came out
while l was exercising myself with the
porker, aud laughed at me over the
fence.
"You don't go at it the right way,
Dobb," said he.
Perhaps you'd like to try it yourself.
Mr.. Jones, | said, with some dignity of
manner and very red face.
Take HIM by the tall" said Jones
calmly in reply. SECT 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.
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 wis
dom. After little banter, and the
handing of splendid cluster of Isabel
las to Susan, he climbed the fence
Now, Dobb," said Jones, "well
form line-you and / and Mrs. Dodd
and the servant girl"
81 beg to be excused, Mr.. Jones"
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 a
pigs nature to yield to overwhelming
numbers. We have only to form line
and close down upon him in sort of
crescent, and he will give up the strug-
gle at once, as you will see"
So it was undertaken. Porker stood
by the fence eyeing US with deep ex-
, preston of interest. We moved down
upon him; he wheeled about, snorted
r and then made 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 ser
{ want girl ran screaming into the house
3 and Jones was over the fence in no time
5 The result Of it was, we sent for Pet
e er. 1t had now grown somewhat dark
5 but Peter made short work of the lob
: He got rope and took in his Other
hand the big stick l had been flourish
k ng; then he went up to porker, fetched
: him one tremendous blow over the pro
}, boscis, and while poor piggy was stag
t gering and seeing million of stars
slipped the rope over one Of his hinC
e legs, and had him into the pen in {
t trice.
5 Peter" said l, after that, you may
come round tomorrow if you are not en-
n gagged, and gather what's left of the veg
p etables"
il He did so. There was a good dea
k left after all. Porker's havoc was great
l. er in appearance than in reality. Pete
e stored the cellar with abundance
e among other things, with nice lot 0
IS superior beans in the soft pods, whicl
b lay there till they got mouldy, and wer
J fit for nothing but swill.
IL l remember, as if it we're but yester
day, the morning those beans were fed t.
h our pig. l was going out of town to b
> gone three days, on business of impor
y tance. | saw supply of the mould,
If beans fed to the porker, and then de
d parted. To say that did not think o
y my pig while away would be to state al
y untruth. | did think of him. Thougl
If lost to sight he was to memory dear.
y / am seldom away from home, an,
d consequently / am missed when / an
d away and my welcome in returning i
/; wont to be of the most afectionate dc
!. scription. But on this occasion, great
IF to my surprise, Susan was not in tn
1f front hall to greet me- / waded through
If the children into the back part of tn
house where Susan was. / fancied sh
h looked at me with half frightened all
D but | took her fondly to my arms, anc
q, was about imprinting rapturous kis
S, on her lips when my eye CHANGED to g
h out of the window, and | suspended til
kiss midway of delivery. The door Q
is the pig pen stood wide open, and ther
lie was peculiar aspect ofdesolation abou
is it.
n Where's our porker !? . l asked, posi-
e. poning the kiss pro tempore
l "Our porker." said Mrs. Dobb, grave
t. ", 9" is in his grave"
e GOOD heavens l cried, dead